Amanpour: Lawrence H. Summers, Dr. Celine Gounder, Tim Spector, Dr. Regina Benjamin and Mark Suzman

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Lawrence H. Summers, professor at Harvard University, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the record surge in U.S. unemployment. He says that the government is underreacting to this crisis and expects to see those numbers go into the tens of millions. Dr. Celine Gounder, assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at NYU, and Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London whose app tracks Covid-19, dig into what everyone is talking about right now - the need for rigorous testing. They unpack the criticism of the U.S. government and their lack of testing and tracking. Then our Walter Isaacson talks to Dr. Regina Benjamin, former U.S. Surgeon General under Obama and founder or BayouClinic in Alabama, about how rural America and the deep south are struggling to cope with this pandemic. She highlights how America's fragile healthcare system means that those in poorer, rural areas are suffering the most. Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, about the race to find a vaccine and what needs to be done to fight this outbreak. His foundation sounded the alarm years ago about just this kind of threat.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:12.3	Another 6.6 million Americans sign up for unemployment benefit, as do almost 1 million Britons.
0:19.0	How do people, whole economies, recover?
0:22.0	I ask former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and
0:25.7	And I want to say a special word about testing because it is so important and as
0:30.4	I've said for weeks and weeks this is the way through.
0:34.0	Under quarantine and under fire, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson again promises to ramp up testing
0:40.0	while President Trump admits the United States is running out of vital supplies.
0:45.0	Plus, five years ago his boss Bill Gates predicted the world would face a crippling pandemic.
0:51.0	Gates Foundation CEO Mark Sussman on how to avoid the next wave.
0:56.6	Then I look at this as a category 4 now category 5 hurricane sitting in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
1:05.0	And it's not a matter of will it hit landfall, it's a matter of when and how hard.
1:11.0	Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr Regina Benjamin lays out the unique threats to the American
1:16.2	South. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.
1:35.0	Coronavirus hits another painful, painful record from the United States to the
1:40.3	United Kingdom. The latest figures show another 6.6 million Americans filing
1:46.6	claims for unemployment benefits last week. That's a surge of over 3,000 percent since
1:52.4	early March.
1:53.6	The pandemic has knocked nearly 10 million people out of the workforce so far over the last
1:59.3	two weeks.
2:00.3	Here in the UK, almost a million people have applied for welfare support and as the number
2:05.6	of coronavirus infections around the world climbs to nearly a million, the British Prime Minister
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