Amanpour: Peter Piot, Dorothy Duffy, Anand Giridharadas, Sue Stuart-Smith and Ron Finley

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Peter Piot is the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is still recovering from coronavirus after being diagnosed back in March. He joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss his ordeal as well as the global response. When Dorothy Duffy sadly lost her older sister to Covid-19, who was living in a care home at the time, she wrote a beautiful and emotive poem to highlight how she is not just a statistic. She reads some of that poignant piece and explains her thought process. Then our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Anand Giridharadas, author of “Winners Take All”, about hosting his new Vice TV show, "Seat At The Table". He questions the seat of power and money in the United States and argues why society must adapt if we are to prosper. And Finally - Sue Stuart-Smith, psychiatrist and author of "The Well-Gardened Mind", and Ron Finley, who calls himself "The Gangsta Gardener", explain why gardening is much more than just tending to your plants. They reflect on the psychological and health benefits that it holds, particularly whilst we are confined to our homes. 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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Five million coronavirus cases worldwide and still counting.
0:13.4	World famous epidemiologist Peter Piot, who helped discover Ebola,
0:17.4	joins us with the latest on a vaccine
0:19.7	and what he learned from his own brush with COVID. Then a person not a statistic, a sister's
0:26.6	heartfelt poem giving a human face to the dead. Also a head. We are not all in
0:32.3	it together. We haven't been and we're not all in it
0:34.4	together in the pandemic. Writer Anan Ghiridas tells our Hari Sri
0:39.0	Nervasan how this plague exposes inequality in America and what Congress can learn from mafia movies.
0:45.6	Plus, I call myself the gangster because to me having knowledge is gangster.
0:50.8	Getting our hands dirty to clean up our minds, the undeniable therapeutic
0:56.2	that is nature and gardening. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:17.0	Coronovirus cases are surging past 5 million worldwide and most of the new cases come from just four countries the
1:25.7	United States Russia Brazil and India but to be human is also to be hopeful and
1:32.2	the British Pharmaceutical Giant AstraZeneca has raised hopes now by saying that it could supply 400 million doses of a vaccine from September. The company is working with
1:44.4	Oxford University which is one of a handful of places currently holding
1:48.2	human trials. That September date is of course entirely dependent on those trial results and a vaccine
1:55.0	being developed. For more on this I'm joined now by one of the world's leading
1:59.5	epidemiologists Dr Peter Piot. He co-discovered Ebola back in 1976 and now more than 40 years later the
2:07.9	virus has finally got him.
2:10.3	That is the coronavirus of course and he's joining me now from his home in London.
2:14.7	Dr. Piot really welcome back to our program. It really struck us you know with a shiver
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