Amanpour: Richard Horton, Lawrence Wright, Bill Frist and Kevin Bacon

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of medical journal The Lancet, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's return to work and his government's response to Covid-19. He says the UK were late to lockdown. Lawrence Wright, the award-winning journalist, explains how his novel "The End of October" about a devastating pandemic, wasn't meant to predict the coronavirus outbreak we are living through today. Bill Frist, transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senate majority leader, raised the alarm about preparing for pandemics 15 years ago. He joins our Michel Martin to asses Trump's handling of the crisis so far. Then the actor and philanthropist Kevin Bacon talks about setting us his charity SixDegrees.org and why he was inspired to set up a fund to provide meals for front line health workers. He highlights how it's more important than ever to stay connected but whilst staying at home and protecting our loved ones.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.
0:07.0	To everyone on whom our economy depends. I understand your impatience, I share your anxiety.
0:19.0	Prime Minister Boris Johnson back at work after battling coronavirus tells Britain to stay in lockdown.
0:27.0	I speak to the editor-in-chief of the Lancet, the renowned medical journal that first published
0:32.4	Corona News back in January.
0:35.0	Then, the book that saw a pandemic coming,
0:38.0	Pullet's a winning journalist Lawrence Wright,
0:41.0	talks to me about his new thriller, The End of October.
0:44.0	Plus, the only thing that's going to bring this pandemic to an end is medical science.
0:49.0	Former Republican Senate Majority Leader and retired surgeon Bill Frisk speaks up for science with
0:55.4	our Michelle Martin.
0:57.4	And we can work together to stay home and keep each other safe and spread the work.
1:02.2	Hollywood Star Kevin Bacon on his stay-at-home challenge and feeding health care workers
1:07.5	on the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in
1:26.4	London. Stick with the lockdown that is Prime Minister Boris Johnson's message
1:30.6	to the British people. On his first day back at Number 10 Downing Street
1:34.8	since being rushed to hospital three weeks ago, being the first world leader known to have
1:39.5	had coronavirus, says this country is beginning to turn the tide on the disease and now
1:45.2	is not the time to lift restrictions. Take a listen. I know it is tough and I
1:52.0	want to get this economy moving as fast as I can but I refuse to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the British people and to risk a second major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming
2:07.9	of the NHS.
2:09.8	And I ask you to contain your impatience because I believe we are coming now to the end of the first
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