Amanpour: Tim Phillips, Michael Specter, Richard Levitan

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🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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With the number of coronavirus cases in the United States now standing at over 1 million the nation is struggling economically. Tim Phillips, president of Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, joins Christiane Amanpour to argue why we shouldn't bail out the states. He explains why the economy needs the be reopened slowly state by state. Michael Specter, staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, gives an insight into the man behind the White House's coronavirus responded: Dr Anthony Fauci. He says Fauci changed medicine in the United States. Then our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Richard Levitan, emergency physician at Littletown Reigonal Healthcare, about why Covid-19 patients should be going to hospitals sooner. Levitan has worked in medicine for over thirty years and when the outbreak began to overwhelm New York City in March he signed up to help Bellevue Hospital; he reveals what he learned on the front lines.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.
0:09.0	Health and the economy, one follows the other. We take the pulse with Tim Phillips head of
0:15.1	America's most powerful conservative political group. Good evening I'm
0:20.4	Dr Anthony Fauchy. Superstar Doctor, how Anthony Fauchy became the trusted face of public health
0:27.0	and what we can learn from his journey there.
0:29.0	Plus...
0:30.0	If we change the public education, we change the messaging, and if we can detect this silently occurring low oxygen level,
0:38.0	that we can do so much better for these patients.
0:41.0	Straight from the front lines, Dr Richard Leverton tells our Hurry Strenovasan that COVID-19 patients should be going to hospitals sooner.
0:50.5	And finally, Creativity and the arts rising under lockdown. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:14.3	The coronavirus will almost certainly come back that is the verdict of the US Chief Medical
1:19.2	Advisor Dr Anthony Fauchy.
1:21.6	It's a stark warning for a nation and a world eager to get back to business
1:26.1	and reopen their economies. Despite people's very real financial pain, most though don't want to open up unless coronavirus is under control.
1:36.6	An Ipsos-Mori poll finds that here in the UK and in Canada, 70% of people say they are against such a move. While in the United States
1:45.2	59% say they oppose opening up too early, but at the same time a whopping majority of
1:52.3	Americans of all political stripes fear and economic
1:55.6	collapse, according to an ipso's axios poll.
1:59.0	So, since public health and the global economy go hand in hand, what is the best and the safest way out of this unprecedented crisis,
2:08.0	with no vaccine or treatment available yet.
2:11.0	Joining me now from Eastily, South Carolina is Tim Phillips, who heads the powerful
2:16.2	Koch family's Conservative Advocacy Group called Americans for Prosperity.
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