August 9, 2020 | On GPS: Bill Gates on Covid-19 - where did America go wrong? Also, vaccines & treatments; TikTok & big tech

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Airdate August 9 2020: Per capita, the U.S. has about 15 times as many deaths per day from Covid-19 as the E.U., and 25 times that of Canada. Where did America go wrong? And what can be done to get the crisis under control? Billionaire businessman Bill Gates answers these questions and more. And, back to school amidst the pandemic - how do schools reopen safely? Former CDC director Tom Frieden explains. Also, the blast in Beirut deepened Lebanon's already dire situation. What will become of the Paris of the Middle East? Fareed explores.

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the global public square.
0:04.9	Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.
0:08.2	I'm Farid Zakarya.
0:10.0	Today on the show, a special report on fixing the COVID crisis.
0:16.4	President Trump may say the pandemic is under control in America, but that is just not
0:22.2	the reality.
0:24.1	The country has per capita about 15 times as many deaths every day as the European Union
0:31.2	and 25 times as many as Canada.
0:36.1	So what went wrong and what can we do now to get the coronavirus under control?
0:42.4	I will talk to Bill Gates about that plus vaccine treatments, the US economy, tick-dong
0:49.2	and more.
0:51.4	And school is back in session or will be soon.
0:56.0	For most kids, that means bus rides, packed hallways and overcrowded classrooms.
1:04.7	Can that be safe in the midst of a pandemic?
1:08.2	I will ask the former director of the CDC, Tom Fried.
1:12.1	Also, they wrote, the bustling and beautiful city by the sea was hit by an extraordinary
1:19.5	explosion, as the political tragedy of Lebanon finally reached its heart-rending rock bottom.
1:27.4	I will explore.
1:31.4	But first, here's my take.
1:33.4	This week, the Trump administration explicitly announced its intention to work toward a new
1:38.4	bipolar world of technology, carved up between the United States and China.
1:43.4	It announced a sweeping clean network initiative, which seeks to ban virtually all Chinese
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