Confronting a Pandemic

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Global health officials have praised China and South Korea for the success of their efforts to contain the coronavirus. What are those countries getting right — and what can everyone else learn from them? Guest: Donald G. McNeil Jr., a science and health reporter for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: While world leaders are finally speaking out about the gravity of the pandemic, their response lacks unity with the United States absent from its traditional conductor role in managing global crises. Stocks tanked again as the outbreak was officially declared a pandemic and policies to address its impact proved lacking or ineffective.All flights to the U.S. have been suspended from Europe. Many schools announced they would close indefinitely, some nursing homes banned visitors, and workplaces across the country have urged their employees to work from home. Here are the latest updates.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is The Daily.
0:10.0	Today, global health officials are singling out China and South Korea
0:16.1	for the success of their efforts to contain the coronavirus.
0:20.8	Donald G. McNeil, Jr., on what those countries are getting right and what everybody else can learn from
0:28.7	them. It's Thursday, March 12th.
0:39.4	Okay. All right, first of all, if you have a fever or a cough.
0:45.2	I do not have a fever or a cough. Okay. I am healthy here of yourself. Thank you.
0:50.9	Do you need me to clip on a microphone? No, no, no. Okay.
1:00.9	So, Donald, can I just start by asking you about what I understand was a rather aggressive
1:20.0	today?
1:50.0	One glove now, so I look like kind of an aging completely unfunky white Michael Jackson
1:58.1	in the theater.
1:59.1	And I disinfect the glove as soon as I got a chance to.
2:02.3	Well, we appreciate the fact that you are keeping our studio so clean.
2:07.3	So I wonder, Donald, if you could tell me about this news conference on Wednesday afternoon,
2:14.2	what happens?
2:15.2	Thank you.
2:16.2	Thank you, Tariq.
2:17.2	Good afternoon, everybody.
2:19.8	So this was the World Health Organization, the WHO, which was part of the United Nations.
2:26.0	And they held their regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday meeting on the coronavirus epidemic
2:31.8	at press conference.
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