Containing COVID-19: Top Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with top infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is also director of the Center for Infectious Disease at the University of Minnesota, about the world's past, present and future handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Osterholm and Morell discuss the essential, still unanswered, questions surrounding vaccine and antiviral production and their manufacturing and distribution to the cities and countries that need them most. Osterholm explains why this virus is unlike any predecessor, and why so many mysteries about its transmission remain. He also explains how China's early handling of the outbreak may or may not have affected the effectiveness of other countries' responses. Intelligence Matters has dedicated a series of episodes to understanding the fundamentals and national security implications of COVID-19.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to intelligence matters ad-free on Amazon music. Download the app today |
| 0:08.4 | This is intelligence matters with former acting director of the CIA Michael Morel |
| 0:13.7 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin your mission is ours |
| 0:17.8 | How do you think about a vaccine from their perspective of actually getting to one and then how long that would take? |
| 0:25.0 | What's what's your sense? |
| 0:26.4 | So let's just say we have a vaccine in the United States where we have one in China. We have one in Europe |
| 0:32.2 | If in fact the first parties can get these vaccines and get them made |
| 0:37.3 | How are they going to share the vaccine? Are they are they going to make it a little low in middle income countries? |
| 0:44.3 | If China gets a vaccine first with us have access to that if we get a vaccine first |
| 0:49.6 | We share it with the Chinese of European. I can guarantee you that we will not have nearly enough |
| 0:56.6 | In the earliest years not just days of this pandemic just in terms of manufacturing distribution |
| 1:05.8 | So we need to come up with an international scheme that we all buy into that says this is how the vaccine will be made and distributed |
| 1:13.4 | I don't want to see us good to a point where we have a vaccine we can make it and as the vial comes off the machine |
| 1:20.0 | We have no idea how or where it's going to be used and we're going to be in a debate with that for some time |
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