WHO launches new program to accelerate COVID-19 vaccines

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The World Health Organization is launching a new program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. Michael Osterholm and Dr. Sanjay Gupta join Anderson Cooper to discuss the logistics of getting a working vaccine and when or if people should expect one. Plus, Captain Brett Crozier was fired after warning of a coronavirus outbreak that was spreading throughout the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. Now the Navy is recommending that Captain Crozier be reinstated as the ship's commander. Captain Crozier's friend Brett Odom tells AC360 Captain Crozier is humbled and excited to potentially lead his sailors again. Airdate: April 24, 2020To 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	Good evening. This was a critical day in the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
0:05.0	States beginning to reopen, despite doctors and scientists warning them not to.
0:09.0	Today, the death toll passed 51,000 in this country.
0:12.0	It would have been a good day to be able to ask questions to the top scientists in this country dealing with coronavirus and to our leaders.
0:18.0	That's what you might expect on a momentous day like this.
0:21.0	But that is not what happened this evening at the coronavirus task force briefing.
0:25.0	We were not allowed to ask questions to the nation's top scientists, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Berks, who were not even there.
0:31.0	Because the president of the United States was afraid to take questions today during the coronavirus task force briefing.
0:36.0	He took questions earlier today and lied.
0:39.0	Lied in such an obvious and blatant way, he knew he would be called on it this evening.
0:44.0	So he cut and ran.
0:46.0	The president of the United States did not answer one single question at his coronavirus briefing and again, Dr. Fauci and Berks were not even there.
0:53.0	He read a few prepared remarks handed over to the FDA commissioner who took a single question and then the vice president who didn't take any and then they all left.
1:01.0	It has been a stoning 24 hours in the life and lies of this administration, a dangerous and disturbing debacle of the president's own making.
1:09.0	This all began at the briefing last night.
1:12.0	The president using out loud to Dr. Deborah Berks and Bill Bryan, the acting Homeland Security Undersecretary, about using ultraviolet light or other kinds of light.
1:21.0	Internally, inside our bodies to kill coronavirus and also amusing about injecting disinfectant into humans to kill the virus.
1:29.0	Bleach sanitizer, lice all, things that kill viruses on surfaces, but should never ever be injected into anyone or swallowed by anybody as just about everybody knows.
1:41.0	So here is what the president said, not taken out of context, his actual words to a DHS official Bill Bryan.
1:48.0	This is last night at the coronavirus test for us briefing.
1:51.0	Bill Bryan has seated off to his right off camera.
1:55.0	So I have to ask you a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting.
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