00:00The other thing is that by reversing progress on something like HIV AIDS, which had been a global
00:07pandemic at one stage, actually could boomerang back and affect the United States, couldn't it?
00:12That's right. And there are right now 122 different emergency health events that are
00:19going on around the world. There's an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania. There's Ebola virus
00:24that's just broken out since the president was inaugurated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:29And in Uganda, in Bolivia, we've got a new hemorrhagic fever. There's a wide variety of
00:34things that are going on. And we've got the continuing AIDS pandemic that's having 3000
00:40people every day infected. Interrupting these programs, deciding that the US is going to halt
00:45them doesn't just hurt millions and millions of people around the world, but it also makes the US
00:51less safe. The broad consensus around global health is that there has to be a kind of collective
00:58effort to stop the pandemics of today, to halt the pandemics of the future. All of that is work
01:03that takes money, but it actually takes a tiny bit of money for the world's richest countries.
01:08And so playing around with this is playing around with fire. The administration,
01:12the last Trump round of this, got the COVID-19 response incredibly bad, incredibly wrong.
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