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Monetary, Fiscal Response to Crisis Is Working, Evercore Says
Jun.12 -- The aggressive monetary policy and fiscal response to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is "beginning to work," according to Evercore ISI Chairman Ed Hyman. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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WHO Director-General Says Infection-Fighting Equipment Stocks Insufficient
Feb.07 -- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the shortages in supplies for infection-fighting, particularly masks and respirators, during a news conference in Geneva.
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WHO Set to Study Virus Origin in China: Executive Director
Jul.23 -- Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, says China is showing readiness to organize the UN agency’s long-delayed study of the virus’s animal origins. He spoke Thursday at a briefing...
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How Dexamethasone Helps Lungs to Recover From Covid-19
Jun.18 -- Johns Hopkins University Professor of Nursing Jason Farley speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance" about data showing that the generic steroid dexamethasone improves survival in severely ill Covid-19 patients. The Bloomberg School...
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Coronavirus Spreads Faster Than SARS, Says Professor Wang
Jan.30 -- Linfa Wang, emerging infectious diseases program director at the Duke-National University of Singapore, discusses the difference between coronavirus and SARS and the measures taken to stop the outbreak. He speaks on “Bloomberg...
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WHO Says Herd Immunity Causes More Deaths, Longer Recoveries
Oct.30 -- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns that herd immunity will lead to "millions more unnecessary deaths" and also increases the likelihood that the many will endure longer Covid-19...
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China Puts City on Lockdown After Deadly Virus Outbreak
Jan.23 -- Chinese officials halted travel from a city of 11 million as they try to stop the spread of a new SARS-like virus. The coronavirus, which first appeared last month in the city of Wuhan in central China, has killed at least 17...
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New Coronavirus Hospital Opens As Number Of Cases Continues To Grow
The 1,000-bed hospital opened just 10 days after breaking ground.
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WHO Raises Coronavirus Threat Assessment To Highest Level
The agency is adjusting its evaluation to "very high" based on "the continued increase in the number of cases, and the number of affected countries."
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Virus Update: Outbreak Spreads to India, Threatens China Economy
Jan.30 -- The coronavirus death toll rose to 170 and confirmed cases in China soared past 7,700, as the outbreak spread to India and the Philippines for the first time. Stephen Engle reports on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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CLEAN : WHO sees realistic chance of stopping virus outbreak
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there is a realistic chance of stopping a deadly virus originating from China that has killed more than 1,000 people (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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EU Targets Self-Sufficiency for Health Safety Equipment
Apr.03 -- Europe is targeting self-sufficiency for health safety gear such as masks in “the coming months,” European Union Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said in an interview on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open."
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AstraZeneca Faces Mounting Vaccine Questions After Dosing Error
Nov.26 -- AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, among the front-runners in the quest to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine, face mounting questions about their trial results after acknowledging a manufacturing error. Sam Fazeli of...
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Astra-Oxford Vaccine Prevents Average of 70% of Covid Cases
Nov.23 -- A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease but fell short of the high bar set by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., according to initial...
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Moderna Vaccine Has 94.5% Efficacy, Trial Analysis Shows
Nov.16 -- Moderna Inc. said its Covid-19 vaccine was 94.5% effective in a preliminary analysis of a large late-stage clinical trial, another sign that a fast-paced hunt by scientists and pharmaceutical companies is paying off with potent...
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China Has Huge Capacity to Produce Vaccines: RAND's Bouey
Jan.06 -- Jennifer Bouey, senior policy researcher and Tang Chair in China policies studies at think tank RAND Corporation, discusses the Asian nation's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the rollout of vaccinations, and the...
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CLEAN : In France's Occitania region, postmen play a vital role in assessing dependence of elderly
On the initiative of the World Health Organisation, the Toulouse University Hospital and the French Post Office are working together in Occitania to prevent dependency among the elderly (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : No indication Omicron causes more severe disease than Delta: WHO top official
Preliminary data doesn't indicate that the Omicron variant is "more severe" than Delta, says Michael Ryan, the World Health Organization's emergencies director (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Second day of the World Health Organization's annual assembly
Images of the second day of the World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization's annual assembly (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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WHO: COVID-19 Cases Rising Nearly Everywhere In The World
The report released late Wednesday says infections rose by about 32% in Europe and Southeast Asia, and by about 14% in the Americas.
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WHO presser says SARS is on retreat in all countries bar China
1. Wide shot WHO press conference on SARS
2. Cutaway man in audience
3. Screen with world map entitled SARS: cumulative number of cases worldwide
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Heymann, WHO chief of Communicable Diseases
"So we believe...
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European health ministers approve anti-obesity charter
1. Various shots of overweight people
2. Close-up of a man eating sandwich
3. Various shots of the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Ministerial Conference on Counteracting Obesity
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mazo Danzo, World...
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World Health Organisation comment on China mystery illness
1. Exterior World Health Organisation building
2. Wide shot of WHO Spokesman Bob Dietz
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bob Dietz, WHO Spokesman
"No. It's not going bad, it's continuing. It's obviously too early to say that the situation is under...
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Taiwan fails 10th bid for observer status at World Health Assembly
1. Chinese delegation in session, UPSOUND (Mandarin): Gao Qiang, China's Health Minister and Chief of Delegation:
"The Chinese delegation is proposing to the General Assembly not to include the request of Taiwan to become an observer at...