ARE EYE OPENING TO SAY THE
LEAST.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, REALLY
APPRECIATE IT.
>>> MEANWHILE, WE ARE STILLIN
THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC AND NOWHERE
IS NOR DIRE THAN INDIA.
CASES CLIMBING AT THEITY FASTEST
PACE IN THE WORLD.
THAT LINE GOING PRACTICALLY
VERTICAL. REPORTING MORE THAN 300,000
REPORTING MORE THAN 300,000
CASES A DAY.
AUTHORITIES ARE GETTING
REQUESTED TO CUT DOWN TREES
WHILE THE THEY TRY TO BURY THE
DEAD.
WE KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT IT CAN
LOOK LIKE.
OUR COUNTRY WAS HIT HARD BY THE
VIRUS.
THERE’S AN URGENT, AND STRATEGIC
REASON FOR US TO DO EVERYTHING
WE CAN TO HELP.
YESTERDAY THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION SAID IT WOULD BE
SENDING IN RAW MATERIALS FOR
VACCINE PRODUCTION AND MEDICAL
SUPPLIES AND IN OTHER VACCINE
NEWS TODAY, THE U.S. SAID IT
WOULD BEGIN SHARING ITS 60
MILLION DOSES OF THE ASTRAZENECA
COVID VACCINE WITH OTHER
COUNTRIES SOMETHING THAT THAT
THEY HAVE BEEN URGING FOR WEEKS
WE DON’T HAVE DOMESTIC
AUTHORIZATION TO EVEN USE IT.
BUT HERE’S THE THING THIS, THE
ACCELERATED PACE OF THE VACCINES
WILL TAKE A WHILE.
THAT IS TRUE ABOUT SHIPPING
DOSES.
IT’S TRUE ABOUT INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY WAIVERS, THERE’S PEOPLE
IN CONGRESS AND THE GOVERNMENT
THAT IS PUSHING TO DO ON
EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO HELP
AS FAST AS WE CAN.
>>> CONGRESS WOMAN, THANK YOU
FOR COMING ON TONIGHT.
I WANT TO START BY ASKING ABOUT
YOUR FAMILY.
AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS YOU WERE
THERE
THERE, TELL US WHAT YOU SAW?
>> I HAVE TO SAY, IT WAS ROUGH.
BOTH OF MY PARENTS FROM THERE,
THEY ARE 80 AND 90 YEARS OLD,
THEY WERE DIAGNOSED WITH COVID,
MY DAD NEEDED OXYGEN.
AND I THINK NOW IN RETROSPECT
I’M GLAD, IT’S A STRANGE THING
TO SAY, THAT IT HAPPENED WHEN IT
DID, THEY WERE AT THE BEGINNING
OF IF SURGE, AND I’M NOT SURE
THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN OXYGEN IF
THEYNOT BEEN.
THEY HAVE MADE IT THROUGH THE
ROUGH ESTIMATE TIME.
AND THE FACT THAT THEY GOT THE
VACCINE BEFORE, HELPED TO LIMIT
THE SYMPTOMS.
WE SAW IT HAPPENING.
I WAS THERE AS THE CASES STARTED
TO RAMP UP.
I’M TALKING TO MY PARENTS AND
IT’S SO VEEM ANDEXTREME AND IT’S
SO QUICKLY AND WE ARE GRATEFUL
THAT WE CAN GET THE RAW
MATERIALS OVER THERE.
BUT THE OVERALL SITUATION OF
VACCINES IT’S NOT JUST I UNDERSTAND -- NOT JUST INDIA.
UNDERSTAND -- NOT JUST INDIA.
OUT OF THE 900 MILLION DOSES OF
ADMINISTERED, SAY FEW HAVE GONE
TO LOW INCOME COUNTRIES.
THAT IS A PROBLEM EVERYWHERE.
IF WE DON’T SOLVE THE GLOBAL
ISSUE OF COVID, WE ARE NOT GOING
TO SOLVE IT FOR OURSELVES.
SO IT’S NOT JUST A MORAL
RESPONSIBILITY, IT’S THE RIGHT
THING TO DO IF WE BEAT A GLOBAL
PANDEMIC.
>> RIGHT, I MEAN, SO THERE’S A
BUNCH OF THINGS.
RIGHT, THERE’S, ON THE VACCINE
FRONT, I 15MEAN, FIRST TO STAY
WITH INDIA SPECIFICALLY.
WE ALL KNOW, WE HAVE COVERED, WE
HAVE GONE THROUGH CYCLES OF
THIS.
AND WE HAVE SEEN IT IN ECUADOR
AND NEW YORK CITY, AND ITALY.
COUNTRIES OF DIFFERENT WEALTH
LEVELS BUT THE VIRUS DOES THE
SAME THING TO EVERYONE.
AT A CERTAIN LEVEL.
IT JAPS SJAMS UP THE HOSPITALS A
MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A
PLACE TO BURY THE DEAD.
AND MAKES SHORT SUPPLY OF OXYGEN
AND PPE, THE MOST PRESSING THING
FOR INDIA IS THIS IMMEDIATE
TRIAGE NEED FOR OXYGEN, PPE,
MEDICAL SUPPLIES THAT WE CAN GET
TO THEM.
I KNOW THERE’S SOME FWREEMTAGREE
FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
THAT WE WILL BE DOING SOME OF
THAT NOW, IS THAT YOUR
UNDERSTANDING?
>> YES, THAT’S RIGHT.
AND THE PRESIDENT MADE A STRONG
STATEMENT YESTERDAY, THOSE
THINGS WILL START HAPPENING
RIGHT AWAY.
AND THE CDC IS SENDING A TEAM,
HAS OFFERED TO SEND A TEAM TO
ASSIST INDIA, SO THAT IS
IMMEDIATE.
BECAUSE THERE’S NO HOSPITAL
BEDS.
I SAW IT JUST IN MY LITTLE AREA.
THAT HOSPITAL WAS COMPLETELY
FULL.
EVEN FROM MY FATHER TO KEEP HIS
HOSPITAL BED IN THE ICU, YOU
KNOW, WE WERE NEVER SURE IF HE
WAS GOING TO STAY THERE FOR AS
LONG AS HE NEEDED TO AND SO,
THIS IS REALLY THE HOSPITAL
BEDS, THE PPE, THE DOCTORS ARE
EXHAUSTED.
AND OBVIOUSLY THE POPULATION IS
ENORMOUS, RIGHTS?
SO, IT’S 1.2 BILLION PEOPLE.
THE SCALE AND MAGNITUDE OF
DEATHS.
WE THINK THE DEATHS ARE BEING
UNDER COUNTED ASK WELL. WELL.
WHATEVER YOU SEE, SOME PEOPLE
ARE SAYING DOUBLE IT, AT LEAST.
BECAUSE IT’S REALLY, MY -- MY
HEARD IS JUST BREAKING WATCHING.
>> AND YOUR POINT HERE ABOUT
THE, I MEAN, THERE’S THE
IMMEDIATE ISSUE AND THEN THERE’S
THE LONG-TERM ISSUE.
OR THE, EVEN THE MEDIUM TERM
ISSUE AND WE HAVE SEEN, THERE’S
SO MANY COUNTRIES, I THINK, THAT
SAY, IN AFRICA, WHERE THERE WAS
A LOT OF WORRY THAT IT WOULD RAF
ACKNOWLEDGE PART
-- THAT IT WOULD RAVAGE THAT
PART OF THE COUNTRY.
AND PARTS OF THAT COUNTRY HAVE
DONE AN AMAZING JOB AND PARTS OF
INDIA HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB,
BUT UNLESS WE GET THE WORLD
VACCINATED, THE VIRUS IS GOING
TO WIN AND INDIA IS AN EXAMPLE
OF THAT RIGHT NOW, WHICH THE WHY
I AGREE, WE NEED TO SHIP OUT
VACCINES AND WAIVING
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PATENTS.