FOX NEWS SUNDAY : Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
03-10-20
Bloomberg, Gates foundations announce initiatives to help coronavirus response
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have each recently announced initiatives to help with the response to coronavirus as more cases of COVID-19 are confirmed across the United States.
Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, has launched a new program to support American mayors as they respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Michael Bloomberg made the announcement Tuesday morning at the National League of Cities 2020 Congressional City Conference in Washington, DC.
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Jan 22, 2020
At Johns Hopkins, the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Health Security recently held a simulation of a coronavirus outbreak that resulted in near global collapse. In response to that simulation, which was called Event 201, the center published on Friday a call to action with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation suggesting that the next global pandemic “will not only cause great illness and loss of life” but could also lead to “major cascading economic and societal consequences.”
The difference in this case, says Tom Inglesby, the center’s director, is that there’s still time to get right the public health response to this new coronavirus.