Just did a live Columbia U Zoom-cast with three pals – we all go back to the 1980s HIV days, when we bonded around the outrage of witnessing the unfolding pandemic: Bob Bazell (NBC News), Jon Cohen (Science Mag), Wendy Wertheimer (ex-NIH) and I. With Columbia’s Andy Revkin on “Sustain What?”, we talk about the similarities and differences between unfolding HIV/AIDS pandemic and COVID-19.
Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter covering global pandemics, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the White House guidelines for reopening communicated one thing: the federal government is not responsible for managing coronavirus testing; it's up to the states.
THE PRESS AND THE PANDEMIC - An exclusive interactive workshop for journalists with veteran epidemic reporter Laurie Garrett LIVE Wednesday 1 April on Facebook, YouTube, Periscope, 12 to 2 p.m. US Eastern time (1600 - 1800 UTC)
Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with more than three decades of pack-leading experience writing prescient and piercing stories on the global threat from emerging infectious disease, from HIV through Ebola to COVID-19 and beyond.
Here, Garrett breaks away briefly from her nonstop writing on a real-time catastrophe for a special conversation with fellow journalists (and some journalism schools) to offer tips on how to avoid consequential mistakes and shape coverage in new ways that can provide more impact. (The event is open to the public but questions from journalists and then journalism students will be taken first.)
Empty grocery store shelves, Purell selling at $100 a bottle, and handwashing that would make any mother proud. Uncertainty about the coronavirus dominates American life. But the fact that the future is not yet fixed is also cause for hope. In today's show, health expert Laurie Garrett argues that, while the "window is closing" to mitigate the pandemic's effect, there's still plenty to be done.
Global Health Expert to GZERO Media: Americans Have 2-3 Days to Make Tough Decisions
"Your days are counting down. I would say you have two or three days to make some very tough decisions as a household and you're going to be stuck with what you decide now. And those decisions include where do you want to hunker down for eight weeks?"
"Eight weeks is long enough of a framework that you realize this is a major disruption of my life. Right?”
Laurie Garrett, science journalist and health policy analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about the potential for the coronavirus to spread to the United States, and the steps for preparedness that are not being made that would better help the U.S. deal with the possibility of an emergency.
Laurie Garrett, science journalist and health policy analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about the government response structure put in place by the Obama administration in response to Ebola that was removed by the Trump administration, leaving the U.S. unprepared for a potential spread of the coronavirus, and unlikely to follow China's model of containment.