Coronavirus Crisis Update: Beth Cameron, Nothing on this timeline has ever been attempted

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 6:46 p.m.

Steve Morrison sat down with Dr. Beth Cameron, Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and former senior White House official responsible for health security and bio defense, to talk through what the accelerating race for vaccines for Covid-19 means. Should we be excited and hopeful? Should we feel cautious, skeptical? Perhaps both. We survey the landscape \u2013 the White House \u2018Operation Warp Speed,\u2019 China\u2019s program, the ACT-Accelerator initiative launched to ensure the needs of low and lower middle income countries are met. How important is it for the United States to step forward on the world stage?\nBeth Cameron is\xa0Vice President for Global Biological Policy and Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), based in Washington D.C.