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Leslie kicks off the show with her 'Ripped from the Headlines' news segment.

Here are the two stories she shares, while also giving her own take on the news:
1. CDC Director Condemns Trump’s ‘China Virus’ Tweet during questioning from Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) - https://www.thedailybeast.com/cdc-director-robert-redfield-condemns-trumps-china-virus-tweet

2. NBC NEWS: "Inside the White House's bungled effort to combat the coronavirus"- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mismanagement-missed-opportunities-how-white-house-bungled-coronavirus-response-n1158746

Leslie is then joined by Advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), and technology futurist, Jamie Metzl.  Jaime is also author of the highly acclaimed book "Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the future of Humanity" (releasing in paperback on April 7th, 2020, pre-order link here: https://tinyurl.com/wt2uuv4). His Twitter handle is @JamieMetzl.

Here are some of Jamie's key points on the COVID-19 pandemic:

- This has the potential to be a much greater global crisis than 9/11 and will require the type of wise global leadership we seem to be lacking.
- If ever there was a time for leaders and people to step forward for the common good, this is it.
- The name of the game now is to contain the virus as much as possible while we race to develop a vaccine.
- It is all but certain that most of our lives will be severely disrupted for a significant period of time.
- Because of our evolutionary history, our brains are designed for linear thinking and to assume that the future is likely to be significantly similar to the past. This could well be one of those moments where our world suddenly, and perhaps irrevocably, changes.
- By identifying The COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic, the world health organization is merely acknowledging what most everyone around the world is discovering: that this crisis is more global and far more serious than most people appreciated only a few short days and weeks ago.
- While efforts to contain this outbreak must proceed, the contagion has already or will soon reach community spread levels where a containment strategy will no longer be viable.
- While efforts in China and Korea have shown that extreme measures can at least temporarily slow the spread of this virus, we are likely to see very rapid increases in contagion levels around the world.
- Even with a lower than previously reported fatality rate, fatalities are likely to be very significant as the total number of infections grow.