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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Why the WHO Needs U.S. Support to Fight Coronavirus Spread | Congressman Ami Bera's View
Description: Congressman Ami Bera is a Democrat from California who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is chair of the subcommittee on Asia and Pacific. He is also a medical doctor who has long championed global health issues. Last November he served on a commission on pandemic preparedness convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC that issued a series of recommendations that looks rather prescient today.  We spoke just a day after President Trump announced that the United States was freezing funding for the World Health Organization and, needless to...