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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Here's this, Just a tremendous
Speaker 1: story out on the Bloomberg terminal. Black and white on
Speaker 1: Wall Street, The unwritten code on race. Here. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna start a couple of things here. Here are thirteen
Speaker 1: unwritten rules about being black on Wall Street, according to
Speaker 1: people who've lived in I'll just give you a couple.
Speaker 1: Never forget. This is number one. Never forget, despite all
Speaker 1: those promises about diversity, only about one percent of senior
Speaker 1: management is black. Number two. Be careful about pointing that
Speaker 1: out to mostly white, mostly male trading desk. At number three,
Speaker 1: get used to hearing about the supposed lack of qualified
Speaker 1: black applicants. So just a powerful, powerful start to a
Speaker 1: powerful story. Michelle Davis Bloomberg Finance Reported joins us. So Michelle,
Speaker 1: give us some of the key takeaway, some of the
Speaker 1: boy the way you started this article is very powerful
Speaker 1: with these thirteen unwritten rules. What kind of your key
Speaker 1: takeaways here? Thanks? So, you know, Wall Street, much like
Speaker 1: the rest of corporate America and the nation, is basing
Speaker 1: this huge reckoning over race right now, um, in the
Speaker 1: wake of you know, the killing of George Floyd and
Speaker 1: and for years decades, while Sterns been promising to confront
Speaker 1: some of these failures, um, and right now, lots of
Speaker 1: the banks are you know, has been hosting town halls
Speaker 1: about racism, asking workers to you know, weigh in and
Speaker 1: share their experiences. But after talking to dozens of boff
Speaker 1: workers across Wall Street, UM, what I you know heard
Speaker 1: from people is that while many are are hurtened by
Speaker 1: the fact that there are these open conversations happening right now,
Speaker 1: it's clear that Wall Street really has failed it's people
Speaker 1: of color, and there's a lot of skepticism that that
Speaker 1: any of the conversations are are you going to result
Speaker 1: in real change people. People are skeptical that, you know,
Speaker 1: the just bro white bro culture is gonna change because
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to appear. And let's point out that
Speaker 1: it's difficult to have open conversations at work a lot
Speaker 1: of the time, just in general. So this would be
Speaker 1: a very very difficult conversation to have openly. Michelle, any
Speaker 1: idea what the delay is why it's taking so long
Speaker 1: for Wall Street to up its ranks of black people
Speaker 1: in executive chairs, in C suites and even just among
Speaker 1: rank and file. It's not as if there really isn't
Speaker 1: enough of a pipeline. There are plenty of historically black colleges.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of candidates out there. What's Wall Streets excuse?
Speaker 1: So workers that I talked to described having to abide
Speaker 1: by unwritten rules, like you know, measuring their passion and
Speaker 1: their directness. Um. They described double standards on pay or
Speaker 1: you know, having to code switch, which if you don't know,
Speaker 1: is the practice of you know, interacting and differ ways
Speaker 1: depending on a social context. And um, also having to
Speaker 1: live with double standards. So if you you know, are
Speaker 1: a black female trader or I mean even a black
Speaker 1: tree trader is something that is very rare in the industry.
Speaker 1: But if you have to act a different way than
Speaker 1: your white male colleagues just to you know, exist or
Speaker 1: have a role, and that is something that is going
Speaker 1: to hold you back from actually rising up the ranks.
Speaker 1: So it was a lot of this, you know, having
Speaker 1: to abide by these unwritten rules. And some of the
Speaker 1: people I talked to, you know, mentioned that there there
Speaker 1: are some parallels between you know, maybe uh the plight
Speaker 1: of black workers and also the experiences that other you know,
Speaker 1: non white UM individuals experience on Wall st. But really
Speaker 1: this is in this moment, especially like this is about
Speaker 1: it's especially hard to be a black worker on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: So it's intering. Michelle, having spent twenty years on Wall Street,
Speaker 1: I know the importance of having a mentor kind of
Speaker 1: guide you through your career and also sponsor you for
Speaker 1: you know, assignment, sponsor you for promotion, and maybe ultimately
Speaker 1: the managing director and or partner title talk to us
Speaker 1: about the mentor situation for UH minorities on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: So you're right, a lot of the people I talked
Speaker 1: to you said that they attributed a lot of their
Speaker 1: success to having these sponsors within their organizations. That you know,
Speaker 1: even if they would have typically you know, wanted to
Speaker 1: sponsor someone that looks like them, they these people described
Speaker 1: them having taken a chance UM and said that they
Speaker 1: really you know, sponsorship and mentorship is something that really
Speaker 1: is critical to um, you know, black representation on Wall
Speaker 1: Street and uh, based on the conversations I I've been
Speaker 1: hearing about that are happening up at the banks, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like there is some change happening.
Speaker 1: I know Goldman's Back has now required more biased training
Speaker 1: by its employees. They're thinking about formalizing a sort of
Speaker 1: sponsorship program. But yeah, I mean it is a very
Speaker 1: it's something that's very critical, UM, in order to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, make the work plays better. Just to point
Speaker 1: out some of the numbers that we haven't brought up yet,
Speaker 1: there have been diversity unierships on Wall Street for decades now,
Speaker 1: but um, the industry has actually been getting whiter in
Speaker 1: recent years. At JP Morgan Banks, Ammigrant and City Group,
Speaker 1: the percentage of black workers overall has been falling, not rising. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just to point out one bank at JP Morgan, the
Speaker 1: number has dropped from from in a little over a decade. Michelle,
Speaker 1: it's really a fantastic story of but everybody to read it.
Speaker 1: It's Michelle Davis, finance reporter for Boomberg. Black and White
Speaker 1: on Wall Street, the unwritten code on race. It's absolutely
Speaker 1: mandatory reading. Today, well, a number of massive companies, from
Speaker 1: Starbucks to Union Leaver, Code Cola and PEPs See Verise
Speaker 1: and Levi's and many many more, have decided that they
Speaker 1: are executing an exodus from Facebook. They don't like the
Speaker 1: talk that's on Facebook, the partisanship that's on Facebook, the
Speaker 1: highly targeted ads on Facebook, and so they have pulled
Speaker 1: the plug at least for on advertising. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: someone who knows a lot about this now. Mark Douglas
Speaker 1: is CEO of Steelhouse based in Los Angeles, California, and
Speaker 1: steel House is a partner with Facebook, also a leader
Speaker 1: in highly targeted ads on you know platforms from connected
Speaker 1: TV to the social media platforms. Mark, welcome and thanks
Speaker 1: for joining. Why now? These companies have been threatening to
Speaker 1: do this for a long time. Facebook has engaged in
Speaker 1: incremental self betterment. But now the companies have decided enough
Speaker 1: is enough. Yeah. The one thing to keep in mind
Speaker 1: and it answers the question is Facebook has two types
Speaker 1: of averagises, brand advertisers and direct response averageiser. Direct response
Speaker 1: or basically e commerce company needs Internet repailers. Companies like that.
Speaker 1: That's too. Facebook depends upon um. Those companies also dependent
Speaker 1: on Facebook. So those companies are not boycotting yet. The
Speaker 1: brand advertisers are concerned about what they call brand safety. Basically,
Speaker 1: they spend a lot of money a company like Pepsy,
Speaker 1: some of the examples you've you've given, they spend a
Speaker 1: lot of money to build those brands, and they are
Speaker 1: always very concerned with brand safety. And so that's what's
Speaker 1: driving the boycott. Is better to boycott or be out
Speaker 1: of Facebook than the risk damaging your brands, and so
Speaker 1: that's what's driving it. Yeah, so Mark, you know, Facebook
Speaker 1: has more than eight million advertising clients here, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: that direct a lot of of their small advertisers direct
Speaker 1: response advertisers. So if there's and you know to the
Speaker 1: extent that they're not following suit with some of the
Speaker 1: high profile names we've seen, where is the risk to
Speaker 1: to Facebook? Really here is they try to deal with
Speaker 1: an issue that seems to be resonating not only with advertisers,
Speaker 1: put with a lot of their users. Yeah, so the
Speaker 1: the near term risk, the immediate risk is plastic financial
Speaker 1: risk is actually not that significant for Facebook because those
Speaker 1: brand advertisers just don't really account for a lot of
Speaker 1: Facebook's revenue. Seventeen billion dollars last quarter. But there's a
Speaker 1: there's kind of a bigger risk looming for Facebook, which
Speaker 1: is data. So Facebook relies on Facebook log in um
Speaker 1: for a lot of data and so and as people
Speaker 1: have used Facebook itself left um you don't get as
Speaker 1: much data from Instagram, which Facebook are also owned. So
Speaker 1: with the defining usage of Facebook itself, more um less
Speaker 1: data available from Instagram. If people start boycotting Facebook log in,
Speaker 1: that would actually be a huge threat. Is the Facebook
Speaker 1: logging Is that when I'm logging into a different app,
Speaker 1: I just say, hey, use my Facebook information to log
Speaker 1: in for me, exactly. That seeds a lot of data
Speaker 1: in the Facebook and Facebook uses that data to make
Speaker 1: those smaller advertisers to give them performance the revenue that
Speaker 1: they're looking for. So if you thread that that's a
Speaker 1: much much bigger risk of Facebook, then you know, Peppsy
Speaker 1: boycotting Facebook. So how much of this, the fact that
Speaker 1: it is happening in has to do with the pandemic
Speaker 1: as well? Curious because obviously this is something that the
Speaker 1: company's you know, really believe in. And you know, once
Speaker 1: once you know, dropped advertising, the dominos kind of fell
Speaker 1: and more and more and more doing it right now,
Speaker 1: but has something to do with the fact that it's
Speaker 1: it's sort of handy to have to pare back on
Speaker 1: spending this year. Well yeah, I mean the the that's
Speaker 1: a that's a really good point. The if if you
Speaker 1: boycott Facebook, you might have already been cutting back your
Speaker 1: budgets anyway. So now you can basically put those cut
Speaker 1: cut backs in the context of taking a social stance,
Speaker 1: of doing something that maybe a lot of your customers
Speaker 1: may agree with. So it's super convenient as in and um,
Speaker 1: how sincere it is? Um? I think some of these
Speaker 1: large companies, you know, they're driven by the bottom line. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they're driven by brand tafety concerned. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: this year has a lot what has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with it. It's also an easy choice to them.
Speaker 1: Most of those bigger customers rely on television, not social Um,
Speaker 1: so they're not really losing that much by boycotting Facebook,
Speaker 1: and it's perfect year to do it. So Mark, you
Speaker 1: do some some work with Facebook. I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: some a lot of folks at Facebook. What why do
Speaker 1: you think Zuckerberg is taking this stance here? Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: just a platform im media. I'm not a media company,
Speaker 1: I don't have any editorial responsibility. He seems to be
Speaker 1: on at least the least the less popular side of
Speaker 1: this question, if not the wrong side. What do you
Speaker 1: think he's really thinking here? Um, well, it's a difficult question.
Speaker 1: I get a bit political. So essentially, any form of
Speaker 1: extremism is is probably not a good thing. Right, So,
Speaker 1: whether you're extremely progressive or extremely conservative, I think Mark
Speaker 1: is Stuckerberg is trying to avoid either extreme and the
Speaker 1: world is asking people to take side there. There's just
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And and so I mean, and
Speaker 1: I think logically he's doing the right thing by saying
Speaker 1: it's not my position to judge what you know, content
Speaker 1: is good, what content is bad. But we're living in
Speaker 1: a time right now where people are asking for judgments
Speaker 1: to be made, especially when you distribute contents over two
Speaker 1: billion people. And so, um, it's it's kind of like, um,
Speaker 1: a football game. You know, you might be the second
Speaker 1: person to throw a punch, but you're the one that
Speaker 1: Russ saw. So so you know he so that that's
Speaker 1: the position that he's in, And um, I think it's
Speaker 1: a it's a really difficult position. It's happy to make
Speaker 1: any It's hard for him to make anyone happy right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is. Uh, and that's seeing an impact on
Speaker 1: stock and stock was it a fifty two week high
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, a week or so ago, so
Speaker 1: back we've seen in the last couple of days. You
Speaker 1: have to take that in context. Mark Douglas, CEO of
Speaker 1: Steelhouse based in Los Angeles talking about Facebook here in
Speaker 1: a tough position they're in here is again over as
Speaker 1: as Mark was saying, over two billion users globally. Clearly
Speaker 1: they have an outsize impact on the global dialogue as
Speaker 1: relates to all issues, including political issues as well. We'll
Speaker 1: follow up on that story right now. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the market out look again, a strong market
Speaker 1: here as we opened a holiday shortened week. To get
Speaker 1: a sense of kind of where we are here in
Speaker 1: the market and how we should think about the second
Speaker 1: half of returned to Philow, Orlando, chief equity market strategist
Speaker 1: for Federated Hermes. Phil, thanks so much for joining us here.
Speaker 1: We have a strong day today. Uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: tremendous rebound in the market after that initial COVID selloff
Speaker 1: in March. What do you think about the second half here. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the easy money has been made in the
Speaker 1: sense that the stock market had this powerful rally from
Speaker 1: March twenty three into about the first week in June.
Speaker 1: Things are going to be a little choppier and not
Speaker 1: quite as easy going forward. You've got this tuggle war
Speaker 1: right now going on between uh, pretty good economic data,
Speaker 1: but you've had this spike in infections in some of
Speaker 1: the key southeastern and southwestern states. Um, we'll have a
Speaker 1: much better feel for how that tag war is going
Speaker 1: to play out over the next six weeks or so.
Speaker 1: But we we we took some chips off the table
Speaker 1: last week because we were a little bit concerned about
Speaker 1: how well the market may do here in light of
Speaker 1: some of these issues. Given the fact that we've had
Speaker 1: such a powerful rebound rally already, why on earth would
Speaker 1: anyone be scared At this point, the market seems to
Speaker 1: go up no matter what happens, including you know, cases
Speaker 1: spiking in a dozen states again, and this is not
Speaker 1: going away anytime soon. Well, the situation in the Northeast
Speaker 1: and the Midwest is pretty good in terms of the
Speaker 1: peaking of infections and mortalities back in the middle of April,
Speaker 1: and the fact that we've been able to execute a
Speaker 1: grind lower over the last couple of months, in part
Speaker 1: because I think people have done the right thing social distancing,
Speaker 1: wearing masks, washing your hands, that kind of thing. Um,
Speaker 1: that's not what's going on right now. In a couple
Speaker 1: of the key states Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, those numbers
Speaker 1: have spiked over the course of the last three or
Speaker 1: four weeks. And we don't have a vaccine yet. We
Speaker 1: may have one, uh for emergency use, perhaps as early
Speaker 1: as this fall, but we don't have one right now. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and certainly that's that's caught our attention. And uh,
Speaker 1: you run the risk of of do we shut these
Speaker 1: uh some of these key cities or some of these
Speaker 1: key states down again? Does that does that potentially extend
Speaker 1: this recession from the first half that we think is
Speaker 1: going to end at the end of June. But but
Speaker 1: does that does that lengthen the duration of this recession
Speaker 1: at some point in the second half. And given that uncertainty,
Speaker 1: and given the fact that the stock markets up forty
Speaker 1: seven percent in in you know, twelve weeks, we thought
Speaker 1: it was prudent to maybe take some chips off the table,
Speaker 1: just manage risk a little bit and see how events
Speaker 1: play out over the next month or so. So, Phil,
Speaker 1: how important is another round of fiscal stimulus? I know
Speaker 1: there's a trillion dollar number being thrown around Washington, but
Speaker 1: there doesn't seem to be any urgency to get another
Speaker 1: round of fiscal stimulus out there. How critical is that
Speaker 1: for the second half of this year from an economic perspective,
Speaker 1: I would disagree with that assessment a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think there's a tremendous sense of urgency, but it's not
Speaker 1: going to happen before we see Friday or Thursday's jobs report.
Speaker 1: And that was always the plan. So so Speaker Pelosi,
Speaker 1: the Democrats in the House past the Heroes Act in
Speaker 1: May roughly a three trillion dollar program um the I
Speaker 1: think the Republican Senate would like to pass a program
Speaker 1: that's about half that size, let's call it a trillion
Speaker 1: and a half dollars. But that's not going to happen
Speaker 1: until Congress comes back from vacation after the Independence Day holiday.
Speaker 1: Uh So, two things. Number One, they're on vacation. Number Two,
Speaker 1: they want to see how good or how bad is
Speaker 1: the June jobs report that we're going to see this
Speaker 1: coming Thursday, and then that will inform exactly how big
Speaker 1: the bill should be and what's the best way to
Speaker 1: craft the bill in terms of where should the incentives
Speaker 1: be and how large should the incentives be in terms
Speaker 1: of trying to encourage people back to work or protecting
Speaker 1: those individuals additionally who aren't able to go back to
Speaker 1: work because their businesses might might still be shuttered or
Speaker 1: because they're afraid of cutting coronavirus fellows. Just a little
Speaker 1: tonguentiak earlier. I mean, it really seems to me like
Speaker 1: this market is going higher and higher, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: not based on reality. I mean, what if, for example,
Speaker 1: you know, it takes weeks and weeks to bring down
Speaker 1: the coronavirus cases in the states that are sort of
Speaker 1: more southern and more westerly right now, but by then
Speaker 1: it's already back in New York City. I mean, there
Speaker 1: is a virus on the loose out there is the
Speaker 1: market pricing it at all well? And And that's that's
Speaker 1: a very astute assessment, because the fact that the markets
Speaker 1: up in the last three months is not based upon
Speaker 1: how well and how poorly things are going right this
Speaker 1: second in terms of either combating the disease or in
Speaker 1: terms of what corporate earnings are going to look like
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. What the market is doing is
Speaker 1: a traditional approach as a forward looking discounting mechanism. It's
Speaker 1: looking out deep into the second half of this year
Speaker 1: or even into calendar twenty one and saying, okay, um,
Speaker 1: we've got this thing under control, We've got a vaccine. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're starting to get back to normal. Let's look at
Speaker 1: what normalized durings are and then attempt to discount that
Speaker 1: back and and establish what we think as an appropriate price.
Speaker 1: So there's something of a disconnect there between some investors
Speaker 1: who think that the market is ahead of itself because
Speaker 1: the numbers don't support where it is right now, as
Speaker 1: opposed to those investors that recognize, I think that what
Speaker 1: we're looking we're attempting to do is looking out six
Speaker 1: or twelve months and then pricing it back based upon
Speaker 1: where we think things are going to be, perhaps six
Speaker 1: or twelve months from now. So, uh, Phil, just about
Speaker 1: thirty seconds or so, you said you mentioned that you're
Speaker 1: taking some some chips off the table. Are there still
Speaker 1: some areas where you maybe see some value in some
Speaker 1: opportunity here given the run up, well, international certainly is
Speaker 1: looking more attractive here. Developed international is as cheap compared
Speaker 1: to developed US or large cap US as it was
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the Great Recession in oh seven
Speaker 1: oh nine. Uh. Small cap still looks interesting to us. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's some attractiveness and emerging markets UM value is cheaper
Speaker 1: than growth, so there are pockets of opportunities here. But
Speaker 1: right now we're in a bit. I think we're in
Speaker 1: a little bit of a June swoon, and we need
Speaker 1: to see how this thing plays out. Phil, thanks always
Speaker 1: great to speak with you. The S and P five
Speaker 1: hundred up nine tenths o resent right now, and over
Speaker 1: the last week it's a point six percent, so I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting to see that tune soon. The Dow Jones
Speaker 1: industrial leverage of one point six right now, mostly on Boing.
Speaker 1: It may be able to restart testing today, which of
Speaker 1: course many many companies have been waiting on, not just
Speaker 1: the market and Boing itself. And we have the nastac
Speaker 1: for once. It is actually the lagguage today up four
Speaker 1: tenths of one percent. But thanks to Phil Orlando Federated
Speaker 1: Herme's investors for speaking with us there Florida positivity rates
Speaker 1: have been rising, and it's not the only date where
Speaker 1: that's happening. It's happening in several states in the South
Speaker 1: and the Midwest, and the outlook is pretty pretty dire
Speaker 1: for certain states, including Arizona. Next guest says that it's
Speaker 1: not like a wildfire where you can't just put it out,
Speaker 1: and it's a really dire situation. According to our next guest,
Speaker 1: who is Dr David Engeltaler, co director and Associate Professor
Speaker 1: of the pathogen and Microbiome Division at Tejon North, he
Speaker 1: was also Arizona is a state epidemiologist for a time.
Speaker 1: Dr angel Faler, thank you for joining, explained to us
Speaker 1: why you're so pessimistic about the outlook for Arizona and
Speaker 1: other states. Good, good morning, goney. Yeah, So I think
Speaker 1: you know what's happening with this pandemic. It's it's doing
Speaker 1: what pandemics do. They cause a lot of disease in depth,
Speaker 1: and it's going to have ebbs and flows and waves,
Speaker 1: and we can certainly affect that with public policy and
Speaker 1: public participation in recommendations. Uh. And right now it looks
Speaker 1: like we're maybe not following recommendations enough and and this
Speaker 1: viruses is happened a heyday. So dr you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things that I've kind of toyed about and
Speaker 1: asked a lot of experts about, is, you know, here
Speaker 1: in the New York metro area, we had Governor Andrew Cuomo,
Speaker 1: followed by Governor Murphy of New Jersey and some others,
Speaker 1: but really led by New York Governor Cuomo really take
Speaker 1: an aggressive stance on shutting down quarantining and then you know,
Speaker 1: on the reopening, doing it very gradually and focusing on
Speaker 1: social distancing and masking and all that good stuff. Does
Speaker 1: there need to be a federal response as opposed to
Speaker 1: state by state because we've seen now the states that
Speaker 1: did not take it seriously are the ones that are
Speaker 1: paying the price. Yeah. I think what we're seeing is that,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously this virus doesn't care if you're in
Speaker 1: a red or a blue state, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: it doesn't really care who your governor is. It. We
Speaker 1: are definitely seeing different epidemiological patterns in different regions. So
Speaker 1: for instance, in the Northeast and the New Jersey. In
Speaker 1: New York, um, you know, when they were having their
Speaker 1: giant upswinging their their their case. Batality rates were really
Speaker 1: off the chart, you know, more than seven percent, and
Speaker 1: in in a number of those states and out west
Speaker 1: it's been very different. Uh and and typically around one
Speaker 1: to two and a half percent in Arizona, California, Texas,
Speaker 1: and Utah. But the numbers right now are skyrocketing across
Speaker 1: the southern states, uh and And it could be um
Speaker 1: a large part do the fact that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of twenty somethings that are out there thinking that opening
Speaker 1: up the state means that somehow they were invisible and
Speaker 1: a lot of interactions and in public places without people
Speaker 1: social distancing or wearing masks. Uh And. I think that's
Speaker 1: adding a lot to it. But I also think the
Speaker 1: fact that we have different strains of the virus moving
Speaker 1: around in different epichemiology and in different regions of the country.
Speaker 1: Doctor Rankles are if I could just be blund how
Speaker 1: long before it's back in the northeast again. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not going away. Um. We will have continue to
Speaker 1: have waves probably everywhere. Be hard to say with what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in in in specific regions. It's as
Speaker 1: as we can all tell, we can't model this scientifically,
Speaker 1: and we certainly can't guess where where these things are going. Uh.
Speaker 1: Every every gap and every model has been wrong. Uh
Speaker 1: to date. We just know that the virus uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've likened it to a wildfire. It's also like water.
Speaker 1: It finds the cracks and it gets in and then
Speaker 1: and then it then it's spreads out. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: you know, I think maybe a better question, um might
Speaker 1: actually be are we doing everything we can to protect
Speaker 1: those that are highest risk, our our elder generation uh
Speaker 1: and sadly in most cases were not all right. So
Speaker 1: dr to the extent that uh, you know, we are
Speaker 1: bound to see continuing waves of this across the country
Speaker 1: at the varying degrees. That kind of brings us to
Speaker 1: the point of where do you think we are in
Speaker 1: terms of viable airpiece to treat the virus and more importantly,
Speaker 1: and is a ultimately a vaccine. These definitely are the
Speaker 1: questions on on everybody's mind. We need those tools. And
Speaker 1: the good news is is that, um, you know the
Speaker 1: focus of the science scientific world, especially the biob medical world,
Speaker 1: is on this disease, and almost only this disease, which
Speaker 1: means that we're going to have a number of new
Speaker 1: advancements we've already had that we're going to be testing
Speaker 1: and looking at a lot of different drugs and and
Speaker 1: repurposing a lot of drugs, and and that's been covered
Speaker 1: heavily in the media. And some are gonna work in
Speaker 1: some flat out won't. But we have to keep moving
Speaker 1: forward and keep drying. Uh. And then vaccines are are
Speaker 1: um certainly under development and and actually some vaccines are
Speaker 1: already in clinical trials, which is great news. Nothing's really
Speaker 1: ever moved this fast. Uh And and so we may
Speaker 1: actually see a good a couple of good vaccine candidates
Speaker 1: come out the the side of clinical trials by the
Speaker 1: end of this year. It still takes a long time
Speaker 1: to do those trials because you have to see whether
Speaker 1: or not the vaccine is gonna work. But we may
Speaker 1: see some that it won't be distributed this year most likely,
Speaker 1: and but hopefully maybe early next year we'll have some
Speaker 1: that can get out to the ones that need it most,
Speaker 1: those that are highest risk and those that are carrying
Speaker 1: to them. Doctor. I mean, we obviously get pandemic type
Speaker 1: situations once every twenty years or so. Does the next
Speaker 1: one though come sooner? Are we in sort of an
Speaker 1: era now where we're going to experience pandemic after pandemic.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm saying that with full awareness that
Speaker 1: we're nowhere near seeing an end to this particular coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to the next pandemic, there's there's no doubt
Speaker 1: we will continue to see pandemics. We are we are
Speaker 1: more connected globally than ever before. Viruses and other pathogens
Speaker 1: can move around um the world at the speed of flights. Uh.
Speaker 1: We we can be assured a new viruses will continue
Speaker 1: to come out of nature as this one has, as
Speaker 1: many others have in the past summer. Some will be
Speaker 1: dead ends uh and and or cause limited disease like
Speaker 1: the original stars virus uh and some will be global
Speaker 1: pandemics like say pandemic flu was and like this one
Speaker 1: is so dr I guess that one of the next
Speaker 1: questions is, I mean, how do you think that the
Speaker 1: states that are dealing with a surgeon now, is this
Speaker 1: something that they can do what perhaps New York and
Speaker 1: New Jersey and some other states did and and kind
Speaker 1: of bend the curve to bring the turn back from
Speaker 1: several months ago. Yeah, I think that we can continue
Speaker 1: to um, learn and monitor what's going on with the
Speaker 1: pandemic in local regions and a just local responses. Uh
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, we you know, after we you know,
Speaker 1: did the masses shut down, and obviously that had a
Speaker 1: lot of detrimental effects, but it also really slow down
Speaker 1: the virus. Why do we learn from that and how
Speaker 1: can we get closer to that slowing of the virus
Speaker 1: without maybe killing the economy? So number one first and
Speaker 1: formed most for me is that we still have to
Speaker 1: do everything we can do to protect those that are
Speaker 1: most at risk. And and you know, at the very
Speaker 1: beginning of this we knew who is going to die,
Speaker 1: and sadly they have and they will continue to do
Speaker 1: so until we put absolute protection around those. And that's
Speaker 1: our nursing homes, that's our elderly population with multiple chronic condition, right,
Speaker 1: these are the ones who are dying. It's not the twentiesomething. UM.
Speaker 1: So that's where we got right, doctor, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to leave it there. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Dr David engel Feller, Director of Effectious Disease at t GEN.
Speaker 1: And you also a former state epimologist epimediologists for the
Speaker 1: State of Arizona. Thanks for listening to the Bloomberg Markets podcast.
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