{"id":392289,"date":"2021-04-06T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=392289"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:28:55","slug":"former-usaid-administrator-becomes-global-covid-19-response-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-usaid-administrator-becomes-global-covid-19-response-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Former USAID administrator becomes global COVID-19 response coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-usaid-administrator-becomes-global-covid-19-response-coordinator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=392289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gayle Smith, the new State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security, speaks about U.S. leadership in fighting the coronavirus pandemic at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (Al Drago\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:11 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, April 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Biden administration has appointed a new coordinator for its global COVID-19 response. On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the former administrator for the Agency for International Development, Gayle Smith, will take on the role.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as many countries are putting pressure on the U.S. to share coronavirus vaccine supplies with them. Smith addressed these concerns on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur challenges now are to first shorten the lifespan of a borderless pandemic that is destroying lives and livelihoods all over the world, and the second is to ensure that we can prevent, detect and respond to those future global health threats we know are coming,\u201d she stated. \u201cAmerican leadership is desperately needed and I\u2019m extremely confident we can rise to the occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ONECampaign?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ONECampaign<\/a>\u2019s new series <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pandemica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pandemica<\/a>, which shines a spotlight on the global vaccine access crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine access isn\u2019t just about what\u2019s fair, it\u2019s also about what\u2019s smart \u2013 we can\u2019t end a global pandemic until we stop the virus from spreading &amp; mutating everywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qwADeHeTqf\">https:\/\/t.co\/qwADeHeTqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gayle Smith (@GayleSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GayleSmith\/status\/1375092608104595468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While in office, President Trump balked at the idea of vaccine sharing until every American had the chance to receive one.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/hunter-biden-fails-to-explain-corrupt-dealings-overseas-tax-probe\/\"> Hunter Biden fails to explain corrupt dealings overseas, tax probe<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gayle Smith, the new State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security, speaks about U.S. leadership in fighting the coronavirus pandemic at the State Department in Washington, Monday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275948,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}