U.S. disastrous response to COVID-19 human-induced: Pakistani expert

STORY: U.S. disastrous response to COVID-19 human-induced: Pakistani expert DATELINE: April 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. 2. SOUNDBITE (English): IRFAN SHAHZAD TAKALVI, Founding president of Eurasian Century Institute, Pakistan 3. various of the U.S. STORYLINE: A Pakistani expert has said that the United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic was a human-induced disaster and exposed the weaknesses of the American leadership. SOUNDBITE (English): IRFAN SHAHZAD TAKALVI, Founding president of Eurasian Century Institute, Pakistan "America's response to COVID-19, since day one, has been a policy response disaster. It has been a governance disaster. It has exposed many weaknesses of (the) American leadership and American institutions. As an observer, I feel that had the policy response been adequate, America could have saved at least 300,000 lives. So we know that the response, since day one, was not adequate enough. We had a president in Ameri

Experiments on African American inmates reveal U.S. double standards on human rights

STORY: Experiments on African American inmates reveal U.S. double standards on human rights DATELINE: Oct. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:38 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. the formal apology of the city of Philadelphia 2. cover of the book telling the story at Holmesburg Prison 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): IRFAN SHAHZAD TAKALVI, Founding President of Eurasian Century Institute, Pakistan 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANNA MALINDOG-UY, Researcher, Manila-based think tank STORYLINE: The U.S. city of Philadelphia has issued a formal apology for experiments conducted on African American inmates at a prison decades ago. From the 1950s to the 1970s, inmates of Holmesburg Prison were intentionally exposed to pharmaceuticals, viruses, fungus, asbestos, and even dioxin, a component of Agent Orange. The experiments were conducted by University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Albert Kligman. The vast majority of those subjected to these experiments were African American men, many of them illiterate, awa