Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the window for symptoms to develop on board the plane is really small.
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And Dr Craig Spencer, the doctor who tested positive for Ebola in New York...
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on October 23rd, was screened at JFK Airport on his return from Guinea on October 17th, but he wasn't picked up because he wasn't showing symptoms at the time.
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Even if screening had already been in place in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man to be diagnosed in the current outbreak, wouldn't have been picked up either because he only developed symptoms a week after he was back on US soil.
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And again, that number was low, only 2.8 travellers on average each month.
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That's because even in the countries at the centre of the Ebola outbreak, the chances of someone being infected is actually quite low, and a relatively small number of people in these countries fly anyway.
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The risk is there, but it's very small.
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And Ruth, this was summed up by a headline in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph last weekend.
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Well, kind of.
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The article claimed that according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Aid Tracker, IKEA had contributed $6.8 million, while Spain, Norway and Luxembourg had offered just $3.9 million between them.
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Good.
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Good.
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That's right.
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Norway, and the Telegraph did point this out, disagreed with the figure attributed to them, and they've told me that they have pledged $50 million, but only a fraction of that will be channelled through the UN, and therefore the majority of it won't show up on their aid tracker.
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Well, it's not, and nobody would dispute that contributing nearly $7 million to help tackle Ebola is a bad thing.
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Well, there always is.
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IKEA have lots of shops, but they are owned by a charity, the Stichting Inka Foundation, which was set up in the Netherlands as a non-profit-making entity dedicated to innovation in the field of architectural and interior design.
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That might sound like a strange corporate structure, but it does help IKEA avoid a lot of tax.
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The foundation gave 101 million euros to charitable causes last year, but it's estimated to hold assets worth more than 30 billion euros.
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Perhaps it's not surprising that in 2006, The Economist magazine said that the foundation was the richest in the world, but also one of the least generous.
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