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- Anybody who's looking at this carefully realizes that there's a distinct anti-science flavor to this.Cualquiera que examine esto detenidamente se da cuenta de que tiene un marcado matiz anticientífico.

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So if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about.Así que, si se levantan y critican la ciencia, nadie va a saber de qué están hablando.

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But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there.Pero si se levantan y realmente apuntan sus balas contra Tony Fauci, bueno, la gente podría reconocer que ahí hay una persona.

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So, it's easy to criticize, but they're really criticizing science because I represent science. - [Jeffrey] Most people want to be free.Así que es fácil criticar, pero en realidad están criticando a la ciencia porque yo represento a la ciencia. - [Jeffrey] La mayoría de la gente quiere ser libre.

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They want to be happy. They want to have a home, maybe have kids, go on a vacation here and there.Quieren ser felices. Quieren tener un hogar, tal vez tener hijos, irse de vacaciones de vez en cuando.

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They want to be free and be healthy, but they realize we live in a society and government is needed to keep that society kind of together.Quieren ser libres y saludables, pero se dan cuenta de que vivimos en una sociedad y que se necesita un gobierno para mantener esa sociedad unida.

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And you need protection from your enemies.Y necesitas protección contra tus enemigos.

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There are people who want to come into your country and do bad things.Hay personas que quieren entrar en tu país y hacer cosas malas.

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There are people who live in your country who want to do bad things.Hay personas que viven en tu país que quieren hacer cosas malas.

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So we need a military, we need police, et cetera, to keep us safe. We want safety.Entonces necesitamos un ejército, necesitamos policía, etcétera, para mantenernos a salvo. Queremos seguridad.

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People also understand that there are infectious agents around, bacteria, viruses that have hurt and killed people since people existed.La gente también entiende que existen agentes infecciosos a nuestro alrededor —bacterias y virus— que han causado daño y muerte a las personas desde que estas existen.

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We are aware that things like the flu come around. And yes, and the flu makes people sick. The flu kills people.

Somos conscientes de que surgen cosas como la gripe. Y sí, la gripe enferma a la gente. La gripe mata a las personas.

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But we consider the flu to be kind of a natural thing. Viruses exist.Pero consideramos que la gripe es algo más o menos natural. Los virus existen.

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Viruses have figured out their place in the world. They're around.Los virus han encontrado su lugar en el mundo. Están ahí.

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We don't know what their game plan is because they haven't announced it. So people want to be protected from infectious diseases too.No sabemos cuál es su plan de acción porque no lo han anunciado. Por eso, la gente también quiere protegerse de las enfermedades infecciosas.

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They want the doctors, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies to have a treatment for whatever infectious disease they're dealing with.Quieren que los médicos, los hospitales y las compañías farmacéuticas tengan un tratamiento para cualquier enfermedad infecciosa a la que se enfrenten.

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And when there's a public health situation, they want the CDC or their local health department to get involved.Y cuando surge una situación de salud pública, quieren que los CDC o su departamento de salud local intervengan.

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They certainly don't want doctors or pharmaceutical companies or the CDC to create such a disease and then offering treatment for it.Ciertamente, no quieren que los médicos, las compañías farmacéuticas o los CDC creen una enfermedad de este tipo y luego ofrezcan un tratamiento para ella.

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People are not down with that at all.A la gente no le hace ninguna gracia eso.

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I know a lot of doctors say this, but I went into medicine to help people. That's true.Sé que muchos médicos dicen esto, pero me dediqué a la medicina para ayudar a la gente. Es verdad.

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I'm sure that Anthony Fauci, if asked, would say that yes, he went into medicine to help people.Estoy seguro de que Anthony Fauci, si se le preguntara, diría que sí, que se dedicó a la medicina para ayudar a la gente.

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See, medicine, they call it the art of medicine, has science at its core, but it's also an art.Verás, la medicina —a la que llaman el arte de la medicina— tiene la ciencia en su esencia, pero también es un arte.

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And one of the principles of this art of medicine is to not hurt people.Y uno de los principios de este arte de la medicina es no hacer daño a la gente.

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In the Hippocratic Oath, it says, "First do no harm." So when thinking about the health of people,En el Juramento Hipocrático, dice: "Primero, no hacer daño". Así que cuando pensamos en la salud de las personas,

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the health of your patients, you have to weigh the treatment against the possible side effects....la salud de sus pacientes, debe sopesar el tratamiento frente a los posibles efectos secundarios.

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Sometimes it's better to simply do nothing than to give people, let's say, a medicine that ends up being worse than the disease.A veces es mejor simplemente no hacer nada que dar a la gente, digamos, una medicina que acaba siendo peor que la enfermedad.

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After medical school, I trained in internal medicine at USC. While there, I saw some disturbing things.Tras terminar la facultad de medicina, me formé en medicina interna en la USC. Durante esa etapa, presencié algunas cosas inquietantes.

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The most disturbing thing I saw was that people were in the hospital with preventable diseases. That really bothered me.Lo más inquietante que vi fue que había personas en el hospital con enfermedades prevenibles. Eso realmente me molestó.

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If somebody had spent some time with these people, with these patients early on, before they got disease X,Si alguien hubiera pasado algún tiempo con estas personas, con estos pacientes desde el principio, antes de que contrajeran la enfermedad X,

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before they got, let's say, HIV, educating them that, for one, HIV is contracted through sex, maybe they wouldn't be in the hospital dying from HIV,...antes de que contrajeran, digamos, el VIH —educándolos sobre el hecho de que, para empezar, el VIH se transmite a través de las relaciones sexuales—, tal vez no estarían en el hospital muriendo a causa del VIH.

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if somebody had just spent some time educating the public about that.Si alguien hubiera dedicado algo de tiempo a educar al público sobre eso.

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So I decided to go to UCLA and study preventive medicine and public health because I was looking for a way to have a greater impact on a greater number of people.Así que decidí ir a UCLA para estudiar medicina preventiva y salud pública, ya que buscaba la manera de generar un mayor impacto en un mayor número de personas.

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I believed in public health.Creía en la salud pública.

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I believed in preventive medicine, prevent diseases, illnesses, injuries, other things.Creía en la medicina preventiva: prevenir enfermedades, dolencias, lesiones y otras cosas.

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That would prevent somebody from suffering unnecessarily. Could COVID have been prevented? Of course.Eso habría evitado que alguien sufriera innecesariamente. ¿Se podría haber evitado el COVID? Por supuesto.

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Especially if it was never created in a laboratory for no good reason and released upon the public.Especialmente si nunca fue creado en un laboratorio sin una buena razón y liberado entre el público.

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Once it was released, well, that became a challenge because it was a very unusual virus that was very good at destroying lives.Una vez que se liberó, bueno, eso se convirtió en un desafío, porque era un virus muy inusual que era muy eficaz a la hora de destruir vidas.

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I also discovered that money is a driving force in how care is delivered. Doctors become very procedure-happy.También descubrí que el dinero es un factor determinante en la forma en que se presta la atención médica. Los médicos se vuelven muy propensos a realizar procedimientos.

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For example, obstetricians were doing unnecessary C-sections. Why?Por ejemplo, los obstetras realizaban cesáreas innecesarias. ¿Por qué?

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Because they make a lot more money from a C-section than a normal vaginal delivery.Porque ganan mucho más dinero con una cesárea que con un parto vaginal normal.

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Pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies that want to sell their products go to the doctors and juice them.Las empresas farmacéuticas y las compañías de dispositivos médicos que quieren vender sus productos acuden a los médicos y los exprimen al máximo.

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They figure out ways to get the doctor to use their product. They do the same with the government.

Idean formas de lograr que el médico utilice su producto. Hacen lo mismo con el gobierno.

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They go to the government, let's say they have a vaccine, and they say to the government, "This vaccine will prevent people from getting ill with disease X or Y.

Acuden al gobierno —digamos que tienen una vacuna— y le dicen: "Esta vacuna evitará que la gente enferme de la enfermedad X o Y".

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And you should make this vaccine mandatory.

Y debería hacer obligatoria esta vacuna.

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Make sure that everybody gets it." Is that a benefit to the pharmaceutical companies? Absolutely.

"Asegúrense de que todos lo reciban". ¿Supone eso un beneficio para las compañías farmacéuticas? Sin duda.

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There's also a world of research with billions and billions of dollars coming from the federal government, state government,

También hay un mundo de investigación con miles de millones de dólares provenientes del gobierno federal, del gobierno estatal,

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other sources that doctors also like to tap into because there's a lot of money there.

otras fuentes a las que a los médicos también les gusta recurrir, porque ahí hay mucho dinero.

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Getting grants and things like that that you would think, "Well, okay, well, they're helping to advance science, or they're helping to advance medicine." They're mostly helping to advance themselves.

Al obtener subvenciones y cosas por el estilo, uno podría pensar: «Bueno, está bien, ayudan a hacer avanzar la ciencia o la medicina». Pero, en realidad, sobre todo se están beneficiando a sí mismos.

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Anthony Fauci is one of those kinds of doctors.

Anthony Fauci es uno de esos tipos de médicos.

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Anthony Fauci has great credentials, but there are plenty of stupid and evil people who have great credentials.

Anthony Fauci tiene grandes credenciales, pero hay muchas personas estúpidas y malvadas que tienen grandes credenciales.

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Just because you go to a good school does not make you a good person. - [Presenter] Of a very different... - [Jeffrey] I was raised Catholic.

El hecho de ir a una buena escuela no te convierte en una buena persona. - [Presentador] De una índole muy distinta... - [Jeffrey] Me crié como católico.

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I had an Italian grandmother, would go with her and my grandpa to church on Sundays.

Tenía una abuela italiana; iba con ella y con mi abuelo a la iglesia los domingos.

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I felt proud to be Catholic.

Me sentí orgulloso de ser católico.

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I felt that Catholics had a history of taking care of the poor, of the sick, of the disadvantaged. I believed in the Catholic church.

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I believed that Catholics were doing God's work, so to speak.

Sentía que los católicos tenían una historia de cuidar a los pobres, a los enfermos y a los desfavorecidos. Creía en la Iglesia católica.

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But then the priest scandal hit and sort of blew the covers off of that, so I became disillusioned with the Catholic church.

Pero entonces estalló el escándalo de los sacerdotes y, en cierto modo, sacó todo eso a la luz, así que me desilusioné de la Iglesia católica.

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The placebo effect is a very powerful factor in clinical research, but also in the world and practice of medicine.

El efecto placebo es un factor muy poderoso en la investigación clínica, pero también en el mundo y la práctica de la medicina.

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If patients don't believe the medicine works or is going to work, then it's less likely to work. Patients also look to their doctor.

Si los pacientes no creen que el medicamento funcione o vaya a funcionar, es menos probable que funcione. Los pacientes también se fijan en su médico.

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They want to have confidence in their doctor, what the doctor is saying. People need that confidence.

Quieren tener confianza en su médico y en lo que este dice. La gente necesita esa confianza.

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It goes a long way in making treatments or even just advice work.

Contribuye enormemente a que los tratamientos —o incluso el simple asesoramiento— funcionen.

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If people think doctors are liars, then that's a major problem.

Si la gente piensa que los médicos son mentirosos, entonces eso es un problema grave.

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Is it possible for one person to ruin the field of medicine, the practice of public health?

¿Es posible que una sola persona arruine el campo de la medicina y la práctica de la salud pública?

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I didn't use to think that was possible, but now I do, because of Tony Fauci.

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There's the saying, "Don't throw out the baby with the bath water," meaning don't throw away the good with the bad.

Antes no pensaba que eso fuera posible, pero ahora sí, gracias a Tony Fauci.

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Sometimes the baby is so dirty it's not going to be possible to clean it.

A veces, el bebé está tan sucio que no será posible limpiarlo.

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I became disillusioned with medicine, but when COVID hit and I smelled what a rat that was, I became even more disillusioned.

Me desencanté de la medicina, pero cuando llegó el COVID y me di cuenta de la farsa que había detrás, me desencanté aún más.

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I experienced COVID in LA.

Viví el COVID en Los Ángeles.

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When COVID hit, my company's offices were shut down and I was sent to work at home, and we know all the complications that happened with that.

Cuando llegó el COVID, las oficinas de mi empresa cerraron y me enviaron a trabajar desde casa; ya conocemos todas las complicaciones que eso conllevó.

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My employer was a medical group.

Mi empleador era un grupo médico.

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Our medical group, like other medical groups, like other hospitals, doctors, et cetera, had to deal

Nuestro grupo médico, al igual que otros grupos médicos, hospitales, médicos, etcétera, tuvo que hacer frente a la situación.

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with the difficulty COVID patients, getting them treatment, keeping them alive, preventing others from getting COVID, all the stuff that went with COVID.

Con las dificultades que suponían los pacientes de COVID —conseguirles tratamiento, mantenerlos con vida, evitar que otros se contagiaran y todo lo que conllevaba la enfermedad—.

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But I also almost lost my good friend, Dr. Charles or Charlie Holzner, who was assigned to work in the emergency room to help that hospital deal with COVID patients.

Pero también estuve a punto de perder a mi buen amigo, el Dr. Charles —o Charlie— Holzner, quien había sido asignado a trabajar en la sala de urgencias para ayudar a ese hospital a atender a pacientes con COVID.

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And then he became a COVID patient. - I never had anymore COVID [indistinct]. And the ones that weren't COVID, I could easily...

Y entonces se convirtió en paciente de COVID. —Ya no tuve más casos de COVID [inaudible]. Y los que no eran de COVID, podía fácilmente...

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The ones that weren't COVID, I went out of my way to sent home.

Hice todo lo posible por enviar a casa a los que no tenían COVID.

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When I started feeling ill, my wife said, "Maybe you should stay home."

Cuando empecé a sentirme mal, mi esposa dijo: «Tal vez deberías quedarte en casa».

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But thinking that I was indefatigable and couldn't get anything wrong with me, I started taking prednisone.

Pero pensando que era infatigable y que no podía pasar nada malo conmigo, comencé a tomar prednisona.

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- [Jeffrey] 'Cause you were feeling sick and you had a fever reason.

Porque te sentías enfermo y tenías una razón de fiebre.

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You say, "Maybe I have a..." - Yeah, and I bought a pulse oximeter. [laughs] Just to monitor if I am going to end up like the people in my [indistinct].

Dices: «Tal vez tengo un...» — Sí, y me compré un pulsioxímetro.  Solo para controlar si voy a acabar como la gente de mi... 

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And then after three days of feeling feverish, I started really breathing hard

Y luego, tras tres días con sensación de fiebre, empecé a respirar con mucha dificultad.

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and 30 times a minute just to keep my saturation about 90%.

y 30 veces por minuto, solo para mantener mi saturación alrededor del 90 %.

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So I decided to go to the local ER where my saturation was still above 90%.

Así que decidí ir a urgencias, donde mi saturación seguía por encima del 90 %.

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They took a chest x-ray, and my X-ray was all whited out. I was reading 30 times a minute.

Me hicieron una radiografía de tórax y la imagen aparecía totalmente blanca. Respiraba 30 veces por minuto.

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And they said, "No, you don't have to be admitted." I go... - [Jeffrey] Did they test you for COVID there?

Y dijeron: "No, no hace falta que te ingresen". Y yo... - ¿Te hicieron la prueba de COVID allí?

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- Yeah, they did. I got a rapid test that was positive. And then they did later a PCR three... I had a three-day PCR. - [Jeffrey] I see. Huh.

Sí, así fue. Me hicieron una prueba rápida que dio positivo. Y luego me hicieron una PCR... una PCR de tres días. - Ya veo. Vaya.

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- And they wanted to send me home.

Y ellos querían enviarme a casa.

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And I said, "I don't know, if I go home, I think I'm going to die." Because I know that the people who died were guys like me.

Y dije: "No lo sé; si vuelvo a casa, creo que voy a morir". Porque sé que las personas que murieron eran tipos como yo.

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I was 65 and I had pre-diabetes. This was not good.

Tenía 65 años y prediabetes. Eso no era bueno.

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And I got over to the ER and they put me in to the ER and then I said, "I'm here to get some..."
Y llegué a urgencias, me hicieron pasar y entonces dije: "He venido a que me den..."

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What is it? The monoclonal antibodies.
¿Qué es? Los anticuerpos monoclonales.

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And first they argued me, "Oh, you don't fit the criteria." I go, "I think I do." [laughs]
Primero me dijeron: «Ah, no cumples los requisitos». Y yo respondí: «Creo que sí».

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So they were arguing with me there too. [laughs] - [Jeffrey] You played your doctor card and they threw it off the table.

Así que allí también discutían conmigo. [risas] - [Jeffrey] Jugaste la carta de «soy médico» y ellos la tiraron de la mesa.

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- Yeah, and so finally they decide, "Okay, we'll give you the monoclonal antibody and it'll be a two-hour infusion." And then I sent my wife home.

Sí, y finalmente deciden: "Está bien, te daremos el anticuerpo monoclonal y será una infusión de dos horas". Y luego envié a mi esposa a casa.

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I said, "You can pick me up after the infusion." And they gave me the infusion. I didn't feel anything.

Dije: «Pueden recogerme después de la infusión». Y me pusieron la infusión. No sentí nada.

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But then they came back to check on me an hour after the infusion and my saturation started dropping into the seventies at 100% [indistinct] breather.

Pero luego volvieron a revisarme una hora después de la infusión y mi saturación empezó a bajar a los setenta, con oxígeno al 100 %.

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And then I couldn't breathe at all. And they wanted to intubate me. - [Jeffrey] Had they admitted you at that point? - I was still in the ER. - [Jeffrey] I see, yeah.

Y entonces ya no podía respirar en absoluto. Y querían intubarme. - [Jeffrey] ¿Ya te habían ingresado en ese momento? - Todavía estaba en urgencias. - [Jeffrey] Ya veo, sí.

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- They were going to send me home until I started. As I was getting dressed, I started crashing.

Iban a enviarme a casa hasta que empecé. Mientras me vestía, sufrí un colapso repentino.

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And then they put this BiPAP mask on me and gave me the 80 liters, and I could sort of breathe okay with 80 liters of oxygen.

Y entonces me pusieron esta mascarilla BiPAP y me administraron los 80 litros, y pude respirar más o menos bien con 80 litros de oxígeno.

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And I stayed on that for the next five days, on 80 liters. - Admitted, though, at that point.

Y me mantuve así durante los cinco días siguientes, con 80 litros. Aunque, para entonces, ya estaba ingresado.

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- Yeah. I was admitted and

Sí. Me admitieron y

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I met with the ID guy in Mel Coates. He was my hospitalist.

Me reuní con el especialista en enfermedades infecciosas en Mel Coates. Él fue mi médico hospitalista.

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And he said to me, "You don't look too good." And he said, "Do you want to be intubated?" And I said, "No, I'd rather not."

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I saw happened to people who got intubated, that I don't think that's a good idea for me.

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I think I'd rather...

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If it comes to that, just give me some morphine "and let me go to wherever you go after you pass." And so they made me a do not resuscitate.

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I said, "That's fine." And then I asked the ID guy, "What do you think my mortality rate is?"

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He said, "Oh, about 50-50." I go, "That's better than the other guy." "He was like 100%." [laughs]

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- [Jeffrey] If [indistinct] to get a second opinion, man.

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- And the ID guy said, "We really don't know what to do, so we'll just kind of do everything." Yeah, he was, "It's odd." We don't know if any of this is going to work,

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but we think the thing that kills you is the hyper-immune response.

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"So we're going to blast you with steroids." And they gave me broad-spectrum antibiotics.

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I go, "Why are you doing that?" He goes, "Well, you don't know?" - [Jeffrey] Yeah, "Why in the heart?" - Exactly.

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- [Jeffrey] "They're on sale this week." - And they totally anticoagulated me [indistinct]. I was completely anticoagulated to prevent any blood clots.

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And after a week of the mask, I can only take it off momentarily and I would desaturate right away.

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I couldn't move. I'd never been on the other side of being... - [Jeffrey] Of being of being super sick, you must add.

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- I started realizing that the hospital people don't take care of your normal needs.

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Like they don't help you poo, pee, or shave you or brush your teeth.

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They say, "You're filthy, dirty, [indistinct]." - [Jeffrey] And so that's why we say the hospital's the worst place to go if you're sick, right?

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- Liters after about two and a half weeks in the hospital.

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- [Jeffrey] You were two and a half weeks in the hospital.

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They sent me home with oxygen, but they sent a oxygen concentrator to my home, which I didn't know how to use.

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And then they gave me a tank of oxygen that only had 30 minutes of oxygen in it. And I go, "Well, how am I going to get home?

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Can you give me a bigger canister? Fill this one up more?" "No, we can't." [laughs]

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So I gotta a race home with only 30 minutes of oxygen. - [Jeffrey] What if it was a bad traffic day, right?

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- And the house was normally 45 minutes away.

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I said, "Well, I'll kind of take my chances." And on the way home, I just had my head out the window

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trying to get oxygen that way. [laughs] - [Jeffrey] He can laugh about it now, but he has a wife and kids.

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And if he died, that would've been horrible for them.

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We can all take a little sigh of relief now, maybe even laugh about it a little bit, but unfortunately it was less than funny.

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A million people died in the United States. Millions died worldwide. Many people are still suffering the after effects of COVID.

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It completely disrupted our society, the way we do things. Many businesses closed, et cetera. It's horrible.

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And people want it to be over, but somehow it feels like there's some unsettled business still.

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- Everything, Everything I own is being taken away from me. We need somebody to do something about this.

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- [Jeffrey] There hasn't been closure because the people responsible for it, the virus itself,

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the way that it was handled, the many, many, many, many lies have not been held to account.

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The world of medicine, the practice of medicine, the whole thing has made major advances over the centuries.

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Believe me, you would not want to go to a 15th century doctor.

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There have been some little hiccups, lobotomies, thalidomide, where people lost confidence in the practice of medicine.

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But for the most part, it has made some major advances.

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Insulin immunizations, antibiotics, x-rays, MRIs, discovery of genes and how genes influence life,

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major advancement in cancer treatment, and of course, plastic surgery.

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[thrilling electronic music]

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Public health promotes and protects the health of people in the communities where they live, learn, work, and play.

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Our public health system is supposed to be there to give communities, states, and the nation the capacity

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to prevent disease, promote health, and prepare for and respond to both acute threats and chronic challenges to health.

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Every state has a public health department, and there are over 2,800 local health departments in the US. And we have the good old CDC.

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Some of the public health system responsibilities are diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the community, informing, educating,

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and empowering people about health issues, mobilizing community partnerships, and enforcing laws and regulations.

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Public health departments are expected to take the lead when a new infectious agent comes on the scene and come up with a plan to make sure

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that the new infectious agent doesn't get everyone sick or kills everyone.

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[gentle music]

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- Public health systems have responsibility in terms of infectious disease, first of all,

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for recognizing the occurrence of a new outbreak or repeat of an old outbreak.

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So they had the responsibility to monitor not only for existing infectious agents like flu,

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but monitoring for new agents that they didn't know about before.

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And of course we have too, we had HIV and we had Ebola, and now we have SARS-CoV-2.

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And ultimately it's responsibility of public health to control the epidemic.

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But in order to do that, they got a responsibility to inform the public.

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They also have a responsibility to inform the political system.

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'Cause in the end, much of public health intervention is politics because it requires a changing of behavior.

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- [Jeffrey] And there are complaints and concerns that our public health system is not getting enough funding.

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Close to a trillion dollars is spent on healthcare in the United States every year, but that doesn't make it good.

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The US spends more of its gross domestic product on healthcare than any other high-income country, yet ranks last in access to care and administrative efficiency.

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So let's try to cover a few thousand years of public health history in a few minutes.

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Humans have been on this planet for around, oh, 100,000 years.

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And during this time, people have lived, and yes, people have died.

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And certainly in their early years when someone died, the cause of death was often unknown.

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Of course, unless somebody was getting hit in the head with a rock, then it was very clear how the person died.

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But in early human civilization, these causes of deaths were often a mystery to most people.

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The ancient Greeks got the whole public health system thing going by being into fitness, health, nutrition. They came up with the Olympics.

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They saw that oftentimes disease or illness was caused by the environment where people lived. Hippocrates was an ancient grape.

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He's considered by many to be the father of Westerner modern medicine.

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He came up with the term "epidemic," which means "on the people." And of course, he had the Hippocratic Oath. Next, we had the Romans.
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They believed in a lot of things that the Greeks did, but they were into administration.

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When they took over a community, they constructed aqueducts to move the water around sewage systems. They were into administration.

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Next, we had the Middle Ages or the Dark Ages. These were bad years for public health.

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The black plague came around and wiped out a big chunk of the population, almost half. During this time too, religion kind of trumped science.

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Basically, people began to believe that when people were getting sick or dying, it's because they had offended God in some way.

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But scientists were pushed to the side.

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There were some advances in public health during this time, such as quarantine, but overall it was a really dark time for public health.

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Next was the Renaissance, which certainly was much better than the Dark Ages.

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But during this time also, Europeans traveled around the world and they brought all kinds of diseases to indigenous populations like smallpox, STD, tuberculosis.

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They basically wiped the people out.

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Then we had the Age of Enlightenment, and that brought further advances in medicine and science during that time.

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Dr. Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine after doing a very studied analysis of how people were contracting the disease.

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During the early 1800s, Dr. Snow came on the scene. He's considered to be the father of epidemiology.

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He did a very studied analysis of how people were contracting cholera in London. And he used this analysis to help stop the outbreak.

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He discovered the source of the contamination in the water supply.

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He developed the guidelines for handling epidemics, determine what the disease is, look for possible causes of the disease.

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If you have a treatment, begin treating people, and then head back around and look at the source again and make sure that that's being controlled. Then we add Louis Pasteur.

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We've all heard of pasteurization. Well, that's the guy.

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He developed an understanding that microorganisms were the cause of many diseases. He also developed the rabies vaccine.

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And along with him we had Robert Koch, and he was also very good at identifying microorganisms. Again, this is where the microscopes came into play.

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He identified the Vibrio cholerae bacterium and also the tuberculosis bacterium.

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Once all this knowledge started to come together, there was a bit of a sanitation revolution led by public health departments, which made sure

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that the water was safe to drink, inspected food, and continue to promote personal hygiene and develop treatments for various diseases,

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vaccines, et cetera, helped to make sure that the garbage was being collected, tried to control rodents and other sources of infection.

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Public health departments took the lead in controlling communicable diseases.

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That was to be the role of the CDC during COVID, but they screwed it up. They were well funded, well staffed.

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They had all the ingredients to take care of the COVID situation, but they weren't able to, in part, because there was so much infighting and confusion.

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And somehow Tony Fauci was put in charge of all of it.

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He was the absolute worst person to have this job because he had a major conflict of interest.

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It would be like asking Jeffrey Dahmer to babysit your kids.

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When COVID hit, did Fauci and the other geniuses have a plan in place to take care of it?

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Well, we had a very significant written plan for dealing with COVID-like emergencies.

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We even did a six-month-long training exercise at the federal, state, and municipal level in 2019 called Operation Crimson Contagion.

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An exercise that ironically simulated a US response to a fictitious respiratory virus that began in China and quickly spread around the world.

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Here are some of the findings from that simulation.

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The Department of Health and Human Services at the end of the training determined the US is underprepared, underfunded, and undercoordinated to fight an influenza-like pandemic.

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The exercise highlighted the lack of PPE preparedness in the event of a global pandemic

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and problems in the supply chain for medical equipment, including ventilators and other ancillary medical supply.

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In this fictional pandemic, as a virus spread quickly across the US, the CDC issued guidelines for social distancing and many employees were told to work from home.

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But federal and state officials struggled to identify which employees were essential and what equipment was needed to effectively work from home.

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There was also confusion over how to handle school children.

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The CDC recommended that states delay school openings, but some school districts decided to go ahead with the start of school while others followed the federal advice.

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The organizers quickly realized that the US did not have the means to quickly manufacture more essential medical equipment,

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supplies, or medicines, including antiviral medication, needles, syringes, N95 respirators and ventilators.

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That exercise ended in October of 2019 and nothing was done, and a few months later, COVID hit.

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- Trust me, I'm a doctor.

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- [Jeffrey] There's a phenomenon known as hubris, people also call this arrogance or conceit, that is both offensive to the gods, but also offensive to scientific principles.

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Science is about challenging. Science is about researching.

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Science is not about running around believing that you know it all, because once you do that, you're destined to fail. You're going to get checked.

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But so far in this COVID saga, nobody has been checked. Certainly not Tony Fauci.

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Tony Fauci and his posse of clowns had a lot of hubris, and because of it, they failed.

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They failed personally, but they also failed the people they were there to serve.

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- Senator Cruz told the Attorney General you should be prosecuted. - Yeah.

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[gentle music] [Fauci laughs]

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I'd have to laugh at that. - [Jeffrey] So what are viruses? Living creatures? Not really.

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Viruses are microscopic particles that exist almost everywhere on earth.

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They're present in animals, plants, and other living organisms. And sometimes they can cause some serious diseases.

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Viruses are biological entities that can only thrive and multiply in a host.

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That host is a living organism, and a virus may affect one organism in one way, but a different one in another.

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For example, a virus may get a cat sick, but the same virus won't get a human sick.

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Viruses consist of genetic material with a code of protein around them. Once they get into a host, they replicate.

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What's their game plan? Nobody knows. They don't talk, so you can't ask them.

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Smallpox was one of the first viruses to impact humans, and it was a biggie.

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Three out of 10 people who got it died, and those who lived were left with horrible scars.

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It is estimated that smallpox killed around 300 million people during its time.

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In the 1800s, Dr. Edward Jenner developed the first smallpox vaccine, and that was the beginning of the end for that virus.

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In 1959, the World Health Organization decided to put an end to smallpox.

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And by 1977, it was over. It was gone. So see, people can get together and get rid of viruses.

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The first good understanding of viruses began in the 1890s.

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Russian botanist Ivanovsky experimented with the tobacco mosaic virus

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and discovered that the sap from a sick tobacco plant could make another plant sick.

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Then Dutch scientist Beijerinck proved that the agent causing the tobacco leaf infection was not a bacterium,

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and called the causative agent a virus, a Latin word meaning "slimy poisonous liquid."

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In the early 1900s, Dr. Walter Reed got involved in the virus game, in his exploration of the causes of yellow fever, a viral disease that also killed millions.

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And then in 1918, we had the misnamed Spanish flu. No, Spain was not the country of origin for that flu.

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That flu killed close to 1 million people in the United States, mostly people between the ages of 20 and 40.

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At that time, the population of the United States was 100 million.

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It is estimated that that flu killed around 30 million people worldwide.

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Flu comes from the Italian word "influenza," which means "to have an influence." And boy, did it ever.

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And yep, back in those days, they had masks, but there were still people who thought that wearing a mask wasn't affront to their liberty.

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And they had isolation and quarantine, but just like today, people got tired of that and then soon attended events together, and those events became super-spreader events.

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COVID-19 is a coronavirus.

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Prior to SARS, coronaviruses were known to be the cause of the common cold.

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They're called coronaviruses because under an electron microscope their outer shell looks like a crown.

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So they became lethal viruses when they mutated and became responsible for the first SARS epidemic.

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SARS is severe acute respiratory syndrome.

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Coronaviruses infect birds and other mammals like bats, but bats don't get sick from that. Bats are often the host of many coronaviruses.

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COVID-19 gets into your body, attaches to a receptor in the cells called angiotensin-converting enzyme,
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and once attached to the cell, COVID-19 shoots its RNA into the cell. That cell starts making copies of the virus.

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Those copies are sent out to more cells, and this cycle continues.

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Once copied, the viruses head out into the circulation and attach to more cells. Then this cycle gets repeated over and over again.

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COVID attacks the respiratory tract, but it also attacks other systems in your body as well. Goes into the brain or destroys brain tissue.

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That is why some COVID patients [indistinct] with memory loss and other cognitive dysfunction.

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It also directly damages heart tissue and causes other problems in the circulatory system, resulting in clots.

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COVID is found in small airborne particles and aerosols, and when infected people exhale, they release these particles into the air as they breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or sing.

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Transmission is more likely when people are physically close by, but these particles can travel as much as 20 feet and be suspended in the air for hours.

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Unfortunately, infected people can spread COVID even before they're symptomatic.

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Once symptoms develop, you can theoretically contract COVID by touching a surface, but such transmissions are highly unlikely.

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So how did this COVID-19 become so infectious, so lethal? Honestly, because it was made in a lab using, wait for it...

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Using gain-of-function research, these scientists claim that they wanted to create a superbug

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so they could develop vaccines to combat such superbug if it came around.

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That's kind of like making a robot that kills people so it can prevent people from killing people.

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And then while you're making this super killer robot, it starts killing everybody, good and bad alike.

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It is this kind of retarded logic that was used by Tony Fauci, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, and others to justify this COVID gain-of-function research.

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Oh, and by the way, did I mention they also stood to make millions from the vaccines? I'll get to that in a bit.

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Why would we be making a bioweapon in a laboratory in China?

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Either way, Tony Fauci is a doctor, and if he saw we or China or somebody else was involved

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in making a bio weapon, he should have said, "No, I don't want people to die from a disease like that.

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I'm a doctor. 'First do no harm' and all of that." So how did we, the great United States, do with COVID?

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We have all the resources, all the money, all the brilliant minds like Dr. Tony Fauci, and here's what happened to us, even though we were warned it was coming.

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The World Health Organization is informed of a number of cases of pneumonia of unknown origin detected in Wuhan.

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China had already begun their lockdown a couple weeks before that.

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On January 25th, 2020, the CDC activates a center-level response for a novel pneumonia of unknown etiology.

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On January 7th, 2020, Chinese authorities identify and isolate a novel coronavirus as the causative agent of the outbreak.

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January 10th, the CDC publishes information about this virus. January 15th, Japan has its first case of COVID.

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January 17th, the CDC begins screening passengers on flights coming from Wuhan at San Francisco, New York, and LA Airports.
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On January 17th, we have our first COVID case in the United States, in the state of Washington.

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January 21st, the CDC activates its emergency response system.

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January 22nd, the WHO confirms human-to-human spread of the coronavirus.

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January 22nd, the World Health Organization convenes a big meeting to discuss the coronavirus and decides to not do anything at that time, just wait 10 days to rediscuss.

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On January 31st, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, declares a COVID emergency

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and at the same time, a travel ban to the US from most European countries and from China.

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US citizens in China were allowed to return as were permanent residents. So not a total ban.

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On January 31st, the World Health Organization finally declares COVID outbreak a public health emergency.

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On February 11th, the World Health Organization decides to call this coronavirus COVID-19.

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On February 8th, the CDC sends test kits to a laboratory in Manhattan, but the tests end up being unreliable.

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On February 23rd, Italy is at a lockdown. On March 11th, the WHO declares a COVID-19 pandemic.

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March 13th, President Trump declares a nationwide emergency.

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On March 15th, various places of the United States begin to shut down, including public schools. March 17th, a human trial with the Moderna vaccine begins.

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March the 26th, the CARES Act is approved, providing 2 trillion in aid to hospitals, businesses, and state and local government.

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April 3rd, the CDC recommends that all people wear masks outside the home.

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By April 13th, COVID had spread across the entire United States.

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April 24th, Georgia, Alaska, and Oklahoma decide that they're going to partially reopen their states.

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April 30th, President Trump launches Operation Warp Speed to get a vaccine out quickly.

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On May 1st, the FDA issues an emergency use authorization for Remdesivir.

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In the subsequent 18 months, Remdesivir is determined not to work.

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On May 9th, the US unemployment rate is 14.7%, the worst rate since the Great Depression.

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By May 28th, the COVID death toll had surpassed 100,000. By September 22nd, the death toll had surpassed 200,000.

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On October 2nd, President Trump tests positive for coronavirus. On October 7th, New Zealand declares itself virus-free.

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In December of 2020, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are rolled out and people start to get them.

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January 18th, 2021, 400,000 people had died from COVID.

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March 8th, 2021, the CDC announces that fully vaccinated people can gather indoors without masks.

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March 19th, the CDC says kids can socially distance from three feet instead of six feet.

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By June, 2021, the Delta variant had showed up and a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths occurred.

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In July of 2021, we started to see breakthrough infections, which meant that the vaccine wasn't working as well as people thought it was going to work.

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By October, booster shots were being recommended. And in November of 2021, Omicron showed up.

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[soft dramatic music]

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- The recent SARS-CoV-2 epidemic really illustrates the problem and the need for communication.

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- [Jeffrey] So what was our response to COVID?

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Responses to infectious disease outbreaks can be broken down into three main categories.

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Organization, science, and communication. More simply, what is it? How do we know what it is?

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What does it do? How prepared are we to respond? Who does it hurt? Can we stop it? How do we stop it? Can we prevent it?

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Once here, how do we measure cases? How do we know who has it? How lethal is it? How do we prevent it from infecting others?

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We have a vaccine? Who gets a vaccine? What about masks? Who gets the masks? Should we shut the country down?

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Lastly, who is in charge? How much power do they have?

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Who is communicating all this information, and are they trustworthy?

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Early on in the epidemic, the CDC determined what a positive COVID case is. There were probable cases.

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Those were people who had all the symptoms, signs of COVID, yet did not yet have a positive COVID test.

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And there were confirmed cases. Those are people who had a positive COVID test. Both of those scenarios counted as a positive COVID case.

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So the analytical study of this COVID outbreak is epidemiology.

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Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Most public health departments have epidemiologists.

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An epidemiologic investigation involves the collection and analysis of facts or data to determine the cause

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of illness and to implement control measures to prevent additional illness.

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Being prepared is essential to success in responding to an infectious disease outbreak. So, were we prepared?

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The Crimson Contagion exercise showed that we are a country of 50 states with more than 50 ways of doing things.

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If the federal government says, "Shut your state down," then many of the states answer back, "Who are you again?"

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As noted, unfortunately China was not forthcoming with the extent of the epidemic there, the exact cause, the lethalness, no info to us or the World Health Organization for a month.

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Sure, we should have been prepared, but this made things much worse.
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And while they locked down people living in Wuhan, they did not stop potentially infected people from traveling to other parts of the world.

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In January of 2020, a man traveled from Wuhan to his home in Seattle, and he became the first recorded case.

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Many of the first cases in the US were people who traveled from Wuhan.

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As previously noted, on average, COVID-infected patients will infect three others. Once it started, it was very hard to stop it.

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So once it was clear our country had some cases and the people who had COVID were pretty darn sick, we turned to, "What are we going to do about it?"

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One of our first moves was to develop a test for COVID and the CDC took the lead on that, and they screwed it up.

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- CDC didn't respond the effectively as it could have.

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I think in retrospect, [indistinct] something they could have [indistinct], they didn't dig.

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- [Jeffrey] Speed was critical in this early response to COVID. So important to identify those early cases.

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The World Health Organization, China Britain, South Korea, even Russia, all had functional tests before we did.

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The roll out of the CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs quickly became a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent.

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It took us months and months and months to get ahead on testing. South Korea, on the other hand, well, they kicked our butts.

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It got so bad that we were actually turning to them for tests in 2020. South Korean officials had a plan.

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They decided that they needed to test as many people as possible as quickly as possible to figure out how bad the outbreak was.

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Then they had to find out who might have come in contact with the infected people.

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They decided that they needed all those people, both infected and potentially exposed, to isolate themselves to prevent the virus from spreading any further.

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They mobilized and had widespread testing, isolation, and quarantine while we were still in our pajamas.

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They had a three-step protocol, test, trace, and isolate. And they tracked test results through a nationalized system.

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No, South Korea is not a dictatorship, it's a democracy just like us.

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Their entertainment and automotive industries are also very strong. Well, except for K-pop, of course.

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Their population is 50 million. We have around 330 million.

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On March 1st, 2020, South Korea had about 3,700 confirmed cases, Italy, the first hot spot in Europe, had 1,700, and the US had just 32 cases.

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I know it doesn't make any sense.

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We only had 32 cases 'cause we didn't have any testing going on.

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By the end of April, Italy had topped 200,000 cases, the US finally had a true number, we were above a million, and South Korea still had fewer than 11,000 cases.

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South Korea's first wave of coronavirus cases was about 1/10 as big as that in the United States.

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It did very aggressive case identification and contact tracing.

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Sometimes to beat an epidemic, you have to give up some personal liberties, and they never really did a lockdown.

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Rapid home tests have been identified as an important public health intervention for controlling COVID.

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It took us over 18 months to make such tests available.

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In order to break the chain of infection, you have to identify the infected people, and you can't do that without tests.

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So we took an early stumble on tests and then we started on treatment, and things went more wrong. - Maybe than anybody.

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But I'm a big fan and we'll see what happens. And we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct.

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It's early, but I've seen things that are impressive, and we'll see. We're going to know soon. We're going to know soon. Including safety.

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But when you get to safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem.

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And it's very effective, it's a strong drug. So we'll see.

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- [Jeffrey] Trump and Fauci battled it out in the early days of COVID.

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In this particular case, Trump was promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine, which showed some early success

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in treating the early stages of COVID around the world and in the United States. Dr. Fauci absolutely hated it. Why did he hate it?

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Well, there's a drug called Remdesivir in the pharmaceutical company, Gilead, that makes the drug. So he had an agenda.

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- Effective against SARS. It was, as I understand that... Is that a correct statement? It was fairly effective on SARS.

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John, you've gotta be careful when you say fairly effective. It was never done in a clinical trial. They compared it to anything.

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People, if you look at the people, you have a lot of people that are in big trouble.

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- [Jeffrey] These scenes played out constantly during their early stages of the epidemic. Trump would introduce a treatment development.

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Fauci would come to the podium and throw ice on it. Then Trump would try to warm the idea up again.

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Remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug, was approved for emergency use in May of 2020

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without any significant studies to show efficacy or safety. Remdesivir was a shelved Ebola drug that wasn't effective.

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It is manufactured by the multi-billion dollar Bay Area pharmaceutical giant, Gilead.

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We also tried monoclonal antibodies.

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Monoclonal antibodies are antibodies created in a lab that target the antigen of interest.

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In this case, the COVID spike protein.

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They're very expensive, at around $3,000 per treatment, and their results are mixed.

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If given very early to high-risk patients, they may reduce hospitalization.

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But if you are already sick with COVID, they don't do much and don't save lives.

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They were thought to be a game-changer, but not so much.

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One of the companies, Regeneron, that makes the antibody cocktail has made billions.

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Did they have to give their money back? No. Did Tony Fauci have to give any of his money back? Also no.

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- The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the speed with which we were able to identify what the causative agent was.

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The Chinese recognized the [indistinct].

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They probably were aware of it as early as October, but they didn't really recognize it till December.

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And by the end of December and the beginning of January of 2020, they actually identified the agent.

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And by identifying the agent, they then opened the door for development of a vaccine.

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So ultimately, vaccines are one of the great advances of the 20th century, but the development of a vaccine is not enough.

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You got them on how to use it.

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- [Jeffrey] The operation was a success, but the patient died.

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Yes, Operation Warp Speed, though the Biden administration has banned the use of that descriptor, did help develop several somewhat successful COVID vaccines in 2020.

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Starting in May of 2020, Operation Warp Speed provided billions in research, manufacturing,

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and distribution support towards the cause of making 300 million vaccines available to the public by the end of 2020.

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That pretty much worked out. Have there been side effects? Well, all vaccines have side effects.

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And for some, the side effects have been pretty severe. Blood clots, heart inflammation.

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These vaccines use mRNA and DNA technology to get your cells to make COVID proteins,

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which then inspire your immune system to make antibodies against these proteins. They're supposed to go in, do their job, and get out.

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That's the idea, but we haven't had enough time to study their full effects. But other countries did their version of Warp Speed as well.

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China, Russia, Germany, and Britain developed vaccines in 2020. BioNTech, a Pfizer partner, is a German company.

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Moderna is a US company with a long history of government support.

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The technology and components they use in their vaccine really wasn't developed by them.

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Most of it comes from research that was supported by you, us, and some of it comes from other companies, which is why they're getting sued.

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Moderna, Pfizer, and others will make billions and billions off of these vaccines. The NIH funds billions in research annually.

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And yes, the NIH and often their university partners hold patents to many of the technologies used in the code of vaccine.

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There is a public-private partnership per se, but the public partner shows up in a Kia and the private partner drives away in a Bentley.

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One out of three Americans has been infected with COVID, around a million people have died, and many others will suffer lifelong disability.

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The vaccines were supposed to prevent infection, yet many people get infected.
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One of those people is Dr. Fauci, who has been vaccinated and boosted twice. This has led to further skepticism about these vaccines.

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The operation was a success, but the patient died. There were tremendous problems rolling out the vaccines.

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The mRNA vaccines were problematic because they must be kept frozen. And in a way, we ran out of ice.

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There were a myriad of other roll out problems, so our public health system had to subcontract to get needles into arms.

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The government also tried mandating the vaccine for some, and that blew up and made even more people angrier about the vaccines.

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But the biggest problem was that many people had become skeptical of the vaccine because they had heard, frankly,

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a lot of nonsense from the CDC and also from Trump, and then from Biden.

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They no longer trusted the messenger, and they especially started to distrust the grand maestro of it all, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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And you don't get a second chance at a first impression.

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The results of all this is that people are even more skeptical of all vaccines.

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As the push for vaccines continued in 21, 22, and even still now in 23

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and they were found to be ineffective, have any of the manufacturers been asked to give the billions of dollars they made back to the people?

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Have any been held to account for the problems they may have caused?

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Dr. Fauci received two vaccinations and was boosted twice, yet he still got infected.

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He claimed that people would not get infected if given the COVID vaccine, and he was wrong. Did he apologize for that? No.

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He just kept pushing more and more vaccine for people.

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- 14 days, she's as protected as anybody can be, 'cause the best vaccination is to get infected yourself. And that'd be the same with COVID. - Same applies to the coronavirus.

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If she had COVID, if she really had COVID, she doesn't need to get the COVID shot. She could get one.

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She can do one shot just as some extra protection. Be safe. - So just one and done?

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- But I think really one and done is probably all she needs, because then the sort of...

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If she's already at the doctor's office, she might as well get a second shot. So two would be combined with the natural immunity.

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- Natural immunity, two shots, she's good to go.

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- And that would really be all she would need, except for the boosters, of course,

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because those offer this sort of extra immunity towards the virus that the natural immunity can't really protect.

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- Then she's protected.

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- And then, of course, just to be sort of extra safe, I would just get a booster shot every six months for the rest of your life.

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- [Jeffrey] The American people are pretty good at smelling a rat. And this particular rat's name was Tony.

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- In China, they've opted for the lockdown situation, zero tolerance for the disease.

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And they've been reasonably successful.

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I mean, they have sporadic outbreaks, including in their biggest cities, Shanghai and Beijing, recently.

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But it's been at a tremendous cost. It's affected their GDP and it's gone down.

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They're having an economic problem because of lockdown and the supply chain, et cetera, et cetera.

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And they've got tremendous psychologic problems. And we see those psychologic problems in this country.

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And while we did to some extent use the original public health interventions of isolation

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and quarantine, we didn't implement it with the ferocity with which Xi Jinping has implemented it.

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And so I have colleagues in China, and what I'm trying to suggest to them is that they've got

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to come to some sort of balanced approach where they don't destroy the country.

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- [Jeffrey] Another intervention we tried was lockdowns.

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While theoretically not a bad idea, they have some serious consequences to them.

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Lockdowns have been especially cruel to children, the least likely to become ill or die from COVID.

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Teen suicide rates have hit an all-time high.

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Scientists and economists have found that voluntary behavioral changes are 10 times as important as mandatory measures in limiting the growth of a pandemic.

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When people feel they're at risk of something, they change their behavior. People for the most part are intelligent.

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And ironically, those who stayed at home ended up with higher infection rates.

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Maybe spending time outdoors would've been better, but, oh yeah, they closed the parks and beaches.

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Florida was an open state and California and New York or lockdown states. They ended up with similar mortality rates.

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Lockdowns did not make a difference.

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While lockdowns have little to no public health benefit, they impose enormous economic and social costs.

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Job losses in the United States in March and April of 2020 exceeded 22 million. And we have not fully recovered from that.

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We also made arbitrary distinctions between essential and non-essential workers.

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Essential workers, often lower-income, took on greater risk of COVID infection and so did their families to maintain some financial stability.

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And designating one business as essential and another as non-essential shifted consumer activity

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to favor those categorized as essential, thus wiping out many businesses. And those businesses have not come back.

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- This is being set up for a movie company.

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I'm losing everything. Everything I own is being taken away from me.

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And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio, which is right over here.

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And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough. They have not given us money and they have shut us down.

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We cannot survive. My staff cannot survive. Look at this.

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Tell me that this is dangerous, but right next to me, as a slap in my face,

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that's safe. This is safe.

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50 feet away, this is dangerous.

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Mayor Garcetti and Gavin Newsom is responsible for every single person that doesn't have an employment, that does not have a job, and all the businesses that are going under.

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And we need your help. We need somebody to do something about this.

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- We need to make sure that everybody continues to let us know where those folks are.

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If you've observed recurring violations of the Safer at Home order, please continue to let us know at coronavirus.lacity.org/businessviolation.

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You know the old expression about snitches? Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.

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We want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe.

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- We will shut you down, we will cite you, and if we need you, we will arrest you and we will take you to jail.

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Period.

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- [Jeffrey] Because of lockdown, children lost years of educational and social development that will affect them for the rest of their life.

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Psychological problems have soared throughout society.

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And Johns Hopkins researchers have concluded that lockdowns should be rejected as a public policy practice.

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We tried masks. Oh gosh, where do I even start with that? Let's start with Fauci's own words.

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- There's a lot of confusion among people and misinformation surrounding face masks. Can you discuss that?

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- The masks are important for someone who's infected to prevent them from infecting someone else.

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Now, when you see people and look at the films in China and South Korea, whatever, everybody's wearing a mask,

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right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks. You are sure of it? 'Cause people are listening really closely to this.

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Right now, people should not be walk... There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
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When you are in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better

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and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.

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And often there are unintended consequences.

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People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face. - And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there? - Of course, of course.

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But when you think masks, you should think of healthcare providers needing them and people who are ill.

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The people, when you look at the films of foreign countries and you see 85% of the people wearing masks, that's fine. That's fine. I'm not against it.

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If you want to do it, that's fine. - But it can lead to a shortage of masks. - Exactly. That's the point.

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It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it. - [Jeffrey] And then he said...

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- People who are vaccinated when they are in an indoor setting, that they should wear a mask. - [Jeffrey] And then he said...

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- If in fact you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected and you do not need to wear a mask outdoors or indoors.

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That even if you are vaccinated, you need to wear a mask in indoor public settings.

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That we were thinking we would run out of masks and other things for them.

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So the recommendation was not to wear a mask because of the shortage of it. Two things happened.

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One, it became clear that we had enough of the equipment.

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When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks.

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Children outside, particularly when they're with the family walking down the street, playing a game, or what have you, don't have to wear a mask.

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The Academy of Pediatric actually makes that recommendation that children should be wearing masks from two years old. - I mean, I think I've got this right.

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One mask is better than zero masks. Two masks is better than one mask. But you don't have to have double masks. Is that right?

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- Make sure you wear a mask. So you wear a mask. Then you want it to fit better.

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So one of the ways you could do it if you would like to is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here, where you could get leakage in, is much better contained.

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That's all they're saying. One mask at least.

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But if you want to really be sure, get a tighter fit with a second mask. - So wait a minute, are you a double-masker, Dr. Fauci? It looks like you are. - Anyway. Let me show you.

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See this? This is what I do. You have it on, you go like this. Bingo, and you're okay. Then you go like this. Bingo, it's up.

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- [Jeffrey] There's a saying, "Trust begins with the truth and ends with the truth." Nobody could figure out what to believe about masks and respirators because the CDC told so many stories.

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Thus, questions about his role in the Wuhan laboratory began surfacing on social media.

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And then he was lost to at least half of the people in the United States, so people started going their own ways.

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Only properly fitted N95 respirators truly protect you from getting COVID or passing it.

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And those are really difficult to wear when worn properly. They tax your lungs, as do other types of masks.

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Air easily escapes and enters from the edges of most masks. Cloth masks are a joke, but they were promoted by the CDC.

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- Next we're going to try a cloth mask.

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Remember we want to stop this moisture that's coming out of our mouth, 'cause it's what COVID rides on. There's one.

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Here's two. Next we're going to try an N95 with a cloth mask.

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There's one. Here's a cloth mask or the N95.

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Now we're going to try two N95s.

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- [Jeffrey] We started the epidemic with a shortage of PPE, especially N95 respirators.

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And when we got the needed PPE, we couldn't figure out who was supposed to use it.

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And let's not forget that China made billions selling us PPE. Yeah, the place where COVID started.

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We drove people away from each other, put people in masks, and yet somehow we still ended up with 100 million COVID cases and 1 million deaths.

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Organization, we stunk. Science, so-so. Communication, just awful.

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- That's another thing, is that I thought, "Why did they close the economy when the people

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who were actually going to get sick weren't working anyway?"

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They kept giving contradictory information themselves.

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Like Fauci would say one thing one day, another thing the next day. I just started not believing anything.

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- [Jeffrey] You get quoted, "Trust begins with truth and ends with truth," right? And so if you...

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- Yeah, well, first he said it's not going to cause an epidemic and then you don't need to wear masks.

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And then you need three masks. And then I think his credibility was really compromised

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when they found out that, under his leadership, the NIH had been giving millions of dollars to the Wuhan lab to develop a gain-of-function virus.

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I mean, all that smelled rotten. It was [indistinct] it didn't start in the lab. Well, what's it saying?

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It looks like a duck, it walks like a duck. It's probably the duck.

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And they were getting millions of dollars from Fauci's NIH to do this research.

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I don't think it was let out deliberately, but got let out. And among the Chinese hiding it from everybody.

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- Ethics of life are, I think, enough to keep me going on the right path.

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And I think that there are enough negative aspects about the organizational church.

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I identify myself as a Catholic, but as far as practicing it, it seems almost like a pro forma thing.

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- [Jeffrey] Where did this mysterious COVID-19 virus come from?

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You know, the one that killed over a million people and cost this country $16 trillion.

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Occam's razor, a philosophical tool, can be used to provide the answer to troubling questions.

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Let's watch John Stewart Occam's razor to COVID.

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- Do you mean there's a chance that this was created in a lab, there's an investigation. - A chance. Well, if there's evidence, I'd love to hear. I don't know.

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- There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask?

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The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab.

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[audience laughing]

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That's just a little too weird, don't you think?

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And then I ask the scientists, they're like, "How did this..." So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. How did this happen?

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And they're like, "A pangolin kissed a turtle." Like, okay, okay. What about this? What about this? Listen to this - Wait a second.

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- All right, oh my God. Oh my God.

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There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened? Like, "Oh, I don't know.

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Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean." Or it's the [beep] chocolate factory.

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Maybe that's it.

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- [Jeffrey] It is very clear to most that COVID-19 came from a lab in China, and that that lab was in part funded by NIH under the direction of Tony Fauci.

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And then he did what most criminals do, certainly white collar criminals. He tried to cover it up.

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- How many times did he happen to say he didn't know or couldn't remember?

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- He said, "I do not recall" or variations thereof 174 times and adding in variations of "I don't remember" at least 212 times.

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- Wow. The smartest man in the planet couldn't remember 212 times?

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- He couldn't remember things, including things that he had told the national media, quote, "I remember it very well." Then he would say 16 times, "I don't recall details of that meeting."

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- Now, you were the top of your class at Harvard Law School, Rhode Scholar. Is that right, Mr. Sauer?

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- I've submitted a biographical statement. - Yeah. Well, I looked at your biography. That's pretty impressive. Is that pretty high? You've done a lot of depositions.

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You've done a lot of legal work. You've deposed a lot of people. It's 212 times pretty high? - I've taken dozens of depositions.

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I've never seen anything like it, including in this case, where other federal government witnesses frequently profess inability to recall.

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- So the guy who told us all these things, who's the smartest man on the planet, he set a record, highest you've ever seen, and not couldn't recall, didn't remember?

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- I've never seen anything like it. - [Jeffrey] He tried to cover the whole thing up.

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He got the media and even prestigious science journals to go along with his story that COVID came from a bat.

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How did he do all that? He was giving them billions in grant money.

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And somehow, through all of this, Dr. Tony Fauci was and continues to be America's favorite doctor.

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Heck, even AI likes Dr. Fauci.

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- [Automated Voice] Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the most respected and influential scientists in the world. - [Automated Voice] Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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- [Jeffrey] And Brad Pitt played him on SNL.

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- First, I'd like to thank all the older women in America who have sent me supportive, inspiring, and sometimes graphic emails.

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- [Jeffrey] But not everybody loves the good doctor. RFK Jr. has done a great job of exposing his lies.

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- This kind of research is malpractice. - [Jeffrey] And Governor Ron DeSantis was on him too. - And I'm just sick of seeing him. I know he says he's going to retire.

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Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.

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- [Jeffrey] Senator and Dr. Rand Paul has done a great job of opening Tony Fauci up.

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- Because of the fallibility of the planner would not be so catastrophic.

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If the planner were simply one physician in Peoria, then the mistakes would only affect that physician's patients, the people who chose that physician.

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But when the planner is a government official like yourself, who rules by mandate, the errors are compounded and become much more harmful.

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A planner who believes he is the science leads to an arrogance that justifies, in his mind, using government resources to smear

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and to destroy the reputations of other scientists who disagree with him.

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In an email exchange with Dr. Collins, you conspire and I quote here directly from the email, "to create a quick and devastating published takedown

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of three prominent epidemiologist from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford." Apparently there's a lot of fringe epidemiologists at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford.

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- [Jeffrey] Tony Fauci receives royalty payments from pharmaceutical companies, but he refuses to tell people how much,

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because the NIH holds patents for vaccines, medications, which his grants help to support.

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He was also the highest paid worker in federal government, and he continues to receive an enormous salary in retirement.

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So he needs to be held to account, to be brought to justice. Many of the priests who molested children are in prison now.

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But where is Tony Fauci? Father Fauci abused his office, his medical license.

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He needs to face the country and answer for the crimes he committed.

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And then, maybe then, the world, the world of medicine, the world of public health can recover from this disaster that he created.

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- Do not accept and shrug your shoulders at the normalization of untruths.

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Because we are living in an era now there's so much distortion of reality, outright fabrication,

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lying, conspiracy theories that it's so prevalent that people sort of shrug their shoulders and say,

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"Well, nothing to do about it. It's the new normal." No, do not accept that as the new normal, because whenever you have the acceptance

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of untruths and distortions, ultimately it's going to erode at the foundation of the social order and our democracy.

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And I think history has shown that, if anybody just looks back as recently as the 1930s and early forties in Europe when that happened.

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Be careful. Don't accept the normalization of untruths.

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