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  Speaker 1: I do think we should be concerned.
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  Speaker 2: This is advice that we know nothing really about, and
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  Speaker 2: until we have that information, it's going to remain concerning.
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  Speaker 3: The most important thing now is that we prepare against
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  Speaker 3: a possible, very significant expansion of coronavirus.
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  Speaker 4: I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions
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  Speaker 4: to protect the health and well being of all Americans.
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  Speaker 5: It began as a whisper, a headline we thought would
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  Speaker 5: stay overseas. But in the spring of twenty twenty, the
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  Speaker 5: world didn't just slow down, it stopped.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: At the end of twenty nineteen, the world was moving
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  Speaker 5: at one thousand miles an hour. We were making plans,
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  Speaker 5: booking flights, and gearing up for the Christmas holiday. It
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  Speaker 5: was business as usual, a normal time that we completely
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  Speaker 5: took for granted. The story of COVID nineteen begins not
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  Speaker 5: with a bang, but with a series of quiet, anomalous
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  Speaker 5: medical cases. In Wuhan, a bustling transportation hub of eleven
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  Speaker 5: million people in China's Hubei Province, doctors at local hospitals
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  Speaker 5: began noticing patients presenting with pneumonia of unknown cause.
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  Speaker 7: Given without.
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  Speaker 5: This pneumonia at first seemed to be something relatable to
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  Speaker 5: something of a flu or a cold, so China's in
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  Speaker 5: country World Health Organization stated that this situation was under control.
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  Speaker 5: Local offices feared that reporting a major epidemic would result
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  Speaker 5: in their dismissal or punishment by the central government. This
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  Speaker 5: would inevitably give the virus a head start, as it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't detained as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 8: Hope that the governments of all countries, including the UK,
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  Speaker 8: should understand and support China's efforts, respect the professional advice
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  Speaker 8: of w h O a boid over reaction, a boid
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  Speaker 8: creating panic.
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  Speaker 5: The dawn of twenty twenty was met with the usual
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  Speaker 5: global fanfare, but in the shadows of Wuhan, a quiet
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  Speaker 5: medical crisis was already spiraling out of control. What began
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  Speaker 5: as a localized cluster of pneumonia of unknown cause would
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  Speaker 5: in just thirty one days, shatter the global status quo.
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  Speaker 5: The month began with a dramatic act of containment. On
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  Speaker 5: January one, Chinese authorities shuttered the Huanan seafood wholesale market,
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  Speaker 5: suspecting it was the source of a mysterious respiratory illness.
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  Speaker 5: For days, the World Health organization and the public waited
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  Speaker 5: for clarity. On January eleventh, twenty twenty, the world reached
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  Speaker 5: a grim milestone, the first officially recorded death from the
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  Speaker 5: novel coronavirus. The victim was a sixty one year old man,
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  Speaker 5: a frequent customer at the Wanan market. He had been
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  Speaker 5: admitted to a Wuhan hospital with severe pneumonia and respiratory failure.
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  Speaker 5: His death was the first piece of undeniable evidence that
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  Speaker 5: this novel virus was not just infectious but lethal. By
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  Speaker 5: January twenty three, in an unprecedented move in modern public health,
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  Speaker 5: the Chinese government announced a total lockdown of Wuhan. At
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  Speaker 5: ten o'clock a m all outgoing flights and trains were canceled,
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  Speaker 5: buses and subways stopped. A city of eleven million people,
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  Speaker 5: larger than New York City, was effectively severed from the world.
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  Speaker 5: The images coming out of Wuhan were haunting, temporary fong
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  Speaker 5: Chong hospitals built in days, streets sprayed with disinfectant, and
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  Speaker 5: a city of eleven million silenced.
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  Speaker 3: A plan so that asm when, if, and when it
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  Speaker 3: starts to spread. As I'm afraid it looks likely, we
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  Speaker 3: are in a position to take the steps that will
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  Speaker 3: be necessary to contain the spread of the disease and
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  Speaker 3: as far as we can, and also to protect the
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  Speaker 3: most vulnerable.
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  Speaker 5: Despite these efforts, the virus had already escaped. It had
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  Speaker 5: appeared in Thailand, Japan, and South Korea.
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  Speaker 9: This is not time to become placent. The fight against
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  Speaker 9: this Nabur virus might be much longer than we assume.
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  Speaker 5: The world watched with a mixture of curiosity and detached concern,
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  Speaker 5: largely believing it would be contained. Like the original SARS
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  Speaker 5: in two thousand and three, SARS was a viral respiratory
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  Speaker 5: illness that caused a global scare in two thousand and three.
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  Speaker 10: Staff at this giant medical facility have been told that
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  Speaker 10: within twenty four hours, the hospital will be entirely devoted
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  Speaker 10: to tsar's patients.
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  Speaker 11: I think this is an excellent example of a virus
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  Speaker 11: emerging in one place in the world rapidly spreading to
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  Speaker 11: a number of other countries is part of modern life,
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  Speaker 11: travel communication.
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  Speaker 5: It was the first major international health emergency of the
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  Speaker 5: twenty first century and is closely linked to COVID nineteen.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, the virus that caused COVID nineteen is officially
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  Speaker 5: named SARS COVED two.
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  Speaker 12: We have very strong evidence showing that like some small
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  Speaker 12: white animals, in particular Himalaya civek kant will be responsible
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  Speaker 12: for the transmission interspecies transmission.
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  Speaker 5: The World Health Organization was initially hesitant to declare a
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  Speaker 5: public health emergency of international concern.
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  Speaker 13: That now is not the time, that's bit too early
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  Speaker 13: to consider that this event is a public health emergency
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  Speaker 13: of international concern. As I told you yesterday, the Emergency
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  Speaker 13: Committee members, which I thank for their work, were very divided,
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  Speaker 13: almost fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 5: By then, the virus was already navigating the global aviation network,
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  Speaker 5: hitching a ride on business travelers and vacationers heading to
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  Speaker 5: Europe and the Americas. Official case in the United States
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  Speaker 5: was confirmed on January twenty, twenty twenty, in Snohomish County, Washington.
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  Speaker 5: Our thirty five year old man had returned from visiting
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  Speaker 5: family in Wuhan for a few weeks. The US government
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  Speaker 5: took a containment approach. The Trump administration implemented travel restricts
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  Speaker 5: on China on January thirty first, but these restrictions had
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  Speaker 5: significant loopholes. They didn't apply to US citizens, permanent residents
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  Speaker 5: or their families, and they didn't account for the fact
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  Speaker 5: that the virus was already circulating in Europe. While the
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  Speaker 5: public eye was focused on travelers from Asia, a massive
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  Speaker 5: undetected seeding event was occurring. Genomic tracing later revealed that
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  Speaker 5: while the Washington State outbreak originated from China, the catastrophic
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  Speaker 5: outbreak that would soon paralyze the East Coast actually came
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  Speaker 5: from Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's about the safety of those who are coming
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  Speaker 1: over from Wupan, but it's actually much broader than that.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the safety of the staff here at Arow Park,
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  Speaker 1: but also the broader safety of each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of us.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been waiting about two hours in this city
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  Speaker 2: MD line to do rapid COVI tests fifteen minute results,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 14: My kids go take a walk.
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  Speaker 2: But we're just doing it because we want to know
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  Speaker 2: if we have coronavirus before we spend time with.
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  Speaker 4: Some family members who are older.
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  Speaker 2: For the holiday.
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  Speaker 5: February twenty twenty stands in historical memory as a period
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  Speaker 5: of false calm and missed opportunities. The virus moved through
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  Speaker 5: communities like a ghost. It infiltrated nursing homes in Washington
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  Speaker 5: and began spreading through the dense transit networks of New
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  Speaker 5: York City. Public health officials warned that community spread was inevitable,
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  Speaker 5: but the message was often undermined by political rhetoric suggesting
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  Speaker 5: the virus would miraculously disappear. The most critical failure of
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  Speaker 5: February was the testing bottleneck. The CDC's initial diagnostic test
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  Speaker 5: kits distributed in early February were found to be flawed
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  Speaker 5: due to a lab containment issue. This technical glitch left
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  Speaker 5: state and local laboratories unable to verify cases for weeks.
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  Speaker 5: Without the ability to test, public health officials were effectively
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  Speaker 5: flying blind, unable to track the silent spread of the
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  Speaker 5: virus through domestic travel and social gatherings. By mid February,
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  Speaker 5: the cruise ship Diamond Princess became a haunting visual metaphor
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  Speaker 5: for the crisis. What was supposed to be a luxury
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  Speaker 5: lunar New Year Cruise turned into a floating laboratory for
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  Speaker 5: the virus, providing the world with critical early data on
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  Speaker 5: how tsar's cove II spreads in confined spaces. The crisis
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  Speaker 5: began on February one, twenty twenty, when a passenger who
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  Speaker 5: had disembarked from Hong Kong days earlier tested positive for
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  Speaker 5: the virus. When the ship reached Yokohama, Japan on February three,
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  Speaker 5: Japanese authorities ordered a fourteen day quarantine. By February five,
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  Speaker 5: all three thousand, seven hundred eleven passengers and crew were
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  Speaker 5: confined to the ship.
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  Speaker 9: We have never gone outside our cabin. No one has
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  Speaker 9: ever come in. I don't believe that the food service
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  Speaker 9: or service from the crew is likely to have communicated
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  Speaker 9: the virus to us, and we do not have contact
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  Speaker 9: with anyone out on the balconies. So we believe, you know,
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  Speaker 9: anything can happen, but we believe we're sufficiently protected that
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  Speaker 9: there's no reason to be afraid of having hot the virus.
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  Speaker 9: And even if it somehow happened, you know, we'll just
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  Speaker 9: deal with it. Being afraid of it is not going
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  Speaker 9: to change it.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, this is jowsin Wilton to Pitchen checking it from
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  Speaker 15: San Francisco, where we are in the middle of preparing
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  Speaker 15: about three thousand lunch bags for those folks on the
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  Speaker 15: Grand Princess. We'll check it more later, but yeah, today
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  Speaker 15: we're probably doing about ten thousand meals, again them out
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  Speaker 15: the door, getting them in the cold storage, making sure
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  Speaker 15: everything is stored at ten and just following all the
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  Speaker 15: rules and safety protocols that we've learned from past missions.
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  Speaker 5: Despite the quarantine, cases exploded. By the time the primary
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  Speaker 5: quarantine ended on February nineteen, over six hundred people had
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  Speaker 5: tested positive. In total, more than seven hundred people, roughly
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  Speaker 5: nineteen percent of the ship were infected, and fourteen people died.
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  Speaker 5: The Diamond Princess served as a grim case study for
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  Speaker 5: public health officials, revealing several critical insights about the virus.
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  Speaker 5: It was one of the first places where scientists realized
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  Speaker 5: a massive portion of the infected nearly fifty percent to
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  Speaker 5: seventy five percent, showed no symptoms but could still spread
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  Speaker 5: the virus. Experts later criticized the quarantine for being ineffective.
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  Speaker 5: While passengers were isolated in cabins, crew members continued to
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  Speaker 5: share mess halls and bathrooms while delivering food to rooms,
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  Speaker 5: which likely acted as a bridge for the virus to
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  Speaker 5: continue circulating. Research on the ships suggested that the virus
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  Speaker 5: wasn't just spreading through large droplets, but likely through aerosol inhalation.
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  Speaker 5: In poorly ventilated areas. On February seventeen, the United States
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  Speaker 5: repatriated over three hundred citizens via chartered aircraft, with other
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  Speaker 5: nations like the UK, Australia, and Canada following suit. Passengers
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  Speaker 5: were forced into a second fourteen day quarantine upon arriving
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  Speaker 5: in their home countries, effectively spending a full month in isolation.
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  Speaker 5: Yet daily life in the US remained largely unchanged. Political rallies,
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  Speaker 5: sporting events, and Mardi Grass celebrations in New Orleans continued,
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  Speaker 5: providing the virus with idea heal conditions to proliferate. On
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  Speaker 5: February twenty nine, the US reported its first official COVID
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  Speaker 5: nineteen death in Washington State.
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  Speaker 16: Breaking news the first death from coronavirus here in the
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  Speaker 16: United States.
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  Speaker 3: Over the world was seeing the devastating impact of this.
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  Speaker 17: Lucufvirus Command has decided to enforce the nationwide.
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  Speaker 8: Lockdown, being a site of disaster across Victoria. This will
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  Speaker 8: be in addition to the style of emergency that has
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  Speaker 8: operated throughout this night.
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  Speaker 5: At the time, this death served as a definitive wake
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  Speaker 5: up call for the nation, signaling that the virus was
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  Speaker 5: no longer a distant threat, but a local reality capable
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  Speaker 5: of claiming lives within the community. In March twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 5: the global response to COVID nineteen shifted from concern to crisis.
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  Speaker 5: While the World Health Organization does not have the legal
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  Speaker 5: authority to mandate laws within the US, its official declaration
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  Speaker 5: of a global pandemic on March eleven, twenty twenty acted
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  Speaker 5: as the definitive catalyst for American action. This declaration shattered
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  Speaker 5: the illusion of containment. Within forty eight hours, the US
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  Speaker 5: government declared a national emergency. The World Health Organization's guidance
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  Speaker 5: on social distancing and flattening the curve became the blueprint
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  Speaker 5: for state governors. Suddenly, the threat was no longer over there.
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  Speaker 5: It was in our stadiums, our offices, and our schools.
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  Speaker 14: Police medics are getting more than one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 14: COVID nineteen call outs.
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  Speaker 18: It's constantly nothing but sorrow that's on the phone. It's
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  Speaker 18: a stressful time. It's a time that we need to
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  Speaker 18: unite and work together, and we're doing that here in
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  Speaker 18: Nashall County. Unfortunately, this is the week that they say
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  Speaker 18: the surge is coming. It's not like you're going to
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  Speaker 18: see it it's just going to be basically numbers.
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  Speaker 14: And you can feel it. Ambulances everywhere, each report treated
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  Speaker 14: as a possible COVID case.
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  Speaker 5: The clinical profile of COVID nineteen is defined by its
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  Speaker 5: remarkable range, transitioning from a silent, a symptomatic presence to
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  Speaker 5: a multi system attack. Most infections begin with the classic
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  Speaker 5: triad fever, a persistent dry cough, and profound fatigue. These
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  Speaker 5: respiratory markers often escalate into shortness of breath as the
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  Speaker 5: virus targets the lower airway. A unique diagnostic hallmark is
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  Speaker 5: the sudden loss of taste or smell, which occurs independently
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  Speaker 5: of nasal congestion. Beyond the lungs, the virus frequently triggers
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  Speaker 5: gastrointestinal distress, nausea and diarrhea, and neurological issues like brain
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  Speaker 5: fog or intense headaches. In severe cases, the body's inflammatory
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  Speaker 5: response can cause vascular issues, leading to chest pain or
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  Speaker 5: oxygen desaturation. The unprecedented nature of these symptoms, lasting days
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  Speaker 5: for some or evolving into long COVID for others, highlights
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  Speaker 5: that while so COVE two is a respiratory virus, its
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  Speaker 5: impact is a complex body wide event.
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  Speaker 7: We're now seeing people that we know there's a really
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  Speaker 7: good chance of not gonna make it pasted a couple
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  Speaker 7: of days or a couple of weeks, or even out
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  Speaker 7: of the hospital.
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  Speaker 14: New York's emergency workers haven't stopped a constant crush of
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  Speaker 14: cools from COVID ninety. It's never been this demanded.
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  Speaker 19: We're called the ninety eleven.
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  Speaker 14: Nine more cools than nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 20: A couple of days ago, it was like a seven
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  Speaker 20: eleven calls.
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  Speaker 15: That's more than we ever get.
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  Speaker 19: Just shocked at how many are I'm actually seeing us.
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  Speaker 19: We just came out of one pronounced seeing a lot
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  Speaker 19: of it at the hospital, just walking by, you know,
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  Speaker 19: with sheets over them, and it's it's reality hitting.
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  Speaker 14: There are makeshift morgues, refrigerator trucks full of bodies, and
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  Speaker 14: those on the front line are dealing with an overwhelming
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  Speaker 14: surge in patients.
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  Speaker 21: It's crazy down there.
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  Speaker 22: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah, that's right now, just a few patients on the control.
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  Speaker 24: That's you could do is just to take yourself while
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  Speaker 24: you trying to take care of them.
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  Speaker 14: How busy is the hospital inside.
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  Speaker 24: I'll just say a thousand people in a place where
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  Speaker 24: you're going to fail one hundred people, that's the best
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  Speaker 24: way to.
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  Speaker 10: Put it.
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  Speaker 14: Back. In New York City, they're considering temporarily burying victims
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  Speaker 14: of the virus on an island extreme measures after the
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  Speaker 14: deadliest twenty four hours yet in the state.
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  Speaker 5: Research into the origins of COVID nineteen has primarily focused
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  Speaker 5: on two major hypotheses, the first one being a natural
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  Speaker 5: zoonotic spillover from an infected animal, possibly associated with the
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  Speaker 5: Hunan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, Hubay Province, China. Wet
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  Speaker 5: markets are partially or fully open air markets that sell
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  Speaker 5: fresh produce and meat. China's in country World Health Organization
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  Speaker 5: Office learned of multiple pneumonia cases of unknown cause with
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  Speaker 5: symptoms such as fever and shortness of breath that seem
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  Speaker 5: to be connected to the market.
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  Speaker 25: This hostel is close to the safe market and this
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  Speaker 25: is where as December war on people came with an
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  Speaker 25: atypical pneumonia. An atypical pneumonia that quickly became a public
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  Speaker 25: health emergency. Public health emergency that became a pandemic.
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  Speaker 5: The second hypothesis is a laboratory related incident.
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  Speaker 2: They also come just days after the Department of Energy
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  Speaker 2: here in Washington. D C concluded that COVID nineteen most
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  Speaker 2: likely originated inside a lab in China that the White
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  Speaker 2: House has been at pains to say, there is still
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  Speaker 2: no gun wide agreement as to how the virus began.
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  Speaker 5: COVID has trained the system from the front lines to
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  Speaker 5: emergency rooms and ICU units across the globe, but for
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  Speaker 5: other parts of the healthcare industry, COVID brought things to
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  Speaker 5: a screeching halt.
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  Speaker 26: In early March. Most states mandated that hospitals and DENNIS
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  Speaker 26: could only see the most urgent cases emergency cases to
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  Speaker 26: make sure that the surge capacity was available for all
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  Speaker 26: of the new COVID nineteen cases.
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  Speaker 5: That meant that previously scheduled non essential procedures for people
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  Speaker 5: ranging from physical therapy to cancer were put on hold.
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  Speaker 5: I had to mobilize all the surgeons, and we have
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  Speaker 5: twenty some spine surgeons at CEDARS as to how to
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  Speaker 5: close and what that really meant. At Cedars Sinai Spine
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  Speaker 5: Center in Los Angeles and many other hospitals across America,
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  Speaker 5: only essential surgeries, such as emergency room trauma injuries, could
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  Speaker 5: take place.
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  Speaker 26: I've shown that hospitals with beds more than one hundred
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  Speaker 26: saw a decrease of more than fifty percent of their
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  Speaker 26: patients sets the shutdown in March.
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  Speaker 22: This is an order of magnitude different than anything you know,
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  Speaker 22: we've ever seen, at least in the United States. I've
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  Speaker 22: worked in war zones, I've worked in emergency departments in
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  Speaker 22: the United States for a long time, but this kind
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  Speaker 22: of sustained volume of folks, this level of acuity and
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  Speaker 22: the patients, you know, even if it is just one disease,
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  Speaker 22: it has been a huge challenge for the staff and
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  Speaker 22: for the patients, and you know, and for their families.
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  Speaker 22: And it's really you know, it's sort of a once
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  Speaker 22: a cent what's a century phenomenon, And frankly, I'm hopeful
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  Speaker 22: that it I really hope that it doesn't come back
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  Speaker 22: for another century.
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  Speaker 5: At the most, President Trump announced a ban on travel
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  Speaker 5: from most European countries.
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  Speaker 4: I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions
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  Speaker 4: to protect the health and well being of all Americans.
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  Speaker 4: To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will
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  Speaker 4: be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States
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  Speaker 4: for the next thirty days. The new rules will go
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  Speaker 4: into effect Friday, at midnight. These restrictions will be adjusted
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  Speaker 4: subject to conditions on the ground. There will be exemptions
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  Speaker 4: for Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings, and these prohibitions
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  Speaker 4: will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade
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  Speaker 4: and cargo, but various other things. As we get approval,
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  Speaker 4: anything coming from Europe to the United States is what
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  Speaker 4: we are discussing. These restrictions will also not apply to
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  Speaker 4: the United Kingdom. At the same time, we are monitoring
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  Speaker 4: the situation in China and the South Korea, and as
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  Speaker 4: their situation improves, we will reevaluate the restrictions and warnings
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  Speaker 4: that are currently in place for a possible early opening.
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  Speaker 4: Earlier this week, I met with the leaders of health
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  Speaker 4: insurance industry who have agreed to waive all co payments
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  Speaker 4: for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and
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  Speaker 4: to prevent surprise medical billing. We are cutting massive amounts
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  Speaker 4: of red tape to make anti viral therapies available in
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  Speaker 4: record time. These treatments will significantly reduce the impact and
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  Speaker 4: reach of the virus. Additionally, last week I signed into
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: law an eight point three billion dollar funding bill to
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: help CDC and other government agencies fight the virus and
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: support vaccines, treatments, and distribution of medical supplies. Testing and
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: testing capabilities are expanding rapidly, day by day. We are
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: moving very quickly. The vast majority of Americans, the risk
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: is very very low. Young and healthy people can expect
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: recover fully and quickly if they should get the virus.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: The highest risk is for elderly population with underlying health conditions.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: The elderly population must be very very careful. In particular,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: we are strongly advising that nursing homes for the elderly
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: suspend all medically unnecessary visits. In general, older Americans should
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: also avoid non essential travel in crowded areas, and we
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: have issued guidance on school closures, social distancing, and reducing
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: large gatherings. Smart action today will prevent the spread of
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: the virus.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: But the move was seen by many as too little,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: too late.
• 25:45
  Speaker 23: This doesn't make Americans safe at all. The epidemic here
• 25:50
  Speaker 23: is just as bad, if not worse, than in most
• 25:53
  Speaker 23: parts of Europe. This is a micro and you just
• 25:56
  Speaker 23: can't erect travel bands and expect that you're going to
• 26:01
  Speaker 23: be Say.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: On March nineteen, California issued the first mandatory stay at
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: home order, followed quickly by New York. The who's rule
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: was to provide the scientific justification for these drastic measures
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: by emphasizing that the virus moved through asymptomatic spread. They
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: signaled that only a total pause in human movement, quarantine,
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: and isolation could prevent the healthcare system from collapsing. This
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: period transformed the American landscape into a series of silent,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: shuttered cities. New York City quickly became the global epicenter.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: The sound of sirens was constant, hospitals were overrun, refrigerated
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: trucks were brought in to serve as makeshift morgues, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: the iconic Javit Center was converted into a field hospital.
• 26:55
  Speaker 27: With five of ten counties in the country being the
• 27:00
  Speaker 27: up counties for coronavirus being in the New York City
• 27:03
  Speaker 27: metropolitan area, let us reiterate our recommendation that any resident
• 27:09
  Speaker 27: of the Greater New York City area who has traveled
• 27:12
  Speaker 27: elsewhere in the United States please check your temperature, mind
• 27:16
  Speaker 27: your health, and self isolate for fourteen days.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: The American economy, the strongest in the world, ground to
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: a halt. Unemployment claims surged by the millions. The world
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: had entered the Great Pause, a period of isolation that
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: would fundamentally alter the trajectory of human history, culture, and technology.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Looking for billions around the globe, the home was no
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: longer just a place to sleep. It became an office,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: a school, a gym, and a sanctuary. The laptop class
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: navigated a new digital reality where professional hierarchies were humanized
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: by the occasional cameo of a cat or a toddler
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: on a zoom call. However, this transition also led to
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: zoom fatigue and a blurring of the boundaries between work
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: and rest.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: People want to work, they want to go back. They
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: have to go back, and we're going to be talking
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: about dates. We're going to be talking with a lot
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: of great professionals. But this is a country that was
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: built on getting it done, and our people want to
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: go back to work. I'm hearing it loud and beer
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: from everybody. I'm not going to do anything rash or hastily.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: I don't do that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: But the country wants to get back to work. Our
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: country was built to get back to work. We don't
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: have a country where they say, hey.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Let's close it down.
• 29:34
  Speaker 28: For two years.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: We can't do that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 28: It's not our country.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: So we're going to be talking and it could be
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: we'll do sections of our country.
• 29:42
  Speaker 24: And it's very difficult for New Orleans because it's a
• 29:44
  Speaker 24: city built on people getting together in the streets, celebrating, partying,
• 29:51
  Speaker 24: just hanging out. So the order issued a couple of
• 29:55
  Speaker 24: weeks ago by the Governor of Louisiana, John Bill Edwards
• 29:59
  Speaker 24: for self isol I think was harder to put into
• 30:03
  Speaker 24: effect in New Orleans than it might well have been
• 30:05
  Speaker 24: in many other cities.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Ultimately, the lockdown era was a paradox of extreme isolation
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: and intense digital togetherness. It was a time when the
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: world stood still, yet the human spirit remained restlessly active,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: proving that even behind closed doors, our need for creation, connection,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: and community could not be silenced. April third, twenty twenty,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: the CDC made a pivotal shift in public policy by
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: recommending that all Americans wear cloth face coverings in public.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: This marked the beginning of mask culture in the US,
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: even as a severe shortage of personal protective equipment forced
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: healthcare workers to reuse and ninety five masks. A segment
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: of the population viewed the change not as an evolution
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: of science, but as a lack of expertise or a
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: sign of government inconsistency. This fueled long term doubt about
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: whether masks actually worked.
• 31:16
  Speaker 29: I never thought in this country we would be put
• 31:18
  Speaker 29: in a position where we have to really decide who's
• 31:21
  Speaker 29: going to live and who's going to die based on
• 31:23
  Speaker 29: you know, who's going to get that ventilator. In terms
• 31:25
  Speaker 29: of equipment and the personal protective equipment or PPE, we're
• 31:29
  Speaker 29: already anticipating running out very soon to the point where
• 31:33
  Speaker 29: we're instructed to reuse masks.
• 31:35
  Speaker 19: Think that we.
• 31:36
  Speaker 29: Normally would exchange for every patient, we're now reusing for
• 31:39
  Speaker 29: several days in a row.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: So wonder So I just don't want to wear one myself.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: It's a recommendation, they recommend it. I'm feeling good. I
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: just don't want to be doing I don't know. Somehow,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: sitting in the Oval office, behind that beautiful resolute desk,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the great resolute desk, I think wearing a face mask
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queen's I
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: don't know. Somehow, I don't see it for myself. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: just maybe I'll change my mind.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: One of the most powerful visual symbols of the American
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: pandemic response was the arrival of the USNS Comfort in
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: New York City, a massive, white hulled hospital ship emblazoned
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: with red crosses. It steamed into New York Harbor on
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: March thirty, greeted bry crowds along the shoreline, who saw
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: it as a seventy thousand ton message of hope.
• 32:36
  Speaker 30: The hospital ship, the us NS Comfort, which is incredible
• 32:42
  Speaker 30: actually when you see it inside, will be underway to
• 32:46
  Speaker 30: New York City on Saturday.
• 32:49
  Speaker 31: So it's going to be leaving on Saturday rather than
• 32:52
  Speaker 31: three weeks from now. They did the maintenance quickly, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 31: who was going to be there for quite a while
• 32:58
  Speaker 31: Longer another three four weeks and it should be arriving.
• 33:02
  Speaker 31: I told the governor twenty minutes ago, Governor Cuomo, that
• 33:07
  Speaker 31: the ship will be arriving at New York Harbor on Monday.
• 33:11
  Speaker 16: The Department of Defense has been surging personnel capabilities and
• 33:15
  Speaker 16: equipment to help slow the spread of the virus. Thousands
• 33:20
  Speaker 16: of National Guard troops are mobilized across the country, conducting
• 33:23
  Speaker 16: a variety of essential tasks, ranging from planning to logistics
• 33:27
  Speaker 16: to medical support. Active duty units are moving critical supplies
• 33:33
  Speaker 16: and equipment and medical personnel to some of the nation's
• 33:36
  Speaker 16: most heavily impacted areas. The Department's world class doctors and
• 33:41
  Speaker 16: scientists are at the forefront of infectious disease research, working
• 33:45
  Speaker 16: alongside our government and private sector efforts to accelerate a
• 33:49
  Speaker 16: vaccine and therapeutics for this virus. And now, in this
• 33:54
  Speaker 16: great time of need, the President has directed the deployment
• 33:58
  Speaker 16: of our nation's most power symbols of medical care and compassion,
• 34:03
  Speaker 16: the Navy's two hospital ships, the Mercy and the Comfort.
• 34:08
  Speaker 16: Both ships have a tremendous history of humanitarian assistance and
• 34:12
  Speaker 16: have provided care for people throughout the world. This exceptional
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: legacy continues as they now take care of their fellow Americans.
• 34:22
  Speaker 28: In a few moments, the crew of the Navy hospital
• 34:25
  Speaker 28: ship USNS Comfort, which is really something, will embark for
• 34:32
  Speaker 28: New York City, where they will join the ranks of
• 34:35
  Speaker 28: tens of thousands of amazing doctors, nurses, and medical professionals
• 34:41
  Speaker 28: who are battling to save American lives. This great ship
• 34:47
  Speaker 28: behind me is a seventy thousand ton message of hope
• 34:52
  Speaker 28: and solidarity to the incredible people of New York a
• 34:56
  Speaker 28: place I know very well.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: I love.
• 35:01
  Speaker 28: We're here for you, We're fighting for you, and we
• 35:05
  Speaker 28: are with you all the way, and we always will be.
• 35:09
  Speaker 28: You have the unwavering support of the entire nation, the
• 35:14
  Speaker 28: entire government, and the entire American people. After being rushed
• 35:20
  Speaker 28: out of maintenance with historic speed. It was supposed to
• 35:24
  Speaker 28: be here for four weeks, and they did it in
• 35:26
  Speaker 28: four days. The comfort will arrive at Peer ninety in
• 35:30
  Speaker 28: Manhattan on Monday, three weeks ahead of schedule. Its crew
• 35:36
  Speaker 28: will begin treating patients on Tuesday. It will be met
• 35:42
  Speaker 28: in New York Harbor by Governor Cuomo. I just spoke
• 35:47
  Speaker 28: with He's very excited and they need the help.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: The economic fallout in April was swifter than any downturn
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: since the Great Depression. By mid April, more than twenty
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: two million Americans had filed for unemployment. To combat this,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: the federal government began distributing the first round of Economic
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Impact payments as part of the Cares Act. This program
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: aimed to keep small businesses afloat, though it was quickly
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: exhausted and required additional funding by the end of the month.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: On April thirty, the administration officially launched its initiative to
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: accelerate the development of a vaccine, setting an ambitious goal
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: for year end distribution. Even though the stay at home
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: era was in full effect by late April, the first
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: signs of political friction emerged. Protests against lockdown orders began
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: in several states, and governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: made the controversial decision to begin reopening businesses like gyms
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: and hair salons before the month ended. By the end
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: of April, the US had surpassed sixty thousand deaths.
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: As the deaths escalate, so does the fear. Doctors, nurses, paramedics,
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: They've all talked to us about a lack of supplies.
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: They've got enough here though, for now, and they're working
• 37:13
  Speaker 14: round the clock to preserve life. It's brave, uncharted, vital
• 37:18
  Speaker 14: work they're doing here. No one knows when the crisis
• 37:21
  Speaker 14: will be over, But the silent enemy gripping this city
• 37:25
  Speaker 14: has already claimed more lives than the nine to eleven
• 37:28
  Speaker 14: terror attacks.
• 37:31
  Speaker 21: Well, it's it's as distressing as any illness I've ever
• 37:35
  Speaker 21: dealt within my entire professional career. As an infectious ease
• 37:38
  Speaker 21: position for over thirty years, it is a devastating loss
• 37:42
  Speaker 21: of life. It is devastating to families economically, emotionally, spiritually.
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: In a high security lab at Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine,
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: they're testing samples from doctors and nurses on the front line.
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: This new style of test isn't for the coronavirus itself,
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: but for antibodies people make in response to the infection,
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: a positive result which show they're recovering and safe to
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: return to work. It's made by Melogic and it's one
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: of the first prototype antibody tests to be validated as
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: part of a clinical trial.
• 38:16
  Speaker 20: We need to be sure that these tests are both
• 38:18
  Speaker 20: sensitive so they're able to pick up everyone who's been infected,
• 38:22
  Speaker 20: and also importantly specific, so we don't want the test
• 38:25
  Speaker 20: to be positive when in fact they haven't been exposed
• 38:28
  Speaker 20: to the virus. So it's very important to understand how
• 38:32
  Speaker 20: the tests are working. We're telling people that they've been
• 38:35
  Speaker 20: infected and they're recovered, but in fact they're still vulnerable
• 38:37
  Speaker 20: though they still don't have any immunity to disease. Then
• 38:40
  Speaker 20: that's going to be disasters, especially if those people are
• 38:42
  Speaker 20: frontline healthcare workers for example.
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: So very fast it takes just ten minutes, and it
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: only needs a fingerprick of blood. But unlike the current
• 38:54
  Speaker 10: test for the virus, which only works when people are ill,
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: the antibody test shows whether they've been infected and perhaps
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: not even developed symptoms. It could prove crucial in controlling
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: the pandemic. Loosening the lockdown would allow us to get
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: back to work and lift the economy. But without mass testing,
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: public health doctors wouldn't know how and where the virus
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: was spreading, so this could.
• 39:17
  Speaker 19: Be a game changer.
• 39:18
  Speaker 10: The government has said it's buying three and a half
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: million antibody testing kits from different suppliers, but the Chief
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: Medical Officer has warned against rushing them out. A bad
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: test is worse than no test at all.
• 39:30
  Speaker 32: We need to make sure that once these technologies exist,
• 39:34
  Speaker 32: that we have the manufacturing capabilities lined up to produce
• 39:38
  Speaker 32: as many as we can in the shorter space of time,
• 39:41
  Speaker 32: but also that we have access to these technologies.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: The company hopes to make eight million kits a year
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: for less than a pound each, cheap enough to control
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: the pandemic even in developing countries.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Mitchell model for motive sporting goods. We've been around one
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: hundred and thirty years. We've been through New World was depressions,
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: nine to eleven, Sandy Storm, and the list goes on
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: and on. We have never seen the likes of something
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: like this before, and we're appealing to every medical doctor
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: who's an infectious disease specialist or immunology and to give
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: your guidance so that we could roll this thing up,
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: share it with our politicians, so the decisions we make
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: are strictly based on what the right thing to do
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: from a medical standpoint as opposed to a political standpoint.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: The month concluded with a nation exhausted, grieving, and deeply
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: divided on how to balance public health with economic survival.
• 40:42
  Speaker 28: We are in the process of developing a strategy that's
• 40:47
  Speaker 28: going to be very very powerful.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: We've developed them as we go along.
• 40:51
  Speaker 28: Some areas of our country are doing very well, others
• 40:54
  Speaker 28: are doing less well. It will, probably, unfortunately, get worse
• 40:58
  Speaker 28: before it gets better.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Something I don't like saying about things, but that's the
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: way it is.
• 41:04
  Speaker 25: It's what we have.
• 41:04
  Speaker 28: You look over the world, it's all over the world.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: The true turning point toward the way things were occurred
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: in early twenty twenty one with the mass rollout of vaccines.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: By May twenty twenty one, the CDC announced that fully
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: vaccinated individuals could stop wearing masks in most indoor and
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: outdoor settings. This prompted a more definitive grand reopening across
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: the country.
• 41:31
  Speaker 28: The governors need to do the right thing and allow
• 41:33
  Speaker 28: these very important essential places of faith to open right
• 41:39
  Speaker 28: now for this weekend.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: If they don't do it, I will override the governors
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: in America.
• 41:47
  Speaker 25: We need more prayer, not less.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Airports that had been ghost towns in twenty twenty began
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: to see record crowds again by the summer of twenty
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: twenty one, as revenge travel took hold. Schools, many of
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: which had been remote for a year, prepared for a
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: full return to in person learning for the fall twenty
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: twenty one semester. While many offices reopened, the return to
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: work was perhaps the most permanently altered aspect of life.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: The hybrid model emerged, proving that the five day office
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: week might be a relic of the pre pandemic past.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: By late twenty twenty one, although most legal restrictions had vanished,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: society had not returned to its exact twenty nineteen state.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: The pandemic left behind a digital first economy and a
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: population more attuned to hygiene and personal space. The opening
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: up was as much about mourning what was lost nearly
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: a million lives and a thousand of small businesses, as
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: it was about celebrating the return of concerts, weddings, and handshakes.
• 43:01
  Speaker 33: The United States and the West were on the defensive
• 43:05
  Speaker 33: and doing very badly, and of course the stakes were
• 43:10
  Speaker 33: now very high as regards to COVID nineteen, because COVID
• 43:15
  Speaker 33: nineteen was probably the greatest test of governance the world
• 43:19
  Speaker 33: has seen since the Second World War. The United States
• 43:25
  Speaker 33: and the West failed miserably.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: As we move into twenty twenty six, the narrative of
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: COVID nineteen has shifted from an acute global emergency to
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: a permanent, persistent feature of human existence. The looming threat
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: is no longer the total societal shutdown of twenty twenty,
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: but a subtle, relentless cycle of viral evolution and chronic
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: illness that suggests we may never truly return to a
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: pandemic sense of absolute safety.