1/31/2021: Left Behind, The Biodata Race, DNA For Sale
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Scott Pelley speaks to the bereaved families of some of the 400,000 Americans who perished in the pandemic. And In a two-part story, Jon Wetheim reports that Chinese company, BGI Group, offered to build COVID labs in at least six states and U.S. intelligence officials issued warnings not to share health data with BGI.
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| 0:32.7 | With cruel isolation and outrageous speed, COVID-19 has become the nation's third leading killer. |
| 0:44.0 | The accelerating vaccine campaign offers hope, but for the families of nearly half a million |
| 0:50.6 | dead, there's no medicine for the pain. People are talking about, isn't it going |
| 0:55.9 | to be great when this is over? And it occurs to me that for a lot of people in this country, |
| 1:01.5 | it will never be over. What is normal? Normal is not a thing for a lot of us anymore. |
| 1:11.5 | What's the likelihood you and I have been hacked by China? |
| 1:14.3 | 110%. |
| 1:15.3 | Personal data? |
| 1:17.6 | Personal data. |
| 1:18.1 | So what does China plan to do with that intimate personal information, including your medical |
| 1:23.7 | data? |
| 1:24.9 | 60 minutes have spent months investigating why the world's largest biotech firm, |
| 1:30.2 | the BGI group based in China, offered American states overrun by COVID brand new testing labs. |
| 1:37.8 | Intelligence sources we spoke with say it is all about China's quest to control our biotaota. |
| 1:43.6 | How close are we to that? |
| 1:47.7 | I don't know how close we are, but I can feel it breathing down our neck. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
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