100 EPISODES OF COVID

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Highwire has meticulously covered the Covid-19 pandemic since it began as “three weeks to flatten the curve,” and the mega-library of brave interviews with scientists, doctors, and experts is aging incredibly well. Here’s a look through some of the best of “The Highwire’s 100 Episodes of Covid Coverage.”

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0:00.0	Before we get started and jumping into this next wild and crazy ride this next year,
0:07.0	why don't we set a baseline of where we've been?
0:10.6	This is the last 100 episodes of The High Wire and this pandemic.
0:17.1	Good morning.
0:20.1	Good afternoon.
0:21.1	Good evening wherever you are out there in this world.
0:24.3	In this beautiful world, we're stepping out onto The High Wire.
0:29.4	The biggest story in the country and maybe the world as we speak is Corona virus.
0:37.2	We don't know whether it was transferred from eating meat from these creatures or whether
0:41.7	it was from viruses that were isolated brought into a lab and an accident or release.
0:47.2	So to say that it's a release from a lab is very different than say it's created in
0:50.8	the lab.
0:51.8	An accident or a leak released from the lab is that, like I said, it's been known to happen
0:55.2	before.
0:56.2	What point did you break away from believing in the imperial model?
1:00.0	How early on did you start suspecting it was wrong?
1:04.1	From the very beginning, I never believed in it.
1:06.1	If you start looking at the actual numbers of how dollars come into this, a typical garden
1:11.3	variety pneumonia without complications from Medicare basically will be about $5,000.
1:15.9	If you have COVID-19 pneumonia, it's about $13,000 and if you use an ventilator, it's $39,000
1:22.7	and these numbers come straight from CMS right there there.
1:25.7	If you're going to do an experiment, you better have some good scientific data before
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