Amanpour: Marc Lipsitch, Ed Yong, Hala Alyan, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, takes a closer look at the Covid-19 lab leak theory with Bianna Golodryga. He says there needs to be an investigation into the origins of Covid-19. Then science writer for The Atlantic Ed Yong warns of an impending mental health crisis after the Covid pandemic and explains how it can be combated. Continuing our conversation about trauma, our Michel Martin speaks to Palestinian-American author and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan about the mental impact of the decades long conflict between Israel and Palestine. And finally, musicians Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste, aka the classical-hiphop hybrid duo Black Violin, bring a message of unity. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amantour. Here's what's coming up. It's imperative
0:09.1	that we look and we do an investigation. As President Biden calls for a report into the origins of coronavirus,
0:15.9	the Wuhan Lab Leak theory comes under new scrutiny.
0:19.5	I ask Harvard epidemiologist Mark Lipsich, why it's so important to get answers.
0:25.0	Then, how will we emerge from COVID?
0:28.0	Science writer Ed Young tells me why the pandemic's mental wounds are here to stay.
0:33.5	Plus, parents did not end up in Oklahoma
0:36.4	because they were fans of Midwestern winters.
0:39.6	They went there as a result of violent dispossession.
0:42.6	As the dust settles on Gaza,
0:44.6	Palestinian psychologist and novelist Hala Alian
0:48.2	tells Michelle Martin what intergenerational trauma looks like.
0:52.3	And... generational trauma looks like and
0:53.0	the grammy-nominated
0:57.0	the grammy-nominated duo Black Violin is here to challenge stereotypes and lift our spirits. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Goldriga in New York sitting in for Christian Ammanpur.
1:24.2	Coronovirus has upended our world.
1:26.9	It was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
1:31.3	It would go on to claim the lives of more than 3.5 million people worldwide and infecting
1:36.4	168 million.
1:38.8	Entire countries locked down, so many lives and economies ravaged. Yet the origins of the virus remain a mystery.
1:46.5	For a while the possibility of a lab leak was widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory and heavily
1:51.9	politicized.
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