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Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Coronavirus Update with Dr. Peter Hotez

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Peace By Peace Productions

Politics, News

3.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, renowned doctor, vaccine scientist, and educator Peter Hotez came on the show to answer some questions about the state of the coronavirus. Since then, we’ve seen the pandemic flood over America. Tens of thousands have died, and hotspots continue to break out across the nation. And yet, President Trump seems hell-bent on reopening the economy and attacking the science, scientists, and elected officials trying to save lives at every turn. Republican governors are already taking action to open businesses and recreation areas, frothy-mouthed protesters are endangering us all, and we still have no effective treatment for the disease. And so today, we've him back to update us on where things stand with the virus at home and around the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Alyssa Molano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry.

0:30.0

A few weeks ago, renowned doctor, vaccine scientist, and educator Peter Hotez came on the show to answer some questions about the state of the coronavirus.

0:44.0

Since then, we have seen the pandemic flood over America. Tens of thousands have died and hot spots continue to break out across the nation.

0:55.0

And yet President Trump seems hell-bent on reopening the economy and attacking the science, scientists, and elected officials trying to save lives at every turn.

1:07.0

Republican governors are already taking action to open businesses and recreation areas.

1:13.0

Fraudy, mouth, protesters are endangering us all, and we still have no effective treatment for the disease.

1:22.0

And so today I've asked Dr. Hotez back to update us on where things stand with the coronavirus at home and around the world.

1:31.0

I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted.

1:40.0

A few hours ago, there was easily a thousand people standing on the steps of the Capitol.

1:44.0

Children or shoulder is not wearing masks protesting the state house here to talk about how they want to reopen the economy.

1:51.0

Scientists and doctors are warning of a possible second wave of COVID-19, when that could happen, and what it would look like are the biggest questions.

2:00.0

As for our current president, after starting the day calling for the liberation of three states that are observing his government guidelines.

2:08.0

In Jackson, there are dozens of people taking to the sand. As city leaders there, we open features in park.

2:14.0

Governors in some of the state's hardest hit by the coronavirus said earlier Sunday they need more help from the Trump administration to ramp up testing.

2:24.0

Hello, my name is Dr. Peter Hotez, and I believe that everybody in the United States deserves access to new drugs and therapies and vaccines for COVID-19 regardless of their ability to pay.

2:37.0

Sorry, not sorry.

2:39.0

Dr. Hotez, thank you so much for joining us again. A lot has happened since last week's we spoke. Some of it good and a lot of it bad.

2:50.0

Can you just give us an overview about the status of the pandemic in America right now?

2:58.0

Well, of course, the big overview for the US was this really horrible humanitarian tragedy in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and the Northeast.

3:07.0

And we're still not nearly done. It's probably still going to go on for a few more weeks, but I'd never thought we would see that level of devastation in terms of death and admissions to the hospital in intensive care units.

3:22.0

And it's given me a real perspective on how things could go terribly wrong here in the United States. So for me now it's all hands on deck and making certain that what happened in New York, especially in places like Queens, New York, which, you know, I know you know very well would never happen again elsewhere in the US.

3:43.0

Well, I mean, you called it a humanitarian crisis. Why do you identify it as that?

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