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Skullduggery

Coronavirus: What do we really know?

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News Medical Contributor and Former Obama Administration Official Kavita Patel and Yahoo News Reporter Alex Nazaryan join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Nazaryan gives us the latest insight into the coronavirus, how bad it really is going to get, and whether we should all be wearing masks. Then listen in to an exclusive Yahoo News Special Town Hall where Dr. Patel answers readers’ questions about the virus.

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0:00.0

Two years ago, the Center for Disease Control conducted a day-long seminar dedicated to a

0:07.2

grim milestone, the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, an outbreak that

0:14.9

killed 40 million people around the globe.

0:18.4

The question on the table was whether something like it could ever happen again.

0:23.4

For many, the answer was surely not, given the advances in medical science and public health.

0:28.6

But one of the speakers at the seminar, Dr. Luciana Borrio, had a very different view.

0:34.0

Are we ready to respond to a pandemic, she asked?

0:37.3

I fear the answer is no.

0:39.8

At the time Borrio served on a global health team at President Trump's National Security

0:44.5

Council that just days later would be dissolved, and her fears today seem more than justified,

0:51.6

as the death toll from COVID-19 shoots up day after day.

0:56.3

We'll talk to Yahoo News correspondent Alexander Nazarian, who recently wrote about the 2018 CDC

1:01.9

event on where we're headed, and we'll take you inside Verizon Media and listen to a fascinating

1:07.6

Q&A session with former Obama Administration official and Yahoo News medical contributor,

1:13.4

Dr. Kavita Patel, on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:18.0

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well, I'm not a crop.

1:28.1

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:31.6

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

1:37.6

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:41.6

There will be no lies.

1:44.5

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

1:55.7

I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

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