COVID and Vaccine Q&A with Dr. Francis Collins — Director, National Institutes of Health

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

18 months into this deal, there’s more confusion, competing opinions, and clutter around COVID and the vaccines than ever before. So we brought back the nation’s foremost scientist, Dr. Francis Collins, to cut through the noise and give us straight answers to questions you asked via Instagram.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:08.4	I'm going to do something aggressive today.
0:10.9	And that is I'm going to talk about something that half of you are not going to like me pissed off about.
0:16.6	We live in an incredible, divided country.
0:19.0	You can't talk about anything that's a current event without half of everybody disagreeing getting upset.
0:24.0	And yet, I'm a sicko, and I'm going to do it anyway because I care for you and your health.
0:30.2	We're going to talk COVID today.
0:32.1	Actually, I'm not going to talk COVID.
0:33.8	We're going to talk COVID with the senior scientific medical official in the
0:41.0	entire land. We're 18 months into this deal with COVID. Most of us are more confused, more frustrated,
0:47.1	more pissed off than ever before. Public health has become politicized. Everyone has an opinion.
0:53.7	Few people are informed, and it's hard to know who to trust.
0:59.3	Today, we're going to try to cut through the clutter of your social media feed and news app by going right to the best source of information.
1:07.5	Dr. Francis Collins, this isn't about me or my opinion. It's about giving you direct access to the top guy in the land.
1:17.6	He is the nation's premier scientist. He's the director of the National Institute for Health.
1:23.2	He literally mapped the human genome, the first human that did so and led the team.
1:29.6	Anthony Fauci reports to him.
1:32.1	He's a man of deep faith.
1:33.8	He's a family man and he's a motorcycle rider.
1:36.3	So he can't be all that bad.
1:38.2	He's a guy I trust.
1:40.2	We talked with him several months ago.
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