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Skullduggery

Covid's Silent Chain

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

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Northeastern University College of Science's Dr. Alessandro Vespignani & The Atlantic's George Packer join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, the Dr. fleshes out his recently published coronavirus model that shows there was an undetected silent chain of transmission early on resulting in the potential number of cases actually being 10x greater. Then, Packer, explains why America is fast resembling a failed state.

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0:00.0

What if the official numbers for coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States aren't

0:07.3

actually true?

0:09.3

What if they are a severe undercount that omits hundreds of thousands of infections that

0:14.4

spread through the population, undetected in January and February, before social distancing

0:20.5

restrictions were imposed, and schools and businesses shut down in a belated attempt

0:26.2

to combat the deadly virus?

0:28.8

That is increasingly the view of many top scientists who are trying to get a handle, and

0:32.5

just how big is the pandemic we are dealing with?

0:35.9

We'll talk to one of those doctors who has done groundbreaking work on what he calls

0:40.1

the silent chain of transmission of COVID-19.

0:44.4

And we'll talk to George Packer of the Atlantic on his recent piece arguing that America is

0:49.0

fast resembling a failed state on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:00.7

Because people have got to know whether or not they're present or subcrux, well I'm

1:03.9

not a crox.

1:04.9

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

1:08.0

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:12.8

tell me it is not.

1:14.0

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:18.2

There will be no lies.

1:21.0

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

1:32.2

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

1:35.6

And I'm Dan Clyde, Manitador and Chief of Yahoo News.

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