Dr. David Agus on the Knowns and Unknowns of COVID-19

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews Dr. David Agus, Professor of Medicine and Engineering and Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Agus, who is also a CBS News contributor, explains what scientists have learned about the origins, spread, transmissibility and lethality of COVID-19 -- as well as what remains a mystery. He discusses the policies and practices that have led to successful mitigation efforts and explains how data may be used to better control future global health crises. Intelligence Matters will dedicate several forthcoming episodes to understanding the fundamentals and national security implications of COVID-19.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.
0:14.1	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:16.3	Your mission is ours.
0:18.5	Some ask maybe a stupid question, but where do viruses come from?
0:22.2	How do they get created?
0:24.2	Uh-huh.
0:25.2	Viruses are a part of nature that were meant to actually speed up and help with evolution.
0:29.5	They transfer DNA from creature, from species to species.
0:34.0	And they're actually part of us, and as it enabled the evolution tree to happen.
0:39.2	You have more viral DNA and bacteria in it, and you as a human, you do human DNA.
0:44.1	And they control these bacteria and these viruses, how you metabolize food, many aspects
0:48.2	around you.
0:49.4	The problem is some of them are we called pathogenic, and they can cause problems, particularly
0:53.4	newer ones like this.
0:57.7	In Korea, if you're tested, all of your neighbors get a text, hey, David, an apartment 3B,
1:02.9	has corona.
1:04.1	So they know to avoid me, and they know who's infected, and they actually trace where
1:09.1	I went, and anybody I talked to on my phone, they were back a week before.
1:12.8	Who did David just meet?
1:14.1	Let me test them and see if they're positive or not.
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