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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under seven presidents stemming back to the 1980s. He is often seen as the leading voice in combating COVID-19, which has now killed more than 440,000 people and infected over 26 million across the country. A disproportionate number of those have been Black, Latino and Indigenous people. During the past administration, Dr. Fauci at times contradicted President Trump, who would often promote unscientific or unproven cures, minimize the threat of COVID-19 or underestimate the gravity of the emergency. Today, Dr. Fauci is President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor and is back at the forefront of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. On this episode of Latino USA, Dr. Fauci discusses his early childhood, similarities in combating the AIDS/HIV epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the Biden administration plans on doing to eliminate inequalities that have led to Black and brown communities being heavily impacted by the virus.
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1:25.0 | From Food and Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Marien Ojosa. |
1:29.0 | Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Latino USA for a special conversation. |
1:35.0 | He is yet again serving a new administration and continues as the leading voice in the campaign against the coronavirus. |
1:47.0 | It's been over a year since the first case of COVID-19 was found in the US. |
1:52.0 | Since then, the virus has killed more than 400,000 people and infected over 25 million across the country. |
2:00.0 | Communities of color, blacks, indigenous people, Latinos, and Latinos have been disproportionately affected when it comes to both deaths and infections. |
2:11.0 | There has been so much about this pandemic that in my opinion has been an accelerator in that it has highlighted and magnified what was wrong before and made it worse. |
2:23.0 | 49% of Latino households have seen job losses or pay cuts in this pandemic. Latinos who still have a job face increased exposure to the virus because only 16% can work from home. |
2:36.0 | Right now in the state of New Mexico, Native Americans account for 23% of COVID cases, 41% of COVID deaths, but they only make up 10% of the state's population. |
2:48.0 | This is inequality that needs to be responded to immediately. |
2:56.0 | Former President Donald Trump created Operation Warp Speed last May with the chief goal of developing and distributing a vaccine which didn't arrive until December. |
3:07.0 | Today, Operation Warp Speed has brought together all of the experts across the federal government from places like the NIH, CDC, FDA, and many other agencies. |
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