Dr. William Schaffner on Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'll take it, Anderson. Thank you very much. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. |
| 0:05.4 | If you want schools to open, if you want to get some control of the pandemic, the key is the |
| 0:11.8 | way. You must do what you can. You have to think about you and your family. Think about your |
| 0:17.6 | community and push your local leaders. I frame it this way because help is not coming from on high. |
| 0:27.4 | Proof? There's no plan for better testing. I hear you all over this country saying you can't get |
| 0:33.6 | results fast enough. I know there's no plan for it to get better. There's no plan to help us reopen |
| 0:41.4 | schools. And there is a reason for this inaction and it has a name. Trump. Last week he said it's going |
| 0:50.5 | to get worse before it gets better. Now he says this. I really do believe a lot of the governors |
| 0:59.2 | should be opening up states that they're not opening and we'll see what happens with them. |
| 1:06.5 | You know it's going to get better. You're not helping them to reopen. They're asking you for help |
| 1:12.5 | and then you say, but they really should be reopening. We are seeing what's happening. Death, |
| 1:20.0 | too much of it. Cases too many, too fast, too many places. In fact, there's a word for it. |
| 1:27.6 | Comes from the Greek. Pan meaning everyone, demos, people, pan, |
| 1:34.4 | themic as in affecting all people. That's what we're seeing happening. That's what Trump knows is |
| 1:43.0 | happening. The White House can't contain the virus within its own walls. Major League Baseball |
| 1:49.3 | can't keep players from catching COVID instead of balls. How can this president and his CDC still |
| 1:56.7 | argue it's safe enough to reopen schools in the fall with no plan? There is no irony in the fact |
| 2:05.8 | that Trump's national security advisor now has COVID. Robert O'Brien, listen, I wish Mr. O'Brien |
| 2:14.0 | well, I hope he is asymptomatic and if his daughter has COVID also as is being reported, |
| 2:20.6 | I wish her well. And I hope the rest of the family is spared and anyone that he was around, |
| 2:26.9 | especially the president. O'Brien was briefly in the White House last week after returning home |
| 2:32.3 | from a business trip to Europe. Several pictures show him neither practicing social distancing |
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