Extra: Former CDC Director: "The Great Pandemic" Is Coming ... and We're Not Ready

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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After all of COVID-19's catastrophic impacts, we may not want to think about an even deadlier pandemic. However, the former director of the CDC fears the "great pandemic" is yet to come. Dr. Robert Redfield, who ran the CDC from 2018-2021, says he is greatly concerned about the bird flu and how gain-of-function could one day spark an outbreak that could kill millions more humans than the coronavirus. He recently joined the FOX News Rundown's Lisa Brady to discuss those fears and why he thinks our government and health institutions are not yet ready for another pandemic. Lisa Brady also spoke with public health expert and Johns Hopkins University Professor Dr. Marty Makary about Dr. Redfield's warning, the current avian flu killing millions of birds, and how public health officials must rebuild the public's damaged trust after COVID-19. Due to time limitations, we could not include the entire conversations with both Dr. Redfield and Dr. Makary in the FOX News Rundown segment that ran this week. Today's FOX News Rundown Extra includes our unedited interviews with both health experts, and you'll hear everything they had to say about the bird flu outbreak, the risks posed by gain-of-function, and the world's lack of preparedness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News rundown, Extra, and the Seprady.
0:09.0	After all of COVID's catastrophic impacts, we may not want to think about an even deadlier
0:14.0	pandemic, but some health officials say we should, as global outbreaks of bird flu continue.
0:20.2	It's led to the deaths of tens of millions of birds, sometimes cold, to help stop the
0:25.1	spread, with a significant impact on egg and turkey farmers, among others, and it's
0:29.8	already spilled over to mammals, with a handful of human infections.
0:34.2	This is also fueling more concern, but the risks have gained a function research.
0:38.3	So, we got perspectives from two doctors about avian flu, endemic preparedness, and how
0:43.8	COVID lessons can help or hurt.
0:46.4	Dr. Robert Redfield is former director of the CDC, and Dr. Marty McCarrie is a professor
0:51.4	at Johns Hopkins University in Fox News Medical Contributor, who made some edits for
0:55.9	time and thought he might like to hear the whole thing.
0:58.2	And if you haven't already, please subscribe to the weekday Fox News rundown podcast.
1:03.2	Now here's Dr. Robert Redfield on the Fox News rundown Extra.
1:06.7	All right, I'm going to dive in with questions, okay?
1:14.0	It's fine.
1:16.0	I know that you've been calling for a moratorium on gain of function research.
1:22.0	So I wanted to start with that.
1:24.6	Why now is this strictly because of COVID, or were you already concerned about this before
1:30.2	the pandemic?
1:31.2	You know, Lisa, I've been concerned about this, you know, for quite some time now, ever
1:39.8	since 2012, when the European scientists published the changes that one needed to make an
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