Face the Nation on the Radio 12/19
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation" with moderator Margaret Brennan, America's new COVID crisis: Omicron and Delta cases spread across the country as millions prepare to gather for the holidays. We'll hear from former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb and NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins. We're joined by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, who discusses the opioid crisis being fueled by fentanyl. Plus, a discussion with Afghanistan's former National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib for his first English-language broadcast interview since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can listen to Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, |
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| 0:08.0 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington, and this week on Face the Nation, |
| 0:12.0 | there is frustration and fear as we head |
| 0:15.1 | into the holiday season amid what top US health officials are calling an |
| 0:19.4 | incoming tidal wave of COVID cases. It has been more than two full years since the |
| 0:25.4 | mysterious and deadly virus started circulating in parts of China. Now here in |
| 0:30.6 | the US COVID-19 cases are setting new records, seemingly out of control. |
| 0:36.5 | The Delta variant still accounts for most new infections, but the ultra contagious Omicron |
| 0:41.9 | is now in at least 43 states. |
| 0:44.4 | Omicron is here. |
| 0:46.4 | It's going to start to spread much more rapidly |
| 0:48.7 | at the beginning of the year. |
| 0:50.1 | The scenes are familiar. |
| 0:51.9 | Long lines for testing. overwhelmed hospitals and medical personnel, |
| 0:56.5 | and revised plans from business and some schools to go back to virtual. Still officials are adamant. It may feel like deja vu, but it's not. |
| 1:07.2 | We have tools to protect people, so use them. |
| 1:10.5 | If you're vaccinated, you have your booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death, |
| 1:16.3 | period. |
| 1:17.3 | We'll talk with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, for the |
| 1:21.5 | latest on our COVID winter wave. |
| 1:24.0 | And as always, we'll check in with former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottley. |
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