HOW WILL PANDEMICS CHANGE AMERICA?

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Covid-21?- A new movie under development imagines what the world will be like when the next pandemic hits- after SARS, HIV, Zika, and now the corona virus pandemic, why is it completely predictable that new diseases are emerging? And could the next one be much more deadly?

And Dr. Howard Koh, former head of HHS under Obama who oversaw the H1N1 vaccination program phones in- could a Biden presidency save us by fighting Covid with a unified response?

Plus... What will the long-lasting consequences of Covid infection be?.. Why are Covid sufferers so often short on vitamin D?.. Going to work sick because you need the money... Why can Europe send their kids back to school safely and we can't?..

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman Program.
0:15.0	And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy,
0:21.0	truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman
0:26.2	here with you. COVID-21, lethal virus.
0:32.1	Now I hear you going, COVID-21, I thought it was COVID-19. Well it is COVID-19. It's actually
0:38.4	SARS-COV-2, that's the name of the virus, COVID-19 is the name of the disease it produces.
0:47.7	But this was in yesterday's Financial Times.
0:50.9	I find it absolutely fascinating, I've been reading the financial times for years and
0:54.6	years and they sometimes get into this stuff in depth and what they're pointing out
0:59.2	is that SARS and MERS and COVID, they're all coronaviruses.
1:08.0	They all jumped from bats into a middle species and then into humans.
1:14.4	They are all the result of humans expanding our footprint
1:18.9	around the world into the wilderness,
1:22.3	where the estimated 10,000 viruses that have not been identified
1:27.0	that might be human pathogens live and in this article it's by Crow, it's in the Financial Times,
1:33.7	F.T.com, and it's titled, the next virus pandemic is not far away.
1:39.2	COVID-21, lethal virus is the name of a TV movie that's in post-production right now.
1:44.6	It hypothesizes that a virus that is as contagious as COVID, but as deadly as SARS, you'll recall SARS killed about half the people who got it.
1:59.3	COVID is killing about 4% of the people who get it.
2:03.0	So, you know, a virus that is as lethal as SARS, but as, and SARS was not that contagious.
2:09.0	It was highly contagious compared to a lot of things.
2:12.5	But it was more contagious actually by contact.
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