ICYMI - Anthony Fauci on the State of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.6 | BAM! |
| 0:03.6 | Dr. Fauci, welcome back to the Daily Social Distance Show. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you very nice to be with you. |
| 0:11.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:13.2 | Before I ask you about us, I'm going to try as we do an African culture and ask you |
| 0:18.5 | about you. |
| 0:19.8 | I know that you had surgery on your vocal cords, something I'm very sensitive to because |
| 0:24.0 | I too had polyps and I had to get them surgically removed. |
| 0:27.2 | How are you and how is your voice? |
| 0:29.6 | I'm actually fine, Trevor. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you for asking. |
| 0:32.0 | I should have had this done literally months ago. |
| 0:36.0 | I had kind of strained my voice. |
| 0:39.0 | I had actually enough a respiratory infection and had a little tracheitis. |
| 0:43.4 | Usually you rest and let it go away, but that's when things started to explode with COVID-19 |
| 0:49.4 | and I was literally constantly and I say not hyperbole, you know, 17, 18. |
| 0:54.5 | I was a day talking to the point where I just strained it and strained it and strained |
| 0:59.6 | it and then I realized my voice was gravely and I could not get it back to normal. |
| 1:04.0 | But the surgery was very successful. |
| 1:06.3 | They removed the benign polyp and now this is my regular voice. |
| 1:10.2 | So I joke around and instead of sounding like Vito Corleone from the Godfather, I sound |
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