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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Dr. Sam Fink

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with primary care physician, Dr. Sam Fink to discuss his treatment of patients with coronavirus.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another special late night hour of Cuomo Prime Time. Every single state in

0:10.4

the nation now has coronavirus cases. West Virginia was the last to report Tuesday. Now we're all in.

0:18.8

Why? Look, it was always going to go this way. All right? What to be worried about is how we

0:24.4

handle what is to come and how we can reduce it before it hits us and overwhelms. Now the numbers,

0:32.6

you know what, now's a good time. Vaughn put up that chart for a second. You do me a favor. We know

0:36.5

we haven't been testing, okay? This chart is making its way all over the Internet. Everybody's sending

0:43.2

it to me with OMG's attached to it. But here's my point. It suggests a false premise. January 21st,

0:51.7

February 7th. Look at the dates. They weren't testing. They weren't testing. And we know that the

0:58.6

numbers are going up. It's spreading in the communities. That spike is like, you know, freaky. I agree

1:04.4

with you. It's freaky, but it's out of context. Yes, more and more cases. There are many more cases

1:09.6

than they're telling us. Okay? It's not a secret. I'm not saying they're hiding information. We're

1:15.0

just not testing. We're ignorant on this. Now, here's the real problem. The real problem is not the

1:21.7

growth rate of cases that we're handling. If you do what you're supposed to do, if I do what I'm

1:26.7

supposed to do, by staying away from each other, that's why it's so important. Look at Italy. Look at

1:32.0

the messages they're sending us from Italy about what they wish they had done weeks ago. And then

1:37.5

if you need more evidence than that, I don't know how to help you. Capacity is going to be the issue.

1:41.7

We're already at high capacity in hospitals all over the nation. So you know you won't be able to

1:48.8

handle what's coming. What are we supposed to do? Let's talk to a doctor who's going to be on

1:54.8

the front line. California, internist, doctor, Sam Fink. I mean, Doc, I got to tell you, you know,

2:01.5

this is for me the only frustrating part. We knew this would happen. We knew it would come. We

2:07.4

knew it would spread in community. We knew that the cases were not being represented fairly because

2:12.5

there wasn't enough testing, but they know they don't have capacity. And they know they won't have

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