Morning Joe 3/2/21
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Washington's National Institutes of Health, America's top virus control official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, |
| 0:07.6 | says the coronavirus is spreading, and America may need to take drastic actions. |
| 0:13.6 | What are we dealing with with this coronavirus COVID-19? |
| 0:18.3 | We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that has now reached |
| 0:23.3 | outbreak proportions and likely pandemic proportions. If we get a major outbreak of this coronavirus |
| 0:30.2 | in this country, that would mean perhaps closing schools temporarily, getting people to do |
| 0:35.5 | more teleworking, canceling events where there is a lot of |
| 0:40.8 | crowds in confined places, canceling unnecessary travels so that you're not on an airplane for |
| 0:48.1 | five hours with a bunch of people who might be infected. |
| 0:51.5 | That would be a huge step. |
| 0:53.6 | It would have enormous economic, societal, psychological, implications. |
| 0:58.8 | It would, but it would be temporary, but it would be necessary. |
| 1:03.5 | Wow, a fascinating time capsule from one year ago today, guys, Dr. Anthony Fauci, |
| 1:10.5 | warning the nation what it was up against and what a year it has been, Willie. |
| 1:16.3 | He predicted it to a T. |
| 1:18.3 | And things got worse because of how badly things were run trying to counter the pandemic. |
| 1:24.0 | It's amazing, isn't it, to listen to that? |
| 1:25.6 | That was one year ago today. |
| 1:26.9 | And then you look down at the lower right side of your screen and see 516,000 Americans more than that |
| 1:33.2 | have died because of this. And all the things Dr. Fauci said there was interesting, Richard |
| 1:37.6 | had to introduce them, who Dr. Fauci was a year ago. Now he's become such a part of the furniture |
| 1:43.5 | of our lives every day. But he's |
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