Ready or Not with John Auerbach

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Abdul breaks down why we were so ill-prepared for COVID-19. Then he talks to John Auerbach, former Associate Director of the CDC and President and CEO of the Trust for America’s Health about their new report on the state of public health emergency preparedness—and what we need to do to fix it. You can find a full transcript of this episode at crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	CDC Director Rachel Wolensky warned of yet another COVID search as hospitalizations
0:13.7	fight among young people, including children in several states.
0:17.5	Meanwhile, several states announced that COVID vaccines are available for all adults, and
0:21.6	promising new data from Pfizer suggests they could be available for kids as young as 12
0:25.7	soon.
0:27.1	The WHO last week released a report detailing its investigation into the emergence of SARS-CoV-2,
0:32.6	but it leaves more questions than it answers.
0:35.4	This is American Dissective.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alseh.
0:47.9	Sometimes I don't think we should call this the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic.
0:53.2	It gives way too much credit to the virus.
0:56.0	This virus was serious.
0:57.0	Don't give me wrong.
0:58.2	But it didn't have to take 550,000 lives in America.
1:02.3	Even Dr. Deborah Birx, White House COVID-19 coordinator under former President Trump, said
1:06.5	so.
1:07.5	This was her and an interview with CNN, Sanjay Gupta.
1:10.4	I look at it this way.
1:11.9	The first time we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original
1:18.8	search.
1:20.3	All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.
1:29.0	Dr. Birx is talking about our fundamental failure to bring this pandemic to heal.
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