Reddit Founder: Stay Home! and Regeneron’s Possible Coronavirus Breakthrough

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Stay home! Reddit and Initialized Capital co-founder Alexis Ohanian bought a billboard in Times Square in the hopes “the crossroads of the world” is empty during the coronavirus scare. He explains why he’s staying home. Regeneron aims to have COVID-19 antibody treatment ready for human treatment by early summer, reports CNBC’s Meg Tirrell. The New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Tom Freidman advises cool heads when understanding the exponential factor of public health and Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy says we may have many more months of social isolation ahead.

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0:00.0	This is Guacapot. I'm the NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our
0:04.9	podcast Tom Friedman of the New York Times on the scale of the COVID-19
0:09.9	lockdown. You can't say mother nature we we're having a recession here could you could
0:14.8	you kind of lay off the viruses for a while.
0:17.0	Infectious disease specialist Dr. Michael Osterholm.
0:20.0	We have to learn how we're going to die with this virus, but also how we're going to live with it.
0:24.0	And the tech entrepreneur who put up a billboard in Times Square, urging people to stay home.
0:30.0	I think the charge for all of us as Americans right now is to decide that the
0:34.7	greater good those with health conditions weakened immune systems you know they are
0:39.0	a priority right now. It's Tuesday March March 17, 2020.
0:43.4	Squack Pod begins right now.
0:45.4	Stand Becky by in three, two, one, fuel, please.
0:49.6	Good morning everybody and welcome to Squack Box here on cnbec. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe
0:54.4	Kerner and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are coming to you
0:56.9	from three separate locations today doing our own form
1:00.6	of social distancing.
1:02.3	I'm not sure when anyone finishes and I finish and it's like five seconds before anyone responds.
1:08.0	I'm like, wow, I said something.
1:10.0	How is this working?
1:11.0	Is this working out?
1:12.0	Is it working out for you guys?
1:13.6	I mean you guys are at home I'm at the studio so I have all of the accoutrements
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