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Chasing Life

The President-Elect's Pandemic Plan

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Even before the presidential election was called for the former vice president, Joe Biden promised to take the country’s pandemic response in a dramatically different direction. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the president-elect's plan, as well as promising recent vaccine news from Pfizer.  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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Even before the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, the former Vice President

0:06.7

promised to take the country's pandemic response in a dramatically different direction.

0:11.3

We want everyone, everyone to know on day one, we're going to put our plan to control

0:17.3

this virus into action.

0:19.6

We can't save any of the lives lost, but we can save a lot of lives in the months ahead.

0:27.4

This President-elect Biden on Friday night, the coronavirus was also a part of his official

0:32.4

victory speech on Saturday.

0:35.6

Our work begins with getting COVID under control.

0:39.2

We cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life's most precious moments,

0:45.6

hugging our grandchildren, our children, our birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the

0:50.0

moments that matter most to us until we get it under control.

0:54.5

So today I'm going to break down the President-elect's plans for his COVID-19 task force and

1:00.0

also explain a possible breakthrough in the important race for a vaccine.

1:05.2

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

1:09.3

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:19.0

During the election, we spent a lot of time studying maps, red states and blue states

1:24.0

and swing states that exposed our country's divisions.

1:27.6

But when it comes to this pandemic, we are tragically united.

1:32.9

Not a single state is showing a reduction in infection rates.

1:37.6

Here's CNN anchor, John King.

1:39.8

It's everywhere.

1:40.8

You see, if no states, none of the 50 states heading in the right direction, this chart

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