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America Dissected

The Tweetment: Why Science Matters Now

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Host Abdul El-Sayed dissects the claim of a possible cure for COVID-19, and then we talk to Dr. Alison Galvani, an epidemiologist and infectious diseases modeler at Yale, about how long the current outbreak could last.

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0:00.0

You know that curve we're all working to flatten?

0:11.4

We've got to keep pushing because right now, America's COVID-19 curve is steeper than

0:15.8

Italy's was at the same point.

0:18.7

Governors all over the country have issued stay at home orders, effectively forcing

0:22.0

85 million people into their homes.

0:25.2

The president tweets out his prescription for COVID-19, except he's not a doctor.

0:30.0

Dr. Anthony Fauci is and publicly shuts him down because science matters, and that's

0:35.2

why we're here.

0:36.6

This is America Dissected, and I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsa.

0:47.4

Healthcare providers on the front lines are worried as the number of cases continues to

0:51.1

rise.

0:52.1

COVID begins its assault on hospitals.

0:54.3

Frontline workers are being left without personal protective equipment or PPE, which they

0:58.8

need more than ever right now.

1:00.6

Healthcare workers are voicing their concerns about shortages of some crucial medical supplies.

1:06.8

Extreme shortages in the provision of an availability of personal protective equipment.

1:13.5

The shortages for supplies across the board, but these N95 respirator masks in particular.

1:19.0

Nurses are being asked to actually reuse masks, including surgical masks, which provide

1:25.8

no protection.

1:28.1

I want to put this into perspective for you.

1:30.3

In any other time, if resources were no issue, patients with infectious diseases like COVID-19

1:36.2

would be put into negative pressure rooms that suck air in to make sure that viruses don't

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