The U.S. Wasn’t Prepared for COVID-19

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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We are over four months into the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. still doesn't have the testing capabilities, contact tracing, or political buy-in that many other countries have used to fight this virus. CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks with Dr. Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist and bioethicist who has advised President Obama and now, Vice President Biden’s campaign. They address what the U.S. government got right, what they got wrong, and where we can go from here to turn things around. 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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0:00.0	When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find
0:05.2	more cases.
0:06.2	So I said that my people slow the testing down, please.
0:12.2	Over the weekend, President Trump held a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma against the advice
0:17.4	of many public health officials, including his own.
0:21.0	Now, turn up for the event was smaller than expected, but the Bank of Oklahoma Center
0:25.5	was still pretty crowded on Saturday, especially considering we are still in the middle of a
0:30.2	pandemic.
0:32.0	Temperatures were taken at the door, and masks and hand sanitizer were handed out.
0:37.1	But as we saw, very few people were wearing masks as they stood shoulder to shoulder in
0:42.2	the audience, definitely not physical distancing.
0:45.8	This event also happened at the end of a week where multiple states, including Oklahoma,
0:50.5	saw their highest average of new daily COVID-19 cases.
0:54.4	The highest since this pandemic began.
0:57.7	It's worrisome to a lot of people, including Dr. Zika Manuel.
1:02.0	I've known Zika for a long time.
1:04.0	I describe him as a man who wears many hats.
1:07.1	He's a doctor and oncologist, but also a bioethicist.
1:11.2	He's the vice provost of global initiatives for the University of Pennsylvania, and also
1:15.4	a former White House Health Policy Advisor under former President Barack Obama.
1:20.2	How he's a health advisor on former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign team.
1:24.4	Dr. Emmanuel has been very vocal and critical of President Trump for holding a rally this
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