Understanding the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice investigate what we currently know about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with Dr. Irwin Redlener, Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is StarTalk, a cosmic query special edition focusing on disaster preparedness.
0:26.0	Got with me Chuck.
0:28.0	What's in the house?
0:30.0	What was doing this in front of some befuddled guests?
0:32.0	Yes, it's like why are these two reaching in front of me to bump hands?
0:36.0	I've got Dr. Irwin Redliner, who is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness
0:44.0	at Columbia University.
0:46.0	That's what.
0:48.0	He's a medical doctor by training and he cut his teeth with the children health fund.
0:52.0	Exactly with Paul Simon that we started these mobile units that took care of Paul Simon's
0:57.0	kids in New York now expanded across the country with 53 mobile medical pediatric.
1:03.0	That's quite noble.
1:05.0	What a legacy to have that keep going.
1:07.0	Sure, right, right.
1:09.0	I look forward to the day when it's no longer necessary.
1:11.0	I've been looking forward to that for 33 years.
1:15.0	Yes, exactly.
1:17.0	And so disaster preparedness, who would have thought that that's even a thing?
1:21.0	Isn't it just, you know, get your go bag?
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