Ian Lipkin joins Vincent to talk about his experience as a COVID-19 patient, and issues surrounding the disease and SARS-CoV-2 including limiting transmission, antivirals, vaccines, and much more.
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qabadai on May 22nd, 2020 at 14:16 UTC »
This guy isn’t a government official, FYI. He works for a university.
The Center for Infection and Immunity is just a Columbia University research group. Title makes it sound like the CDC though.
salesmunn on May 22nd, 2020 at 14:08 UTC »
First, Fed should have required that all all N95 masks get pulled off shelves, cannot be sold.
After masks are pulled. Fed formally notifies public to wear face coverings and protect themselves. Everyone is told that N95 masks have been prioritized for Healthcare, first responders and Essential workers.
All masks would be purchased by the Fed at MSRP and a dedicated team redistributes them to high-need areas based on infection rate.
I know why they did what they did but there was an easy way to be transparent and also limit hording.
StackinStacks on May 22nd, 2020 at 13:48 UTC »
Not only did this almost certainly result in unnecessary death, but now you have a crazy amount of people who believe masks do more harm then good because of this bullshit.