Technology. This happens time andy came i t again, whether it be new viral, antivirals, cancers, et cetera. And money came in. The idea wasnt so much on the return. Dr. Anthony fauci is getting an update on potential vaccines for covid19. He is speaking today at an event hosted by the university of Virginia School of medicine. Some zoom webinar housekeeping. Slides at the end of this program provide a resource list, information about continuing education credit for clinicians and a link to our centers website where youll find our speakers biography. The slides also give a link to Medical Center hours youtube channel. Todays program is being recorded and closed captioned and will be posted to youtube within days. Today well handle questions using zooms online q a function. Write your questions there, brief and to the point, please, and well draw from them for our speakers consideration after his presentation. This Medical Center hour joins with Medical Center grand rounds for the lectur
You are watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Fauci spoke anthony about the coronavirus pandemic as cases rise across the u. S. And europe, and the vaccines announced by pfizer and moderna. The University School of university of Virginia School of medicine hosted this hourlong event. Introduce dr. Anthony fauci is dr. David wilkes, dean of the uva school of medicine. To begin, i like to extend thanks for the invitation to host dr. Fauci. Mentioned, dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of infectious diseases. Research onsive infectious and immune diseases. Dr. Fauci has made many seminal doneibutions and incredible research. Hes one of the worlds most bio scientists. He has the u. S. Medal of freedom ordered by president george w. Bush. Dr. Fauci is loud it for his epidemic infectious disease. Two local pandemics bookend his career. In the 1990s, it was hiv aids and now covid19
Mehmet oz hes the cardiothoracic surgeon and host of the dr oz show he joins us from new jersey. Or i doctor the statistics are amazing and even the president said its gone up for goes down whats go on what do you make of this well i think we didnt take the virus as seriously as we should have and theres evidence for that ill give you europe which had these acts same early insult that we suffered here in the northeast and im in my basement ive been taping my show here since march because my show is in china and we all saw how bad it was there on the off chance may come here we built this but i never thought id be sitting here 5 months later taping shows with you and the reality is once we figured out at least in this part of the country what a catastrophe this virus could be if you can get ahead of it we actually watch slowly as a company as a country rather reopened and with this people say you know what ive been locked up in my studio my home here in florida or texas or arizona or wh
March because my show is in china and we all saw how bad it was there on the off chance may come here we built this but i never thought id be sitting here 5 months later taping shows with you and the reality is once we figured out at least in this part of the country what a catastrophe this virus could be if you can get ahead of it we actually watch slowly as a company as a country rather reopened and with this people say you know what ive been locked up in my studio my home here in florida or texas or arizona or wherever for months and nothings happening im going to go out and now theyve opened up a bar or i can go hang out my friends that are at a rave party ill start doing that whereas in europe the population said my goodness we barely got through that that was close now that were open because they open like we opened were not going to do foolish things were not going to create these mass spreader events where plus of people get infected all at once from one person who should be at
And the reality is once we figured out at least in this part of the country what a catastrophe this virus could be if you didnt get ahead of it we actually watched slowly as a company as a country rather reopened and with this people say you know what ive been locked up in my studio my home here in florida or texas or arizona or wherever for months and nothings happening im going to go out and now theyve opened up a bar or i can go hang out with my friends that are at a rave party ill start doing that whereas in europe the population said my goodness we barely got through that that was close now there were open because they open that we opened were not going to do foolish things were not going to create these mass spreader events where blossom people get infected all at once from one person who should be at the party and for that reason theyve got 10 percent of the pokes infected that we have now theres lots of good news about whats going on with over 1000 on the science front well get