[dr. fauci] when the history of this outbreak is written, the real heroes and heroines of this are gonna be our healthcare providers. they hung in there, i mean, they got exhausted. many of them got infected, several of them died. so, they are really the heroes and the heroines of this outbreak. [dr. smith] the reason we kept going to work every day was because if i didn t go to work, then someone else had to go to work. and so, we needed to be there for each other. [tim] what you saw in new york at seven o clock every night, many people would start making noise. they would either clap, or they would bang pots as a way of thanking the people that couldn t stay home. the people that were out there saving us. that s so nice. [dr. smith] people in this city went out of their way to be there for everyone else. we need to look at the fact that somehow, this plague brought out some of the best in all of us, and try to capture that and bring that forward
the chinese put on a public database the sequence of the virus. i mobilized my team and said, we can t assume that this is gonna be well controlled. we ve gotta start making a vaccine right now. the first case of china s new and deadly coronavirus has been reported here in the us. [monique] health officials say the man traveled from wuhan, china to sea-tac airport last week, on his way back to snohomish county. now it was official. january 21st, 2020. covid was in the united states at that point, there was no denying it. [dr. fauci] what was likely going on is that that first case was spreading around, and many of the people were without symptoms, but spreading it to others. and that s how an outbreak that has this characteristic starts. [joe] have you been briefed -by the cdc? -i have. [joe] are you worried about a pandemic at this point? no, we re not at all. and we re, we have it totally under control. it s one person coming in from china. and we have it under control, it s gonna
we paid dearly for it, we never got ahead on testing. [juliette] the pandemic moves from china to asia to italy, and we re just sitting here thinking we re going to be safe? and so far, we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the united states. nobody. and it doesn t mean we won t, and we are totally prepared. we were not prepared for a 100-year historic outbreak. i had always said there will be a level, hopefully not in any of our lifetime, of such an overwhelmingly transmissible and serious virus, respiratory outbreak that even the best of preparedness is not gonna be able to contain it adequately. it s almost as if you build a dam for a flood, and then you get a tsunami.
the guy running for re-election impeached, what else could happen? and then, of course, comes the pandemic. scientists in china are trying to determine if if a new virus strain is responsible for an pneumonia outbreak in the city of wuhan. [dr. fauci] i was lecturing for years, saying, every time a new president comes in, we ve gotta be careful that there will be an infectious disease outbreak. we don t know of its severity. it could be a pandemic that s devastating, or it could be a curiosity. [lawrence] public health officials have been haunted by the 1918 flu. it was a devastating disease. it s often said between 50 and a hundred million people died. we always knew new pandemics would appear. and to have a virus that we haven t ever seen before, that we have no vaccine for, that we have no treatments for, it could overwhelm our systems. [linzi] the outbreak in wuhan is linked to a large food market, which suggests that the virus may have been passed from animals to people. before
what else could happen? and then, of course, comes the pandemic. scientists in china are trying to determine if if a new virus strain is responsible for an pneumonia outbreak in the city of wuhan. [dr. fauci] i was lecturing for years, saying, every time a new president comes in, we ve gotta be careful that there will be an infectious disease outbreak. we don t know of its severity. it could be a pandemic that s devastating, or it could be a curiosity. [lawrence] public health officials have been haunted by the 1918 flu. it was a devastating disease. it s often said between 50 and a hundred million people died. we always knew new pandemics would appear. and to have a virus that we haven t ever seen before, that we have no vaccine for, that we have no treatments for, it could overwhelm our systems. [linzi] the outbreak in wuhan is linked to a large food market, which suggests that the virus may have been passed from animals to people. before the first case even came to the united stat