york city health care workers vaccinated, which they announced that they should get weekly tested and vaccinated. but will this be enough to correct the most known for his work with the team responsible for match mapping the genome. he was awarded by general the george bush, he received a price from brooke obama, and he s become the director of the national institutes of health and is responsible for the biomedical health research. he s been the head of this agency during the entire pandemic and doing the spread of the pandemic, they have the most updated information on vaccines and breakthrough infections. he joins me now. doctor collins, is a great pleasure to have you on the program. i thought maybe we d start with this question on bandits. it s a policy question so
disheartening that still we have some 85 million americans who are resistant to taking advantage to this gift. doctor collins, we re out of time but i would love to have you back, there s a lot more that i would like to talk about, including some of the controversy around the wuhan virology lab that s been in the news. so if you could come back that will be great. doctor collins, thank. you be glad to. thanks chris. fantastic. that is all for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts now. tart now.
you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. i totally resent that. if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you. dr. collins, what is your response to what happened there? well, it s very unfortunate to have something that i think couresolved in understanding the term gain of function. this has turned into political theatrics. we have to many more important things to spend our time on now. it s a diagnosis of how polarized everything has become. that even the face of this terrible pandemic, that is taken more than 600,000 lives in this country, this kind of time is being wasted on this kind of posturing. i want to be clear, you do stand by what dr. fauci said in response to senator paul at this hearing, is that correct?
wuhan, china. when did we know about it? did we know about this? did we help finance a bio weapon? i know leftist in the media types, it s a conspiracy theory, you do it all the time, we ve heard it a thousand times. i knew conspiracy theories, all of my theories are now coming true. we need new ones but we are not the only ones asking this question. i want you to watch, this is admiral on the coronavirus task force in the trump administration, a very serious person who s asking the same question. did we finance a bio weapon from china? check this out. it s not i breach outrageous to hypothesize the virus could have been part of a bio weapons program and leaked out accidentally. that seems to be discounted by doctor collins and others. i think the most likely explanation is that it was gain of function and leaked out.
wuhan, china. when did we know about it? did we know about this? did we help finance a bio weapon? i know leftist in the media types, it s a conspiracy theory, you do it all the time, we ve heard it a thousand times. i knew conspiracy theories, all of my theories are now coming true. we need new ones but we are not the only ones asking this question. i want you to watch, this is admiral on the coronavirus task force in the trump administration, a very serious person who s asking the same question. did we finance a bio weapon from china? check this out. it s not i breach outrageous to hypothesize the virus could have been part of a bio weapons program and leaked out accidentally. that seems to be discounted by doctor collins and others. i think the most likely explanation is that it was gain of function and leaked out.