parade tomorrow for this year s nba champions. the boston celtics. we give our heros parades. and the early days of space travel, we gave astronauts parades. but then we shot so many astronauts into space and to the moon, we stopped giving them parades. we took space travel for granted. it was no longer the stuff of heroism. our most important heros have always been taken for granted. there is no higher calling. than saving lives. some of you might know what it feels like. but most of us don t. most of us have never and will never save a life. not one. we won t drag a wounded soldier off a battlefield. we won t drive a dying person to an emergency room just in time. we won t treat patients in hospitals who would die. not every doctor and nurse saves lives. some areas of medicine do not involve life and death. some doctors occasionally save lives and then, there is dr. anthony fauci. he has had the experience as an attending physician of saving the life of a patient to his car
him on behalf of all of us. we will. thanks alicia. thank you. well, there will be a parade tomorrow for this year s nba champions, the boston celtics. we give our heros parades. and the early days of space travel, we gave astronauts parades. but then we shot so many astronauts into space and even to the moon we stopped giving them parades. we took space travel for granted. it was no longer the stuff of heroism. our most important heros have always been taken for granted. i am talking about the most important work a human being can do. they save lives. there is no higher calling than saving lives. some of you might know what it feels like but most of us don t. most of us have never and will never save a life. not one. we won t drag a wounded soldier off a battlefield. drag a dying person to an emergency room just in time. we won t pull a drowning child out of the water and we won t treat patients in hospitals who would die without our medical expertise. not every doctor a
not trust western medicine because it is made from dna from space aliens. very mainstream stuff. you should see what they had to say about covid. in addition to that, one of the ways in which doctor ladapo rose to providence is a staking his credibility but he was in fact a frontline doctor with experience treating covid patients. he published two things pub publishing papers on working with covid cases at ucla. the only issue with that is that rachael s team obtained evidence that called those claims into question. multiple people who worked at ucla hospital at the same time as doctor ladapo say that he misled the public about his experience creating covid patients. a member of the team at ucla early in the pandemic told us that doctor ladapo was not part of that came. we also obtained scheduling documents from the time that doctor ladapo was working at ucla, and those documents did not show dr. ladapo scheduled to take care of covid patients. at the
nasal swab, put it down and it gives you the bands 15 minutes later. the question of am i infectious right now, if you re going to go see some friends, that s a useful thing to answer, and it seems like if we were doing that, you know, at scale, we could stamp out a lot of outbreaks, certainly prevent like super spreader events. that s exactly right. in fact, we published earlier in 2020, so over a year ago now we started publishing papers that showed exactly that. if you can have enough people find out they re infectious and be able to self-quarantine, it doesn t need to be near perfect, but just enough people, you can actually sever transmission chains and stop outbreaks from growing and not having to lock down schools, lock down businesses. we could have truly prevented the massive outbreaks we saw this past fall and winter, and we could have prevented major lockdowns and potentially saved
some friends. that is a useful thing to answer. and it seems like if we were doing that at scale, we could stamp out a lot of outbreaks, certainly prevent superspreader events. that s exactly right. in fact, we published earlier in 2020, we started publishing papers that show exactly that. that if you can have enough people, finding out that they are infectious, and be able to self quarantine, it doesn t need to be near perfect, but just enough people, then you can actually sever transmission chances and stop outbreaks from growing. and not having to lock down schools, lockdown schools or businesses. we could have truly prevented the massive outbreaks that we saw this past fall and winter. and we could have prevented major lockdowns, and ideally save hundreds of thousands of lives, potentially. the netherlands is a place where they are making these fairly available. i have seen people taking