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Full NIH Director Interview: ‘All Americans Need To Recognize, It’s Up To Us’ | Meet The Press
There are way too many arrogant, ignorant people in America. Perhaps when Joe Biden said 10-15% of people in America are bad people, he really meant the people who don’t give a hoot about wearing mask. 🙂
I work at a retirement community and we were told we would be getting tested every month I had my first test over a month ago I NEVER received my results! So now it’s been over a month from that first test I asked the employee who gave me the first test “it’s been a month when is my next test” she replied “probably” next week”. I mentioned not receiving my results No response.
These tests I was told in a letter from the company were mandatory if I refuse I couldn’t work ( I want to be tested!) but someone really has dropped the ball. I kind of have the impression that my company is mandated that tests are made and it’s like the company is going along but haphazardly just to satisfy the state rules for retirement homes. I was also kind of surprised the person that tested me is a co-worker not a nurse she works in the health and wellness department along with other young women (some of them are still teens). So I guess just anyone can do the testing I thought it would at least be our resident nurse or someone from the state that’s qualified. The testing that Dr. Collins is talking about (with results in an hour) should be nation wide especially in retirement communities, 700-800 nursing homes when there are THOUSANDS of nursing home throughout the country…just NOW been approved! No wonder we’re in the shape we’re in.
That compounded with “No Unity” in how to do anything coronavirus related to stop the spread. Our White House Administration is to blame for this lack of Unity period.
If we had used the Defense Production act to make PPE, vaccines , swabs, reagents, whatever was needed. Providing jobs for those with anti-bodies. We would have dealt with it but now we flounder with a madman at the helm. Thousands and thousands of people are dying unnecessarily! We should produce All necessary equipment and therapeutics, and vaccines. It is a national security issue. We need a national coordinated response. The “ rich and powerful “ have gone mad! Their saying “ Fauci is whatever “ and we’ll collect all the covid data now , approach is anything but subtle.America, I know you’re in there, come out. We’ve had enough!
Texas and Florida had a head start as they had seen what happened in New York. If Texas and Florida had tested, traced, and enforced social distancing they would have had a good outcome in a shorter time. The irony is the “ money people “ I.e. the economy first don’t support the effective measures that would return people to work faster. Watch Houston and the rest of Harris county ( Texas). Parts of Texas and Florida are going to be in serious trouble. Slowing testing will make it worse. Trump has plans to defund 13 testing sites, including 7 in Texas and has gone to court to destroy health insurance. He’s tested repeatedly as are those around him. Trump doesn’t “kid” when he said he wants to slow down testing. He is so foolish that he thinks not testing is the answer.
Come on YALL serve as guinea pigs.
This show has been nothing but a trump bashing for the past 4 years.
WAKE UP!! NEW YORK MURDERD OVER 32.000 PPL IN NAME OF COVID19!! TO CREATE A MESS WILL NEVER FORGET!
I don’t believe you .I hope one day you will be prosecuted for your collective crimes
The country really should learn from the tragedy of New York and New Jersey and how they where able to overcome it.
Finally.. When will USA understand the importance of wearing a mask in public spaces?Wake up USA.
Your nefarious agenda is now revealed . You should take the vaccine first
Stay the Blazes home!! It worked here,,,,we’re covid free now….I still like home…..the only time I get grief is when I go out.
100k will get the virus by simply being uninformed of their nefarious agenda
of these Luciferian
Procecute these Luciferian for their neferious agenda
You love the African and Latinos blood don’t you you’ve been exposed
This man is a fraud and has an agenda to harm Americans . the truth about the virus is out there they created it to harm us. You heard him mention Alien right . The alien will tell the truth before he would
The only reason the US is doing so poorly in the fight against Covid-19 is President Trump is a product of our intelligent imaginations as Americans that the rest of the world nations don’t have as their President. He is the problem and all his enablers “Republican” supporters, they all ought to be re-evaluated and thrown all where they belong, in a gray tall house resembling a hotel but with barred windows too small for any of them to escape.
You will be exposed for lying to the American people with a smile in your face
I got tested for Covid-19 and got my results in under 20 minutes. Why the Government response must take 3 weeks when everyone else can do it in 20 minutes?
GOOD ON YOU BUDDY VERY POLITICIAL
MORE LIES FROM THE FOX IN THE HEN HOUSE
BRAVO!
BRAVO!
It is up to each individual! Your life belongs to you! Cherish it!
The FBI had an open investigation into Clinton Foundation. Why did Comey drop this? Who was the FBI director during the Haiti crises? How many kids disappeared? How much money sent to Clinton Foundation under disguise of Haiti relief went to Haiti? What countries donated big money to Clinton Foundation and why? How much was owed by accepting? When she lost how would this be repaid? What did Obama do with cash just prior to leaving office?
Repayment to those who donated for favors/access? Dig!!!!
Heroes have always worn face masks!
I feel like if we just turn off the TV the virus doesn’t exist
😂
It’s surreal watching this happen to America. They are lead currently by one of the most stupid people on the planet.
Trump can either encourage all Americans to wear a mask or face the consequence of his lack of leadership on Nov 3, 2020. lives are lost daily. Thank you Dr!
If kids are running around the classroom, the teacher gets the BLAME…..
Americans are running around in different directions – WHO’s to BLAME???
Regarding the tests: if one is mindful enough to get a Covid test, one should also be mindful enough to self-isolate until their results come back.
This guy doesn’t seem to realize that 140,000 Americans are already dead.
I am sick to death of hearing people say that mask wearing is attached to which political party you support. The only ones making mask wearing political are Republicans and Trump supporters. I lean Democrat, but if there were a Democrat in the White house denouncing mask wearing during this kind of a pandemic, I’d still be wearing a mask and advocating for Americans to vote for a smarter President. This isn’t about political leanings for me, this is about rational and irrational, so please don’t lump me into a category where my actions and beliefs are opposite yet equal to the actions and beliefs of the brainwashed Trump supporters on the right. Can I get an Amen?
All have been duped…….. https://youtu.be/zXUtsft0Z74
we can’t tell the truth from the lies, this happens when people get lied to by the media so often.
I’m ashamed to be an american where people are so lamebrained they don’t know to put on a mask. Do you wear a condom? Do you wallow in pig mud? Do you eat dirt? Wear a freaking mask. The world is laughing at us if for no other reason. But maybe you can consider the cancer patients you ran a 5k for breast cancer for. Or your grandparents, or kids, or anyone besides yourselves? Can you think about your fellow Americans? Totally embarrassed. My family has been here since the 1730s and I am just humiliated and want to leave yesterday. With that said, I am proud of the first line people in hospitals and medical care facilities including ambulance and ems workers, the poor environmental services folks who have to clean this mess up. Thank you to front line people who are keeping things running. And boo to the partiers who could not care less about fellow americans. STOP BEING SO SELFISH. NO ONE cares who you vote for. I don’t. Stop spreading cooties you dirty pigs. And boo to the anti-semitic drawing of Dr Fauci. You know Drs don’t have to help you after you spread the disease. They don’t have to risk their and their family’s lives.
I just want to know why the “president” is allowed unlimited covid tests while telling you you don’t need to wear a mask. Do the people who don’t want to wear masks understand the cognitive dissonance in this?
Also, there was no COVID testing hold up UNTIL el presidente of the USA repetitively said there was too much testing going on (a false narrative). Hmmmmmm 😏🤫🤔🤭….
Regarding the Russian hacking… I’ve heard it surmised that they are attempting to gather data, however they are more famous for double speak and insertion of false information or disinformation, so maybe check the data against old copies that are backed up. Also, make sure the data is encrypted, and sent offsite for storage in locked containers like hospitals do.
Na na na you cant catch me na na na tag your it. That guy is out at recess
It’s up to us to expose the evil this COVID1984 has been unleashed on the world. MSM IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. THE BIGGEST CHEERLEADERS OF BURNING DOWN THE WORLD.
America is in self-destruct mode!!!
Americans rise to the occassion. Sooooo many people have said that since this started.And still too many keep getting sick, too many die. Just ignore president. Do not give him power of the micirophone, do not play his game. Media is as guilty as he is. All power shoud be given to science through media.
LMAO.
Great Questioning 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Everyone hide from the nonexistent virus and be sure to wear your face diapers.
There will, obviously, be 30%-40% of Americans who refuse to follow medical experts or experts of any kind. They want to believe what they want to believe, and no evidence, no proof based on science, no facts, well-researched information will change their minds.
The Plague Pandemic occurred in the year 1347 and subsided in 1352. It lasted 5 years and
killed 25 million people in the known world before it ” WENT AWAY “.
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic lasted 3 years, infected 500 million people and
killed 50 million people worldwide. The U. S. suffered 675,000 of those deaths
before it ” WENT AWAY “.
As of today there are nearly 14 million CONFIRMED COVID19 cases worldwide.
The U. S. has topped more than 3.5 million CONFIRMED COVID19 cases [ approximately 1/4TH of confirmed cases worldwide ].
Closing in on 600,000 CONFIRMED deaths worldwide
Closing in on 145,000 CONFIRMED deaths suffered here in the U. S.
History shows this pandemic could last years before a vaccine is developed [ if ever ].
AND WE’RE ONLY 5 MONTHS INTO THIS THING WITH A SHORT-FINGERED MENTALLY STUNTED ORANGE MUSHROOM AT THE HELM.
VOTE NOV. 3 OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE 8-[
‘We need Latinos, African-Americans to participate in this trial. Come on y’all’ he says with a lil giggle 🤦🏾♂️
FDA’s Dr. Hahn: “We’re in a much better place now than March and April, when we had sporadic forest fires burning we struggled mightily trying to contain. Now, we got us a raging inferno burning out of control, consuming the whole nation!” Toxic Trump administration _DOUBLED_ daily national COVID-19 case rate of earlier peak, from 30,000 to over 60,000 daily currently for seven-day average. Plus, outbreaks confined to just a few states previously have now exploded, with most states suffering rising infections, and only a few experiencing any decline.
Uneducated Secretary Betsy Devolution: “It’s devastating to children that we’re sending them back to schools at the peak nationally of contagion _AND_ spread during a deadly global pandemic to bring the COVID-19 home to their siblings, parents, and grandparents to die! Nothing like the child knowing they were the disease carrier that murdered their own family members whom they mourn and no longer have around to love and to raise them! Also, very traumatic for children knowing they were the disease carrier who murdered their fellow classmate friends and teachers! That’s why we’re forcing children back to school!”
Toxic Trump: A clear and present danger to himself and others. U.S. #1 national security threat sits in the Oval.
Republicans: Like to play dumb, demonstrating just how really, REALLY dumb they are. Complicity renders them likewise a clear and present danger to themselves, others, the nation. Decades of programming from right-wing media, demagogues, plutocrats, religious grifters, and seedy politicians created a mindless Republican cult, too hyper-partisan to place national interest over ignorant tribalism. GOP chained themselves to the rabid, ravenous beast consuming them, which they created, nourished, and exploited.
Democrats, Independents, others: WTF?!?
Putin’s little puppet-pie Toxic Trump sabotaged America and Americans royally by not taking leadership; not preparing; refusing to institute a rational national pandemic response; undermining his own administration’s critical health preventative measures like face masks and social distancing; and ignoring CDC guidelines and dire warnings from experts in a push to reopen the economy before safe. Republican cult and many Republican leaders followed along like sheep to be fleeced and slaughtered. Now, because we still lack the necessary testing capabilities, and we don’t have the manpower and PPE in place even to handle much lesser volumes yet for contact tracing and surveillance testing, and we still don’t have a program for isolating people properly–America must go back to the start (do not pass GO, do not collect $200, go directly to jail) and undergo the whole arduous, costly burden of shutdowns again until we can get the numbers reduced enough to be able to make contact tracing feasible and practical.
Republicans have long destructively and divisively falsely demonized Democrats as destroying America…all the while continually acting as a wrecking ball on the nation!
The single, MOST important thing we can do for COVID-19 is to isolate the President.
We all knew about Trump’s Hitleresque impulses, but who ever even imagined he’d be reviving eugenics, to use against his own supporters?
*TRUM_PLANNED_EMIC!*
Given plenty of advance warnings about COVID-19, Toxic Trump chose not to heed the sound advice provided. We could have been Taiwan, with a comparative 100 deaths in the U.S.; or South Korea, with a comparative 1500 deaths here, after adjusted for population size. Taiwan had just seven deaths; South Korea less than 300. We got over 135,000 deaths already, with the count still rapidly rising, while we remain, still, firmly mired in the first wave of the disease. Even worse, after six months, we STILL lack the adequate testing and rational national response to contain the disease.
Toast burns.
Paper burns.
America burns…
Under President Nero, who sets fires and extinguishes lives.
Dr.Francis Collins should wear THE MASK all the time even when he is sleeping
You’ve heard of stone-cold killers, of course, but is seems Toxic Trump’s rally at Mt. Rushmore now makes him a stoned Covid killer?!? “Let’s celebrate the 4th-coming of Covid deaths to my supporters and fellow Americans!”
Toxic Trump not careful, he’s going to get himself Coronavated… _before_ November!
Wouldn’t you know it?
Trump dies from COVID!
Or I’m no poet.
Lucky for Toxic Trump, Junior at least knows enough to keep the girlfriends far away!
The answer to Question is the president. Im Republicans. By all the lies…
This is a great interview although Chuck tried to make it political.
Yea….not taking a vaccine that was created at “warp speed”
Watch Trump fire this guy so he can put someone into fire Fauci.
News: we celebrate a man who fought for rights and justice.
News: now stay home. Don’t follow freedom to practice religion, don’t gather in groups, you’re guilty of having covid, and put this muzzle on. Remember: trust the science
Trump did this hurrhurr
Gov. Cuomo sent 6,300 COVID-19 patients to nursing homes during pandemic
This is a controlled comments section
HEY NBC. Give up this making Russia the hacker story. You’ve already blown it once. Stop doubling down, it is CHINA. The director of the FBI said so, and so did the Attorney General. They both know better than Chuck Todd!!
What a wonderful affable man Dr Collins appears to be. He did a great job of being non partisan and keeping a positive outlook in the middle of what is clearly a $hit Storm. We can always use public servants like this. Kudos to you for handling Chuck Todd as well as you did, and leaving his bait untouched Dr Collins.
His voice reminds me of yoda
Risk communication tactics need to be used ahead of time so people will be open to getting vaccinated.
Overwhelming of conv-19 in the U.S. telling people’s stop protecting and wear their masks. I have enough of watching BLM everyday sick of it.
Meet The Press has a new sponsor.
It’s a girdle manufacture called “Press The Meat”.
No more tests for the Trump White House until the country gets rapid testing for everyone.
America is doing badly is becos you have a Lunatic Leader plus hardcore Idiots wants freedom.
I can’t believe Dr. Collins suggested that African American get in line to be tested for the vaccine, stating that African Americans are at a greater risk. African Americans are not at greater risk because they are African American that was an ignorant statement by the doctor. People at greater risk are those who are in employed in positions with high public contact such as anyone working in a hospital, grocery store, driving a bus etc. and people with lower immune systems those in poor health and/or with underlying conditions. Although there are African Americans that fall into these categories, pretty much people of ALL races fall into these categories. Being African American ALONE does NOT place a person at a greater risk for COVID19 AND there is no reason to single out African Americans as guinea pigs for Vaccine testing.
Trump should go under scrutiny being politicized wearing face mask 😷
Sorry America, I don’t see you guys getting this under control anytime soon. Freedom isn’t free 🙂
This report is using WHO data and statistics for Covid – 19.
More than any other preventive measure to combat this virus it seems mask wearing is always at the top. I see people wearing masks everywhere, yet cases go up. Testing increases, cases go up. Is it that perhaps we will all eventually contract this virus which might then mutate into something else?
It’s hard not to be divisive when republicans are so stuck on stupid.
Fauci, the man who would not initiate tests using HCQ or any of the inhaled steroids. The man who pushed Remdesivir on us even though it was less effective than HCQ. The man who said “don’t wear a mask” then said “wear a mask”. He was the “expert” but did he have our best interests in mind?
He might be wearing a mask….but he’s not wearing it properly. If he did, it might not look like it’s ripping his ears off.
Now that the “cases” of joblessness, homelessness and evictions have surpassed those “cases” of covid19, it is definitely time to put and end to this hoax!
Wasn’t it minimized by the experts to be like the flu yet should have recognized early on after the DNA sequencing was released that it was a deadly pathogen? Why did they turn a blind eye?
Chuck asks the director about agents orange comments and the director doesn’t want to get political. Then don’t. It is not political. The question is about a man that should be leading our country and is the reason we are in this state no mater what party he belongs to. Chuck needs to ask about the VP actions. He is the head of the committee. Agent orange is not alone at leading this nightmare.
Bravo Dr. Collins!! 👏👏👏👏
He looks just like the Mexican president with that mask on
Most Americans aren’t 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Test delay is too long!!!!!!!😠😩
Thanks Chuck for showing this interview to the American people. We need information from the top.
Wearing mask is a must for everyone to stop the virus from spreading. No scientific evidence proved that wearing mask might force an individual to inhale more CO2 which may eventually affect one’s immune system. For instance, most doctors wear masks to carry their duties for their entire of lives, there is no indication of negative impact on their health. The longer periods of time for a country hit hard by pandemic of Covid-19, more people tend to loss jobs, higher medical cost……This may creat more social problems and instability of political and economic in the country.
Way to go boys keep up the propaganda the idiots are going for it
Strange that this guy doesn’t mention that 32 vaccines are now being tested on humans worldwide, most of them in Europe, and that the Europeans have to do some testing in the US also because there are too few cases in Europe. Unfortunately, Trump’s constant attempts to coup the European vaccine activity has gradually soured the relationship between the US and Europe. The EU expects they will have a vaccine ready by December.
Things were going pretty good, then the protesters decided to spread the virus and ruin businesses.
please go talk on fox news for the people who really need this information. i think all viewers here have it pretty much clear.