Dr. David Ho, director and CEO of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about work being done to find a treatment for novel coronavirus infection, where researchers are hopeful to find an answer, and why it's still likely to take at least a year. Aired on 3/13/2020.
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No Quick Solution To Treat Coronavirus Despite Hopeful Leads | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
This administration handling of COVID-19 has been incompetence beyond incompetence.
YEP
One the one hand there is actual science and expertise (e.g. the Dr in this clip)
On the other you have the “howling at the moon” cult behavior from defenders of ‘The Donald’ and who still think they and the gop are in some big gang.
(The gop don’t care about you, folks. )
@sirmoonslosthismind because the virus started in China specifically the city of Wuhan.
sorry that you’re offended by facts.
@eurekajim #VoteBlue2020 how on earth are 500,000 Americans going to die? lazy? he just declared a national emergency. too late? why aren’t you calling out the Chinese Communist regime who are the ones that are responsible for this outbreak.
of course you’ll can only do orange man bad and disgustingly politicized this showing you’re more concerned with being PC and try to damage the President.
@T Electronix which science you mean Trump and this doctor. or you screeching lefties blaming Trump for what the Chinese Communist Party had done and being more concerned with being not racist against Asians.
Trump lied he said Google will have a website you can do a CV testing. i find out the testing is only available to the bay area and employees that work in medical fields. it’s not available to the general public yet some ppl support trump. there’s your leader putting out lies during a crisis.
@J A few days ago around 11.000 people were tested, How many of them do you know? Remember, in South Korea they test more than 10.000 a day.
@J You don’t know many people then.
@J All 3 of them?
@Robert Alan That’s not what he said, you simpleton. He was talking about lying in a crisis situation when it is completely unnecessary to do so.
Ace A What your take on Andrew Gillum former democrat candidate for governor for Florida where meth was found on the floor by the police department in a hotel room while Andrew gillum was naked while he is with a male escort while Andrew gillum is married to a woman? Haha haha haha.
In 1996, Dr. Ho was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. He was the lead scientist in the effort to make HIV and AIDS a treatable disease. 24 years later, he’s still working to save lives. Thank you. 🙌
@Benjamin Levine … Trump is clearly in over his head.
@Inigo Obama caused this mess. President Trump is the greatest President ever.
@Benjamin Levine really? And how is that?
@Inigo Obama ran guns into Mexico hurting our disadvantaged communities
Lol ur stupid
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
–Charles Darwin
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
–Wayne Dyer
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
These quotes perfectly describe the current “stable genius” in the Oval Office.
@Google User
Irrelevant to the conversation. Go troll somewhere else.
@oltedders to google user it needs to be said i.e. asked – even if that what he/she said was true (and it isn’t!) and even if google user was sincerely disgusted by epstein (which he obviously isn’t, but he/she should be!), then, wouldn’t google user be disgusted to even visit MSNBC, let alone, take part in comments section of it?
@David J, Exactly, friend! Atop of all that, trump-pence regime is evilly spiteful, which not even Charles Darwin nor Wayne Dyer nor Martin Luther King Jr. could have predicted for an administration in America, all the more worse.
@Vel S
It’s called trolling. Entertainment via annoyance.
@oltedders I know what putin-gru-trump-pence-barr-saudi cultists do. all the more reason to uproot them routinely from our NONrepukkke channels!
To Trump：
you can fool all the people some of the time ,or some of the people all the time ,but you can not fool all the people all the time—–Abraham Lincoln
@Rob Perry America is a just country despite it’s past
Matt Stanley 👍
@oltedders ….your comment comes from a mind that is LAZY. When 90% of Antibiotics and 80% of Pharmaceuticals come out of China, may be the US People will realize President Trump is the BEST. He is incentivising Drug Companies to return to the USA.
@Arthur Kroulik at a time like this it’s still Democrat and Republican with yous people. Jesus don’t care if you’re either, at the end we’re all human beings. Your parents raised you right son.🤔😔
@B.J Cameron
What gross stupidity. Trump’s bumbling policies whether it be his fiasco at the Southern border or his agribusiness welfare project has not “incentivized” anything but massive payments to private prisons and more handouts to corporations.
Of course there will be an incentive to develop tests at $3100 a shot.
NBA legend Magic Johnson owes his life to Dr David Ho.
@Breida Munster so what’s your point? I believe in God who manifested science, everything is his creation rather you believe or not.
@melanated soul do you still believe in God if some alien species more advanced from us contact us and told there is no god.even another life in the universe will change your belief in God.
@ViShNu I don’t need for an alien species to tell me that God does/or does not exist, God told me himself that he exist and soon the whole world will see that he exist and every knee
shall bow. Praise Yah!
@melanated soul I don’t have knees to bow. I lost them both while fighting in Desert Storm.
@Craig Smith either way you will be on your face and you went to war for what? What did you get out of it? Handicap, what a price to pay for nothing but I’m sure you learned your lesson!
Trump: I fired the Pandemic team in 2018, but it’s not my fault.
@JimJ its sarcasm
Trump shut the team down to save money. He did a couple trillion dollars in damage to the economy. Some saving
Hey now, stop with the fake news!
he didn’t say “it’s not my fault”. He said “No, I don’t take responsibility at all.”
🙄
T Electronix it’s the same connotation..just indirectly…… 🙄
@1tutoo Yeah they would both be just as awful from a ‘leader’.
I enjoy listening to humble masters like this Doctor. Fine human
So relaxing when there is no hype.
Speaking of no-frills just science
@Claude LeBel absolutely! A real role model versus a sleazy carnival barker like the orange Dotard
Humble masters? LMFAO! You must be Chinese.
Jesus Christ is the great physician. I’m protected I say this with confidence.! I pray for those of you out there who are fearful and open know that Jesus is the prince of peace in your life. Know that you can be healed in Jesus Christ name. I pray the love of God touches you as you read these words. I pray that Jesus Christ manifest his Divine grace to you.
Jack Ma was man with low profle, now hes doing great charity for Covid-19. Thank you
He deserve a bat soup. You, too.
@Pub Comrad then you deserve your virus
@Pub Comrad haha, I know you must be extremely mad now to see China overcome the hard situation. Hope u can survive this virus and witness what’s coming next.
@Pub Comrad He can have ten bat soups and his country can save him. You just need to take a baby sip, and your beautiful government cant even get you tested.
A good interview on a good subject for a change. Thank you. Dr. Ho is a smart, dedicated man. He knows that we are in it for the long haul.
Thank God for those like Dr. David Ho, who seek to save people’s lives, especially those who are already infected by deadly viruses!
ChristianCentury2000 agreed!
This guest is well spoken and well informed. Thank you for posting this
Yeah, this kind of thing (epidemiology) is literally his life’s work, he is more qualified on this topic than almost anyone else would be
For trump supporters:
“For the record NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault. Here’s a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:
Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Co-vid19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.
In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.
In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.
In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.
Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.
Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that responds to public health threats.
In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.
Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.
Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.
Trump pretended the virus had been contained.
Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.
Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up.”
:Stolen Please feel free to cut copy and paste this so that more people will know the truth!
@joep meloen
Guess you are even stupider than most
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-wait-swine-flu-n1h1/
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/sean-hannity-right-wing-media-lie-about-obamas-2009-h1n1-response
Arthur Kroulik nah ur just doing what typical fat losers do
@thewanderandhiscomp Look at 32:23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYVQ4HIDLQ
@joep meloen
https://youtu.be/_rgbIwzn86A
Where are the millions of tests promised two weeks ago
@joep meloen a foreign conspiracy theorist loser
Why isn’t this hero being supported by by the Government with as much money he needs and all the best minds in America helping him and his team. When you have one of the best then you ask him what he needs..
@Stanky Danky u have coronavirus for u in the upcoming days. nobody and nothing will help u.
Vel So triggered 🤣
@Stanky Danky u and your djt jr. are not capable of being even original, but u have needs to steal our Progressive tactics. so lame, impotent and projectionist u are, yet u have no shame…..
Too much money on the nukes .
Because the “Government” is currently under the thumb of the Trump mafia and they’re busy lining their pockets while we get sick and die.
Thank you for inviting Dr. Ho onto your show Rachel. He is a calm, knowledgeable voice amongst all the chaos of the tRump administration.
K Cuzz Ah, I found a boomer comment.
People think its like Hollywood when an eccentric researcher will invent a vaccine just in time. *facepalm*
Well if you went to medical school, maybe the process would be faster!!!
@I’m Iron Man It sounds like you have the solution i.e. cure, so, go ahead, help America and the world! I’m truly frustrated by the unacceptably slow process, but, is there truly a faster one? Of course we all need the fastest cure, so, who, where has it?
The best approach is to boost your immune system so your body can fight off the virus. I do that by taking 4,000 mgs of vitamin C in divided doses, plus 5,000 mgs of vitamin D3 and also iodine daily. If I still contracted the virus (unlikely), I would increase the C to 20,000 mgs.
@Christine P Getting enough sleep probably does more to supercharge your immune system than anything you can buy.
Yeah where’s Jeff Goldblum when you really need eccentric?
Loving how this man lights up when he’s talking about his life’s work. People like this are gifts.
@T Electronix Remember swin-flu 2009? March 1000 US people dead. Msm praised obama for doing nothing, borders open, everybody could fly. October 61.000.000 contaminations, 300.000 in hospitals, 18.000 dead. No measures, msm praised obama for doing nothing. Remember ???
@joep meloen that is only bcos of stringent aggressive measures taken to stop the spread of Coronavirus , Flu is left alone to spread
@nanyanguo1 Nearby, flu is not left alone to spread, most people have developed an immunesystem and this flu is controllable. I guess our leaders are not prepared for this. Take obama f.e. he did nothing during swine flu 2009 and thoudands of Americans died because of his policy, not here in Europe where they took accurate measures…how about that…and you what? he still was praised about this by your msm…wow…
@joep meloen precisely, it is bcos you said obama did nothing during the swine flu that I said flu is left to spread , On the other hand , in the case of Covid 19 which at present is far from over , all around the world are doing something . even unprecedented actions. .It is being taken seriously now as experts have warned that millions of their pple will be infected n consequently higher death rates than flu if they do nothing. Cant just hope to wait for pple to develop immunity when multiple millions lives are at stake.
@nanyanguo1 Facts: look at 32:23; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYVQ4HIDLQ
Master Ho, you’re a joy to listen to
I feel so much better
Thank you for not interrupting him when he was talking. Other news should learn from this.
Chris Matthews retired so the quantity of interrupting in the universe just dropped by 10,000%.
Can you imagine Trump and his administration ignores this man, his studies and knowledge. They are so incredibly stupid
Trump and his puppets ignore everyone who knows anything that doesn’t fit their agenda.