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Speaker 1: welcome back to the Armstrong and get a show the

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Speaker 1: excellent Dr Dean Bloomberg, Chief Pediatric Diseases at the University

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Speaker 1: California Davis Children's Hospital. His main areas of interest are

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Speaker 1: preventing and treating infections and knows a heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot about this stuff. Dr Dean Bloomberg, how are you, sir, good?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? Terrific? Thanks glad to have you back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we talked to you a week ago. The man,

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Speaker 1: things change fast. Um, what a difference a week makes.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely amazing the town I live in. The I

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Speaker 1: full of kids and parents and everything, and now it's

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Speaker 1: it's a ghost town. Um. Do you think things are

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Speaker 1: going the right direction or wrong direction currently? Well? I

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Speaker 1: think these are extraordinary times. I can't remember ever living

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Speaker 1: extraordinary measures. Do you have the feeling and if if

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Speaker 1: feeling that we as a society have gotten ahead of

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Speaker 1: this and have prevented an Italian style catastrophe? Well, I'd

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Speaker 1: put it this way, I'd say that we're catching up.

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Speaker 1: I think we were. We got a late start on this,

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Speaker 1: and um, a catastrophe was going to happen if, um,

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Speaker 1: if we didn't really react in these dramatic the dramatic

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Speaker 1: fashion that we're reacting now. Um, the estimates were that

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Speaker 1: we could have had up to two million deaths in

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Speaker 1: those estimates seriously. You don't think that's sensationalism. No, I

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Speaker 1: don't at all, don't at all. I mean you have

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Speaker 1: is susceptible to this novel infection. Nobody at all is

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Speaker 1: we're talking earlier. The report that got to the President

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Speaker 1: two million people could die if we didn't do anything

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Speaker 1: and then without holy crap, I mean, that would be

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Speaker 1: significantly worse than the Great Spanish flu um what it

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Speaker 1: getting ahead of it. And again, you know, we're all

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Speaker 1: guessing them. We've been saying for a while. I hope

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Speaker 1: I mean it's hard to know, Like maybe a week

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Speaker 1: we we were where Italy was, we think, for about

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Speaker 1: they're overwhelmed. And so we're hoping that the dramatic public

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Speaker 1: a significant effect. Dr Dean Bloomberg is chief of pediatric

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Speaker 1: Diseases at the u C. Davis Children's Hospital. What are

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Speaker 1: you hearing about widespread availability of testing. What's the timetable

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Speaker 1: look like. We're still far behind with testing too. I

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Speaker 1: a couple of months, six months. I don't I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but everything should be on hold for now. Here's a

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Speaker 1: You go in there and it's just packtful. Do you

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Speaker 1: I don't, you know? The mask primarily um protects a

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Speaker 1: I don't wear a mask when I'm out and about.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how to tell when avocados are right?

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Speaker 1: here here Dr Dean Bloomberger of the U C. Davis

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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital. Dr. We sure appreciate the insights. I hope

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