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"But I do think that the fact that we have a vaccine and one that's or three that are so good is really, really fantastic. And I think we're going to pull out of this probably within six months this will be over. And then I just wonder about what things will look like afterwards."

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"I think it's going to happen at a much faster cadence than it has in the last hundred years. If you just look at what's happened just in the last 20, 30 years with mergers and SARS and Zika and Ebola, it's that the pace is just much faster. So I think another pandemic is inevitable soon."

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NEWS CLIP: KIRO 7 News Presents: Coronavirus Emergency

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NEWS CLIP: KIRO 7 News Presents: Coronavirus Emergency

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"Breaking News: Washington is in a state of emergency after a King county man is the first person in the country to die from the coronavirus. I want to just start by expressing our deep and sincere condolences… We’re in the process of investigating this as an outbreak… Should we start to see more spread in Washington we might consider some measures such as cancelling large public events."

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"That's a lot of the politics has really gotten in the way of the things that we probably should have been doing to keep people alive until the vaccine came."
-should have had: national mask mandate, more testing, defense production act
"So, yeah, it's hard to watch it, I have to say, as a scientist."

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NEWS CLIP: Snohomish County child tests positive for coronavirus

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NEWS CLIP: Snohomish County child tests positive for coronavirus

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"We’ve received a presumptive positive from the state lab today for a school aged adolescent..."

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Helen's recollection of testing guidelines

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Helen's recollection of testing guidelines

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[Discussing with the CDC how to do this. Issue of packaging samples to send. Every day that went by there was more transmission.]

"So we had the lab. We had the samples. We could we could do it immediately. And that was the tension. Ultimately, I think the way that it finally was decided, that was that CDC and the Department of Public Health, both at the state and local level, did give us permission to go ahead and start testing. They said to go ahead and start testing the samples, but that we could not we could not go back and re identify the individuals that we found that were positive. [It was really to provide population level data, but they certainly didn't say not to test.]"

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NEWS CLIP: Coverup 2019 Flu Samples Tested For COVID19

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NEWS CLIP: Coverup 2019 Flu Samples Tested For COVID19

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Reporting on NYT article that broke the controversy the Seattle flu researchers were involved in:
"But The New York Times has reported federal and state officials told Dr. Chu and her team they could not test for coronavirus without the permission from the research subjects. They did it anyway just a few weeks ago."

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Helen's description of the ETHICAL DILEMMA

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Helen's description of the ETHICAL DILEMMA

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"The ethical dilemma for me and for my team was really not about whether to start the testing, which we did get clearance to start. But it was what happened once we found that positive"

["Because the positive that we found had just been collected two days earlier"]
...
"But that's when we decided to break the rules."
...
Made the call

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NEWS CLIP: Coverup 2019 Flu Samples Tested For COVID19 Part II

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NEWS CLIP: Coverup 2019 Flu Samples Tested For COVID19 Part II

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Other samples led to a positive test of a teenager and a temporary closure of a high school and evidence that the virus was in Seattle weeks before it showed up in patients at the life care center of Kirkland. But now state regulators have reportedly stepped in and told flu researchers to stop testing their samples for covid-19, the flu study's principal investigator now defending his team's actions, saying there are times when we have all felt the need to move fast in an effort to save lives.

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Reason behind study was sense from Gates Foundation that it was inevitable that there would be another pandemic and we didn't have the infrastructure to respond

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Helen describing study: detection systems

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Helen describing study: detection systems

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Systems focused on hospitalized patients, not community. Focused on workplaces, transit stations, homeless shelters, college campuses. Set up pop up kiosks + home detection kits.

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~NEWS CLIP: 1st case of coronavirus confirmed in US l ABC News

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~NEWS CLIP: 1st case of coronavirus confirmed in US l ABC News

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"Now to growing concerns about the deadly coronavirus officially hitting the US. Here’s what we know: a Washington state resident fell ill after returning from Wuhan China..."

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The Seattle Flu Study Mapping the Spread of Influenza

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The Seattle Flu Study Mapping the Spread of Influenza

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Dr. Chu talking about impetus for the study: "So the Seattle Flu Study was designed to really understand how flu entered and spread in any metropolitan area. And the goal was that this would be able to be extrapolated to any city around the world for flu surveillance."

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LIVE Health officials give update on first US death

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LIVE Health officials give update on first US death

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Washington state health update talking about outbreak at Lifecare Nursing facility in Kirkland Washington; two women sick one in serious condition; talks about what you can do to protect yourself (personal hygiene)

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Clip about how Dr. Chu wants to use her samples to test for COVID but CDC/FDA say no and she does it anyway: "...but the CDC and the FDA say no. The CDC said you need to ask the FDA. The FDA said no because the laboratory didn’t have proper paperwork in place."

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Helen knew this was coming to the US and was in a position to support the response: "And the first two weeks of January was when we realized that this was going to arrive in the US and that we were probably in a good position to be able to support the response."

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"My name is Helen Chu. I'm an ID doctor and researcher"

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Helen's calling to bench science + community research

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Helen's calling to bench science + community research

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Medical School at Duke: year doing research - chose to do HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa "I like the challenge of trying to do research that was not quite as straightforward as what you would do in a hospital or at the bench. I like the idea of working within the community and answering the questions that were really pressing at the time"

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Family included academic; at tail end of Cultural Revolution sent to countryside and camps - parents' generation couldn't go to college. Moved to US. Wanted to be in academic from young age.

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NEWS CLIP: CDC announces first US case of Wuhan coronavirus

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NEWS CLIP: CDC announces first US case of Wuhan coronavirus

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Case of 30yo man who came back from Wuhan with COVID: "...here’s what we do know about what happened. After he landed on January 15th the man sought out medical attention 4 days later on the 19th when he reached out to a clinic in Snohomish county..."

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"I'm trying to remember when I first heard about it, I it was from the news. It was from probably reading The New York Times or NPR and hearing about the cases of one of this virus of this, I think back that it was called pneumonia of unknown etiology or whatever"

[My initial risk calculator was that it wasn't going to move out of China. MERS and SARS were never of this scale]

+ knew it would come to US after genetic sequence published

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Talks about being halted because they "broke the rules" but also how it was the right decision: "And for all of us on that call, there was no question that the right thing was to let the family know"

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NEWS CLIP: VIDEO: Wuhan coronavirus surfaces in Washington state

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NEWS CLIP: VIDEO: Wuhan coronavirus surfaces in Washington state

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In airport after learning about first US COVID case: "it is very evident that people who are traveling through SEA TAC airport are very worried about this virus. We have seen people wearing these face masks everywhere"

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Helen's description of involvement in COVID activities

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Helen's description of involvement in COVID activities

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[Focus was on people arriving from China. The national plan was:]
1) Mentions airport screening
2) Centrally driven testing
3) Testing samples from first COVID patient which were used in vaccine production
4) Assist in testing for people who fell outside the CDC case definition
[Also to provide samples to the CDC so they could test for Coronavirus. They had no capacity to test all, just subset. We were also testing at Intl Arrivals at airport. Question needed to be answered and we had the capacity in our lab to do the testing.]

[At the time, there had only been that one case WA-1. It really wasn't until we did the testing on our samples that we were able to find the second case]

{Very long?}

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Infectious Disease Expert Discusses Coronavirus

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Infectious Disease Expert Discusses Coronavirus

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Early clip of Fauci talking about coronaviruses, 30yo man who got sick, SARS, MERS, what little we knew about COVID

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Doctor nurses describe treating coronavirus patient

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Doctor nurses describe treating coronavirus patient

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"I would say I got the call around 9 pm. Was able to be at the hospital I think around 9:45. Luckily we both live close by. The page went out to the nurses that we needed to open the unit. We were able to accept the patient around 11:30pm."

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First case of Coronavirus in the US confirmed in Washington

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First case of Coronavirus in the US confirmed in Washington

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Another clip about 30yo man coming back from Wuhan with COVID and health officials trying to mitigate panic "Meanwhile state secretary of health John Wiesman says there is no need to panic. ‘At this point folks should go around and do their normal business and as he said if you have a cough or sneezes cover those, stay home if you’re ill...'"

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CDC announces first US case of Wuhan coronavirus Part II

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CDC announces first US case of Wuhan coronavirus Part II

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PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL SAYS:
“I just want to say that there’s nowhere in Snohomish county where I would be reluctant to take my granddaughter or my family members. This is low risk. It appears to have transmission vector that really should not prevent anyone from going anywhere in Snohomish county except maybe the isolation ward at the hospital.”