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<v Speaker 1>I am honored to announce that the United States will

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<v Speaker 1>remain a member of the World Health Organization. I've had

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<v Speaker 1>people who have threatened my life because I'm speaking public

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<v Speaker 1>health measures. The idea that you can get up here

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<v Speaker 1>and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what

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<v Speaker 1>the science is, and know that's it. Let the science speak.

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<v Speaker 1>It is somewhat of a liberating field.

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<v Speaker 2>From futuro media. It's Latino USA. I'm Maria nu Posa.

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<v Speaker 2>Today doctor Anthony Fauci joins Latino USA for a special conversation.

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<v Speaker 2>He is yet again serving a new administration and continues

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<v Speaker 2>as the leading voice in the campaign against the coronavirus.

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<v Speaker 2>It's been over a year since the first case of

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<v Speaker 2>COVID nineteen was found in the US. Since then, the

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<v Speaker 2>virus has killed more than four hundred thousand people and

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<v Speaker 2>infected over twenty five million across the country. Communities of color, blacks,

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<v Speaker 2>indigenous people, Latinos, and Latinas have been disproportionately affected when

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<v Speaker 2>it comes to both debts and infections.

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<v Speaker 3>And there has been so much about this pandemic that,

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<v Speaker 3>in my opinion, has been an accelerator in that it

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<v Speaker 3>has highlighted and magnified what was wrong before and made

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<v Speaker 3>it worse.

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<v Speaker 4>Forty nine percent of Latino households have seen job losses

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<v Speaker 4>or pay cuts in this pandemic. Latinos who still have

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<v Speaker 4>a job face increased exposure to the virus because only

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<v Speaker 4>sixteen percent can work from home.

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<v Speaker 3>Right now, in the state of New Mexico, Native Americans

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<v Speaker 3>account for twenty three percent of COVID cases forty one

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<v Speaker 3>percent of COVID deats, but they only make up ten.

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<v Speaker 5>Percent of the state its population.

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<v Speaker 6>This is inequality that needs to be responded to immediately.

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<v Speaker 2>Former President Donald Trump created Operation Warp Speed last May

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<v Speaker 2>with the chief goal of developing and distributing a vaccine,

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<v Speaker 2>which didn't arrive until December.

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<v Speaker 7>Today, Operation Warp Speed is brought together all of the

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<v Speaker 7>experts across the federal government from places like the nihc DC, FDA,

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<v Speaker 7>and many other agencies. This historic partnership will now bring

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<v Speaker 7>together the full resources of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Meanwhile, the deaths and infections kept on climbing. Trump often

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<v Speaker 2>contradicted his own medical experts and clashed with some of them,

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<v Speaker 2>and primarily and publicly he clashed with doctor Fauci.

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<v Speaker 7>People are tired of hearing Fauchi and all these idiots,

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<v Speaker 7>these people, these people that have gotten it wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>Fauci.

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<v Speaker 2>Amidst the chaos and misinformation coming from the White House,

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<v Speaker 2>many look to doctor Anthony Fauci for truth. But not

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<v Speaker 2>long into the pandemic, his voice was barred from White

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<v Speaker 2>House briefings about the crisis, and requests to interview him

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<v Speaker 2>were rejected by the previous administration.

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<v Speaker 6>In an interview at the Financial Times, Fauci saying, quote,

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<v Speaker 6>I have a reputation of speaking the truth at all

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<v Speaker 6>times and not sugarcoating things, and that may be one

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<v Speaker 6>of the reasons why I haven't been on television very

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<v Speaker 6>much lately.

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<v Speaker 2>As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

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<v Speaker 2>Diseases since the early nineteen eighties, doctor Fauci has served

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<v Speaker 2>under seven presidents. Today, as President Biden's chief medical advisor

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<v Speaker 2>on combating COVID nineteen, doctor Anthony Fauci has an open

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<v Speaker 2>mic to talk to the country directly. Once again, Doctor Fauci,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you so much for making time to speak with

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<v Speaker 2>us here on Latino USA.

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<v Speaker 5>Thank you very much. Good to be with you.

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<v Speaker 2>I kind of want to reach out and hug you,

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<v Speaker 2>even though I guess I shouldn't be saying that.

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<v Speaker 5>I like to hug you. I like to hug somebody.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd like to hug somebody too, Doctor Fauci, you look

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<v Speaker 2>so oh my god, you just I have to say,

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<v Speaker 2>you look more relaxed. Am I describing you correctly?

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<v Speaker 5>I believe so. Yes.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been listening to you religiously for years and years

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<v Speaker 2>and years because I'm a New Yorker and I have

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<v Speaker 2>to just be honest with you. About an hour and

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<v Speaker 2>a half ago, I got a phone call from Mexico.

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<v Speaker 2>My own cousin just died this morning of COVID. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>sorry to hear that, and it's just like wow, I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, doctor Fauci has to deal with this now.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, I'm devastating. He was my cousin.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, doctor Fauci has been dealing with this

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<v Speaker 2>kind of loss, not just through this pandemic, but through

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<v Speaker 2>the pandemic of AIDS, and so I guess I just personally,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I mean, I'm ripped, But how do you

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<v Speaker 2>personally deal with this kind of loss?

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<v Speaker 5>It's not easy, it really isn't. But you have to focus.

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<v Speaker 1>From my standpoint, as a professional, you really have to

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<v Speaker 1>focus on the enormity of the challenge and the work

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<v Speaker 1>you have to do, because you don't want to be

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<v Speaker 1>completely hardened and not let things like that get to you.

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<v Speaker 1>But on the other hand, given the enormity of the

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<v Speaker 1>burden of disease and death, that it could overwhelm you,

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<v Speaker 1>so you have to try to put it aside and

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<v Speaker 1>focus on what your goal is and what you need

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<v Speaker 1>to do. With HIV, we had some great successes, but

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<v Speaker 1>in the early years it was really traumatic because from

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<v Speaker 1>the time I started on it, which you might recall

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<v Speaker 1>was in the very early eighties, literally.

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<v Speaker 5>Nineteen eighty one.

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<v Speaker 1>I began taking care of AIDS patients before we even

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<v Speaker 1>had a name for it.

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<v Speaker 5>And we used to call it GRID.

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<v Speaker 1>For Gay Related immunit deficiency, which was an inappropriate name.

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<v Speaker 1>But for many years when we didn't have any therapy,

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<v Speaker 1>it was devastating. And then when we finally got good therapies,

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<v Speaker 1>it completely turned things around. But we're seeing the same

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<v Speaker 1>thing now with COVID nineteen. We're having you know, four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty thousand people died, people like your cousin

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<v Speaker 1>and people's relatives and mothers and fathers.

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<v Speaker 5>It's devastating. That's the reason why it's so.

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<v Speaker 1>Important to focus on things like vaccines. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we were very successful in getting a vaccine. Now we

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<v Speaker 1>got to get it to people in an efficient way.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's a lot of things going on, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of things.

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<v Speaker 2>How do you feel that your work with HIV and

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<v Speaker 2>AIDS prepared you? And I have to say it, I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, oh my god, we have a vaccine for

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<v Speaker 2>COVID in less than you know. And then I'm just like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh my god, all of the people had there been

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<v Speaker 2>this kind of effort for AIDS.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, it's a bit different, I must tell you,

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<v Speaker 1>not necessarily the track that you're going going down. There

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<v Speaker 1>was a lot of effort, Maria that was put into

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<v Speaker 1>developing a vaccine for HIV AIDS. The difficulty is that

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<v Speaker 1>it is such an unusual infection that the body does

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<v Speaker 1>not make a very good immune response against it. So therefore,

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<v Speaker 1>if the body's not going to do it naturally, it

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<v Speaker 1>makes it that much more difficult to get a vaccine

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<v Speaker 1>to do it. Whereas with sas sauce CoV two that

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<v Speaker 1>even though many people get infected and many people died,

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<v Speaker 1>still the body generally makes a pretty good immune response

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<v Speaker 1>against it. So when the body can make a good

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<v Speaker 1>immune response, then it makes it much easier to get

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<v Speaker 1>a vaccine. So that's the difference there and the reason

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<v Speaker 1>why there's a big difference where we've been forty years

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<v Speaker 1>into almost forty years into HIV and we still don't

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<v Speaker 1>have a vaccine, and we're less than a year or

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<v Speaker 1>a year into COVID nineteen and you have a really

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<v Speaker 1>really good vaccine, speaking of which it really is.

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<v Speaker 5>We've got to make sure that the hesitancy that is

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<v Speaker 5>understandable among brown and black people of taking a vaccine,

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<v Speaker 5>particularly among African Americans who've been treated really historically in

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<v Speaker 5>a shameful way by government sponsored health programs, that we've

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<v Speaker 5>got to turn that around and make sure that the

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<v Speaker 5>most vulnerable people ultimately do get vaccinated.

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<v Speaker 1>Rather than be hesitant or skeptical about it, We've got

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<v Speaker 1>to talk to them about it. We've got to reach

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<v Speaker 1>out into the community and make sure that they protect themselves,

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<v Speaker 1>their family, and their community.

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<v Speaker 2>So, doctor Fauci, as I was preparing for this interview,

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<v Speaker 2>I found myself kind of realizing that I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>a whole lot about your childhood. I don't remember hearing

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<v Speaker 2>a lot about doctor Fauci as a kid, and so

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<v Speaker 2>talk to us a little bit about you being this

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<v Speaker 2>kid with Italian immigrant grandparents parents, you had a pharmacy,

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<v Speaker 2>it was a family pharmacy, and you were in Brooklyn.

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<v Speaker 5>Right, Yep, Bensonhurst.

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<v Speaker 2>Whoa Bensonhurst? Oh my god? Have you been to Bensonhurst recently,

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<v Speaker 2>doctor Fauci.

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<v Speaker 5>I was there several months ago. It doesn't look like

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<v Speaker 5>it looked when I was there, that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>But when you think back to those roots, what is

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<v Speaker 2>it that you think happened there that was really planting

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<v Speaker 2>in you the seeds for the human being that you

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<v Speaker 2>are now that's really leading us through this extraordinary international crisis.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, there were so many things.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that if you go back to your childhood

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<v Speaker 1>in New York City, I think people who are in

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<v Speaker 1>New York City can appreciate, particularly older people at the

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<v Speaker 1>time when there were mostly first and second generation immigrants

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<v Speaker 1>living in particular area. Like I was born on seventy

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<v Speaker 1>to thirteenth Avenue in eighty third Street, all that area.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, hearing the Brooklyn Meson come out.

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<v Speaker 1>What you had was the Oba only majority when I

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<v Speaker 1>was a child. So you know, I'm eighty years old.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was born at the end in December of

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen forty, so I was born literally right before World

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<v Speaker 1>War two started, and that when I was a child,

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<v Speaker 1>five six, seven, eight years old. I mean virtually everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>with a few exceptions, was in a neighborhood that was

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<v Speaker 1>extremely family and community oriented, because these were people who

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<v Speaker 1>had a common experience. Either your grandfather or your father

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<v Speaker 1>came from Italy if you lived in that particular area.

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<v Speaker 1>If you lived in another section of Brooklyn, either your

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<v Speaker 1>grandfather or your father or mother came.

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<v Speaker 5>From Puerto Rico.

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<v Speaker 1>If you lived in the Jewish section, either one of

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<v Speaker 1>them came from Eastern Europe. But it was always a

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<v Speaker 1>family like community, taking care of each other, responsibility, feeling

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<v Speaker 1>privileged that you were in the United States of America,

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<v Speaker 1>where you felt very patriotic for this that welcomed your

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<v Speaker 1>grandfather and your grandmother and maybe your father and your mother.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was a different kind of a spirit of

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<v Speaker 1>how you looked upon your country and how you looked

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<v Speaker 1>upon your community.

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<v Speaker 2>Which leads me, I guess, to the question of your

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<v Speaker 2>capacity to be a leader throughout multiple different political administrations.

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<v Speaker 2>Right recently you started going a little bit more public

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<v Speaker 2>about what it was like to be working and standing

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<v Speaker 2>next to Donald Trump in these moments, and I'm wondering,

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<v Speaker 2>how have you processed what you just lived through in

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<v Speaker 2>having to be somebody who is based on fact and

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<v Speaker 2>yet having to be next to a president who you

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<v Speaker 2>knew was not telling the truth and who barely had

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<v Speaker 2>a plan.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, it was very difficult.

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<v Speaker 1>I think people need to realize that there were many

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<v Speaker 1>good people who were working on the Coronavirus Task Force

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<v Speaker 1>and who were working in the White House, who really

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<v Speaker 1>had all the good intentions of doing right thing, but

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<v Speaker 1>the leadership from the top was more anecdotally based than

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<v Speaker 1>rigorous science based. So something could get done or get

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<v Speaker 1>the attention of the leadership based merely on someone who

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<v Speaker 1>makes a phone call to the President and says, hey.

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<v Speaker 5>I like this drug. It's really great.

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<v Speaker 7>Many doctors think it is extremely successful, the hydroxychloroquin coupled

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<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, but what is the scientific evidence that says

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<v Speaker 1>it's great? And that was the thing that was very stressful,

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<v Speaker 1>thing you've got to do is focus on what your

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<v Speaker 1>many of whom were in the White House actually and

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<v Speaker 1>do an all due credit to them, was to get

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<v Speaker 1>the facts out, get a vaccine developed, get some drugs

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<v Speaker 5>One of the.

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<v Speaker 1>Things in addition to this anecdotally based environment as opposed

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<v Speaker 1>in public health. And it was really unfortunate that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>is a political statement. That's entirely ridiculous that wearing a

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<v Speaker 1>public health measure and everybody's got to be in it

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<v Speaker 1>together to try to protect yourself, try to protect your family,

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<v Speaker 1>egregiously mixed messages, then people, you know, they throw up

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<v Speaker 1>get into this other craziness of fake news and hoax

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<v Speaker 1>and all that, it becomes really, really difficult to implement

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<v Speaker 1>a good public health program.

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<v Speaker 2>At the height of the pandemic, I was infected with

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<v Speaker 2>COVID and I remember hearing the sirens on the streets

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<v Speaker 2>lot of Latinos. There was a lot of conversation about

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<v Speaker 2>the Bronx and the South Bronx, and we know that

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<v Speaker 2>the data shows that it really has been devastating for

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<v Speaker 2>the Joe Biden administration specifically in terms of taking on

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<v Speaker 2>that inequality in this pandemic.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, there is a specific program and person who is

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<v Speaker 1>this equity issue, and that's doctor Marcella and Nunez Smith.

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<v Speaker 5>But everyone on the Biden team now is acutely aware

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<v Speaker 5>of the extraordinary disparities not only in health, but in

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<v Speaker 5>nature of the jobs they have, which are really essential

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<v Speaker 5>workers to make the community run. They're out there, they're

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<v Speaker 5>The other thing that is equally as important is that

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<v Speaker 5>make it more likely that you'll have a serious outcome,

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<v Speaker 5>those are diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, chronic lung disease,

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<v Speaker 5>kidney disease. And that's something that if anything comes out

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<v Speaker 5>of this that's good, it will be that we shed

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<v Speaker 5>a very bright light on this disparities in health, which

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<v Speaker 5>are related to social determinants of health that have nothing

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<v Speaker 5>to do with race, that have only to do with

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<v Speaker 5>the circumstances that you find yourself in because you are

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<v Speaker 5>access to a healthy diet. Those are the things that

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<v Speaker 5>determine years later whether you're going to be diabetic, or

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<v Speaker 5>whether you're going to be obese or things like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, that's the thing that we've got to when

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<v Speaker 1>to the decades long correction of those social determinants of health.

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<v Speaker 2>So the governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, was asked at

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<v Speaker 2>a news conference in January whether or not undocumented workers

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<v Speaker 2>at meat processing plants would get vaccinated since they're considered

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<v Speaker 7>Again, you're supposed to be a legal resident of the

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<v Speaker 7>So I do not expect that illegal immigrants will be

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<v Speaker 2>So what's your reaction when you hear a state official

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<v Speaker 1>Well, they he's incorrect. I mean, I mean, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>want to do any pejorative thing to him. He's incorrect.

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<v Speaker 1>Vaccines are going to be given in this country, regardless

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<v Speaker 1>of whether you're an undocumented or not.

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<v Speaker 5>That's it.

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<v Speaker 2>And finally, so I think the other side of the

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<v Speaker 2>question about how do we combat misinformation in our communities,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, well, if you combatd misinformation but it was

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<v Speaker 2>readily available and here's how you do it, that might help.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that the thing that's kind of keeping you up

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but I mean one of the things that.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, a lot of things keep me up at night, Maria,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's one of them.

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<v Speaker 5>Though. What it is is to efficiently when you distribute

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<v Speaker 5>the vaccine, to make that step from distribution into the

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<v Speaker 5>don't want is you don't want vaccine lying around and

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<v Speaker 5>not efficiently getting into people's arms. When on the other

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<v Speaker 5>you have people you know who say, well, we got

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<v Speaker 5>too much vaccine, or others say I can't get vaccine

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<v Speaker 1>Lined up and I don't have enough for them. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>those two opposites should not simultaneously be going on.

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<v Speaker 2>What does doctor Fauci do on a daily basis? And honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>doctor Fauci, you look so good so you're making eighty

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<v Speaker 2>look pretty fabulous. I'm so happy to see you smiling.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't know what joy that brings me. But can

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<v Speaker 2>you leave us with Okay, see here are a few

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, there's only one thing that I have time to

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<v Speaker 5>So every evening, usually when it's well after dark, my

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, if you're in New York City, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>meeting you in Central Park and we're going to go

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<v Speaker 5>Well, when I was in high school, I used to

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much, doctor Fauci. I feel like you

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<v Speaker 2>were a little blessing on my cousin's passing, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just so thankful for all that you've done.

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<v Speaker 5>Thank you for having me, for a real pleasure to

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<v Speaker 2>President Joe Biden recently said he believes that general public

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<v Speaker 2>could have access to COVID nineteen vaccines by some time

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<v Speaker 2>this spring, but some people on his team have said

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<v Speaker 2>that most adults won't be vaccinated until later this year.

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<v Speaker 2>A newly created federal Health Equity Task Force will seek

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<v Speaker 2>to ensure that black, Latino and Native American communities have

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<v Speaker 2>fair access to the vaccines. Since vaccinations began in the

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<v Speaker 2>US on December fourteenth, close to thirty two million doses

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<v Speaker 2>have been administered, with an average of one point three

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<v Speaker 2>five million shots per day in the last week. That's

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<v Speaker 2>according to Bloomberg's COVID nineteen tracker, but only about sixty

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<v Speaker 2>four percent of shots delivered to states have been given.

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<v Speaker 2>Doctor Fauci, You're the only interviewee who I've ever had

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<v Speaker 2>that actually has a stopwatch next to him doing the countdown.

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<v Speaker 2>So I feel a little pressure you.

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<v Speaker 5>No, no, I didn't mean it that way to be.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, no, I just heard that there's like

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<v Speaker 2>a stopwatch and they're doing the countdown and I don't

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<v Speaker 2>get one minute left, and I was like, but I was,

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<v Speaker 2>but I was crying for thirty seconds of my conversation.

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<v Speaker 5>You get a thirty seven cry, a caase, grace period.

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<v Speaker 2>That one's for my cousin. May he be laughing with us.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Maria in Nojosa. Next time on Latino USA, the

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<v Speaker 2>Legacy of the Hanno star Selena Kintanilla, journalist Maria Garcia

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<v Speaker 2>takes us on a journey, starting with Abraham Kintania, Nina's father,

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<v Speaker 2>the one who pushed her to become an artist and

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<v Speaker 2>an icon. That's next time. I'll let the new USA

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