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But there's no record of you calling for social distancing, limited social gatherings, mandatory mask. Vice President, before you go to the future, can I follow back on looking back for just a little bit? You did have an op-ed in January where you warned of the seriousness of the pandemic. It's all going to - when the heat - when summer comes, it's all going to go away like a miracle. It's going to go away by Easter, don't worry about it. Then I wrote a piece in March about what I thought we should be doing to take hold of this, using the - there's an act that was passed a long time ago that allows the president to go into a business and say, stop making this and start making that, and took a long time for him to even institute that to get ventilators and so on.Īnd so, the point was, he missed enormous opportunities and kept saying things that weren't true. And at the time, he said he didn't tell anybody because he was afraid Americans would panic.Īmericans don't panic.
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We later learned that he knew full well how serious it was when he did an interview with George Woodward - I mean, excuse me, Bob Woodward. In addition to that, I pointed out that I thought in February, I did a piece for "USA Today" saying this is a serious problem. All those 44 people came home, never got replaced. I suggested we should be seeking, and I didn't hold public office, I was a former vice president, I suggested we, in fact, ask - to have access to the source of the problem.Īnd to the best of our knowledge, Trump never pushed that. And all the way back in the beginning of February, I argued that we should be keeping people in China.Īnd we had set up in our administration a pandemic office within the White House, there were 44 people on the ground. First, looking backwards to when this country first became aware of COVID-19, what would following the science have meant in terms of actual policy?Īnd then, looking forward, what would your administration do in terms of following the science with real concrete policies that haven't been done by the current administration?īIDEN: Well, first of all, going back, the fact is that we - the president was informed how dangerous this virus was. We know that your administration would follow the science. Vice President, every day, my wife and I are in disbelief at the lack of coordinated federal action on COVID-19. STEPHANOPOULOS: And we're going to start with Nicholas Feden. STEPHANOPOULOS: And they're a group of - some are voting for you, some have said they're voting for President Trump, some are still undecided, and we're going to try to take questions from as many as we can tonight.