Rav Asher Weiss Shlit''a on COVID-19 Related Medical Questions

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Asher Weiss’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I would like to take the opportunity of thanking her ever go on Russia wise for joining us today to answer a few questions that I think will be pertinent to the Lakewood community in particularly asking about but probably have significance to many other people through the United States and actually through the world I'd like to thank they're all for joining us and again thank their over joined us at our conference which seems so long ago since before covered but it was a wonderful before covered but it was a wonderful experience for us to have they're all on board with us as a lead-up to some of the questions actually at the start of the covered took a lead in trying to get Lakewood prepared but what we thought was going to be coming and we actually met with many community leaders we met with Rob on him we met with the health department's with other community health centers were the hospitals we had meetings together we actually met with meetings together we actually met with the schools as well we advised we tried to put a group together that would be able to to track what would happen when covert actually came into the Lakewood community and unfortunately we were hit quite quickly and we had a very high number of cases initially in liquid and all of our preparations went to note

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1. 0:00I would like to take the opportunity of thanking her ever go on Russia wise for…
2. 3:39look back to the past to know how to address the future I thank a cottage…
3. 7:49give medical device medical advice but I do say one of the most fundamental principles and…
4. 11:29of doubt and some doctors would say it's safe and others would say it's not safe…
5. 15:36mistake to just go full blast ahead and throw away the masks and disregard social distancing…
6. 19:19although the CDC has not come out and said that we can rely on the antibodies…
7. 23:30theoretically there might be hundreds of people that are infected but they have relatively mild symptoms…
8. 27:16planning to leave my home because flying is risk and I think this is a time…
9. 31:26Hermosilla goes to 20 shows every morning and in 19 out of the 20 shows he…
10. 35:04but I do think that the signals and address people should not feel bad about that…

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