Introduction

Kirsten Bippins-Nomingo: The White House announced a major new proposal to launch a National Hepatitis C elimination program in the U.S. She talks with Dr. Francis Collins, who led the NIH for 12 years under three presidents and is currently a special advisor to President Biden on Special Projects. "We can do something here that is truly historic," he says of an opportunity to kill 15,000 people a year because we have a cure.