Coronavirus: What Would The Founding Fathers Do?

After over a year and a half of lockdowns, face coverings and now mask mandates, the American notion of freedom has been challenged as we know it...but not for the first time. During the Revolutionary War, the countries troops were falling not at the hands of the British, but deadly smallpox, leading George Washington to order the first known mass inoculation program. We ask what the Founders would think of today's pandemic and how they'd handle its spread. Dr. Jason Opal of McGill University and Anita Desikan of the Center for Science and Democracy share their thoughts.