{"id":1120940,"date":"2021-12-15T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120940"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:43:42","slug":"nih-director-dr-francis-collins-sings-a-coronavirus-parody-of-somewhere-over-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-director-dr-francis-collins-sings-a-coronavirus-parody-of-somewhere-over-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins Sings a Coronavirus Parody of &#039;Somewhere over the Rainbow&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnih-director-dr-francis-collins-sings-a-coronavirus-parody-of-somewhere-over-the-rainbow%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/singalong-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins is retiring, but as part of his goodbye he played a coronavirus-themed parody of the song \u201cSomewhere over the Rainbow\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Collins debuted his performance in a Health and Human Services video featuring his final remarks to the American people before his retirement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After he spoke, he pulled out a guitar and played.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a song for you, for all of us who have been going through this pandemic and trying to imagine how\u2019s it going to feel when we\u2019re finally past that,\u201d he said as he began.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretary Becerra Thanks Dr. Francis Collins and a Special Song | 12-14-2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ta_i4NJQX3s?start=346&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic when we\u2019re free<\/em><br \/><em> There\u2019s a life I remember full of activity<\/em><br \/><em> Somewhere past the pandemic masks will come off<\/em><br \/><em> No more need for a nose swab every time we cough<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As we are gathered here today<\/em><br \/><em> Covid\u2019s toll has hit and sent us reeling<\/em><br \/><em> Our partners like the ones right here<\/em><br \/><em> Will help to make the pathway clear<\/em><br \/><em> To find the true healing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic life will resume.<\/em><br \/><em> We\u2019ll all complain about the traffic, forgetting how we hated Zoom.<\/em><br \/><em> Somewhere past the pandemic we\u2019ll hug our friends<\/em><br \/><em> And thank the people in science that brought pandemic\u2019s end<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My dozen years are almost through<\/em><br \/><em> But its been great to work with you<\/em><br \/><em> Let\u2019s end Covid now!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, President Joe Biden praised Collins during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/12\/02\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-winter-plan\/\">visit<\/a> to the National Institutes of Health, thanking him for his service.<br \/>\u201cDr. Collins is an incredible resource for our nation,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m grateful \u2014 and I mean this sincerely \u2014 I\u2019m grateful for everything he\u2019s done in this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden said he would continue to ask Collins for more advice as the pandemic continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bad news for you is you ain\u2019t getting rid of me, man,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going to keep calling you all the time because there\u2019s a lot of other things we can do \u2014 you can do and help me to get done. You just tell me \u2014 point me in the direction and I\u2019ll follow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins is retiring, but as part of his goodbye he played a coronavirus-themed parody of the song \u201cSomewhere over the Rainbow\u201d on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}