3 Million Cases And Counting, U.S. Faces Same Problems From Beginning Of Pandemic
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
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Summary
The United States has more than 3 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus and is still facing the same problems from the early days of the pandemic, including a lack of PPE, slow testing and not enough contact tracing.
Doctors are using a new antigen test that is a faster way to spot people infected with the coronavirus. NPR's Rob Stein reports it's cheaper and simpler but may be less reliable.
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| 0:24.3 | Today, the Supreme Court made it harder for women to get access to birth control. |
| 0:30.4 | Until now, under the Affordable Care Act, nearly all employers that provided insurance |
| 0:35.1 | plans had to include birth control coverage without a copay. |
| 0:39.4 | Today's ruling was a win for the Trump administration. |
| 0:42.4 | Now more employers can refuse to cover free birth control for religious or moral reasons. |
| 0:48.4 | I fully respect employers' religious or moral objections to contraception. |
| 0:55.0 | Kathleen Sybilius was Health and Human Services Secretary for the Obama administration |
| 0:59.7 | when the law was first put in place. |
| 1:01.7 | But barring their employees from a benefit that they should be entitled to barring their |
| 1:08.2 | employees' spouses and their employees' dependent daughters from being in a situation |
| 1:13.2 | that they can access this benefit, I find to be quite troubling. |
| 1:17.6 | In her dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, by the government's own count, up to |
| 1:22.7 | 126,000 women will immediately lose access to no-cost contraceptive services. |
| 1:30.2 | Coming up, the United States now has three million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. |
| 1:35.5 | A lot of those cases are in places that didn't have them before, but in so many ways, the |
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