Hi, this is Lucy. I'm in Berkeley, California and I'm doing online school in my backyard while eating Swedish fish and playing with my chicks

This podcast was quoted at that sounds great. I guess if you're gonna do an online school doing it in Berkeley is not the worst place in the world

It's a one twenty four Eastern on Friday November 13th things may have changed since then. All right, here's the show

Oh my gosh are those little chickens in the background. That's amazing

Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I covered Joe Biden. I'm Kelsey Snelli cover congress

And we are joined again by Allison Aubrey of NPR's health team. Hey Allison. Hey there good to be here

So you're here because

Coronavirus is yet again surging in a very serious way more than 10 million people in the US have now had confirmed cases

Of course more than 240,000 people have died from COVID-19 and

We are now experiencing a third surge across the country and Allison

It's just unlike anyone that we've seen before you know, Scott

It's almost hard to talk about hot spots now because the virus is really circulating

So widely throughout the nation and cases as you point out are surging

I mean just over the last several days there's been an average of about of about 130,000 new cases

per day that is a

70% increase compared to just a few weeks ago about

65,000 people are hospitalized deaths are rising to so you know, you look around the country

What's happening? Chicago is now under a stay-at-home advisory in New York the governor has announced new limits on

Social gatherings no more than 10 people gathering and public health experts are saying there should probably be tighter

Restrictions nationwide

Yeah, and and the thing that affects the politics of this it affects the public health of this and I think it affects

Our mental attitudes and many many other things is that I keep thinking about how in the spring there was this this

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