Atlanta Is For Voters
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🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The CDC is continuing to warn about new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus in the US, and is tracking potential spread in daycare centers and youth sports. Meanwhile, Brazil is grappling with its own new variant that has caused infections and deaths to reach new highs this week.
Republicans in Kentucky joined together with the Democratic Governor to expand voting rights in the state — bucking the trend of Republicans elsewhere in the country. We explain what’s behind the move, along with a new executive order from the mayor of Atlanta to protect her residents against Georgia’s restrictive voting law.
And in headlines: Arkansas moves forward with extreme anti-trans law, the physics of muons, and House Republicans con their own donors.
Show Notes:
Washington Post: "Brazil has become South America’s superspreader event" – https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/05/brazil-variant-coronavirus-south-america/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday April 8th. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what today the Daily News Podcast you should never |
| 0:12.7 | play backwards unless you want your mind blown. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, it's just like that Missy Elliott song where it's like, if you're a fernabra fan |
| 0:19.9 | yet like that's what it sounds like but it's pretty good. |
| 0:23.5 | Yes, I would like to hear you do that a couple more times. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's show, voting rights in Kentucky and then some headlines. |
| 0:38.4 | But first the latest. |
| 0:40.4 | Based on our most recent estimates from CDC surveillance, the B117 variant is now the most |
| 0:47.0 | common lineage circulating in the United States. |
| 0:50.7 | So that was CDC director Dr. Rochelle Wollinsky yesterday talking about the more contagious |
| 0:55.2 | variant that first appeared in the UK. |
| 0:57.6 | Officials had been warning for a minute that B117 was on the way to the US, but what |
| 1:01.3 | else do we need to know for now? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, so it is believed to be as much as 50% more transmissible. |
| 1:07.6 | And there's some evidence that it can actually cause more severe disease in young people |
| 1:11.3 | than the original strain. |
| 1:12.6 | Those are the two most worrisome things. |
| 1:15.1 | Now what we might be seeing is the variant beginning to drive overall cases up in the US combined |
| 1:19.8 | with you guessed it, all the reopening. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, so basically going to Disneyland, which is planning to reopen in just a few weeks |
| 1:26.0 | might not be the best idea right now. |
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