California, Here We Close
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Biden has reportedly selected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led the defense of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court last month, to lead the department of Health and Human Services. We discuss the pick.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new lockdown order takes effect today in large parts of the state, and will be in effect for at least the next three weeks but possibly longer.
The UK will begin its initial batch of COVID-19 vaccinations this week, using the drug from Pfizer. Russia began vaccinating thousands in Moscow with their Sputnik V vaccine this past weekend, and there’s reporting that China is gearing up for a rollout of vaccines, too.
And in headlines: judge orders DACA restored, hundreds of thousands of farmers strike in India, and Trump doesn’t nail the messaging in Georgia.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 7th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Resenek and this is what a day where we now think we've gotten takeout |
| 0:12.1 | from pretty much every restaurant. |
| 0:13.9 | Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of restaurants, at least 100, but between the two of us, |
| 0:17.7 | we pretty much covered all of them. |
| 0:19.1 | Uh, wait a sec. I still haven't gotten delivery from the Wetzels pretzels at Demoid International Airport. |
| 0:23.9 | All right, well hurry up. |
| 0:24.8 | Okay. |
| 0:25.0 | That's where I'm most done. |
| 0:35.2 | On today's show, California enters a new COVID lockdown and Biden makes another cabinet selection |
| 0:39.8 | this time to run the health department. Then some headlines. |
| 0:42.8 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:44.8 | We may start to see some impact on the most susceptible people probably in the month of January |
| 0:51.0 | in February, but they on a population basis for for for our lives to start getting back to normal. |
| 0:57.6 | We're talking about April or May and therefore it's absolutely vital that everybody A, |
| 1:04.2 | take comfort in the fact that we have light at the end of the tunnel and find the energy |
| 1:09.3 | in that to continue to wear our mask, distance, wash our hands, pay attention to what we're doing. |
| 1:15.3 | That was Dr. Monsef, Slowy of Operation Warp Speed in an interview on CBS yesterday, |
| 1:21.1 | talking about how vaccines once approved could start to put a dent in COVID cases |
| 1:24.9 | among the most susceptible people in the next couple of months. |
| 1:27.6 | He also said that residents in long-term care facilities would likely be getting their first |
| 1:31.4 | round of vaccinations later this month or by mid-January. |
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