Captain America: Culture War
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Scientists worldwide want the World Health Organization to take a stronger stance on airborne transmission of COVID-19. In the US, records were set last week for the highest number of daily cases, with hotspots that led some governors to halt re-openings or begin re-closings.
Trump gave some hall-of-fame dumb speeches this week, stoking division by focusing on “cancel culture”, then adding to the confusion around coronavirus by downplaying the disease’s severity.
And in headlines: new opinions to come from SCOTUS, sports teams consider name changes, and some fish eggs that don’t give a duck.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 6th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we're back from hiatus and glad |
| 0:12.4 | no news happened while we were away. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, that was super cool how the world just totally paused for seven days. |
| 0:17.4 | You know, we need to channel our powers and use them for good. |
| 0:20.0 | I've always been saying that. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, you're right. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show coronavirus in reality versus coronavirus in Donald Trump's fantasy, |
| 0:34.2 | then some headlines. |
| 0:35.3 | But first the latest a month ago, one in 10 people were testing positive today. |
| 0:40.4 | It's one in four. |
| 0:41.7 | The number of people who are getting sick and going to the hospitals has exponentially |
| 0:45.6 | increased the number of people in our ICU beds has exponentially increased. |
| 0:50.1 | In fact, if we don't get our hands around this virus quickly in about two weeks, |
| 0:55.6 | our hospital system could be in serious, serious trouble. |
| 0:59.3 | That was Houston mayor Sylvester Turner on face the nation yesterday talking about the |
| 1:03.2 | COVID outbreak in his city in Houston and across the United States. |
| 1:07.0 | Coronavirus trend lines are continuing to climb. |
| 1:09.4 | The country hit multiple daily records for cases in the past week, |
| 1:12.5 | surpassing 50,000 on several days. |
| 1:15.0 | And if you look over the last two weeks, cases have risen by 80 to 90%. |
| 1:19.2 | As we've been tracking, much of the growth is driven by outbreaks across the South and West. |
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