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CDC Data Goes Dark

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Trump administration mandated that hospitals no longer send their data to the CDC, and the public appears to have lost access to key data. Alexis Madrigal, staff writer and co-founder of The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, joins to explain what happened and why it matters as states seek to reopen. Support the show by subscribing to The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey Jim.

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Hey, Kevin. Hey, we got a, uh, some feedback from some

0:36.4

listeners, which I thought was a good note about Wednesday's episode,

0:40.4

about taking planes right now and the safety of it. We talked about the space of the

0:45.6

plane, but we didn't talk about, you know, you have to take a car to get there, you have to

0:49.4

check in, you have to sit in the security line, you stand in the security line, you have to sit in the security line you have to sit in the terminal you have to

0:54.8

get on the plane you know yeah so your recommendation about the plane was it's like for

0:59.0

various reasons it can be managed if you're really careful and aware of the risks but does the

1:05.0

calculation change when you're taking into account the getting there and the

1:08.6

and the leaving? Yeah you know I think a lot of people have been concerned about and asking about planes themselves because it seems clearly like a big red flag, a bunch of people sealed together shoulder to shoulder in this vessel for a long period of time.

1:24.2

That's like everything we're told to avoid.

1:26.4

And the surprising thing there is that that is actually

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