Checks and Balance: The American way
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
America has passed a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from covid-19. Many Americans think the country has been hit uniquely hard and that the president’s bungled response is to blame. That view is not borne out by international comparisons. But, as all 50 states reopen with the virus still prevalent, Americans are right to be nervous. How will America’s efforts to recover impact the presidential race?
John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, hosts with Charlotte Howard, New York bureau chief, and Washington correspondent Jon Fasman. US policy correspondent Idrees Kahloon and Henry Curr, our economics editor, also join.
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| 0:40.2 | On Thursday the 6th of February, Patricia Dowd, a manager at a Silicon Valley chip company, |
| 0:48.7 | was working from home. |
| 0:50.4 | She was recovering from flu symptoms, but at 57, she was otherwise healthy. |
| 0:55.8 | Her sudden death that day, two hours after emailing a colleague, mystified the medical |
| 1:00.7 | examiner. |
| 1:02.4 | It was five days before the disease that had already killed a thousand people in China |
| 1:06.7 | was given a name, and it was another two months before Santa Clara County health officials |
| 1:11.8 | could confirm Patricia Dowd was the first person known to have died from COVID-19 in America. |
| 1:18.5 | Now the disease has killed a hundred thousand Americans. |
| 1:22.2 | This is Chex and Balance. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm John Prado, the economist's US editor, and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections. |
| 1:33.4 | Each week we take one big theme, shaping American politics, and explore it in depth. |
| 1:39.2 | Today, how well has America responded to COVID-19? |
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