Contact Tracing: There's An App For That
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Contact tracing apps have been adopted in countries around the world to track the spread of COVID-19, but they’re not being used as much in the US. American tech companies are working to get these apps up-and-running… despite some privacy concerns. Cybersecurity reporter Patrick Howell O'Neill joins the show to update us on how these apps are working worldwide.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Fed Chair Jerome Powell took questions from the Senate yesterday on how we’ll get out of the current economic crisis. They offered up starkly different opinions on how the US can avoid permanent economic damage.
And in headlines: major corporations cut ‘hazard pay’ for essential workers, Qatar Airlines takes a pumped-up approach to PPE, and the data scientist who made Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard gets axed for refusing to fudge data.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 20th. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm getting a rest in the second. This is what a day where we're doing our own indoor summer vacation just by cranking the heat up real high. |
| 0:15.1 | Yeah, I feel like if I sweat enough, then it means it's officially summer. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, if I am a damp, disgusting fool on the floor, but it's time for summer. |
| 0:26.6 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, other countries and a few states are using cell phones to track the spread of COVID-19. |
| 0:40.0 | We check in on how that's going and then some headlines. |
| 0:42.8 | But first, the latest graduates adults don't tell you this, but once or twice a week in real world life, |
| 0:50.4 | someone's going to ask you to climb a giant rope. No reason. Just climb the rope. |
| 0:55.3 | Sure, every now and then the rope isn't metaphor, but honestly, most of the time, |
| 0:59.2 | it's just a big rope and you have to climb it. |
| 1:02.0 | If you don't get that joke, talk to your mom and dad back in the day when we were a lot thinner than you people are. |
| 1:09.2 | There's a lot to unpack here, mostly that he's, you know, insulting the graduating class. |
| 1:15.3 | But that was Nebraska's Senator Ben Sass giving just a truly bizarre, |
| 1:19.8 | menacing virtual graduation speech over the weekend. |
| 1:22.9 | One of the most unnerving pieces of content to come out of the pandemic for sure. |
| 1:26.8 | But in news, the World Health Organization wrapped up their global meeting yesterday with a promise |
| 1:31.4 | to conduct an impartial independent review of their response to the coronavirus pandemic, |
| 1:36.3 | even as they continue to fight it. Aside from President Trump, who is continuing to threaten the |
| 1:40.9 | organization by pulling all US funding, other countries around the world mostly decided now is not |
| 1:46.2 | a good time to hobble the WHO. In the United States, Treasury Secretary Steve Manuchin and Fed |
| 1:51.5 | Chair Jerome Powell took questions from the Senate about the economic crisis and how to get out of it. |
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