Covid-19 model projects 310,000 U.S. deaths by December

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Trump says his administration is delivering “one victory after another” as more than 175,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. A key model now projects 310,000 Covid-19 related deaths by December but nearly 70,000 lives could be saved if people wear masks consistently. Dr. Chris Murray is the director of the group at the University of Washington that’s been working on these models throughout the pandemic. He tells Anderson Cooper in order to help save almost 70,000 Americans, political leaders, business leaders and community leaders need to take charge and put mask mandates with “some teeth” in place. Plus, Steven Bannon is calling his arrest a “political hit job.” The former White House Chief Strategist was arrested on federal charges of fraud tied to a fundraising campaign allegedly trying to help Trump’s border wall. Anthony Scaramucci briefly worked alongside Bannon in the White House and it was pretty well-known the two didn’t get along. He joins AC360 to react to Bannon’s arrest and says he’s “just not a good guy.” Airdate: August 21, 2020 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening more than 175,000 Americans have now lost their lives the coronavirus pandemic
0:06.3	and more than 5.6 million have now been infected.
0:09.5	We crossed that terrible milestone just late today.
0:12.2	At about the same time the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
0:17.1	released yet another new forecast.
0:19.7	This time predicting a death toll of 310,000 people in this country by December.
0:25.4	The Institute's director joins us shortly to talk about that.
0:28.1	We begin though keeping them honest with the Trump administration's defense against
0:31.4	allegations that a key institution for preserving the right to vote in a pandemic.
0:35.7	The post office is being systematically crippled with the president's approval by a major
0:40.1	campaign donor of his who happens to run it.
0:42.9	By now you've probably seen video like this of uprooted mailboxes and massive sorting
0:46.5	machines being taken offline or in some cases also being taken apart.
0:51.1	Just last week the Postal Service warned 46 states it can't guarantee that all mail-in
0:55.5	ballots will arrive in time to be counted.
0:58.5	And it's hard not to connect that potential effect, disenfranchising potentially tens of
1:02.9	millions of people with the video above.
1:05.9	Those are just some of the things Postmaster General Lewis DeJoy has been overseeing in
1:09.7	just his first months on the job.
1:12.2	The changes have already slowed the delivery of prescription drugs, government disability
1:16.3	payments, even live chicks to farmers.
1:19.1	Testifying today before the Senate Homeland Security and governmental affairs committee,
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