Defunding Covid-19

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but certain corners of Congress don’t want to spend a penny more on it. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argues for $100 billion in new spending to fight Covid-19. This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we're starting with breaking news from Capitol Hill just coming in.
0:07.0	Congress just passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill.
0:10.7	Guess how much money was set aside for fighting COVID-19?
0:13.5	It's a nice, easy, round number.
0:16.3	$0.00!
0:18.9	Which is strange considering a thousand or so Americans are still dying a day to figure
0:22.8	out what's going on in Washington.
0:24.3	I hit up Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.
0:26.8	I have no official capacity.
0:28.8	I used to work at the White House.
0:30.2	I happen to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:33.5	It's fair to say the White House picks your brain sometimes.
0:36.0	Hopefully not in a North-Coptic kind of way.
0:38.7	Zeke and some of his health policy pals recently got together.
0:42.2	We were not asked by the White House to get together.
0:44.5	And came up with a strategic plan for how the United States can get past the pandemic.
0:49.0	And it too costs a nice, easy, round number.
0:51.9	$100 billion.
0:54.3	We're going to figure out what's up with the discrepancy between the two figures.
0:58.0	Let's today explain.
0:59.0	Shopping for the holidays on Instacart means you can get some gifts delivered in as little
1:07.8	as 60 minutes.
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