Divided States of the Pandemic

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The federal government’s early failures to manage the coronavirus shifted a heavy burden to local officials. We look at how decision-makers in two states, California and Florida, found their way to shutdown and beyond.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal.
0:08.4	I'm Al Edson.
0:09.4	It's June, five months into our national experiment of managing a contagious deadly disease
0:16.6	and the US is hurting.
0:18.8	More than 100,000 people have died of COVID-19.
0:22.5	The illness caused by the coronavirus and we're now at over 2 million people infected.
0:28.0	The disease is having a disproportionate impact on black America.
0:32.3	Black people are dying at more than twice the rate of Asian, Latin, X or white people
0:37.2	from COVID-19.
0:39.2	And in the midst of this, George Floyd, a black man's death at the hands of a white police
0:43.9	officer sparked worldwide outrage.
0:47.5	People in every state went out into the street in record numbers to protest police brutality.
0:53.6	The images from the days of protests are absolutely stunning, sometimes heartbreaking,
0:58.5	but also worrisome in the middle of a pandemic.
1:01.9	And we've moved into phase two reopening.
1:05.4	The first state to fully reopen Alaska.
1:08.4	It's been the least affected by the virus.
1:10.2	I'm a big staff in the reopening of Florida.
1:12.2	Hair and nail salons.
1:13.2	Today, Jim's all across the LoneStore state can get back it up and run.
1:17.9	The judgment on when and how to reopen is up to each state.
1:21.6	It's out, went with the shutdowns too.
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