Don't Believe Every COVID Count You Read
What A Day
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
COVID cases are rising again in the U.S. In just the past month alone, the average number of confirmed cases has doubled according to the CDC. But with many people using at-home rapid tests where results don’t get reported to officials, the actual case count could be much higher. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, epidemiologist and host of Crooked’s “America Dissected,” joins us to discuss how to get an accurate estimate of the surge as we head into summer.
And in headlines: The first Russian soldier convicted of war crimes in Ukraine was sentenced to life in prison, the Southern Baptist Convention covered up allegations of mishandled sexual abuse, and outgoing Congressman Madison Cawthorn is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.
Show Notes:
- Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s “More Context, Less Conflict” – https://www.youtube.com/abdulelsayed
- Vote Save America – https://www.votesaveamerica.com/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 24th. I'm Priyanka Arabandi. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What a Day, where we're rooting against the heat |
| 0:13.2 | of our planet and also the heat and the NBA playoffs. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I know nothing about basketball, but I do know we always root against the heat. |
| 0:21.5 | Who's rooting for them? |
| 0:22.5 | Certainly not I. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, the first Russian soldier convicted of war crimes in Ukraine has been |
| 0:34.8 | sentenced to life in prison. Plus, the White House is trying to walk back President Biden |
| 0:39.5 | statement that he would use our military to help Taiwan if China invaded. |
| 0:43.6 | But first, COVID cases are rising again in the US. And just the past month alone, the |
| 0:48.8 | average number of confirmed cases has doubled according to the CDC. And the American |
| 0:53.3 | Academy of Pediatrics says that among kids cases spiked 72% in the two weeks ending last |
| 0:59.8 | Thursday. |
| 1:00.8 | Can confirm one of my children was diagnosed today with COVID. So really hit in home. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah, been a rough day for the law team. |
| 1:08.7 | Truly. |
| 1:09.7 | To make matters worse, experts say Americans can assume that infections are actually five |
| 1:13.4 | to ten times more than the official count. There are many reasons for that. One that |
| 1:18.0 | you or someone you know might have gone through for instance, you know, for those of us who |
| 1:21.4 | use those handy rapid tests that we got from the government, getting a positive at home |
| 1:26.1 | and then quarantining. That's happened to me both times I had COVID. There's no actual |
| 1:30.6 | official record of you having COVID. You might know your friends might know, but the government |
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