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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 988 - Trouble With The Curve

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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As America flattens the curve, questions arise about what comes next; the media beclown themselves with a variety of foolish narratives; and Alyssa Milano discovers due process. Check out The Cold War: What We Saw, a new podcast written and presented by Bill Whittle at https://www.dailywire.com/coldwar. In Part 1 we peel back the layers of mystery cloaking the Terror state run by the Kremlin, and watch as America takes its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership. If you like The Ben Shapiro Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: SHAPIRO and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/Shapiro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As America flattens the curve, questions arise about what comes next.

0:04.0

The media be clown themselves with a variety of foolish narratives, and Alyssa Milano discovers

0:07.9

due process.

0:08.7

I'm Ben Shapiro.

0:09.3

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

0:16.9

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0:19.7

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0:21.6

Protect yourself at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben.

0:25.1

All righty. Well, time for your coronavirus updates because once more, this is the only thing happening on planet Earth in the news at all.

0:32.4

And it's the only thing anybody cares about, which makes perfect sense.

0:34.8

The United States has passed 11,000 total deaths.

0:37.3

This comes basically a week and a half The United States has passed 11,000 total deaths.

0:43.1

This comes basically a week and a half after we were less than 3,000. The United States is seeing a significant curve in terms of cumulative deaths, but in terms of new cases, we are not seeing

0:48.3

cumulative growth. It looks more arithmetic than cumulative. It's a percentage of the new

0:52.2

tests that are being taken. We are not seeing a sharp

0:54.3

uptick in the number of new cases that are being, that are out there, more just an uptick in the

1:00.1

number of cases that are identified as we are doing more testing yesterday. New York saw 599 deaths,

1:05.2

according to Worldometers, which is the Johns Hopkins rip. Overall, the United States yesterday saw about 1,255. These are not good numbers,

1:14.4

obviously, but we are starting to see the curve flattened somewhat, and everybody is sort of

1:19.2

optimistic, right? Andrew Cuomo in New York, he said the data are hopeful but inconclusive at this point.

1:24.0

Here's the governor of New York. It is hopeful, but it's also inconclusive, and it still depends on what we do, right?

1:33.3

These models all have a coefficient of what we do and how successful we are social distancing, etc.

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