Fauci In "Modified Quarantine"; CA Special Election Has Lessons For November
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
And the special election in California's 25th congressional district illustrates the challenges social distancing will pose to congressional campaigns ahead of the general election.
This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and KPCC reporter Libby Denkmann.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Jeffrey and I'm calling for my new home in Olisun Norway, which I am currently cleaning so that my newborn daughter |
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| 0:09.8 | Due to coronavirus restrictions, I cannot visit her or my fantastic wife in the maternity ward |
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| 0:21.6 | 205 pm on Monday, May 11th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this |
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| 0:46.9 | Well, hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I must much hall it. I cover the presidential campaign |
| 0:51.6 | I'm Franco Ordonia as I cover the White House and I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress |
| 0:55.5 | So three of the nation's top scientific officials are now in quarantine after coming into contact with a White House staff member who tested positive for the coronavirus |
| 1:04.8 | Franco, you're at the White House right now. So just fill us in. I mean, what should we know about who these specific people are? |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, I mean Robert Redfield |
| 1:12.6 | He is the director of the CDC the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 1:17.0 | He has decided to self quit quarantine |
| 1:19.3 | So has Stephen Han the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and frankly, it's not just them who are taking precautions |
| 1:26.2 | It's also Anthony Fauci who's one of the best known members of the task force and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| 1:34.2 | He is also beginning a quote unquote modified quarantine. I'm told |
| 1:39.4 | That after he came into contact with staff member. He's gonna pull back as well |
| 1:44.1 | All these men are apparently not showing symptoms and both Han and Fauci have recently tested negative for the disease |
| 1:50.6 | But they are gonna take precautions nonetheless |
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