Fauci Optimistic On Vaccine; What's Different About Military Homecomings
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
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Friday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci told NPR he's seen the data and it looks "quite promising." According to Fauci, barring any setbacks, the US is on track to have a vaccine by early next year.
Millions of Americans are turning to food banks to help feed their families during the pandemic. A new federal program pays farmers who've lost restaurant and school business to donate the excess to community organizations. But even the people in charge of these organizations say direct cash assistance is a better way to feed Americans in need.
A few months ago, before the lock downs, nearly 3,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division left on a short-notice deployment to the Middle East. The 82nd is coming back is being welcomed back to a changed nation and a changed military.
Plus, about 180 people are hunkered down together in a Jerusalem hotel, recovering from COVID-19. Patients from all walks of life — Israelis, Palestinians, religious, secular groups that don't usually mix — are all getting along. Listen to the full Rough Translation podcast "Hotel Corona."
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| 0:00.0 | The president on Friday said he wants churches to open right now. |
| 0:05.2 | Right now. |
| 0:06.3 | Like this weekend. |
| 0:07.9 | The people are demanding to go to church in synagogue, go to their mosque, |
| 0:13.7 | many millions of Americans embrace worship as an essential part of life. |
| 0:18.9 | But actually it's governors and local leaders who issue guidance on whether churches |
| 0:23.6 | open or stay closed. |
| 0:25.2 | If they don't do it, I will override the governors. |
| 0:28.3 | That is authority that president Trump doesn't have. |
| 0:32.9 | Later in the same White House briefing, Dr. Deborah Burke said, |
| 0:36.0 | people who don't feel well should stay home and churches should consult local data |
| 0:42.1 | and seek guidance from local health officials about whether and how to open. |
| 0:47.5 | So because I really firmly believe a knowledgeable community can really make judgments for themselves. |
| 0:54.3 | Also on Friday, Anthony Fauci told NPR that the original timeline for a vaccine 12 to 18 months |
| 1:02.4 | is on track. |
| 1:03.4 | Now I think it is conceivable if we don't run into unanticipated |
| 1:08.0 | setbacks that we could have a vaccine that we could be beginning to deploy |
| 1:13.2 | at the end of this calendar year, December 2020 or into January 2021. |
| 1:18.9 | This weekend, Americans, honor soldiers who never came home, |
| 1:23.0 | coming up how the pandemic is changing life for those who do. |
| 1:27.2 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm Kelly McEvers. |
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