Fauci's New Vaccine Hopes For 2021; A Pandemic Election
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
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KUT's Ashley Lopez reports, since naturalization ceremonies have been halted due to the pandemic, thousands who were due to become U.S. citizens over the last few weeks are now in limbo.
Public health workers are encountering resistance, online harassment and even violent threats as they conduct contact tracing and other containment strategies in their local communities. NPR's Will Stone has more.
Plus, a visit to the Six Feet Away Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, and an update on a coronavirus vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | Scientists could know whether they have a vaccine ready for use in less than six months. |
| 0:05.7 | We're talking November or December. Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week, |
| 0:10.6 | which means that by that time we hopefully would have close to a hundred million doses. |
| 0:16.8 | And by the beginning of 2021 we hope to have a couple of hundred million doses. |
| 0:22.7 | But even two hundred million doses would leave millions of Americans without one. |
| 0:29.5 | Plus it's not yet clear how many people would agree to get a vaccine. How many doses a |
| 0:35.2 | single person would need for immunity or how long that immunity would last. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm concerned a little bit more about what the durability of response. |
| 0:45.7 | Fauci said we do develop protection from less harmful coronavirus like some that cause the |
| 0:50.5 | common cold. But the durability of protection is only measured, you know, in the year or less. |
| 0:57.6 | Isn't it a guarantee ever that you're going to get an effective vaccine? |
| 1:02.5 | Coming up one thing you can't do over zoom is become a naturalized citizen. |
| 1:08.0 | What that means for people hoping to vote this year. This is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Wednesday June 3rd. |
| 1:21.5 | Okay so about voting. This week we got a small taste of how the November elections might go. |
| 1:27.6 | And it's going to be complicated. We are really in on charter territory for voting in America. |
| 1:34.9 | Marsha Johnson Blanco is with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under law which |
| 1:39.1 | provides legal tools to expand voting. Eight states and the District of Columbia had primary |
| 1:44.8 | elections on Tuesday in the middle of a pandemic and a national protest movement. |
| 1:50.7 | All of those places had mail-in ballot options which is one reason in person turnout was |
| 1:56.8 | down in a lot of places. But Johnson Blanco said voters in some places didn't receive ballots |
| 2:03.6 | on time. Some polling places were understaffed. And then of course recently we've seen the impact |
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