Federal Stay-At-Home Guidance Ends; A Potential New Test For COVID-19
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
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| 0:00.0 | The federal guidance to stay at home ends tonight. |
| 0:03.6 | And across the country, governors are making plans for what to do next. |
| 0:08.3 | Some like Texas Governor Greg Abbott are planning to open up. |
| 0:12.0 | My executive order to stay at home is set to expire on April 30th. |
| 0:18.7 | That executive order has done his job to slow the growth of COVID-19, |
| 0:23.9 | and I will let it expire as scheduled. |
| 0:27.7 | Other governors say it's too soon, like California Governor Gavin Newsom, |
| 0:31.8 | who has announced that he will be closing beaches and state parks. |
| 0:35.9 | Specific issues on some of those beaches have raised alarm bells. |
| 0:40.2 | Coming up, millions of people are unemployed, and the rent is due on Friday, |
| 0:46.0 | and the latest on the meatpacking industry. |
| 0:48.6 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Thursday, April 30th. |
| 0:54.1 | Okay, so it is no secret that a lack of testing has made it hard to contain the coronavirus |
| 1:02.9 | in the United States. Beyond the supply shortages tests are expensive, and they take time. |
| 1:09.6 | That's why a new approach to testing could be promising. |
| 1:13.4 | That we have to have a breakthrough innovation in testing. |
| 1:16.6 | We have to be able to detect an agent, rather than constantly trying to detect the actual |
| 1:22.7 | live virus or the viral particles itself, and to really move into antigen testing. |
| 1:27.7 | That's Dr. Deborah Birx, an NBC's Meet the Press. She's talking about antigen testing, |
| 1:32.9 | something that scientists say they are close to developing. |
| 1:36.2 | These tests would be a breakthrough. Birx says because they're fast and cheap to make, |
| 1:41.1 | and anyone could use them at home. |
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