Florida Passes 100,000 Cases; More Young People Are Testing Positive
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🗓️ 22 June 2020
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The Trump administration has started shipping out supplies needed to ensure sufficient testing. But those supplies haven't always been very helpful and in some cases they've been hazardous. NPR's Rob Stein has the details.
Iowa is home to some 10,000 refugees from Myanmar. The coronavirus has been especially hard on them, with estimates saying as many as 70% have contracted the virus. As Iowa Public Radio's Kate Payne reports, many in the Burmese community work at local meatpacking plants, where social distancing is a constant challenge.
Preparing to visit family in long-term care facilities? NPR's Allison Aubrey has some tips to keep everyone safe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, as we've been saying, pretty soon we are going to change the name of the show to consider this |
| 0:06.6 | and start to bring you stories that are not just about the coronavirus. |
| 0:10.7 | And we're doing that because we know that people are consuming less news about the pandemic. |
| 0:17.0 | Still, just want to be clear, it doesn't mean we're going to stop covering the virus. We won't. |
| 0:21.5 | The virus is still here and so are we. For now, our email is still coronavirusdailyatNPR.org |
| 0:28.2 | and we would love to hear from you. Okay, here's the show. Florida hit a grim number today. |
| 0:36.3 | With nearly 5,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases just on Saturday, the state now has more than |
| 0:42.9 | 100,000 cases overall. And that number is growing fast. So the mayor of Miami now says the city |
| 0:51.2 | will not move into the next phase of reopening. We are not going into phase three and phase three means |
| 0:57.2 | we're not having we're not opening nightclubs. We're not opening large venues where you could have any |
| 1:03.5 | sort of large congregational people, whether it's that's mayor franceswarez, a Republican on CNN. |
| 1:09.5 | He admits the new surge in cases was in part because Florida reopened restaurants. |
| 1:15.7 | And he says a lot of the new cases are young people who could be putting older relatives in danger. |
| 1:21.3 | The fact that matter is our percentage positives are the percentage of people that test that |
| 1:25.2 | become positive has gone dramatically. Us week ago was at hovering around 8%. This week based on the |
| 1:30.8 | data that I've just been given, it's at 14%. So it's almost double. Florida Senator Rick Scott, |
| 1:36.4 | also where we're Republican said on CNBC that this is not over yet. Every one of us, |
| 1:41.9 | everybody's got to take this seriously. For your mass social distance, you know, don't go |
| 1:46.4 | places you don't have to go to. Be careful. I mean, this is it's pretty basic. This is it's still deadly. |
| 1:51.6 | Let's let's you know, we all have to be careful. By the way, Florida is not the only state where |
| 1:55.9 | cases are going up. Almost two dozen others are seeing that too. Coming up how the virus is spreading |
| 2:01.9 | among refugees from Myanmar and meat packing plants in Iowa. This is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
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