Friday, January 14th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Let’s start with some better news (for once) about Omnicron. Yesterday, Biden announced that the government will double the number of rapid tests available to Americans. Also, the House of Representatives passed the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Let’s also talk about the RNC feud with the Commission on Presidential Debates. Meanwhile, the House January 6th committee asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to testify voluntarily. Plus, we share some recent data on the declining number of students enrolled in college now. Next, we share some numbers, this time on climate change. We move to a quick update on Russia, before closing with an announcement from Queen Elizabeth you won’t want to miss. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: “Is Omnicron Peaking?” AP News: “Biden to double free COVID tests, add N95s, to fight omicron” NY Times: “Sinema Says She Will Not Support Changing Filibuster” NY Times: “RNC Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates” NPR: “The top House Republican won’t comply with Jan. 6 panel request to voluntarily testify” Axios: “Blue Nashville to be split into three red congressional districts” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, January 14th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented
0:07.6	by Betcha's media.
0:08.9	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.2	It's a Friday, so let's start with some relatively good news on the Omicron Front.
0:16.4	In the Northeastern US, specifically New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, the number of cases
0:20.7	has flattened over the past few days, which suggests that Omicron may be peaking in the region.
0:26.4	Also in Boston, the amount of COVID virus detected in wastewater, which has often been
0:30.8	a leading indicator of case trends in the past, has decreased by about 40% since its peak
0:36.1	right after January 1st.
0:39.6	Also amidst these stats, yesterday President Biden announced that the government will
0:43.1	double the number of rapid tests available to Americans, from 500 million to 1 billion.
0:48.8	He also said that N95 masks would be distributed free to Americans, and over a thousand military
0:53.7	personnel will be to dispatch next week across the country to help overwhelm medical
0:57.5	facilities ease staff shortages.
1:00.0	Wow, free and widely available government resources to switchly and the pandemic?
1:04.8	What a concept!
1:07.5	Speaking of things that may have been helpful a while ago, yesterday the House of Representatives
1:11.8	passed the Freedom to Vote, John R. Lewis Act, and sent it to the Senate for immediate
1:16.0	debate.
1:17.0	Apparently, the Democrats engaged in some unique maneuvering by combining the two separate
1:21.0	voting bills already passed by the House.
1:23.4	The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and joined
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