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Today, Explained

Giving birth in a pandemic

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Vox's Julia Belluz went from covering the global coronavirus pandemic to giving birth in the middle of it. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Sean Ramisfer and this is a coronavirus update from today's explain for Monday, March 23, 2020.

0:10.5

It's been a hectic 24 hours for the Olympics.

0:17.2

Yesterday, the head of the International Olympic Committee said that the IOC had ruled out

0:21.1

canceling the games, but was open to postponing them.

0:24.3

Shortly thereafter, Canada and Australia became the first two countries to say they would

0:28.6

not send athletes to Tokyo if the games went ahead and scheduled.

0:32.9

Then this afternoon, IOC veteran Dick Pound told USA Today that the games would be postponed

0:38.9

until 2021 with the details to be figured out in the next month.

0:43.7

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got mad today.

0:45.9

He said in a press conference, we've all seen the pictures online of people who seem to

0:50.4

think they're invincible.

0:52.0

Well, you're not.

0:53.7

Enough is enough.

0:54.7

Go home and stay home.

0:56.8

We threatened to use law enforcement to enforce the rules if necessary.

1:01.2

President Trump seemed mad today too.

1:02.8

He all caps.

1:03.8

Tweeted this is why we need borders.

1:06.3

Exclamation point.

1:07.6

The United States Senate failed to agree on what's now a $2 trillion stimulus package that

1:13.3

would shore up the country during the coronavirus crisis.

1:15.6

The crux of the disagreement appears to be a $425 billion fund.

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