HEALS Act Proposed, Pilgrimage in a Pandemic & MLB Season in Jeopardy- Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, July 28th, 2020!
We have updates about:
- the latest progress in the race for a coronavirus vaccine
- what's included in the new GOP relief bill
- who from President Trump's inner circle tested positive for COVID-19
- why the Major League Baseball season is already in jeopardy, just four days in
- which big tech company expanded its work-from-home policy
- another new popular hobby: what Americans are buying up
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
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Sources:
WHO: "Most Severe Emergency" Ever: BBC, The Hill, WHO
U.S. COVID Deaths Rise: Johns Hopkins, Reuters, Axios
National Security Adviser Gets COVID: Bloomberg, Politico, AP, Axios
Moderna Trial Enters Final-Stage Testing: WSJ, CNN, NY Times, Reuters
Republicans Release Stimulus Proposal: WSJ, Axios, WaPo, AP
More Federal Agents to Portland: WaPo, FOX News, Reuters, NPR
Hajj Pilgrimage Begins: AP, Al Jazeera, National Geographic
Miami Marlins Outbreak: USA Today, CBS News, NBC News
Google Employees WFH into Next Summer: TechCrunch, CBS News, NBC News
Surge in Boat Sales: AP, Fortune, Fox Business
Fauci's Baseball Card a Bestseller: CNN, USA Today, Sports Illustrated
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, July 28th. |
| 0:02.0 | We've got updates today about the latest progress in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. |
| 0:06.0 | What's included in the GOP's new relief bill, |
| 0:08.8 | and who in President Trump's inner circle tested positive for COVID-19. |
| 0:13.0 | Plus the Major League Baseball season is already in jeopardy just four days in. |
| 0:16.8 | A big tech company expanded its work-from-home policy, |
| 0:19.8 | and another new popular hobby, |
| 0:21.6 | what Americans are buying more of now. Plus hang out for your |
| 0:24.8 | new trivia question at the end of the show. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome, welcome to the news The coronavirus pandemic really is unlike any other public health emergency in recent history. |
| 0:48.8 | At least that's what the World Health Organization is now saying. |
| 0:51.6 | The WHO's Director General called COVID-19 easily the most |
| 0:54.9 | severe emergency the agency has ever declared. And that's a big deal since the |
| 0:59.5 | WHO has also declared global health emergencies for Ebola, zeka, polio and the swine flu. |
| 1:05.2 | But COVID-19 is something else entirely. |
| 1:07.7 | As the WHO's leader puts it, quote, COVID-19 has changed our world. |
| 1:11.9 | It has brought people, community, and nations together |
| 1:14.3 | and driven them apart. |
| 1:15.9 | So far worldwide, more than 16 million COVID-19 cases |
| 1:19.5 | have been confirmed since January, |
| 1:21.8 | and the number of cases doubled in the past six weeks. |
| 1:25.1 | Overall, about 653,000 people have died from it. |
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