Here's How The U.S. Is Responding To Coronavirus
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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That tone is in clear contrast to the messages coming from the White House. After a sharp dip in the stock market Monday, President Trump tweeted that the disease "is very much under control in the USA." He is scheduled to address the nation again tonight.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Becky Hansen and I'm Dan Hansen and we're the coaches of the Fort Ackinson debate team |
| 0:05.2 | And we are packing up the vans right now to head to the Wisconsin State debate tournament |
| 0:09.8 | This podcast was recorded on Wednesday February 26th at 2.45 pm |
| 0:16.1 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it like hopefully will have won to hardware |
| 0:22.8 | Now here's the show |
| 0:24.8 | I |
| 0:28.8 | Like that debate team swagger go team. Let's do this hey there. It's the MPR politics podcast on Susan Davis |
| 0:36.2 | I cover Congress. I'm Franco. We're donia as I cover the White House and we've got a special guest in the booth today |
| 0:42.1 | I'm the economic correspondent Scott horseley a friend of the podcast long time friend of the podcast got horse Lee |
| 0:47.6 | It's got it's good to see you but generally speaking these days when we've got you in the pod |
| 0:51.5 | It's not always the best of times. I'm sorry to be the bearer of that news |
| 0:55.4 | Well today we're talking about the coronavirus also known as COVID-19 |
| 1:00.6 | Which is the respiratory virus that originated in the Hubei province in China which now has health officials |
| 1:06.1 | Signaling alarms all over the world. It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore |
| 1:10.8 | But rather more of question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness |
| 1:18.1 | That was doctor Nancy messanier a top official at the centers for disease control |
| 1:23.1 | Franco I just want to start with you because it's important to say that the White House is |
| 1:27.0 | You know about to confront potentially a big crisis and and how are they approaching it? |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, I mean what they're trying to do is kind of control those fears that are really just growing and growing as these |
| 1:37.6 | Public officials basically say that this is going to be an inevitable |
| 1:42.5 | Spread across the United States and growing fears that this is going to be a pandemic |
| 1:46.8 | President Trump is going to host a press conference tonight |
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