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What A Day
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🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday brought more bad news about the current state of the pandemic, even as we got more good news about ending it in the future. The entire public school system in New York City, the largest in the country, is going fully remote as cases rise in the city. Meanwhile, the FDA gave emergency use authorization to the first at-home COVID test, and Pfizer said their vaccine is 95% effective, according to new data.
Trump’s attempts to overturn the election are ongoing, but they’re ongoing poorly. We discuss the state of play in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — where Trump’s team is targeting Black and Democratic counties. Plus, the latest on the recount in Georgia.
And in headlines: the Trump administration can no longer deport children who cross the southern border, Boeing’s 737 Max airplanes are once again approved to fly, and Apple cuts fees on small app developers but critics say it’s not enough.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday November 19th, I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what a day where we will not tolerate challenges |
| 0:12.0 | to the election results in people's sexiest man alive contest. |
| 0:15.3 | Look, Michael B. Jordan got the votes. |
| 0:17.5 | Alright, he didn't have to pull a killmonger and like prove his way to be there. |
| 0:21.1 | He deserved to be there. |
| 0:22.1 | He won. |
| 0:23.1 | That's right. |
| 0:24.1 | No one was thrown off a cliff. |
| 0:25.8 | As far as I know. |
| 0:28.1 | Art was stolen. |
| 0:35.2 | On today's show, an update on the Trump effort to delay election certification in swing |
| 0:39.0 | states, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.2 | But first the latest. |
| 0:42.6 | We're living in a strange reality where there is quite a bit of good news and scientific |
| 0:46.4 | achievements on COVID while there is unrelenting dire news about the current state of the pandemic. |
| 0:51.3 | We've now passed 250,000 deaths in the United States according to some trackers and are |
| 0:55.7 | currently averaging over 150,000 cases a day with health care workers increasingly warning |
| 1:00.5 | about buckling hospital systems in some states. |
| 1:03.4 | And then yesterday there was a scramble from New York City's mayor and governor Cuomo |
| 1:07.3 | to close down the city's public schools. |
| 1:09.3 | So let's talk about what exactly happened here. |
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