How California Can Contain Coronavirus

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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As COVID-19 continues to spread and mutate nearly a year into the pandemic, many people struggle with assessing the risk of day-to-day activities amid a sluggish vaccine rollout. The numbers in California -- more than 3 million cases and more than 35,000 deaths -- while rising, are beginning to level out. At the same time, California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised that the state would vaccinate 1 million people in 10 days, but delayed data collection makes it unclear if the state met that goal. During his inaugural speech on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said, “We must set aside the politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation,” signaling significant policy change toward a more aggressive response from the federal government. We talk about California’s current challenges containing the virus and what state and national leadership can do to curb the spread and mounting deaths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.1	Coming up on forum, California this week hit the grim milestone of
1:28.9	becoming the first state to record more than 3 million coronavirus infections. Governor Gavin Newsom
1:34.8	promised the state would vaccinate a million people in 10 days, but delayed data collection
1:39.8	made it unclear if the state met that goal, and there are concerns the sluggish vaccine rollout,
1:45.2	combined with virus mutations, could threaten the state's recent progress on COVID-19
1:50.0	hospitalizations. We assess the situation in California with surge in coronavirus cases is finally showing signs of receding,
2:20.1	but the state's death toll remains staggeringly high, with a record 736 deaths from COVID-19
2:26.6	in a single day that was set yesterday. At the same time, another variant of the virus appears
2:32.7	to be prevalent across the state,
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