How Long Will Social Distancing Last?

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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As the number of cases continues to rise, and the death toll mounts, President Trump extends his social distancing guidelines by one month. But just how long could those guidelines last? Plus, checking in on how frontline medical workers are holding up and what they need to combat this crisis.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director.
0:08.3	This is the Daily D.C.
0:10.2	After publicly stating he wanted to open the country up, President Trump changed course.
0:15.3	And yesterday announced his decision to extend federal social distancing guidelines until April 30th, a month from today.
0:25.1	The better you do, the faster this whole nightmare will end.
0:32.6	Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread.
0:41.0	That news comes as his top infectious disease doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has spent the past two days preparing people for exactly how bad this could possibly get.
0:52.6	I would not be surprised. I don't want to see it. I'd like to avoid it.
0:57.2	But I wouldn't be surprised if we saw 100,000 debt.
1:00.2	Joining me now to help us understand the latest on the diseases spread and how you can stay safe in this time.
1:06.9	CNN Medical Analyst and the host of not one but two podcasts, epidemic and American diagnosis,
1:13.0	is Dr. Celine Gounder.
1:14.7	Thank you so much for being here, doctor.
1:16.4	Oh, happy to be here.
1:17.3	I am sitting here in Manhattan in New York City.
1:20.3	It's possible you may hear some sirens in the background as we chat here.
1:24.1	So let's start with the president who just days ago had suggested Easter Sunday
1:31.1	might be the day that America would be raring to get back to work and back to normal.
1:35.8	I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.
1:42.8	Has now listened to Dr. Berks, Dr. Fauci, looking at various data points over the weekend and
1:49.9	saying quite clearly the federal social distancing guidelines that were initially set up as a 15-day
1:56.1	time period that was coming to an end today will now be extended until the end of April, April 30th.
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