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Today, Explained

How to slow down coronavirus

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has banned most Europeans from traveling to the US. Vox’s Jen Kirby explains why that won’t stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, and Eliza Barclay tells us what we can do to slow the spread. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.8

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0:30.0

Last night, coronavirus infection rates in the United States forced a reckoning.

0:40.1

In Oklahoma City, an NBA game was about to start when an official made an announcement.

0:44.4

Advances do to unforeseen circumstances.

0:47.0

The game tonight has been postponed.

0:50.0

You are all safe.

0:52.0

Take your time in leaving the arena tonight and do so in an orderly fashion.

0:58.4

Thank you for coming out tonight.

1:02.6

Soon after, the NBA announced that a player had tested positive for coronavirus just before

1:07.3

the game.

1:08.3

Starting tomorrow, NBA play is suspended and then the league is going to use that hiatus

1:14.5

to decide their next steps how they'll go forward.

1:17.6

But this is the last night of NBA games for the foreseeable future.

1:21.8

But the NBA wasn't the only one closing down.

1:24.1

All right, we do want to give you some breaking news because we understand now that Seattle

1:27.2

Public Schools will close for at least two weeks starting tomorrow.

1:31.8

Mosques, churches, synagogues.

1:34.0

It had already been a part of the discussion here amongst staff about what is going to

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