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Today, Explained

Inside the world's biggest lockdown

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered 1.4 billion Indians to stay home. The world had never seen anything like it. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, April 28th, and they are now officially more than 1 million COVID-19 cases

0:08.3

in the United States.

0:09.8

I'm Sean Rahm Esferm, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

0:14.5

Testing remains the biggest barrier between where we are and where we'd like to be in this

0:18.6

country.

0:19.6

On Monday, the President said the United States would double testing, but it looks like

0:23.3

double of not nearly enough is still just not nearly enough.

0:28.8

The President appears to be doing everything in his power to keep the B in BLT, according

0:33.6

to Bloomberg.

0:35.0

The news outlet, not the billionaire President Trump, is expected to invoke the Defense

0:38.9

Production Act in order to mandate meat production plants.

0:43.0

They open and supply Arbis with all those crucial meats, I guess.

0:47.4

This comes after factory shutdowns and mounting reports of plant worker deaths due to COVID-19.

0:53.3

Apparently, the government plans to guarantee additional protective gear for employees, but

0:57.8

unions and activists are not happy.

1:00.5

Some are going as far as to call the plan.

1:02.5

A death sentence will talk more about the nation's food supply on tomorrow's show.

1:07.5

Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin says that large companies getting more than $2 million

1:12.4

from the small business bailout fund will be audited and could face criminal liability.

1:17.9

His announcement comes after a public outcry about big old companies like Shake Shack and

1:23.2

the Los Angeles Lakers benefiting from the program to be fair both Shake Shack and the

1:28.5

Lakers have said they will return the money they got.

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