It Goes Omicron And On
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
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Summary
Omicron cases were found in at least 17 U.S. states and they aren’t all due to travel to southern Africa. Public health officials and experts say that the variant was possibly circulating in the U.S. prior to its initial discovery across the globe, but it’s too early to tell if it causes more severe disease.
Descendants of Black revolutionary leader Marcus Garvey have requested that President Joe Biden grant a posthumous pardon to Garvey. As president, Biden has the power to grant clemency but has not exercised it at all during his term.
And in headlines: prosecutors charged the parents of Ethan Crumbley with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, tensions at the Russia-Ukraine border grew, and the U.S. Navy shut down a drinking water well in Honolulu that was contaminated with petroleum and that made residents sick.
Show Notes:
NY Times: “Before Even Receiving a Name, Omicron Could Have Spread in New York and the Country” – https://nyti.ms/3DqUxsI
Justice in America: “What Happened to Clemency?” – https://bit.ly/3rEnYVR
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 6th. I'm Gideon Resonant. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice. And this is what a day. Reminding David Purdue to get his working |
| 0:13.9 | man jeans out of the closet as he runs for office again in Georgia. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, the man is a multi-multimillionaire, but his down-home jeans almost fooled everyone |
| 0:23.2 | when he ran for Senate. Maybe they will work when he runs for governor. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, politics is basically just jeans. On today's show, descendants of the Black Revolutionary |
| 0:33.7 | Leader Marcus Garvey asked President Biden to pardon him, plus officials have charged the |
| 0:38.6 | parents of the 15-year-old accused of killing four students at his Detroit area school last week. |
| 0:44.0 | But first, let's begin with an update on all of our good friends, O'Macron, the variant. |
| 0:49.8 | What's going on? We know it's in, as of last night, about 15 states. We know we have |
| 0:55.8 | several dozen cases, and we're following them closely. And we are every day hearing about more |
| 1:01.6 | and more probable cases. So that number is likely to rise. That was CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Wollinsky |
| 1:07.6 | on ABC's This Week, yesterday. So Gideon, where are those cases that she mentioned? And what |
| 1:13.4 | else have we learned over the past couple days? Yeah, unfortunately, we're still waiting on |
| 1:17.2 | quite a bit of information. I think we are getting closer than that. But as of recording Sunday night, |
| 1:23.6 | there have been O'Macron cases found in even more states since Wollinsky spoke there. I think it's |
| 1:28.5 | at least 17 states, as we're speaking. And as we mentioned previously, it is not all from travel |
| 1:33.2 | to Southern Africa. So experts think that there is communities throughout that's happening already, |
| 1:38.1 | which is part of the reason why Wollinsky and others are expecting these numbers to only go up. |
| 1:42.4 | Can you explain the science of why it takes so much time for officials to identify new cases? |
| 1:49.0 | I can try. So part of the reason why we're not uncovering all these in real time as it were |
| 1:54.7 | is that approximately 14% or so of all identified positive cases in the US are being sequenced. |
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