It's Thursday, June 25th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day where we've now done almost as many

episodes in quarantine as we did in the studio.

Yeah, and to celebrate we're going to stay in quarantine.

Yeah, more of the same from us, to be honest, it's the safer choice.

Today's show Congress takes one step forward and one step back on police reform than some

headlines.

But first, the latest. On Wednesday, the country hit its single day high and new confirmed

coronavirus cases since the start of this entire pandemic. That's according to tracking

from the Washington Post. More than 36,000 cases were reported. The prior high was in late

April, so it certainly seems like the country is regressing, at least in some states, like

California, Texas, Arizona, and Florida. So we know that these cases are climbing and

we know that public health officials always said that reopening would lead to more cases.

But now that we are here, are we getting any actual policy responses?

That would be logical, right? Well, mostly we're seeing a mix of responses and it kind

of seems like at some point reality is going to catch up with the people who are making

these decisions here. For instance, Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott, who has had incredibly

confusing messaging on all of this, is now actually talking about potential local restrictions

in the state as hospitals are concerned about the surge they're seeing. More locally,

Houston mayor Silvestre Turner said the city's ICUs are filled to 97% capacity with COVID-19

patients accounting for more than a quarter in intensive care. Then in Florida, Republican

governor Ron DeSantis didn't make a policy change, but encouraged people to avoid crowds,

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