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In The Thick

ITT Sound Off: Close to Home

In The Thick

Futuro Media

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4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s ITT Sound Off, Maria and Julio continue reporting remotely, and focus on NYC — home to the headquarters of Futuro Media and the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. They talk about the rapidly evolving scenario in New York and around the country, and breakdown how COVID-19 is affecting communities of color and immigrants.  We want to keep hearing from you and how you’re COVID Coping. Tell us how you're finding joy and hope in these unprecedented times. Call us to leave a voicemail on the In The Thick hotline at (505) 226-8973 or send us a voice memo via email to inthethick@futuromediagroup.org.  ITT Staff Picks: - A PBS explainer on why social distancing is so important, especially as more people start to know of someone affected by the coronavirus. - Via NYTimes: An ER doctor at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY shared a rare look inside her hospital, which is at the center of battling the pandemic in NYC.  - An internal medicine resident physician in New York City talks about seeing an influx of young COVID-19 patients in their 20s or 30s via The Atlantic.  


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0:00.0

Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really

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grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer it. So please visit survey.

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ERX.org slash futuro to take our survey today.

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That's survey dot PRX.org slash futuro.

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Grasias.

0:25.0

Yo what's up welcome to In The Fick, I'm Marjang

0:30.0

the hostah.

0:31.0

And I'm Gullio Ricalova

0:32.0

and this is ITT sound off in the time of Corona. I mean right right here in my home studio. Yeah, but here's a good thing about having a home studio. Yeah. I have windows because I'm in my son's bedroom so like while we're

0:44.9

recording sunlight I can see the sun is shining. Same thing with me it's awesome you know and

0:49.7

I'm just like when we're recording in my studio in Harlem,

0:52.5

there ain't no sunshining through that little studio,

0:54.5

so I'm gonna be thankful for a little bit of sunshine

0:57.5

while we're recording our ITT sound off.

0:59.5

What's up Julio?

1:00.6

I'm good, I'm good, let's get to it. Let's do this.

1:06.0

So much to update you on. So the United States now has the highest number of cases in the world.

1:12.8

That's right.

1:13.2

We have more cases in China than Italy.

1:15.6

We have over 90,000 people infected.

1:18.3

New York has the most cases in the United States

1:20.8

at over 40,000 and over 500 deaths. The majority of the

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