Leaky Projectors
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A leaked government projection shows the US daily death toll from Covid-19 reaching 3,000 by June, which would almost double the current rate. Both the model's creator and the White House say that number shouldn’t be taken at face value.
The FDA announced that companies selling antibody tests have to submit data that proves their accuracy within the next 10 days or face the possibility of getting removed from the market.
And in headlines: a former VP at Amazon resigns over the company’s treatment of whistleblowers, Costco limits meats, and former Governor Matt Bevin predicts a Pulitzer prize.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 5th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Reste. And this is what day wishing you a very happy Cinco de Mayo. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, it's not Mexican Independence Day. If I see you wearing a sombrero for any reason, |
| 0:18.2 | you're going to catch some hands. |
| 0:19.8 | I will come to your house. I will not come to your house. I promise. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, goodbye, Jay Crew. Hello, Carnival Crews. Then some headlines. |
| 0:38.1 | Oh, cute. You had some little rhymes there. |
| 0:39.8 | They kind of sort of right. |
| 0:41.2 | All right. Well, let's just get into the latest. |
| 0:43.7 | We got some updates on reopening plans from a couple of the country's biggest states. |
| 0:47.5 | California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that bookstores, music stores, |
| 0:50.8 | florists, and other retailers can reopen for pickup as early as Friday. |
| 0:54.8 | The plan allows for decision making to take place at a local level, |
| 0:58.1 | but requires that counties meet requirements for hospital beds, |
| 1:01.0 | testing kits, and contact tracing before moving any further ahead. |
| 1:04.7 | Then in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo listed seven requirements that regions around the state |
| 1:09.7 | would have to meet before easing local restrictions similar to California. |
| 1:13.4 | That includes testing, contact tracing, and hospitalization thresholds. |
| 1:17.3 | Currently, New York City is only meeting three of the requirements. |
| 1:20.4 | So it could be one of the last places to start returning to some sort of new normal. |
| 1:25.2 | All right. Well, we also have some news to get into on projections for COVID-19 cases in the next |
| 1:30.1 | month. So let's get into that. Yeah. So one of the big headlines from yesterday was this draft |
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