Lockdown, reopen, repeat

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🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Hospitals are stretched to their breaking point in Texas, Arizona, and other states where Covid-19 cases are rising sharply. Vox’s Dylan Scott says the US could be in store for more lockdowns. And more reopenings. And more lockdowns… Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Over the weekend we reached a new COVID-19 milestone, half a million deaths worldwide.
0:16.8	And more than a quarter of those deaths have been here in the US where we've had 2.5 million
0:21.9	confirmed COVID cases.
0:24.2	Four states hitting one day records, nearly 10,000 positive tests in Florida, almost 2,000
0:30.5	new cases in Georgia, in Arizona this weekend, almost 1 in 10 testing positive.
0:37.2	But the Trump administration is still super excited about states reopening.
0:41.8	We have made a truly remarkable progress in moving our nation forward.
0:48.3	We've all seen the encouraging news as we open up America again, more than 3 million
0:53.0	jobs created in the last job report.
0:56.1	And the president's top economic adviser Larry Cudlow says the risk of more COVID deaths
1:00.8	is just the cost of doing business.
1:03.2	We're going to have hotspots.
1:04.2	There's no question we have now and you know Texas and parts of the South, the Carolina's
1:10.6	Arizona.
1:11.6	We just have to live with that.
1:13.8	But local leaders are sounding the alarm.
1:16.2	We're going to have to dial it back because of what we see with the data.
1:21.8	And we're going to have to dial it back because I want to make sure that if we have to
1:28.5	help somebody that we can help somebody.
1:33.0	Right now team reopen everything seems to be winning.
1:36.5	Dylan Scott has been covering the reopening for Vox.
1:39.5	Florida, Texas, Arizona in particular are the places that people are watching closely
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