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Today, Explained

Lockdown while locked up

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Arthur Longworth calls Sean from Washington State Reformatory to explain what it's like to serve a life sentence at a prison where the coronavirus is spreading. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, April 1st, 2020, but you'd be a fool to play a prank on someone at a

0:08.4

time like this.

0:09.4

I'm Sean Ramas from, and this is your coronavirus update from today's point.

0:18.8

It's Census Day, the US Census Bureau have to suspend field operations for the time being,

0:24.4

but it's still counting on you to help get this thing done by the end of the year.

0:28.5

You can head to my2020census.gov to take it.

0:32.2

I did mine this morning.

0:33.7

There is no citizenship question on the census if you're wondering.

0:37.2

And if you're also wondering if this pandemic is essentially our generation's world war,

0:42.1

the answer is evidently yes.

0:44.3

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guideres today said COVID-19 is the greatest

0:50.2

test that we have faced together since the formation of the United Nations.

0:55.6

The UN is estimating that something like 25 million people will lose their jobs worldwide,

1:01.5

bringing a recession that quote, probably has no parallel in the recent past.

1:08.1

The number of confirmed cases around the world is now approaching a million with close

1:12.6

to 50,000 deaths the death toll in the United States is now over 4,000 more than we lost

1:19.1

on 9.11.

1:20.4

And also that's more than officially died in China because of COVID-19.

1:24.7

The US intelligence is now confirming a long held suspicion that China has been under

1:30.3

reporting the toll of COVID-19.

1:32.9

According to Bloomberg News, not Michael, the intelligence community turned in a classified

1:38.5

report to the White House that says China concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak.

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