Masks Are Even More Important Than We Thought
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🗓️ 11 June 2020
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Summary
In major cities across Texas there are disparities in access to COVID-19 testing, resulting in less testing in black neighborhoods than white neighborhoods.
Dr. Atul Gawande spoke with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about why face masks remain essential in dealing with the coronavirus and the efficacy of different masks.
To help with shortages of PPE, one volunteer group has used 3D printers at home to make nearly 40,000 NIH-approved face shields for health care workers and first responders.
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| 0:00.0 | March 11th. Looking back, that might have been the day everything changed. |
| 0:06.0 | Today the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic. |
| 0:13.0 | The president gave an address from the Oval Office, stock markets went way down, |
| 0:17.0 | NBA played its last games, and soon just about everything started shutting down. |
| 0:23.0 | That day was exactly three months ago. |
| 0:27.0 | We are moving very quickly. The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low. |
| 0:37.0 | It turns out the risk was very high, and more than 100,000 people lost their lives. |
| 0:43.0 | And it is not over. |
| 0:45.0 | Coming up in some places, it's a lot easier to get a test if you go to a white neighborhood, |
| 0:51.0 | and why masks are so important. |
| 0:54.0 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Thursday, June 11th. |
| 1:07.0 | It's becoming clear this week that in some states around the country, |
| 1:11.0 | states that started reopening weeks ago, the numbers, confirmed cases of coronavirus and hospitalizations, |
| 1:19.0 | are going in the wrong direction. |
| 1:22.0 | So we took early and aggressive action back in March, and we never got a first third or a first wave, |
| 1:28.0 | and that was really good. |
| 1:30.0 | Mandy Cohen is Secretary of Health and Human Services for North Carolina, |
| 1:34.0 | where the stay home order was lifted five weeks ago, like in Arizona, Florida, and Oregon. |
| 1:41.0 | The number of cases in North Carolina has nearly doubled in the last three weeks, |
| 1:46.0 | and it's been a long time since the last six weeks, and it's been a long time since the last six weeks, |
| 1:51.0 | since the last six weeks, and it's been a long time since the last six weeks, and it's been a long time since the last six weeks, |
| 1:55.0 | since Memorial Day. |
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