Monkeypox Is Now A Federal Health Emergency
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. declared a federal public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak on Thursday after the states of New York, California and Illinois did the same recently.
A Russian court convicted WNBA star Brittney Griner of smuggling illegal drugs into the country and sentenced her to nine years in prison — all because she had less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage.
And in headlines: the Justice Department charged four police officers for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights, the NFL appealed Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson’s six-game suspension, and Alex Jones was ordered to pay $4.1 million in damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim.
Show Notes:
- New York Times: “How the U.S. Let 20 Million Doses of Monkeypox Vaccine Expire” – https://nyti.ms/3JE82u0
- Vote Save America: Fuck Bans Action Plan – https://votesaveamerica.com/roe/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 5th. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Dr. Abdul Al-Sahid. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day, the Daily News Podcast that somehow |
| 0:13.7 | managed to survive the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery. |
| 0:18.1 | And in today's news, we've got a merger between what a day and America dissected, so there's |
| 0:22.0 | that. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, very exciting day for mergers around here. |
| 0:24.8 | I mean, some better than others. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, Russia sentenced Brittany Griner to nine years in prison. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, Alex Jones must pay over $4 million to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim. |
| 0:41.6 | And today, a jury could go even further. |
| 0:43.9 | First, yesterday, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier Bacerra, did the |
| 0:48.7 | thing he probably should have done weeks ago. |
| 0:50.9 | I will be declaring a public health emergency on monkeypox. |
| 0:54.8 | We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and |
| 0:59.5 | we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle |
| 1:05.5 | this virus. |
| 1:06.5 | It's like they're going from zero to one here. |
| 1:09.7 | This federal public health emergency follows an international declaration by the World Health |
| 1:12.9 | Organization last week, as well as declarations in the states of New York, California, Illinois, |
| 1:18.1 | and the cities of New York and San Francisco, all communities that are hardest hit by the |
| 1:21.7 | disease. |
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