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What A Day
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🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
New York’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association. AG Letitia James alleges that the NRA has engaged in years of corruption.
In the absence of a federal testing strategy, seven governors have formed a purchasing agreement in attempts to get faster COVID antigen tests. In California, problems with the state’s data system may be creating inaccurate coronavirus data.
And in headlines: Minneapolis won’t vote to dismantle the police department, an exiled Saudi intelligence officer says MBS tried to kill him, and Nintendo reports a huge earnings boost.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 7th. I'm Gideon Ressik, and I'm Tommy Vsward filling in for Akila Hughes. |
| 0:11.2 | And this is what a day where we are always going to remember where we were when we heard the |
| 0:15.2 | President say, Fyland. You really do have to work hard to say Thailand like that, and I'm honestly |
| 0:20.9 | impressed. You know, more countries should be named after parts of the human body. Here here. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, the current state of testing and the future of the NRA, Fence and Headlines. |
| 0:40.2 | But first, the latest. New jobless claims topped one million again for the 20th straight |
| 0:44.8 | week, and later this morning, the labor department is going to let us know the official unemployment |
| 0:48.9 | rate as of July. It's not expected to be good, as new infections one up last month and some |
| 0:53.6 | lockdown restrictions that have been lifted were put back in place. The economic crisis is |
| 0:58.0 | inextricably linked to the health crisis, which the US still doesn't have control of. |
| 1:02.2 | And we are still struggling to get our arms around testing and tracking. So let's check in on that. |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, struggling is right. So testing issues have manifested in a lot of different ways in many states. |
| 1:12.7 | In California, for instance, recently there have been technical problems with the electronic |
| 1:16.4 | system that the state uses to actually gather test result data from labs. And according to the |
| 1:20.8 | Los Angeles Times, that's led to concerns that cases are being undercounted and not properly |
| 1:25.2 | reported back to the counties for contact tracing and other response measures. |
| 1:28.9 | Reportedly, the data sharing between the state and local counties has gotten so bad that |
| 1:32.9 | Los Angeles has resorted to asking people who test positive to call the LA Public Health Department |
| 1:38.4 | and just tell them themselves. And then it is very dark. And then another ongoing issue is still |
| 1:45.1 | just the lagging test result times in many places across the US. According to a recent |
| 1:49.3 | national survey by researchers from a cohort of universities, including Harvard and Northwestern, |
| 1:53.4 | about 10% of people reported waiting over 10 days for results. And the average weight time in July |
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