Nation's Top Health Officials Testify

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Public health needs continue to stymie lawmakers' hopes for an immediate economic reopening. The nation's top health experts appeared — virtually — before a Senate committee today and provided updates on coronavirus testing and the state of the outbreak.

This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and science correspondent Richard Harris.

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0:00.0	This is Becky.
0:01.2	And Spencer, calling from Port here on Michigan.
0:03.6	We are two teachers sheltering and teaching in place.
0:06.8	We're both getting ready to read to our classes on Zoom.
0:10.2	This podcast was recorded at...
0:12.5	207 PM on Tuesday, May 12th.
0:15.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:18.3	My students will know what house Harry Potter gets sorted into.
0:21.9	And my students will know if Ann Marie was able to save Ellen.
0:25.7	Okay, here's the show.
0:27.8	Oh man.
0:31.8	So I feel like that's supposed to make sense to me, but confession here,
0:34.9	I have never read a Harry Potter book.
0:36.8	Neither have I.
0:37.7	No, we're seeing a movie.
0:38.8	Neither have you.
0:39.3	Wow, are you sure?
0:40.0	We have that commonality.
0:41.1	I'm...
0:41.7	For the only two people around.
0:44.9	Well hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:47.2	I'm a smakholid.
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