New Cases Plateau For Now As States Chart Their Own Course
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
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Around the country, different states are taking different approaches to reopening. Donald Kettl, professor of public policy at the University of Texas at Austin, says this pandemic has brought up questions about federalism.
Few online grocery delivery services accept payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP. That causes problems for recipients at high risk for COVID-19.
Plus, NPR's reporter in Nairobi finds his parents connecting with his kids through TikTok.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day in the US, there are around 30,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. That average hasn't |
| 0:07.6 | gone up much since late March, but it hasn't gone down either. So while mitigation didn't fail, |
| 0:15.2 | I think it's fair to say that it didn't work as well as we expected. |
| 0:18.9 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on CBS over the weekend, cases are still rising in |
| 0:24.5 | about 20 states, including states that are moving to reopen. |
| 0:29.2 | We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines and new cases and deaths |
| 0:33.5 | around the nation at this point, and we're just not seeing that. |
| 0:36.8 | Coming up, why so many states are doing so many different things. And what happens when grandma |
| 0:43.2 | gets on TikTok? This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Monday, May 4th. |
| 0:48.8 | We all know the hit to the economy from this pandemic has been devastating. And as the weather |
| 0:58.7 | warms up in many places, people are getting pretty sick of staying home. |
| 1:03.2 | The number of people who have died from COVID-19 is high, but still just the numbers themselves |
| 1:10.0 | can be hard to fully comprehend. It looks like we'll be at about a 60,000 more, |
| 1:15.1 | 60,000, 70,000. It's far too many anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people. That's a horrible thing. |
| 1:22.8 | We shouldn't lose one person over this. Since the pandemic began, the president has not |
| 1:27.1 | talked much about the victims. And when he is talking about how many more people could die, |
| 1:32.9 | he usually says the most optimistic number. Our projections have always been between 100 and |
| 1:38.4 | 240,000 American lives lost. And that's with full mitigation and us learning from each other |
| 1:44.8 | of how to social distance. Deborah Birx on Fox News this weekend repeated the official |
| 1:49.4 | administration forecast. Under this model, up to 240,000 people could die with full mitigation. |
| 1:58.2 | That means serious social distancing and everything except essential businesses closed, |
| 2:04.1 | which isn't happening as much as it was before. Fewer people are staying home, |
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