New COVID-19 Predictions, Worker Strikes & Girl Scout Cookies - Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, March 31st, 2020!
We're talking about top doctors' COVID-19 predictions for the months ahead as they suggest social distancing can save more than a million American lives, and we're discussing the urgent call for help from governors around the country.
Plus: college athletes get second chances, workers go on strike, and the new way to buy Girl Scout cookies.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, how does the $2.2 trillion stimulus package address student loans? The answer in our new "Talk to Me Tuesday" segment.
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Sources:
NY Requests/Navy Hospitals: Reuters, ABC News, AP
Chicago Temp Hospital: Chicago Tribune, WGN
Louisiana Temp Hospital: The Hill, WDSU
U.S. Cases/Death Toll: Johns Hopkins
Dr. Birx Predictions: NBC News, NY Times
Dr. Fauci Predictions: Forbes, NY Post
Fed on Unemployment Rate: USA Today, CNBC
Job Cuts Pile Up: Axios, NBC News, ABC News, Washington Post, NYT
Facebook Invests $100 million for Coronavirus Support: Variety, Axios
Olympics Rescheduled: ESPN, NYT
NCAA Extra Eligibility: AP, CBS Sports
Ford, GE Ventilator Mission: Axios, TechCrunch, Business Insider
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Testing: WSJ, Forbes
FDA Approves Method to Clean N95 Masks: The Verge, TechCrunch, Press Release
Worker Strikes: VICE, TechCrunch, Mashable, Engagdet, NPR
HQ Trivia Makes a Comeback: WSJ, Axios, The Verge
Audible Giving Away Hundreds of Stories for Kids: Mashable, Business Insider, Audible
Buy Girl Scout Cookies Online: CNN, Girl Scouts
Talk to Me Tuesday - How are student loans affected? WSJ, Forbes
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, March 31st. What top doctors are predicting for the months ahead |
| 0:04.3 | as they suggest social distancing can save more than a million American lives and what |
| 0:08.6 | governors around the country are asking for? Plus college athletes get a second chance. |
| 0:13.5 | Which workers are going on strike and why? |
| 0:16.1 | And the new way to buy Girl Scout cookies. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:25.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:39.6 | Governors all around the country are asking for help, the most urgent call from the current epicenter of America's coronavirus crisis. |
| 0:42.0 | Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on nurses and doctors from around the country |
| 0:45.6 | to travel to New York to help the overwhelmed hospitals deal with the influx of COVID-19 patients. |
| 0:51.1 | He asked health care workers either current or retired to step up as long as |
| 0:54.9 | they're not facing an urgent crisis in their own states. Then he promised New York |
| 0:58.6 | health care workers will return the favor later if the virus travels inland as expected. |
| 1:04.3 | Already close to 80,000 former medical professionals have volunteered. |
| 1:08.8 | Also a Navy hospital ship arrived in Manhattan equipped with a thousand beds to take on some of the non-COVID-19 patients and help. |
| 1:15.0 | Already though we're seeing signs the virus is spreading elsewhere. In California the |
| 1:19.6 | AP reports coronavirus hospitalizations doubled over the last four days. The number of |
| 1:24.3 | patients in intensive care tripled. Remember a different Navy hospital ship is now in |
| 1:29.2 | LA so that should at least provide assistance. Also, California Governor Gavin Newsom is asking medical students and recent retired medical workers |
| 1:37.9 | to help as well, saying he'll suspend certain licensing requirements as a way to prepare for what could lie ahead. |
| 1:44.6 | In the middle of the country, the National Guard is being put to work. |
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