New Covid-19 projection: 415,000 deaths by January 1

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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New Covid-19 projection: 415,000 deaths by January 1 As the U.S. Covid-19 death toll nears 200,000, an influential model projects nearly 415,000 deaths by January 1. That number decreases to around 298,000 if there is 95% universal mask wearing. Right now mask use is slipping below 45%. Dr. Chris Murray is the director of the group at the University of Washington that’s been working on these models throughout the pandemic. He joins AC360 to explain how important mask wearing is and predicts the U.S. will see a “deadly December.” Plus, in August after NBA players boycotted their playoff games following the shooting of Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot seven times in the back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenny Smith, former NBA champion and Analyst for Inside the NBA on TNT, walked off the set saying “as a black man, as a former player, I think it's best for me to support the players and just not be here tonight.” He tells Anderson Cooper sometimes you need to talk about the march but other times you need to join the march and he said he thought it was a “join the march moment.” Airdate: September 11, 2020 Guests: Dr. Chris Murray Kenny Smith To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aaron, thanks so much.
0:01.8	Good evening.
0:02.8	Looking out at Lowerman Headend at the end of a day that by this afternoon became much
0:06.1	like it was on this day 19 years ago.
0:08.7	Blue skies and soft breezes.
0:11.0	To show you the two beams of blue light reminder of the Twin Towers, the World Trade Center
0:16.2	that fell that morning and the twin columns of smoke that rose for what seemed like days
0:20.9	after.
0:22.2	Even now, on just about any mile, September day, it's impossible not to be reminded even
0:26.5	if it's only for a moment of what happened where that light shines.
0:30.0	All the lives lost in the attacks, all the first responders who made the ultimate sacrifice
0:34.6	running straight into what was nothing less than hell on earth to save others.
0:38.8	Today, as it's been for every September 11, since then, each and every name of the
0:42.9	fallen was spoken.
0:44.6	Only this time due to the pandemic, they were pre-recorded by family members.
0:49.8	Deepika Kumar Satuluuri, Gregory Thomas Saaseda, Susan M. Sown, Anthony Sarvas, Vladimir Saminkin.
1:09.6	Even all these years later, it never gets easier, but anyone who remembers the trauma possibly
1:14.4	also remembers the comforting and reassuring words of then Mayor Rudy Giuliani that day.
1:19.9	He was known up to that point for being sharp, tempered, abrasive, sometimes even abusive.
1:24.8	In the middle of such chaos and fear, he was none of those things.
1:28.0	He showed leadership.
1:29.0	With speaking and gentle tones, he did not soften or gloss over or play down the harsh
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