New Symptoms; A Missed Chance At Early Detection
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🗓️ 27 April 2020
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Summary
The federal government has re-started the Paycheck Protection Program, which gives loans to small businesses. Lawmakers required some of the money to go community banks this time around.
Also, the CDC recognizes new symptoms of the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Italy will start reopening the country next week. The country has suffered high death rates, second only to the U.S., and it was the first western nation to lock down.
Plus, one of the top-grossing movie theaters in the country this past week was the Ocala Drive-In in Ocala, Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | Chills, muscle pain, sore throat, headache, and a loss of taste or smell. |
| 0:05.9 | The CDC has added those things to the list of symptoms for COVID-19. |
| 0:10.9 | That might mean more people will qualify to be tested. |
| 0:16.4 | Meanwhile, the United States is approaching 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. |
| 0:22.2 | With tens of thousands of new cases every day, we might even be there by the time you hear this. |
| 0:27.9 | Coming up lost time on an early plan to spot the virus and the new normal in Italy. |
| 0:34.3 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McGevers. It's Monday, April 27th. |
| 0:48.4 | Way back in mid-February, when Congress was still holding hearings, |
| 0:54.4 | Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told a Senate committee about a plan the government |
| 1:00.1 | had for the coronavirus. As of today, I can announce that the CDC has begun working with health |
| 1:06.2 | departments in five cities to use its flu surveillance network to begin testing individuals |
| 1:12.0 | with flu-like symptoms for the China coronavirus. Those five cities were Seattle, LA, New York, |
| 1:18.0 | Chicago, San Francisco. All of them have programs to monitor the flu each year. |
| 1:23.9 | It's called Sentinel surveillance in public health terms. The idea was to look for the virus |
| 1:29.6 | among people who had mild flu-like symptoms and had not recently traveled from an affected country. |
| 1:35.6 | In other words, people who weren't getting tested for coronavirus under CDC guidelines at the time. |
| 1:41.5 | About a month later, we're now moving our COVID-19 into that system. |
| 1:46.2 | CDC director Robert Redfield testified on Capitol Hill and said that a sixth city on the Lulu was |
| 1:51.9 | now part of the surveillance. We started with the six. We're going to expand your |
| 1:55.2 | restrictions. But on the day he said that only one city was able to get their test results back. |
| 2:02.6 | Just to be clear on where we're at here, that day was March 12th. This is stounding and unprecedented |
| 2:07.8 | story continues to evolve. The day after the NBA shut down. NBA is suspending the season. |
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