Summary
An Americast takeover... Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Anthony Zurcher join Adam to talk about how America is dealing with coronavirus. With a stateside view from Congresswoman Donna Shalala, who is the longest serving Health Secretary in US history.
Producers: Nick Rotherham, Frankie Tobi and Alicia Burrell Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello Emily. |
| 0:06.0 | Adam, hello. |
| 0:07.4 | It's another one of those, I still don't have the word to describe it when the health secretary reads out that |
| 0:14.5 | 980 people died in hospital in the last 24 hours because of coronavirus. I still can't |
| 0:20.9 | think of a word to describe what that news is like and that's before you even then start to think about what it's like for those people's families and what it all means. |
| 0:31.0 | It is such a big big number and I think the problem for us is that we hear these |
| 0:36.9 | numbers, these three-figure numbers now on a daily basis and there's a real danger that it starts becoming sort of ritualistic |
| 0:47.1 | instead of meaningful and we never ever want to fall into that trap as journalists or as human beings quite frankly you never want to hear |
| 0:56.4 | that 980 people died in your country without a massive gulp of breath really. And so we had this idea we thought we would give you a |
| 1:06.8 | little moment now just yourself where you could just reflect either on the people who've died because of coronavirus or people in your life that have gone and we're going to give you just like a little bit of silence for you to use how you want. So either just let the |
| 1:26.2 | silence breathe for a little bit or pause your podcasting app, whatever you want to do and |
| 1:31.8 | then do whatever you want to do. |
| 1:33.4 | And that's our way today of just marking that sad milestone. Okay, so Emily, do you want to explain what we're going to do in this episode? |
| 1:55.0 | Well, I know so many of you have really appreciated what we've been doing with coronavirus newscasts, |
| 2:02.0 | which hopefully has helped you make sense of some of the things |
| 2:05.9 | that are really hard to understand right now and I know that we've been messaged by people |
| 2:11.2 | who've been really missing AmeriCast. |
| 2:13.5 | So this time we've got a kind of mash-up of the two. |
| 2:16.4 | We're looking at both sides of the pond, particularly what's been happening in New York, which has been horrifically hit by coronavirus as you know. |
| 2:26.0 | We're also looking at President Trump's response to it and the breaking news that's come |
| 2:30.5 | out of the presidential campaign trail on the |
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