New York Reopening; Hindsight On Sweden's Lack of Lockdown
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
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The coronavirus is surviving the heat and humidity despite initial hopes it would not last through the summer. Experts now think the coronavirus will be here for years to come.
Sweden's government implemented limited restrictions in an attempt to protect the country's economy during the pandemic. Now, they're seeing mixed results.
And for the first time in months, the massive Vatican Museums are open.
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| 0:00.0 | At some point soon, maybe even by the time you hear this, the US will hit 2 million. |
| 0:06.5 | 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the virus was first detected here in January. |
| 0:12.8 | The country didn't get to 1 million until April 28th. |
| 0:19.5 | A study published Monday in the journal Nature said things could have been much, much worse |
| 0:25.2 | if the country did not shut down for most of April and May. |
| 0:28.8 | The study suggested stay-at-home orders prevented about 60 million additional cases in the US. |
| 0:36.1 | Coming up how things have been going in Sweden, a country that never completely shut down. |
| 0:41.2 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Monday, June 8th. |
| 0:48.8 | Nowhere in the US has been hit harder by this pandemic than New York. |
| 0:53.9 | 21,000 people have died just in New York City alone. |
| 0:57.7 | 30,000 people died statewide. That's more than a quarter of the US deaths. |
| 1:02.8 | Today is Saturday. Finally, this past weekend, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, |
| 1:08.6 | it's a nice day here in Albany. Things are looking a lot better. |
| 1:12.4 | Today is a day of good news. We have one of the lowest hospitalization rates |
| 1:19.1 | since this began and really good news. We have the lowest death rate. It's down to 35. |
| 1:27.2 | That number was for June 5th. In the entire state that day, 35 people died. |
| 1:33.5 | About two months ago, some 700 people were dying every day. |
| 1:37.4 | So we'd like to see nobody die in the state of New York ever, |
| 1:42.2 | but compared to where we were, this is a big sigh of relief. |
| 1:48.4 | In New York City today, 400,000 workers in retail, manufacturing, construction, |
| 1:53.3 | and other industries can go back to work after almost three months at home. |
| 1:57.8 | They have been some of the worst months of my professional life. |
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