Numbers Steady, Hundreds More Dead Each Day; The Cost Of Opening Schools
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🗓️ 10 June 2020
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Summary
Some members of the National Guard who were sent to Washington D.C. during the protests over the death of George Floyd have tested positive for the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci is concerned — but not surprised.
Many nursing homes banned all visitors and nonessential workers from their facilities to stop the spread of COVID-19. Some advocates and families say they want that ban to end.
A big unanswered question is whether it will be safe for public K-12 schools to reopen safely in the fall. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing on the topic Wednesday.
Plus, the Mall of America reopened after nearly three months.
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| 0:00.0 | Here are the numbers, numbers that aren't really changing. |
| 0:04.0 | 20,000 new cases and 800 to 1,000 people dying every day in the United States. |
| 0:11.5 | And that is to me unconscionable. |
| 0:16.0 | Ashish Jha at Harvard's Global Health Institute. |
| 0:19.0 | Scientists now worry 200,000 people could die in the US by the fall. |
| 0:25.0 | It's stunning to me that we have just decided it's okay |
| 0:28.0 | for tens of thousands of Americans to die. |
| 0:31.0 | And we aren't going to do what we know we can do to prevent those deaths. |
| 0:35.0 | Coming up, the only thing anyone knows for sure about returning to school in the fall |
| 0:41.0 | is if it happens, it's going to be expensive. |
| 0:44.0 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Wednesday, June 10th. |
| 0:50.0 | Some members of the National Guard who were sent from nearly a dozen states to Washington, D.C. during protests |
| 1:02.0 | have tested positive for the virus. |
| 1:05.0 | Officials won't say how many and let's just be very clear here. |
| 1:10.0 | There is no way to know if they got the virus at the protests or they brought the virus to the protests. |
| 1:16.0 | We do know at least two guard units were not wearing masks. |
| 1:19.0 | The report of the National Guardsman being infected is certainly disturbing but is not surprising. |
| 1:26.0 | Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that public health officials expected the virus to be there |
| 1:31.0 | and that protests in other major cities this past week because the virus can be anywhere. |
| 1:38.0 | And people are more likely to contract the virus at big gatherings, then bring it back into their own communities. |
| 1:46.0 | When you get congregations like we saw with the demonstrations as we have said myself in other health officials, |
| 1:53.0 | that's taking a risk and unfortunately what we're seeing now is just an example of the kinds of things we were concerned about. |
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