October 4, 2020 | On GPS: Covid-19 sends President Trump to the hospital

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

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Airdate October 4, 2020: President Trump, the first lady, and staffers all contracted Covid-19. How ill is he and what will the coming days bring? Fareed asks Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former adviser to the Obama White House on health policy and the present advisor to the Biden campaign. And, what can we learn from past U.S. presidents who have fallen ill? CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali tells Fareed. Then, the U.S., Brazil, and the U.K. all rank in the top five nations with the highest Covid-19 death counts AND now all three have also seen their leaders infected. A panel of top reporters dive into what we can learn from responses abroad. Finally, what does Trump's illness mean for the upcoming election and his race against Biden? Nate Cohn of the New York Times tells Fareed what he's seeing in the polls. GUESTS: Ezekiel Emanuel, Timothy Naftali, Anne McElvoy, Shasta Darlington, Anton Troianovski, Nate Cohn 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	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States
0:05.6	and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.
0:10.0	Today on the show, COVID hits the White House. The President, First Lady and
0:19.0	Staffers are infected. How is it that the most powerful man in the most
0:24.3	powerful country? God, here. I'll talk to top doctor Zika Manu. Also, Boris Johnson
0:34.7	and Jair Bolsonaro are among the other world leaders who were already infected
0:39.8	by the coronavirus. What can we learn from their experiences? And one leader has
0:46.8	kept himself in a veritable bubble. Guess who? And 30 days from the American
0:54.3	election with one contender currently in the hospital, what is the state of the
0:59.5	race right now? Nate Cohen of the New York Times will tell us. But first, here's my
1:08.6	take. Let me begin by saying I wish President Trump and the First Lady a safe
1:13.0	and speedy recovery. I also hope that others who have been infected along the way
1:17.2	who either work with the President or attended an event with him have a mild
1:21.1	case of the disease and a returned and normalcy as soon as possible. The news
1:26.0	out of the White House is sad, but perhaps it can remind us of all the sad news
1:31.6	around. We might have COVID fatigue, but the virus does not. The number of
1:37.7	people known to have died from COVID-19 has crossed one million worldwide. And
1:42.7	that is probably a low figure. An analysis by the economist magazine indicates
1:47.5	there may be as many as a million more uncounted deaths. It finds that the
1:52.2	true count in America is probably not 200,000 dead, but more like 300,000, which
1:58.9	means that the country has lost as many people to COVID in the last eight months
2:03.5	as it did in the four years of combat during World War II. And we are not
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