Off-Peak Pandemic
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The current COVID wave in the U.S. is relatively mild considering what we’ve seen in the past. For instance, recent data from Johns Hopkins University shows that the daily COVID death rate has really slowed. And COVID hospital admissions are far below what we’ve seen during other surges.
After numerous refusals by Ukraine to surrender the city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials have brokered a deal with Russia to allow some civilians trapped in a steel mill there to evacuate safely. The operation, in collaboration with the United Nations and the Red Cross, began over the weekend.
And in headlines: Thousands of people around the world took to the streets for May Day, the Connecticut Senate passed a bill to protect abortion providers from bans in other states, and now-former member of UK’s Parliament Neil Parish resigned over the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 2nd. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Josie Deffy Rice, and this is what a day. |
| 0:11.2 | We're we're busy getting ready for tonight's my gala, |
| 0:14.5 | in case we get an invite in the next six hours. |
| 0:17.8 | I am waiting on my invite from my old friend Anna Windtour. |
| 0:22.1 | It is possible that they thought we were too cool to get an invite. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, on today's show, |
| 0:32.3 | evacuations are underway for some of the Ukrainian civilians trapped in the city of Mary |
| 0:37.2 | U. Paul. Plus, we rank President Biden's best jokes from the White House correspondent |
| 0:41.7 | dinner. |
| 0:42.7 | But first, there is dare I say it good or at least relatively good news about COVID in |
| 0:47.8 | the US based on recent stats. |
| 0:50.8 | This current COVID wave is relatively mild, especially considering what we've seen in |
| 0:54.8 | the past. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm going to hear that. So what are some of the data points you've seen out there? |
| 1:00.0 | According to info from Johns Hopkins University, the daily COVID death rate has really, really |
| 1:04.6 | slowed. |
| 1:05.6 | So on March 11th, it was an average of over 1200 people a day in the US dying of COVID. |
| 1:11.6 | Now it's about 300. So while that's still far too many people, that is about a 75% drop |
| 1:18.0 | in less than two months. So that's big. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal looked at stats |
| 1:21.7 | from the Northeast, which was the first region to see a surge of the newest Omicron variant. |
| 1:27.4 | And it reported that the level of virus detected through wastewater there has flattened, which |
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