Our new coronavirus reality
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the new normal as the world combats the coronavirus. They cover how South Korea has successfully reduced cases, how the Trump administration was warned about this threat, how a functioning White House should respond, Trump’s war of words with China and much more. In non-coronavirus news, they discuss the possibility of a new Prime Minister in Israel. Then Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins to discuss the latest on the COVID-19 relief package in Congress.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Paz de the World, I'm Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Ben. |
| 0:14.8 | He's good to be 10 feet away from you. |
| 0:17.0 | As far as we've been. |
| 0:18.0 | This is weird. |
| 0:19.0 | For recording. |
| 0:20.0 | So, I think we should start by noting that this is scary and unprecedented times. |
| 0:25.1 | And while I am no health expert, I feel like it's pretty clear that life is about to |
| 0:29.4 | be radically different for several months and it probably won't be fully back to normal |
| 0:33.9 | for like a year, 18 months. |
| 0:36.1 | We don't really know. |
| 0:37.6 | And maybe the reason for that is that long term, there's only a couple of ways to deal |
| 0:40.7 | with the virus. |
| 0:41.7 | The first is a path we don't want to go down as a country, which is for everybody to get |
| 0:45.6 | it basically here, like a British path. |
| 0:47.4 | Yeah, the British path, where 60 or 70% of the population gets the virus and thus we |
| 0:51.1 | become immune. |
| 0:52.8 | But that would mean that a million more people are killed probably. |
| 0:56.3 | The second way out of this thing we're dealing with is develop a vaccine that makes us |
| 1:00.5 | immune or really good antiviral treatments that decrease the lethality. |
| 1:05.0 | But experts say a vaccine is a year or 18 months away from being ready. |
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