Outbreak in the West Wing

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The White House sends mixed messages about Trump’s condition as at least a dozen people in Trump’s inner circle have tested positive for the coronavirus. The quiet resistance of U.S. Postal workers. And the importance of slow science.

The president says he's leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Centerafter testing positive for the coronavirus. White House reporter Seung Min Kim explains how the White House has been unclear about Trump’s condition, and who in his inner circle has tested positive.

U.S. Postal Service workers are quietly resisting the changes Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has put in place since taking over the agency. Business reporter Jacob Bogage explains.

The Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C. Science reporter Sarah Kaplan reports on how the committee has recognized the “landmark achievement” against a viral disease that is responsible for 400,000 deaths annually.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Tracy Jamm, Colley from the Post.
0:08.0	I'm a president from PowerU.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Robert Given, at the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Monday, October 5th.
0:22.0	Today, but we still don't know about Trump's battle with COVID.
0:27.0	The quiet descent of postal workers and the Nobel Prize in medicine.
0:35.0	On Monday afternoon, President Trump announced that he is expected to leave Walter Reed Medical Center later this evening,
0:42.0	even though it remains unclear exactly how sick he is from COVID.
0:48.0	At the very least, we know there's been a stream of complicated contradictory, confusing information coming out of the White House this week.
0:57.0	We do know on the record that there are points since his diagnosis that his oxygen levels did drop enough that the president was administered supplemental oxygen,
1:08.0	which is a very important point.
1:10.0	His doctors say his oxygen levels are now up to normal in the upper 90s.
1:14.0	He did have a fever at some point, and he's been taking rounds of red and desiveer,
1:19.0	one of the drugs that have been used to treat the coronavirus.
1:23.0	And one of the biggest surprises of the weekend, and a weekend full of many surprises,
1:28.0	was this impromptu visit that the president made to see his supporters who had gathered outside Walter Reed.
1:35.0	We were kind of thinking, what is going on?
1:42.0	God bless our president! I will die for him! I will die for that man happily!
1:47.0	If you are a COVID patient, you are supposed to remain isolated, seen only by your doctors who themselves are just decked out in this PPE.
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