Reopening Pushback, Virus Detection Drones & Virtual Draft (+ Olympic Dreams Delayed)- Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, April 23rd, 2020!
We're talking about the latest pushback as some states plan to reopen, how the first pets in the U.S. diagnosed with COVID-19 are doing now, and how drones are joining the fight against the virus.
Plus, what to know about Zoom's new privacy features and the NFL's virtual draft.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview with an Olympic hopeful about what training looks like now.
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Sources:
Case Count & Death Toll: Johns Hopkins
Illinois New Daily High: Illinois.Gov, Chicago Tribune
Tri-State Contact Tracing: Twitter, NBC News
Oklahoma Reopening Friday: FOX News, The Oklahoman
Georgia Reopening Controversy: NBC News, WSJ, AP, The Hill
Trump's Temporary Immigration Ban: WaPo, Axios, FOX News
First US Pets Contract COVID-19: CNN, WaPo
China Disinformation Campaign: NY Times, The Hill
UK COVID-19 Study: Bloomberg, Sky News
CT Drone to Detect COVID-19: NBC News, Fox News, Westport PD, Draganfly
Ghana Uses Drone Delivery: CNBC, Time
New Social Media Location Labels: TechCrunch, Engadget, Press Release
Zoom Security Update: The Verge, USA Today, Press Release
NFL Draft Begins: CBS Sports, AP, Fox News
Start of Ramadan: Al Jazeera, Vox
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, April 23rd. |
| 0:01.9 | We're talking about the latest pushback |
| 0:03.4 | as some states plan to reopen, |
| 0:05.0 | how the first pets in the US diagnosed with COVID-19 |
| 0:07.7 | are doing now, and how drones are joining |
| 0:09.9 | the fight against this virus. |
| 0:11.6 | Plus what to know about Zoom's new privacy features |
| 0:13.8 | and the NFL virtual draft. Then hang out after the news for Think to |
| 0:17.6 | know Thursday's bonus interview hearing from an Olympic hopeful about what |
| 0:20.9 | training looks like now. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:28.9 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:39.5 | The spread of the new coronavirus is easing in some parts of the US but getting worse than others and the response |
| 0:44.7 | to this pandemic is also quite different state by state. Here's just a little bit of what's |
| 0:48.8 | changing around the country. In Illinois, the State Health Department reported a new daily high of new COVID-19 cases. |
| 0:55.5 | More than 2,000 people were diagnosed with the virus in just 24 hours. |
| 0:59.3 | Still experts project the state has not yet seen its peak and won't until mid-May. |
| 1:03.0 | In the New York tri-state area, it seems social distancing measures have worked to ease the outbreak at least a little bit. |
| 1:09.0 | Now the focus is on contact tracing. |
| 1:12.0 | Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said |
| 1:14.2 | he'll put up the money for tracing and testing people exposed to COVID-19 |
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