Restaurants Are Closing. Again.
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🗓️ 18 June 2020
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As areas reopen, officials are working to ensure businesses are adopting safety precautions to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Officials in Los Angeles found that half of the restaurants they surveyed violated rules and safety standards.
Plus, NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin with an update on which communities across the country have sufficient staff in place for contact tracing. Check out the state-by-state breakdown here.
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| 0:00.0 | It did not sound like a story that would end well. |
| 0:03.6 | In late May, a hairstylist in Springfield, Missouri, |
| 0:06.9 | went to work sick. |
| 0:08.4 | Not just once or twice. |
| 0:10.7 | Eight shifts over nine days. |
| 0:12.9 | Well, last night at 10, we told you about the hairstylist |
| 0:15.2 | in Springfield, Missouri, who exposed 84 customers were exposed. |
| 0:19.2 | And that wasn't all. |
| 0:20.4 | Turns out, another hairstylist from that great clip's location |
| 0:23.6 | has tested positive for the virus as well, |
| 0:26.0 | possibly exposing another 56 people. |
| 0:29.2 | Public health officials expected some cases. |
| 0:32.0 | After all, at least 140 people had close contact |
| 0:35.5 | with those two stylists. |
| 0:37.2 | Plus, two to three hundred more people had been in the salon. |
| 0:41.2 | But now, more than three weeks later, |
| 0:44.6 | there is not a single documented case from either stylist. |
| 0:48.6 | I think it's solid evidence of the value and protective nature of masking. |
| 0:53.6 | Local Health Director Clay Goddard gave just one explanation for the lack of spread. |
| 0:58.8 | Masks. |
| 1:00.2 | Both stylists were masks. |
| 1:02.8 | The customers were required to wear them too. |
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