Safe Voting 101

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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We’re six weeks away from Election Day, and voting may look very different this year. As the coronavirus continues to spread across the nation, it’s not too early to start making a plan for how you’re going to vote. In this episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks safety at the polls and mail-in ballots. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you thought this election was intense so far, it's just ratcheted up.
0:06.6	With the election so close...
0:08.1	We're going to get this election right.
0:09.7	So healthcare is a prime issue for voters in the upcoming election.
0:14.3	Today is National Voter Registration Day.
0:16.9	The general election is just 42 days away hard to believe.
0:21.2	But with fears of a second wave of coronavirus and now concerns about the upcoming flu season,
0:26.6	voting could look very different this year.
0:29.4	A infectious disease expert Dr. Mary Beth Sexton will walk us through planning for your visit
0:34.6	to the polls and also making a backup plan.
0:39.0	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.
0:42.9	And this is coronavirus.
0:44.5	Fact vs. Fiction.
0:52.0	As you probably know, my election day this year is Tuesday, November 3rd.
0:56.5	Just six short weeks away.
0:58.5	Early voting has already started in some states and it's probably time to start thinking
1:02.8	about how you're going to vote.
1:04.6	It's very hard to know what it's going to look like in early November.
1:08.0	And so people are just going to have to watch and see what it looks like in their community.
1:12.8	That's Dr. Mary Beth Sexton, an assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases at
1:17.8	Emory University.
1:19.3	She says six weeks is plenty of time to start bringing infection rates down.
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