Season Premiere Of COVID Season Three

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Russia launched 30 missiles at a Ukrainian military base over the weekend, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 134 more.

New COVID cases in the U.S. have dropped from 800,000 cases per day at the pandemic’s peak to about 36,000 cases per day. Last week, the CDC announced that 98 percent of the U.S. population lived in areas where it’s safe to congregate indoors without masks on. Meanwhile, China’s daily cases of symptomatic COVID have more than tripled in recent days to its highest numbers in two years, with the Omicron variant driving much of that.

And in headlines: Saudi Arabia executed 81 people, Texas’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled against abortion providers challenging SB8, and Uber announced that it will add a temporary fuel surcharge for its services in the U.S.

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0:00.0	It's Monday March 14th. I'm Trevelle Anderson and I'm Aaron Ryan and this is what a day where we are making a playlist for Barack Obama to listen to while he recovers from COVID.
0:16.0	Yeah, he's making us so many playlists over the years. It's only fair we make him one.
0:20.7	We don't expect a big thank you. Just one follow from the official Barack Obama on our Spotify account.
0:26.0	He could easily do that. Like, come on. On today's show, masks are coming off in the US, but COVID cases are spiking in China.
0:37.1	Plus, Uber will be tacking on gas surcharges to fairs to help drivers with skyrocketing fuel costs.
0:43.4	Oh, interesting. But first, let's bring you an update on Russia's invasion of Ukraine as of
0:48.4	our recording at 930 Eastern on Sunday night. Over the weekend, Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military base. Trevelle, what more can you tell us?
0:57.2	Yeah, so Russia launched a barrage of 30 missiles at a training site for foreign fighters.
1:03.4	Just 15 miles from where American soldiers are stationed in the allied country of Poland.
1:08.7	According to Ukrainian officials, 22 of those missiles were intercepted by Ukraine's air defenses,
1:14.7	but the attack killed at least 35 people and wounded at least 134 others.
1:20.4	That just adds to the growing bloodshed of this invasion. What are the latest numbers?
1:24.9	Yeah, so according to the UN, since this invasion began a couple weeks ago, at least 596 civilians in Ukraine have
1:33.2	died. Over a thousand more have been injured, though they caution that actual numbers are likely considerably higher.
1:41.2	Ukraine's Defense Minister, Alexei Reznikov called the military base strike, quote, a terrorist attack on peace
1:48.2	and security and repeated an now reoccurring call for NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
1:54.9	But as we've seen, the US and its NATO allies are being cautious about exactly how it goes about
2:01.3	supporting Ukraine. While they thus far have said no to a no-fly zone, Biden committed over the weekend
2:07.4	another $200 million in arms and equipment to Ukraine. Although on Saturday, a Russian official said
2:15.2	it would consider any supply lines of those weapons legitimate targets. His US national security
2:22.2	advisor, Jake Sullivan yesterday, on meat, depressed talking about some of these updates.
2:26.8	It's no surprise that the Russians are trying to expand the number of targets in this war,
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