Tech in the time of COVID-19, Congressional antitrust hearing and Google Search, PLUS a listener asks: could Amazon Care roll out COVID-19 tests?

Pivot

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News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about COVID-19, what tech could do to help, and what we need to see from leadership. We hear from Ron Klain, who was the "Ebola czar" under the Obama administration about why we need COVID-19 tests and what the hold up is in getting them. In other news, Kara and Scott discuss this week's Congressional hearing on antitrust and why Yelp thinks Google's search results are biased towards their own products. In Listener Mail we get a question about whether Amazon should roll out COVID-19 tests as part of their Amazon Care launch (spoiler alert: this idea gets a big WOOF yes from the Big Dawg). Plus Scott gives professors switching to online class forums tips on how to be a dynamic lecturer via web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.8	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.
1:24.9	And I'm Scott Galloway. Scott, what is going on with the world? It's like the end times.
1:29.3	It's the end times. Last night I couldn't take it. And mostly it was Sarah Palin dancing around,
1:33.4	singing, baby got back. But I don't know what to say. Let me just go through it. Tom Hanks has
1:39.2	COVID-19. So the NBA canceled its season because one of its players got that. Travel from Europe
1:45.4	halted sort of, except from the UK where Trump has resorts. That speech was wacky last night.
1:51.9	We still don't have testing. What Scott, give me some information here. What do you think?
1:57.6	Well, I'm not sure I have any information. I'm, you know, I can tell you what I think or what
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