Testing Labs Falling Behind; SCOTUS Rules On Trump Taxes
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
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Summary
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled President Trump was not immune from a grand jury subpoena for his financial records. But Americans are not likely to see the president's taxes before Election Day.
There were nearly 2.4 million new applications for state and federal unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department. After four straight months of people applying for unemployment by the millions, NPR's Scott Horsley reports there are growing signs it won't be getting better anytime soon.
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| 0:21.8 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:24.8 | It took months for the United States to hit 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. |
| 0:30.8 | It took 43 days to get to 2 million. |
| 0:34.7 | This week we hit 3 million and that took 28 days. |
| 0:41.2 | With so many cases happening so fast, people are now waiting days for test results. |
| 0:47.2 | Some labs are behind or running low on supplies. |
| 0:51.0 | We've had trouble identifying who has those supplies in each state and how our labs can |
| 0:57.1 | access that, how it's being allocated. |
| 1:00.0 | Mark Bearingbaum, Executive Director of the National Independent Laboratory Association, |
| 1:04.8 | told npr. |
| 1:05.8 | that community and regional labs still don't have reliable supplies, which are supposed |
| 1:10.8 | to be sent from the federal government to a single site in each state. |
| 1:14.8 | We asked the task force to give us the name of each state contact that the supplies were |
| 1:20.3 | sent to and we can't get that list. |
| 1:23.8 | Coming up the Supreme Court's historic ruling against President Trump and how long it could |
| 1:29.2 | be until the economy starts to look better. |
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