The Amazing Trace
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 cases have plateaued in the US at around 20,000 a day as some states are seeing outbreaks grow. That hasn’t stopped Texas governor Greg Abbot from enforcing his executive order that bans cities from making face coverings mandatory.
The police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, Georgia is now facing 11 charges including felony murder.
Contact tracers are working around the country to cut off chains of coronavirus transmission. We interview one of them, Alexander Miamen, about what a typical day is like for him and how he speaks to his community’s needs.
And in headlines: a price-fixing tuna CEO is going to prison, genetically modified mosquitos in Florida, and why you don’t need to buy John Bolton’s book.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, June 18th. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what a day where we tell you what's in John Bolton's |
| 0:12.3 | book so you don't have to buy it. |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah, apparently it's boring. He doesn't even talk about Ukraine until like the end so he just |
| 0:18.4 | saved you 20 bucks. Yeah, the first two chapters are virtually all mustache. |
| 0:22.4 | He's virtually all mustache. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, a day in the life of a COVID-19 contact tracer and then some headlines. |
| 0:39.4 | But first, the latest. We have some updates on the case in Georgia regarding |
| 0:43.1 | Ray Shard Brooks and the officer who killed him. That police officer, Garrett Rolf, |
| 0:47.2 | is now facing 11 charges, including felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. |
| 0:52.0 | Prosecutors are saying that Rolf shot Brooks twice in the back and then kicked him as he was lying |
| 0:56.4 | on the ground. They also say that Rolf declared, quote, I got him after firing the shots. |
| 1:01.5 | If he is convicted of the murder charge, he faces he could then face life in prison or the death |
| 1:05.7 | penalty because Georgia still has that. Hopefully this officer will actually face justice instead of |
| 1:10.9 | just beating the charges. That's right. We should note here too that the district attorney in |
| 1:14.8 | Fulton County, Georgia, which houses Atlanta is up for reelection and facing a runoff in two months, |
| 1:19.3 | so he was certainly facing pressure to act here. Yeah. The Georgia Bureau of investigation put out |
| 1:24.5 | a statement saying they were surprised to see the charges so quickly since they also hadn't |
| 1:29.0 | even finished their investigation yet. So we'll track how this story develops from here, but let's |
| 1:33.2 | shift gears for a moment to talk about another epidemic, COVID-19. Yeah. So big picture here, |
| 1:38.8 | the cases in the United States have plateaued at around 20,000 a day, which is not a good place to |
| 1:44.1 | be in my humble opinion. Yeah. You see these charts and the US has flattened the curve in a sense, |
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