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America Dissected

The COVID Crystal Ball

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Abdul discusses the critical need for legislation to support a country reeling from COVID19 and sits down with Prof. Michael Osterholm, one of the world’s most respected infectious disease epidemiologists.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Florida is now America's corona capital, surpassing New York.

0:12.8

The growth and transmission rate appears to be leveling off for now.

0:16.0

But we eat a million new cases in just two weeks.

0:19.6

That's now 4 million total that we know about.

0:23.2

The CDC estimates that we could be dealing with 6 to 24 times that number.

0:27.9

This is America Dissected.

0:28.9

I'm your host, Dr. Abduel Alseid.

0:31.3

And this isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

0:40.8

It is absolutely absurd that on July 31st, Friday, Congress's initial enhanced unemployment

0:46.4

benefits, including an extra $600 a week, are set to expire.

0:50.4

Then Congress still hasn't acted to keep them going.

0:53.0

In fact, Republican senators are holding up renewal,

0:56.0

arguing that they create a disincentive to finding a job.

1:07.8

Oh, because it's definitely a great idea to get everyone back out and about

1:11.9

when there's a blazing coronavirus pandemic happening.

1:15.2

Throughout this crisis, we've been told that we could have our health or we could have our economy,

1:19.2

but not both.

1:20.6

But it hasn't been the public health officials who've told us this.

1:23.6

It's been the politicians who forced us to open up well before it was safe,

1:27.1

who keep opposing mask ordinances, who keep telling us that we should be willing to sacrifice

1:31.2

our grandparents for the economy.

1:33.1

Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen,

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