The Covid resurgence

Explain It to Me

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Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ezra and Matt on how America failed while the world made progress on the pandemic, and what on earth is going on with the republican party. Resources: "Reopening schools safely is going to take much more federal leadership" by Matthew Yglesias "Trumpism, not polarization, drives America’s disastrous coronavirus politics" by Ezra Klein Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large, Vox Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are currently 160 cases per million people in the US every day on a rolling seven
0:08.6	day average, 160.
0:10.8	And of course, we know the true numbers much higher than that.
0:12.4	These are confirmed cases around testing.
0:15.0	There are nine in the EU.
0:17.4	Nine.
0:18.4	Nine.
0:19.4	Yep.
0:20.4	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:36.6	I'm Matthew Eglaceus here with Ezra Klein.
0:40.0	We originally started doing these podcasts.
0:42.5	Well, they were going to be election podcasts.
0:45.1	And then they were going to be coronavirus podcasts.
0:48.4	And we moved on, but the pandemic is back in the United States in a big way.
0:55.4	And Ezra was pointing out to me offline.
0:57.5	It's some things that kind of different internationally, when you say it is shocking.
1:05.5	Sometimes when we do the coronavirus podcast, I feel like I drop into this weird vocal
1:08.4	register where I don't feel like I have the range to describe how bad what I'm describing
1:14.4	is.
1:15.6	But I want to try here because I think it's really important that people don't feel like
1:20.0	what is happening here is simply a natural disaster.
1:22.7	And it is understood the size of the policy failure we're living through and how many people
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