The Dark Reality of China's COVID-19 Cover-Up

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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China discovered the coronavirus in December, but chose to hide it from the world. Now nearly every nation on earth is paying the price for China's actions. Olivia Enos, a senior policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to discuss her recent report, "How the Chinese Government Undermined the Chinese People’s Attempts to Prevent and Respond to COVID-19." Also on today show: We read your letters to the editor. University of Nevada medical student Jayde Powell set out to purchase groceries for the elderly in her community. But her local effort quickly grew into a global organization called Shopping Angels. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, April 13. I'm Robert Bowie.
0:09.7	And I'm Virginia Allen. Today we're sharing my recent conversation with Heritage Foundation senior
0:15.4	policy analyst Olivia Enos. Olivia joined me on the Problematic Women Podcast last week to discuss
0:22.0	her report on China's role in covering up the
0:24.4	coronavirus. It was such an interesting discussion that we really wanted to share
0:28.5	it with you all here on the Daily Signal Podcast. We also have your letters to the editor and a good news story about a medical student who set
0:35.8	out to help her community during the coronavirus and ended up starting a global movement.
0:41.4	Rob, before we get to today's show, I really want to take a minute and tell all of our listeners
0:46.2	about the National Coronovirus Recovery Commission.
0:49.8	The Heritage Foundation is playing a critical role in this commission and Rob I just want to
0:55.0	ask you to explain for a minute what what the purpose of that commission is and what
0:59.2	role Heritage is playing.
1:00.6	Well thank you Virginia I appreciate that. The Heritage Foundation established the National
1:05.8	Coronovirus Recovery Commission last week because we feel that it isn't an either-or decision
1:11.1	about whether we protect the public health of the American people or open up the economy.
1:15.8	We can do both and we need to figure out solutions for how to do that.
1:19.2	So there are 17 commissioners who had their first meeting last Thursday and set out five different phases that we can start to employ to get our country back to normal and back to work again.
1:30.0	So I would encourage our listeners to go to coronavirus commission.
1:33.1	com to see more and learn all about the commission and the work that we're doing.
1:37.7	That's so exciting Rob. Thanks for sharing.
1:39.5	We're just really thankful for the work of the Heritage team and everyone else that's diving in and just giving a lot of attention to this commission and the important role that it's going to play as America does come out of this pandemic.
1:51.6	Well, thank you, Virginia, and we're really grateful to have the Heritage
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