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Today, Explained

The epicenter of the epicenter

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Covid-19's victims, and the people they leave behind. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Monday, April 20, 2020.

0:07.8

For those of you keeping count at home, that's 420-20.

0:10.4

It's a lot of 20s.

0:11.6

I'm Sean Ramas-Firham, and this is your coronavirus update from today.

0:15.2

Explained, over the weekend, President Trump and Vice President Pence continue to claim

0:19.0

all that these states have sufficient testing capability to start opening up and getting

0:23.6

back to business as usual.

0:25.8

A bipartisan group of governors basically responded, are you high?

0:29.9

Maryland's Republican governor Larry Hogan told CNN to say that governors have plenty

0:34.1

of testing and they should get to work on testing.

0:37.1

Somehow we aren't doing our job.

0:38.7

It's just absolutely false.

0:41.3

Virginia's Democratic governor Ralph Northam agreed, saying it's, quote, just, delusional.

0:47.2

The Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, has run out of money.

0:51.4

That was part of the historic stimulus program Congress passed last month that included $349

0:56.6

billion to help small businesses.

0:58.2

Congress is very close to a $450 billion deal to replenish these loans.

1:04.0

And guess what's holding the money up?

1:05.6

A dispute over President Trump's handling of testing.

1:09.7

In other testing news, the FDA approved more than 90 antibody tests without vetting them

1:14.7

first.

1:15.8

According to the Washington Post, some of these are of dubious quality, which of course

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