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Today, Explained

"The Great Equalizer"

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Madonna was wrong. Covid-19 isn't an equalizer. It's coming for America's most vulnerable populations. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, April 7, 2020, and for some inexplicable reason, Wisconsin is voting.

0:09.5

I'm Sean Ramosferm, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

0:16.8

Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tony Evers, issued an executive order on Monday to suspend

0:22.1

all in-person voting.

0:23.8

He was later overruled by the state's Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives,

0:28.6

and then later in the day, the Supreme Court of the United States, which is also controlled

0:32.7

by conservatives, weighed in to give the primary of five four go ahead.

0:38.0

And here we are, people in Wisconsin today had to choose between voting and dying.

0:43.4

And you know what, they still chose to vote.

0:46.6

More on Wisconsin in tomorrow's show.

0:49.3

The president's sideline, the guy who is going to keep an eye on him and literally trillions

0:53.9

of dollars of taxpayer stimulus, the acting inspector general for the Department of Defense,

0:59.4

Glenn Fine, was supposed to oversee how coronavirus relief got spent.

1:04.4

Now he's been replaced and Democrats are very displeased.

1:08.5

New York reported its highest single day death toll today, 731 deaths in 24 hours.

1:15.1

That came after two days where it looked like the death toll had plateaued.

1:18.8

Still, the governor said the rate of hospitalizations is falling and that the spread of the

1:23.5

virus is likely slowing.

1:25.9

Boris Johnson is still in intensive care.

1:27.7

He's on oxygen, but not a ventilator and his foreign secretary, Dominic Rob is pitching

1:32.6

in where he can.

1:34.0

Japan declared a state of emergency in its two biggest cities today after big jumps in

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