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Today, Explained

The immunity test

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A vaccine will take a while, but Vox’s Umair Irfan says the global effort to test for immunity and treat Covid-19 is well underway. (An earlier version of this episode misidentified hydroxychloroquine as an active ingredient in aquarium cleaner. That's chloroquine phosphate.) (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Monday, April 6th, 2020, and a tiger at the Bronx Zoo has the Rona.

0:10.8

I'm Sean Ramos-Furham, and this is your coronavirus update from today's spaint.

0:18.6

The tiger's name is Nadia.

0:20.3

She's a four-year-old Malayan tiger, and she's got a dry cough.

0:24.3

She evidently got it from a Bronx Zoo employee.

0:26.8

The good news is, she's expected to recover soon.

0:30.3

In bad news, the country's surgeon General Jerome Adams said the nation should prepare

0:34.8

for the hardest and saddest week of most Americans' lives.

0:39.7

He said it's about to feel a lot like Pearl Harbor or 9-11 he called on all Americans

0:44.9

to do their part to flatten the curve.

0:48.5

New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo says they might be flattening the curve there.

0:52.8

The state's daily death toll has dropped slightly since a Friday peak with 630 lives lost.

0:59.3

The governor pointed out that the drop could be a blip.

1:03.2

China did New York a solid this weekend, and donated 1,000 ventilators.

1:06.8

That news came just after President Trump said he was unwilling to get New York all the

1:11.6

ventilators it requested.

1:12.9

But the president and his son-in-law did help New York City get some masks.

1:17.3

The city recently received something like 600,000 N95 masks from the federal government.

1:24.4

Elsewhere, Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19.

1:29.6

The BBC is reporting he's in intensive care as a publishing he's still in charge of the government.

1:36.4

Meanwhile, the almost 94-year-old Queen of England gave a rare televised address over the weekend saying,

1:43.2

we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure,

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