The Mask Debate Is Over; Fauci On Mandates, Vaccine Skepticism
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
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Summary
More and more Republicans are speaking up in support of face masks. Even Vice President Mike Pence has been wearing one in public lately.
Dr. Anthony Fauci tells NPR the coronavirus surges we're seeing now are partly the result of too few people wearing masks. Fauci said it's especially hard to explain the risk to young people, because the virus has such a broad range of severity.
Plus, a group of scientists who wanted to make it easier to track the virus in your community created an online risk assessment map. NPR's Allison Aubrey and Carmel Wroth reported on the new tool.
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| 0:00.0 | things really do not look good in Arizona. |
| 0:04.0 | Joining us right now is Dr. Cara |
| 0:05.6 | Chris, the head of the Arizona |
| 0:06.9 | Department of Health Services. |
| 0:08.0 | Dr. Chris, where are we with the new numbers? |
| 0:10.0 | So this morning we are going to be |
| 0:12.0 | reporting a record number of cases |
| 0:14.0 | that were new. |
| 0:15.0 | On local radio, KTAR Arizona's health director |
| 0:18.0 | said Wednesday there were almost |
| 0:20.0 | 5,000 new cases in the state |
| 0:23.0 | and 88 people who died just yesterday. |
| 0:27.0 | Both of those numbers are record highs. |
| 0:29.0 | And here's another number. |
| 0:31.0 | ICU beds in Arizona are at 89% capacity. |
| 0:35.0 | And that's why we were, |
| 0:37.0 | we wanted to put those mitigation measures |
| 0:39.0 | into effect because we are. |
| 0:41.0 | This week the state paused plans to reopen. |
| 0:43.0 | Now bars, gyms, movie theaters, |
| 0:46.0 | and water parks are closed again. |
| 0:48.0 | A lot of the states across the country |
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