The News Roundup For January 14, 2022
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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The President Joe Biden announced a plan to require health care insurers to reimburse Americans for at-home COVID-19 tests.
Inflation is rising (7 percent over the last year, the highest since 1982), but so are wages. The public's focus on the former rather than the latter has Democrats worried about election season.
Meanwhile, the developing situation at the border between Ukraine and Russia wasn't deescalated following NATO talks with Russian officials. U.S. diplomats are growing frustrated, telling their Russian counterparts to choose diplomacy over conflict.
We cover the most important headlines of the week on the news roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | For the latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the OneA podcast. I'm Jen White and you're listening to the news roundup. |
| 0:26.4 | We've got the record breaking case numbers. Now the record breaking hospitalizations have followed. |
| 0:32.9 | 24 states say 80% capacity of their staffed hospital beds are full in the wake of this latest |
| 0:39.3 | COVID title wave. The Biden administration has promised more tests and more masks. |
| 0:44.5 | But after a major blow from the Supreme Court on Thursday, what can the White House do to flatten |
| 0:49.2 | a curve that looks more like a skyscraper? We'll get into it. Then the fight over the |
| 0:53.2 | filibuster hits another brick wall. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he might have a |
| 0:58.7 | workaround. What is it? And will it actually work? We've got the week's top stories in health, |
| 1:03.6 | politics, the economy, and more on your Friday news roundup. And with us, Arca Anita Kumar, |
| 1:08.7 | the senior editor of standards and ethics at Politico. And you to welcome. |
| 1:13.4 | Thanks for having me back. Also with us, Rafael Bernal. He covers politics at the Hill. |
| 1:17.8 | Rafael, welcome. Thanks for having me. And Cheryl Gastelberg covers health policy and politics for |
| 1:24.1 | the New York Times. Cheryl, always great to have you on. Thank you, Jen. Happy 2022. Same to you. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, COVID hospitalizations have more than doubled since Christmas. But the Omicron variant |
| 1:35.2 | shows some signs of plateauing in New York and other parts of the Northeast. Cheryl, give us |
| 1:39.6 | an update on the state of the pandemic. Could we see the Omicron surge peak anytime soon? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, we could see it peak probably by the end of January experts are saying broadly what we're |
| 1:51.6 | seeing across the country is, as you mentioned, COVID hospitalizations have doubled in more than |
| 1:57.0 | a dozen states. Capacity is filling up. I thought you put it very well when you said the cases are |
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