The Pandemic Census
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The 2020 U.S. Census is about to draw to a close. Bureau field workers have until September thirtieth to avoid an undercount. They’ve been going door-to-door to confirm the number of people living in cities across the country. But Jordan Gass-Pooré reports that pandemic-scarred residents, fraudsters posing as census workers, and a lack of P.P.E. are standing in their way.
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| 0:41.0 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 194 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story? The once-a-decade U.S. Census has been complicated by the outbreak. |
| 0:50.7 | Virus fears have kept census takers from signing up, and people from letting field workers into their homes. |
| 0:57.9 | And the count already had plenty of problems pre-pandemic. |
| 1:03.4 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. Former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlie, who has advised the White House on its COVID response, |
| 1:20.6 | said he expects the U.S. to experience at least one more cycle of the virus in the fall and winter. |
| 1:32.7 | He pointed to rising cases in the south and Midwest parts of the country. |
| 1:38.7 | Gottlieb also said he doesn't believe there will be a vaccine available for general inoculation until the end of the second or third quarter in 2021. |
| 1:45.1 | That contradicts President Donald Trump's earlier comment |
| 1:49.4 | that all Americans could be vaccinated by April. |
| 1:54.0 | In an interview on CBS on Sunday morning, |
| 1:57.5 | Gottlieb said he hoped the virus would start to dissipate next summer. |
| 2:03.5 | Myanmar locked down most of Yangon province, which is home to its largest city. It locked it |
| 2:09.8 | down for two weeks to contain a record surge in coronavirus infections ahead of the general |
| 2:15.7 | elections scheduled for November. |
| 2:19.1 | Today's strict stay-at-home order bars more than one member of a family to venture out for |
| 2:26.1 | shopping and curbs travel to other cities except for essential work. |
| 2:32.0 | Finally, an $18 billion initiative to deploy a COVID-19 vaccine around the world is moving |
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