The private/public partnership to stop Covid-19, Facebook’s board sees more shakeups, and Kara’s brother Dr. Jeff Swisher on hospitals prepping for coronavirus

Pivot

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News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about the announced public/private partnerships between major companies and the federal government. They discuss the Trump administration’s misinformation about a Google website that will be developed to triage Covid-19 cases. They touch on changes at Facebook’s board, Kenneth Chenault is the latest to depart. In Friends of Pivot, we hear from a person living under quarantine in Milan, Italy. Then Kara’s brother Dr. Jeff Swisher comes on to talk about how he and hospitals are preparing for the deluge of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks. We ONLY discuss wins this week and for once, it seems like social media is winning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.9	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.
1:24.8	And I'm Scott Callaway. All right, let's talk about the big story, COVID-19, which really does
1:29.5	touch on everything, including tech and business, which we cover on Friday. Trump gathered CEOs from
1:35.6	Walmart, CBS Target, among others, to talk about how they would be working with the government to
1:40.5	open up parking lots of supply chains to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Walmart target
1:45.0	CBS and Walgreens are going to all give up parking lot space for drive-through testing once it's
1:49.5	gets in place, which it does not. Trump did overpromise on this because it's not in place yet.
1:54.3	Then he announced that Google is developing a national website to triage COVID-19 cases.
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