The quiet genius of a zombie virus

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Brady Dennis reports on the growing number of cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States. Sarah Kaplan explains the science of why this virus is so dangerous. And, Rick Maese on the Tokyo Olympics, now postponed until 2021.

‘It’s going to get bad’: As outbreak surges, nation faces tough start to a grim week.

The science behind what makes this coronavirus so sneaky, deadly and difficult to defeat.

The 2020 Olympics will be postponed. We talked to athletes about how they’re feeling.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	Hi, this is Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:08.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:09.0	This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:10.0	Hi there.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:12.0	It's Lisa bonus, calling for the post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.0	It's Tuesday, March 24th.
0:22.0	Today, a sharp rise in U.S. coronavirus cases.
0:27.0	Why the virus is so hard to kill?
0:29.0	And Olympic athletes set their sights on 2021.
0:33.0	I want America to understand.
0:38.0	This week, it's going to get bad.
0:40.0	One of the forecasters said to me,
0:42.0	we were looking at a freight train coming across the country.
0:46.0	We're now looking at a bullet train.
0:51.0	We got a sense early on this week that it may be a rough week for the country
0:57.0	as far as the coronavirus is concerned.
1:00.0	The U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams,
1:03.0	went out first thing Monday morning and said,
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