The race to find a cure for the coronavirus

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today on Post Reports, Anna Fifield describes the eerie emptiness that has taken hold across China under the threat of the coronavirus. David Lynch reports on the epidemic’s impact on the global economy. Carolyn Johnson explains the hurdles disease specialists are facing in creating a vaccine for the virus. And Justin George on Bernie Madoff’s plea for “compassionate release.”

Major Chinese cities are becoming quiet ghost towns, as residents lock themselves away from the threat of the coronavirus. Read more about how this is affecting domestic and international industry.

Public health experts say they’re struggling to understand the virus’s spread and its symptoms. Read more about how fast science has to move to keep up.

Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff has asked for compassionate medical release from prison. Hear from the man himself.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:05.0	It's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:08.0	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Ella Hayes, I'm with the Washington Post.
0:13.0	This is Post Reports.
0:14.0	I'm Caroline Kitchener, in for Martine Powers.
0:17.0	It's Thursday, February 6.
0:21.0	Today, how the coronavirus is impacting the economy,
0:27.0	and why the virus is so hard to contain,
0:30.0	and Bernie Madoff seeks early release from prison.
0:36.0	The coronavirus has infected tens of thousands of people
0:39.0	and killed more than 500, most of them in China.
0:42.0	The outbreak of the coronavirus has had a huge impact
0:47.0	across this country of 1.4 billion people.
0:53.0	Not just in Wuhan and Hubei Province,
0:56.0	it's a creepy center of the outbreak, but everywhere.
0:59.0	Anify Field is the Beijing Bureau Chief for the Post.
1:02.0	Beijing, like you've never seen it before.
1:05.0	In Beijing, a city of 24 million people.
1:08.0	Empty streets with very little cars, bicycles, and motorbikes.
1:12.0	Restaurants, shops, cafes, everything is closed.
1:17.0	Not one single person getting off the train, nobody getting on.
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