The Rural/Urban Divide; Safe Summer Activities
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
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Summary
Essential workers who have continued to work may have received temporary wage bumps. But NPR's Alina Selyukh reports many companies are ending that hazard pay.
Challenges to statewide stay-at-home orders are mounting in rural communities that have few coronavirus cases. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports on the dispute in Baker County, Oregon.
Plus, experts weigh in on the safety of different summer activities.
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| 0:00.0 | Every state in the country has lifted at least some restrictions on businesses and public spaces. |
| 0:06.0 | In many states, you can eat out again. Even go to church, get a haircut. |
| 0:11.0 | We would have to be extraordinarily lucky not to have people with disease in some of those spaces. |
| 0:17.0 | So I think it's a bit of a roulette game. |
| 0:21.0 | Rochelle Wollensky is chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital. |
| 0:26.0 | We know that there is still community spread of this virus. We certainly are not at the point where we have contained everybody who has it, that we know who they all are, and we've contracted all of their, you know, contacts. |
| 0:38.0 | Scientists do expect to see cases go up as things reopen. |
| 0:42.0 | They know that people who get the virus sometimes don't feel sick for a week, if ever. |
| 0:48.0 | And the most serious symptoms can take two to three weeks to show up. |
| 0:52.0 | Which means it'll be at least mid-June before we really know how things are going. |
| 0:57.0 | Coming up a rural county in Oregon with one case of the virus, what it's like to wear a mask there, and what's risky and what's not this summer. |
| 1:07.0 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Friday, May 29th. |
| 1:13.0 | Congress authorized $3 trillion in pandemic relief spending in March and April. |
| 1:27.0 | Since then, Republicans in the Senate have said the country needs to pause for more time before there's another relief bill. |
| 1:35.0 | With all of this, with all these deaths, Democrats in the House already passed one two weeks ago. |
| 1:41.0 | Which McConnell says, no, we need to pause. We need to pause. |
| 1:46.0 | Tell that to the virus. The virus taking a pause. It's hunger in America taking a pause. |
| 1:53.0 | That was Nancy Pelosi in Washington this week. |
| 1:56.0 | Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans would be open to a fourth and final spending bill in about a month. |
| 2:05.0 | One thing Democrats want is to extend federal benefits that are currently going to people who also collect state unemployment. |
| 2:13.0 | It's an extra $600 a week, and it's set to go away at the end of July. |
| 2:18.0 | The bill passed by House Democrats would extend it for another six months, but that's a no-go for Republicans in the Senate. |
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