The U.S. pandemic timeline

1 big thing

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's been six months since President Trump declared a national emergency over the coronavirus. The amount of changes and historic events that the U.S. has been through can feel overwhelming and hard to keep track of. Plus, how our outdated immigration system has been strained by the pandemic. And, Mike Allen answers a listener question about mail-in ballots. Guests: Axios' Sam Baker and Mike Allen and policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute Sarah Pierce. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Carol Alderman, Cara Shillenn, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Naomi Shavin and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. Go deeper: Coronavirus infections fell by nearly 13% last week Dismantling and Reconstructing the U.S. Immigration System: A Catalog of Changes under the Trump Presidency (Migration Policy Institute) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Axios today. I'm Nailaboodoo. It's Friday, September 11th. And all of you
0:10.4	remember where you were 19 years ago today.
0:13.6	I was here in DC on Capitol Hill,
0:15.8	just starting out my journalism career.
0:18.0	And so we wanted to start today's show
0:19.5	with a quick moment of silence for all we lost that day.
0:22.8	Thanks for joining me for that.
0:27.8	Let's start today's show.
0:29.2	How the pandemic has made our failing immigration system even worse.
0:37.0	Plus, Mike Allen answers one of your questions about mail-in voting.
0:41.0	But first, it's been six months since the coronavirus was
0:45.0	declared a public health emergency in the US. Our timeline since then is
0:49.8	today's one big thing.
0:58.0	Sam Baker is Axios' health care editor. Sam, you read this piece that tracks everything that's happened over the last six months and I was
1:03.1	wondering what was your motivation for wanting to do this? We just sort of wanted to
1:07.5	take a step back and take stock of what these six months have been and how difficult it is to even keep track
1:15.0	of what happened when in this time period.
1:19.0	So it was March 13th, six months ago Sunday
1:21.0	that Trump declared the public health emergency.
1:24.8	To unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort today, I am officially
1:28.7	declaring a national emergency.
1:31.4	Unemployment peaked at about 7 million new claims.
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