The worst covid surge is just beginning

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Midwest emerges as the latest hot spot for coronavirus, as daily cases across the U.S. breaks records. And the Democrats’ last hope to take control of the Senate comes down to Georgia.

Coronavirus cases continue to surge in the U.S. Reporters Annie Gowen and William Wan take a look at where the cases are rising and why.

Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Paul Kane joins the show to talk about the Democrats’ last hope to take the Senate in Georgia.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:10.0	This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:11.0	Hi there.
0:12.0	How are you?
0:13.0	It's Lisa bonus.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm routine powers.
0:20.0	It's Friday, November 13th.
0:24.0	Today, why this new coronavirus surge could be the worst yet?
0:29.0	And the Democrats last hope to take the Senate.
0:36.0	So the situation in the Midwest was described this week as dire.
0:39.0	Any gallon covers the Midwest for the post.
0:42.0	COVID is really hitting the upper Midwest states and the mountains states particularly hard.
0:50.0	These are areas of the country that maybe didn't have any cases at all in the first surge.
0:57.0	Yeah, afternoon, North Dakota.
0:58.0	And thank you for joining us on this COVID press briefing.
1:03.0	One of the places where it's been super hard hit is North Dakota where cases are up 60% and the governor this week.
1:10.0	Doug Burnham said that the hospital capacity is now at 100%.
1:15.0	It took us over 200 days, over seven months to October 19th to get to 5,000 active cases.
1:22.0	And now today we've crossed over this weekend 10,000 cases.
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