"This is Not a Hypothetical Issue"

The Daily DC

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4.4 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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After the immediate coronavirus public health emergency subsides, the medical and legal ramifications of the pandemic will likely linger for a generation. Join CNN Political Director David Chalian, CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin, and CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Art Caplan to discuss the constitutionality of stay-at-home orders, the difficult decisions about care hospitals and doctors will start making soon, and whether public health should be given priority over individual freedom.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3	Hey everyone, I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director. This is the Daily D.C. We are now up to 91% of Americans living under a stay-at-home order. With that comes some giving up of individual freedoms, something at the very core of what it means to be an American.
0:56.0	So that dilemma is one thing we will discuss today as we look at the ethics behind some of the
1:01.7	coronavirus impact, both legally and medically.
1:05.0	We have two perfect guests to discuss this with.
1:07.5	Joining me on the phone is CNN Medical medical analyst and the founding head of the
1:12.2	Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Art Kaplan, and CNN chief legal analyst,
1:18.6	Jeffrey Tubin, thank you both for being here. Appreciate it. Jeff, let me begin with you on this
1:22.6	stay-at-home issue because we're now at 91% of the country covered by this. So it's almost a de facto
1:29.0	national kind of blanket order, except there are some 12 states that are still not actually
1:36.2	with a full statewide stay-at-home order. And I guess my first question to you, I get it a lot
1:43.4	from listeners as well.
1:46.2	Constitutionally, in our federal system, Jeff, is a national stay-at-home order,
1:52.1	even something the federal government could do?
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