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Today, Explained

This one's for Earth

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Cryptic treehunters. Unknown apples. Flowers fighting back. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Vox’s Umair Irfan and Brian Resnick explain what we learned about the planet in the last year. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, April 22, 2020, aka Earth Day 5050.

0:09.3

I'm Sean Ramis for him and this is your coronavirus update from today.

0:12.7

Explained.

0:13.9

We thought the first COVID-19 deaths in the United States occurred in Seattle in late

0:18.1

February, but on Tuesday night, officials in Santa Clara County, California announced

0:23.0

that they had won in early February and another in mid-February.

0:27.0

This new information might shift our understanding of when and how the virus spread in the United

0:31.5

States.

0:32.5

Apparently, neither of the people who died in California had traveled anywhere they might

0:35.9

have been exposed to this coronavirus.

0:39.1

President Trump appears to be backing down from the sweeping and painfully unspecific

0:43.0

immigration ban he announced on Twitter the other day.

0:45.8

He's saying no more green cards, but appears to be okay with guest worker programs.

0:50.2

The president says he'll sign the executive order today, but he's been known to make

0:54.7

stuff up.

0:55.7

The Department of Education has barred hundreds of thousands of DACA students from receiving

1:00.1

emergency funds from the stimulus package passed by Congress.

1:03.4

Over six billion dollars were set aside for college students, but evidently not those

1:07.9

who were brought to this country as children without documents or reminder that DACA is the

1:12.4

Obama era.

1:13.7

The third action for childhood arrivals program, President Trump is trying to end.

1:18.2

And the LA Times reports more than a million U.S. citizens have been blocked from receiving

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