Tracking a secret outbreak in Iowa

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How genetic science can help expose, track and contain coronavirus outbreaks. And your voting questions answered.

In a pandemic rife with confusion, where essential data and clear guidance have been difficult to find, clues to controlling coronavirus outbreaks can be found in the virus’s own genetic code. Sarah Kaplan reports on an undisclosed outbreak in Postville, Iowa — and the genetic evidence it left behind.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hi, this is Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:07.8	Hi, Jeff.
0:08.8	This is Winfrey Oprah.
0:09.8	Hi there.
0:10.8	How are you?
0:11.8	It's Lisa bonus.
0:12.8	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.6	It's Thursday, October 15th.
0:23.3	Today, how genetic science helped expose a secret coronavirus outbreak.
0:28.7	And what happens when a campaign challenges votes?
0:35.7	Magdalena Toch Garcia is 36, Mother of Three, and a worker at the Agustar meat and poultry
0:43.0	plant in Postville, Iowa.
0:48.6	Back in March, when the first coronavirus cases were being diagnosed and reported in the
0:54.4	hospital, she became really scared about the virus affecting her.
0:58.8	There had been cases in her town in the Northeast of Iowa and she wanted to protect herself
1:04.5	and her children.
1:07.5	I started thinking about how do I protect myself from the meat packing plant space and she
1:22.2	had asked for a mask from the laundry facility and was told that she couldn't have one that
1:26.3	only people who were sick were going to get masks.
1:28.4	I was going to get a mask.
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