Trump Administration Push To 'Consolidate' CDC Data Worries Public Health Experts
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🗓️ 16 July 2020
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Meanwhile, four states have agreed to share driver's license records to help the Trump administration produce citizenship data. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports this data could be used for redrawing voting districts.
And some imported surgical masks are turning out to be defective. Sellers of the masks are touting FDA certificates but those certificates are useless.
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| 0:00.0 | The pandemic is still unfolding in pretty much the same way it began four months ago. |
| 0:05.1 | That is, different leaders in different places responding in very different ways. |
| 0:10.4 | We can't take anything off the table. |
| 0:14.0 | There is absolutely no certainty of what exactly is going to happen next. |
| 0:19.4 | In Los Angeles County where cases and deaths have been rising, public health director Barbara |
| 0:24.2 | Ferrer would not rule out a new stay-at-home order. |
| 0:27.7 | We do know for a fact, though, that we have to do everything we can to protect the health |
| 0:32.0 | care system. |
| 0:33.3 | On the same day, almost on the other side of the country, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued |
| 0:37.3 | an executive order to rescind regulations that had passed in 15 cities and counties around |
| 0:42.9 | his state. |
| 0:44.7 | Regulations requiring masks. |
| 0:46.7 | Kemp called them a bridge too far. |
| 0:50.4 | Coming up how the Trump administration is trying to change the way hospitals report crucial |
| 0:54.5 | data about the pandemic. |
| 0:56.5 | We're listening to consider this from NPR. |
| 0:59.3 | Kelly McEvers is off this week. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm Elsa Chang. |
| 1:02.1 | It's Thursday, July 16th. |
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