Variants Are All Greek Letters To Me
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🗓️ 2 June 2021
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As most of the U.S. prepares to reopen by the end of this month, a World Health Organization official warned, “It would be a monumental error for any country to think the danger has passed.” Peru recently reported that COVID deaths in the country are almost triple than what was previously reported. Plus, the WHO moved to rename variants using letters of the Greek alphabet in part to remove the stigma from countries where they were first identified.
Joe Biden became the first president to commemorate the massacre of Black residents in Tulsa’s Greenwood District on its 100th anniversary. He used the event to propose a wide-ranging plan to narrow the racial wealth gap.
And in headlines: Canada reckons with its history of residential schools, a ransomware attack holds the world’s beef hostage, and theatre-going roars back with “A Quiet Place Part 2.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 2nd. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm getting a rest second. This is what a day where every weekend is a holiday weekend. |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, I'm going to start not showing up to work every Monday and you know, just see what happens. |
| 0:18.2 | It's a great plan. Sorry Monday, we promise. It is really nothing personal. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, just want to be in bed. |
| 0:32.0 | On today's show, President Biden commemorates the Tulsa massacre with a plan to close the racial |
| 0:36.1 | wealth gap, plus we'll have headlines. But first, the latest. |
| 0:40.1 | Listen to this. This is the level of COVID positivity today in New York City. 0.83 percent. |
| 0:49.9 | The lowest we've seen ever since this pandemic began. |
| 0:57.5 | All right. So that's New York City mayor Bill DeBlazi. Oh, yesterday he was really feeling |
| 1:02.8 | himself. He is one of the many local officials who've been outright optimistic, even excited about |
| 1:08.6 | the drop in COVID cases and deaths throughout the country. Over 40 percent of the whole US population |
| 1:13.3 | is vaccinated. And nearly every state will be fully reopened by the end of the month. |
| 1:17.8 | But for the rest of the world, the story is not the same. So Gidey, what did we hear most |
| 1:22.4 | recently from the World Health Organization on that front? Yeah. So at the end of the World |
| 1:26.4 | Health Assembly on Monday, the WHO director general Tedros Adenam-Gabriasis characterizes |
| 1:31.8 | view like this quote, it would be a monumental error for any country to think the danger has passed. |
| 1:37.0 | So kind of scary. Despite major areas of success in a number of countries in declining cases and |
| 1:42.4 | those rising vaccinations, he also said that the current pandemic has provided more reasons for |
| 1:47.2 | the creation of a worldwide pandemic treaty. So the countries could hypothetically share information, |
| 1:51.6 | resources, and more and more than 30 nations have reportedly agreed to this idea in theory and are |
| 1:56.8 | in for discussing it later this year. But before countries can even prepare for what could or could |
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