We'll CDC What Happens
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What A Day
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The CDC has quietly posted a report with detailed suggestions about how to reopen. We dig into it and how the states might or might not use it.
More than 900 children have been deported since March under a new pandemic border policy. Before, children had the opportunity to speak with a social worker or make a plea for asylum. Now, they can deported within hours of arrival in the US.
And in headlines: an Ohio county declares racism a public health issue, a QAnon believer scores a Senate nomination in Oregon, and two men are arrested for helping Nissan's ex-CEO escape Japan in a box.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 21st. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day where we are officially unveiling our |
| 0:13.1 | nickname for President Trump, Mr. Terrible President. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah, you know, we're going to keep it simple. We might try something else at some point, |
| 0:20.0 | but for now, we're just going with Mr. Terrible President. |
| 0:23.7 | Let's see if he can come back from this one, buddy. |
| 0:27.0 | I hope not. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, an update on immigration and mental health in the midst of this global pandemic, |
| 0:39.3 | then some headlines. |
| 0:40.5 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:42.4 | As all 50 states are now in some process of reopening, the CDC has quietly posted a report |
| 0:47.2 | with detailed suggestions about how to reopen. This comes after the White House had initially |
| 0:51.7 | shelved the report, so Gideon, get us up to speed. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, so we'll get into what's actually in this report, but the subtle release was also kind |
| 0:58.2 | of noteworthy as well, right? It's a 60-page document and it was reportedly just put up over |
| 1:02.9 | the weekend on the CDC's website, but it certainly did not get tons of attention at least immediately. |
| 1:08.9 | Big picture what the CDC is trying to do here is to give some specific instructions for different |
| 1:13.6 | settings that would naturally be reopening, like schools, restaurants, or public transportation. |
| 1:19.0 | But questions remain about how much these steps and strategies would actually be followed, |
| 1:24.0 | given that some of the language is not explicitly written as mandatory. |
| 1:27.5 | It's more like, quote, consider this or quote, consider that. |
| 1:31.2 | We've also seen in this broader process of reopening that states are kind of determining what is |
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