Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. has hit a staggering milestone for Covid cases over the recent holiday weekend. Next, we discuss WTF 'flurona' is, before getting into a scary weather report out of Virginia. Then, we cover the dropped charges against former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, and who was endorsed by Trump ahead of his election in Hungary. Lastly, we talk about California Representative Devin Nunes' resignation to become CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NPR: "More than 1 million Americans were diagnosed with COVID over the long holiday weekend" CNN: "What is 'flurona' and how serious is it?" AP News: "Stranded drivers endure frigid night on impassable highway" NY Times: "Cuomo Will Not Be Prosecuted in Groping Case, Albany D.A. Says" Insider: "Trump endorses authoritarian Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, praising him as 'strong' and 'respected by all'" CNN: "Devin Nunes officially resigns from Congress" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, January 5th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented
0:07.4	by Betcha's media.
0:08.9	I'm Sammy Sage.
0:12.1	For our first story, data from Johns Hopkins University showed that the US hit a staggering
0:16.8	1 million COVID cases over the holiday weekend, and that is not even including people who tested
0:22.0	positive with at-home tests.
0:24.0	For perspective, we were averaging about 70,000 cases a day in early November.
0:28.7	In case you were wondering what the number is, where we felt comfortable freely breathing
0:32.0	in each other's faces.
0:35.6	Watch out please, new meat coming through.
0:38.0	You may have heard of the flu-rona, though if you haven't, you're probably feeling way
0:41.5	more chilled than I am.
0:43.0	Turns out, it's exactly what it sounds like, a case of being infected with the flu and
0:47.2	COVID simultaneously, and the world's first case of this was detected in Israel.
0:52.2	The patient was an unvaccinated woman in her 30s, and she was discharged from the hospital
0:56.3	in what was described as a good, general condition.
0:59.6	There's not yet enough data to suggest if rates of hospitalization are higher for those
1:03.3	who are infected with both the flu and COVID, as opposed to just one of them.
1:08.0	But be on the lookout for COVID-Russian cap adult Omicron her junior year.
1:11.9	She's apparently shaping up to be an even bigger sensation than Michaela.
1:19.8	Time for a peek into our climate change future, where the weather is no longer just small
1:23.9	talk.
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