Welcome to the Second Wave
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Covid-19 is on the rise around the country. Texas and Florida, two of the most populous U.S. states, reported record numbers of new infections on Sunday. The recent surge in those states and others has led public-health officials to worry that reopening the economy has come at too grave a cost. What's clear is that between reopening policies, weariness with staying home, and large protests around the country, Americans are moving around and interacting more than they have in months. Emma Court has been covering what is increasingly looking like a second wave of the virus.
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| 0:32.5 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. |
| 0:36.6 | It's day 96 since coronavirus was declared a global |
| 0:40.4 | pandemic. Our main story, virus rates are jumping in U.S. states that began opening up over |
| 0:48.1 | the last month. And recent protests in cities around the country have experts worried cases will surge in those centers. |
| 0:57.7 | So is a second wave of the virus inevitable? |
| 1:01.6 | And did the first ever end? |
| 1:04.7 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:16.7 | In Beijing, there are worries about a new outbreak. |
| 1:20.1 | The city locked down 10 residential compounds in the northwestern Haidenju district on Monday, |
| 1:26.4 | after finding coronavirus cases at a nearby market. |
| 1:30.0 | The cases are linked to the nearby Xing-Fadi wholesale market, which has been the epicenter |
| 1:36.1 | of the new cases. China's vice premier, Sun Chul-Lan, said at a meeting Sunday that the risks |
| 1:42.3 | are high for Beijing's coronavirus resurgence to spread, |
| 1:46.5 | because so many people have visited the Jingvadi market. |
| 1:51.4 | The U.S. is likely to keep a ban on travel from the United Kingdom in place for months. |
| 1:58.1 | Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, told Britain's telegraph newspaper |
| 2:03.4 | to expect travel restrictions to last for months, and possibly until a vaccine is available. |
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