What Contact Tracing Tells Us About High-Risk Activities
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
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Summary
President Trump's stance on hydroxychloroquine has made the drug harder to study, according to some scientists.
Researchers have been digging into contact tracing data from countries that had early outbreaks. Data suggest high risk activities include large indoor gatherings. Lower risk is going to the grocery store.
Plus, what is happening with classroom pets when school is out of session due to the coronavirus. Reporter Sara Stacke's story with photos.
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| 0:00.0 | reopening and doing it safely is possible. |
| 0:03.4 | I can't find a person in this country who wants to see another person die |
| 0:08.1 | and necessarily and I haven't met a person in this country that doesn't want |
| 0:11.8 | people to get their jobs back and open up the economy again. |
| 0:14.9 | Former Obama administration health care official Andy Slavitt is part of a |
| 0:19.2 | bipartisan group of public health experts who are urging state and local |
| 0:23.9 | leaders to better follow plans for testing tracing and isolating new cases. |
| 0:29.2 | The truth is you know you're in the middle of this learning process and you have |
| 0:34.8 | to be very safe and but understand that nothing is going to be risk free. |
| 0:40.2 | Slavitt says to minimize that risk new more detailed guidelines released by the CDC |
| 0:46.0 | this week are a good start. |
| 0:48.5 | Coming up scientists are learning about where you are more likely to catch the virus. |
| 0:53.2 | This is coronavirus daily from NPR. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Kelly McHevers. |
| 0:56.6 | It's Wednesday, May 20. |
| 0:59.1 | So do you expect life to get back to normal in the next six months? |
| 1:08.6 | 65% of Americans say no. |
| 1:12.3 | That's according to a new poll by NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist as for a second |
| 1:18.2 | outbreak three quarters of Americans are worried about that. |
| 1:22.3 | That number might sound surprising given all the coverage of protests like this |
| 1:30.2 | one in Michigan a few weeks ago. |
| 1:31.9 | People who oppose day at home orders were trying to get into the capital. |
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