What happened to California?

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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California once looked like an example of how to handle the pandemic. Now it’s a warning for other states looking to reopen. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The pandemic is going from bad to worse in the United States.
0:16.4	The White House appears to be at war with Fauci and the CDC.
0:20.4	The CDC appears to be at war with itself.
0:23.5	We're hovering around 60,000 new reported cases a day.
0:27.6	The governor of Oklahoma just tested positive for COVID.
0:31.1	Hospitals are filling up.
0:32.5	States are shutting down July.
0:34.5	It's starting to feel like March.
0:36.8	Things are so bad now that even places that did a good job initially look to be in bad
0:42.1	shape.
0:43.3	Case in point, California.
0:45.7	On today's show, we're going to explain how the Golden State went from shiny example
0:50.4	on a hill to cautionary tale.
0:53.2	Dr. Robert Wachter from the University of California in San Francisco is going to do a
0:57.7	lot of the legwork.
0:59.4	Well it begins probably like everyone else's journey.
1:01.9	We saw what was happening in China in January and California is so interconnected with China.
1:07.6	I think we knew there was every reason to believe that we were going to get hammered.
1:12.0	Big, diverse, lots of travel with Asia, lots of travel connecting us with Europe.
1:17.2	I mean, sort of the mood that you know in earthquakes can it hit, but except we never know
1:21.4	that.
1:22.8	My metaphor was I was standing on a beach waiting for the tsunami and I could see the peak
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