Whistleblow While You Work From Home
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The doctor in charge of US government’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine was dismissed this week. He says it has to do with his opposition to untested treatments for Covid-19 pushed by President Trump.
School closures nationwide have created a massive disruption for students, parents, and teachers. We talk to Monise Seward, a 6th grade special education teacher in Georgia, about the difficulties of taking the classroom online.
And in headlines: Trump pops off about boats in Iran, Netflix sees big numbers under lockdown, and M.I.A.’s Vogue feature gets pulled due to very questionable takes.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, April 23rd. I'm Akila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day your source for updates on the vast and mysterious outside world. |
| 0:14.9 | Honestly, I can't for the life of me remember what it's like out there. What is it? |
| 0:20.0 | I don't know, I'm forgetting what people's mouths look like. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh no. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, a check-in with a teacher in Georgia on how virtual learning is working for her students, then some headlines. |
| 0:41.3 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello everyone. I hope you're doing okay during this quarantine time. |
| 0:47.3 | And my son then changed his TikTok name to Ben underscore Tervolta, all small letters. |
| 0:53.7 | So check it out if you care too and have a good day. |
| 0:57.3 | Okay, so that was John Tervolta wishing us all well and also taking a moment to hype up his son's TikTok. |
| 1:04.6 | Very sweet. Everybody follow Ben underscore Tervolta. |
| 1:09.0 | But in news, the house is set to vote today on the interim coronavirus aid bill that's expected to be signed by the president. |
| 1:15.6 | They're also planning to vote on the creation of an oversight committee that would have subpoena power to probe the federal response to coronavirus and spending. |
| 1:23.5 | So busy 24 hours, but let's run through some of the other news from DC. |
| 1:27.5 | Gideon, kick it off. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah, so beginning with the administration, we might see our first whistleblower emerge from the Trump White House's handling of this crisis. |
| 1:35.3 | His name is Dr. Rick Bright. He was dismissed from his role this week as the director of the biomedical advanced research and development authority at the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS. |
| 1:46.3 | His role was effectively to lead the agency developing a COVID-19 vaccine. |
| 1:51.0 | Right. So he's no longer the vaccine chief. |
| 1:53.8 | And he thinks there's some shady stuff going on with his dismissal. |
| 1:57.1 | Interesting. What do you have to say? |
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