White House: This Week Could Be Toughest Yet

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak are expected to spike this week in some of the country's hardest hit communities. President Trump breaks from his medical advisers and recommends a coronavirus treatment that is still being tested.

And lawmakers adjust to legislating in the era of social distancing.

This episode: White House correspondents Tamara Keith and Franco Ordoñez, and congressional reporter Claudia Grisales.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Katie McAnjue from Richmond, Virginia.
0:03.7	Two weeks ago, I returned from Zambia
0:05.8	where I had been serving in the Peace Corps,
0:07.3	which means that today my quarantine ends.
0:10.0	This show was recorded at 2.11 PM on Monday,
0:13.5	the 6th of April.
0:14.8	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:16.9	Like I will have hugged my family
0:18.3	for the first time in two years
0:19.9	before returning to social distancing, of course.
0:22.2	So wash your hands, stay safe, and enjoy the show.
0:25.0	Aw. Yeah, that's sweet. That is very sweet.
0:30.8	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:33.7	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.
0:35.5	I'm Franco Ordonia. I also cover the White House.
0:38.1	I'm Claudia Grisalis and I cover Congress.
0:40.7	And there are now more than a million confirmed cases
0:44.1	of the coronavirus worldwide.
0:46.0	In the United States, there are some 350,000 people
0:49.9	diagnosed with a disease and more than 10,000 deaths.
0:54.0	That's a threshold that was crossed today.
0:56.8	President Trump warned over the weekend
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