Why The Crisis Hurts Maine's Lobster Industry
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A few places in the U.S. are still relatively unscathed by the virus, but they haven’t been able to escape the economic devastation. Esmé E. Deprez reports on why the fallout from Covid-19 is devastating Maine's lobster business.
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| 0:41.5 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 135 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:50.0 | Today's main story, a few places in the U.S. are still relatively unscathed by the virus. |
| 0:55.1 | But they haven't been able to escape the economic devastation. |
| 1:00.6 | Nowhere is that clear than in the lobster towns of rural Maine. |
| 1:06.2 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:16.1 | Houston joined Dallas and other Texas school systems in delaying the start of the school year because of the surge of coronavirus cases in the state. President Donald Trump canceled the |
| 1:23.6 | planned Republican convention events in Jacksonville, Florida, another state where cases are raging. |
| 1:30.9 | The World Health Organization's chief scientist, Dr. Somia Swaminathan, said the world needs to |
| 1:37.6 | gear up against the virus for the next year and a half, because it will take time to develop a vaccine. She urged countries |
| 1:48.0 | to develop public health measures to combat the virus until a vaccine is developed. While 24 |
| 1:55.5 | candidates are in clinical trials, the success rate of an experimental vaccine is normally just 10%, which is why |
| 2:04.4 | it's better to have many in development. |
| 2:07.5 | She also said it's possible that no vaccine will work, and the world should consider that |
| 2:14.5 | scenario. |
| 2:16.6 | And finally, Austria tightened up mask requirements because of a new surge of rhinovirus cases. |
| 2:23.8 | The rhinovirus, a cause for the common cold, is unrelated to the coronavirus, but it spread |
| 2:30.6 | signals that people are not following social distancing and hygiene rules closely. |
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