Your Questions About the Coming Winter
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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The holidays will not be business as usual this year. Instead of just figuring out what to cook for Thanksgiving dinner, we have to consider things like who we can invite to dinner safely, or whether we should even be hosting a meal at all. Reporter Kristen V. Brown finds expert answers to your questions around social distancing etiquette and the Holiday season.
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| 0:34.1 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 235 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:44.5 | Today's main story, the results of the U.S. presidential election in which coronavirus played a crucial role are not yet clear. |
| 0:56.9 | But it's not the only unanswered question the country is staring down. Many are wondering how to make decisions about weather and how |
| 1:03.6 | to see family and friends this holiday season. For that, at least, we have some answers. |
| 1:16.1 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. |
| 1:29.6 | Boris Johnson is pushing fresh coronavirus lockdown rules through the UK Parliament, facing down rebels in his own conservative party. The country will close pubs, gyms, and non-essential shops in |
| 1:36.6 | England and restrict social contact between households. The Prime Minister announced the month-long |
| 1:43.8 | measures on Saturday, after data showed |
| 1:46.7 | that the pandemic's spread exceeds worst-case projections. Denmark has found a new strain of COVID-19, |
| 1:57.4 | in the country's mink population. An outbreak among the animals led to a mutation of the virus. |
| 2:05.4 | That might hamper efforts to develop a vaccine. Prime Minister Mette Fredrickson said today |
| 2:12.6 | that the discovery means the effect of a future vaccine could be weakened or undermined. |
| 2:20.0 | Finally, one of the first states to receive rapid, low-cost coronavirus tests from the U.S. government |
| 2:26.3 | is cautioning not to use them on asymptomatic people. |
| 2:31.1 | The Louisiana Department of Health said last week, antigen tests, like one from Abbott |
| 2:36.7 | laboratories, can incorrectly return positive results in patients who don't show symptoms. The recommendations |
| 2:45.0 | highlight issues with tests like Abbott's $5.9. Now. The Department of Health and Human Services is spending |
| 2:53.5 | $750 million on the tests, which were used in the White House. |
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