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In Randall for the Christian world this is
Good Friday which marks the crucifixion

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of Jesus but as people prepare to celebrate
Christ's resurrection on Easter Sunday

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things will be dramatically different than
in the past there will be empty churches

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families separated by social distancing
and morning all signs of fresh cruelty

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being inflicted every hour by the new
corona virus worldwide the pandemic now is

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claimed well over 98000 lives in its running
tally Johns Hopkins University puts

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the number of cases at $1600000.00 here in
the United States covered $1000.00 cases

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total 467008 record as the death
toll closes in 117000 number that is

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exceeded only in Italy the epicenter is
the state of New York which accounts for

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nearly a 3rd of the American cases and
yet there are glimmers of promise for

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a growing number of days virus hospital
cases in New York have been dropping

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yesterday they were just 200 higher than
the day before that is prompting hope that

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the height of the infection outbreak in
New York may be passed that the statewide

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lockdown is doing what it was designed to
do both to level the number of victims

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and to push the figures on to

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a downward slope some of the panic especially
in badly overcrowded hospitals in New

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York with their 18000 plus virus patients
is said to be dissipating the focus is on

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New York City we're coping once you know
so far it's taken close to 8000 lives with

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another 777 victims added to
the list yesterday alone u.s.

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President Donald Trump has asserted the
country has reached the top of the hill

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with new cases medical experts if you had
to make that claim the administration is

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known to be pushing for

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a reopening of the economy as early as May
1st the nation's preeminent infectious

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disease specialist Dr
Anthony Fauci told c.n.n.

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Today this is no time for Americans to butt
up on their pandemic mitigation efforts

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and he said what he has said before any
date for restarting the American economy

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will be dictated by the direction of
the pandemic Dr Phelps he also said

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a large number of coronavirus antibody
tests could be available in the u.s.

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Next week. This is v.o.a.

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News about 17000000 Americans have lost
their jobs so far in the past 3 weeks

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because of the pandemic and economists
suggest American unemployment could reach

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higher than 20 percent if the national
shutdown is prolonged the New York Stock

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Exchange is closed for Good Friday
the markets ended the week with

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a 12 percent gain in the s. And p.

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500 the same for the Dow one of Wall
Street's biggest weekly games on record in

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Europe roadblocks being used in places to
discourage large Easter gatherings Spain

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has suffered the highest number of coronavirus
cases in Europe one 157000 the death

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toll close to 16002nd only to Italy where
more than 18000 victims have died the

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fatality count in Frances are past 12000
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on

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the men from covert 19 now out of an intensive
care unit in London where oxygen was

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used to ate his breathing the 55 year old
Johnson remains hospitalized but his move

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out of the i.c.u.

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Is being greeted with

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a national sigh of relief Meanwhile the
count of coronavirus deaths in Britain is

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closing in on 8000 that number has been
rising quickly and the U.K.'s comparing the

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situation to its life and death struggles
of World War 2 European heads of state

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will confer by video conference in April
23rd on the agenda the expenditure of

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a half trillion euros to bolster European
economies battered by the pressure of the

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pandemic the corona virus has yet to
show its fury in Africa Nigeria the

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continent's most populous country has
recorded 2 $188.00 cases with only 5 deaths

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but there was another life threatening
plague it work the biggest outbreak of

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locusts in decades now the 2nd wave of the
voracious insects 20 times the size of

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the 1st is arriving in East Africa millions
of people are at risk of losing their

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food security the United Nations has
raised its 8 appeal from $76000000.00 to

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$153000000.00. The pandemic aside there is

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a presidential campaign that continues in
the United States former Vice President

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Joe Biden is poised to become the Democratic
Party's nominee to face Donald Trump

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who is seeking reelection with voting set
for November 3rd Biden is expected to

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focus next week honest choice for vice
president he's on the record as saying his

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running mate will be

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a woman Biden is elected at $77.00 he
would be the oldest American president in

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history United Nations secretary general
and good cherish is warning that the

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coronavirus pandemic is threatening
international peace and security that it poses

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the danger of increased social unrest and
violence that would greatly undermine the

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world's ability to fight the disease once
again our lead story the new coronavirus

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pandemic now is claimed over 97000 lives
Johns Hopkins University puts the number

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of cases worldwide at

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a staggering 1600000 more news online
at The only news dot com There is also

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a mobile app the what this is the only
news I'm Gene Randall via remote.

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See. Today is Friday April
10th and this is video ways

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international edition I'm Steve Miller in
Washington British Prime Minister Boris

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Johnson has been moved out of the i.c.u.

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His country minister said this day he was
stable improving some time I'm thinking

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of medical stuff plus Early voting begins
in South Korea facemasks mandatory plus

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plastic gloves and sanitized before you
cast your vote and ways of coping with

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anxiety in the age of covert 19
Those stories and more our next.

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It's been $100.00 days since the World
Health Organization was 1st notified about

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the novel coronavirus So what do we know
at the onset and what knowledge have we

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since gained for that I
spoke to Dr David Weber

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a professor of medicine and the Division
of Infectious Diseases at the University

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of North Carolina here in the u.s.

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We knew very quickly with

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a kroner virus and in addition we had the
1918 flu pandemic tell guidance and some

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of the issues so very quickly we knew

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a number of things about the this far
as we knew that it would be droplet and

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direct contact transmitted meaning within
6 feet and touching and likely to be in

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direct contact we knew that coronaviruses
of. Anatomists surfaces for I would today

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but we also knew that. An antiseptic
was active we get that far it's

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a standard that's in fact and we're quite
active again that is well we knew very

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quickly that it came from. Him it reservoir
We also know of course that that we did

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not have

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a tax lien and that there were no proven
effective treatments for. This so far as

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we know the symptoms would be predominantly
respiratory what we learned over the

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next period of time well we learned
that the infectivity of this virus is

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similar to influenza maybe

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a little bit higher we knew from SARS the
MERS that that was so cold to create

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spreaders meaning infecting more than 10
people we knew from targets that this

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virus eager without any therapy thought
that thing could be contained to some

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extent by physical distance thing

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a term we preferred to social to think
well to grieve learn recently well just in

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the last month of so we've learned that a
substantial number of people may become

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a symptomatically infected we
believe that some of those

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a thematic infections can
transmit We also know

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a number of people can be recent to Mattick
transmission so what don't we know and

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what we still need to learn
1st of all we don't have

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a vaccine and that probably won't have one
for 12 months because one don't have to

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be developed into testing

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a vaccine takes considerable
time we do know that there are

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a number of drugs potential therapeutic
drugs that are active on the test tube or

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animal multiple clinical trials are
underway but we don't know yet which

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a penny of the drugs will be useful
in combat in coated we think both pre

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symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission
may be possible we don't know how

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frequently that occurred we don't yet know
how likely we are to see 2nd and 3rd and

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4th waves of this virus in the future we
still are just beginning to learn more

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about the risk factors for

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a severe disease certainly older age
to crimper 17 than over 80 it's

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a major risk factor underlying diseases
heart disease lung disease kidney disease

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high risk factors as well but we haven't
quite determined exactly the interaction

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of all these risk factors to how additive
they are. And then some other risk

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factors such as asthma how
impactful that is we still need to

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determine what the impact is
on pregnant women certainly if

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a pregnant women become
severely ill that has to be

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a detrimental effect on both the woman and
the fetus but other issues about their

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potential small amounts of transmission
through breast milk or intrigue utero to

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children and finally obviously the pandemic
is now worldwide and where you think

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physical distancing we still have to
determine how long that physical different

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thing the be maintained and what the
triggers are for allowing people to stop

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because the cold distant think go back to
working revive our economies in terms of

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testing us President down Trump said that
it was very unlikely that every American

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would be given a coven 1000
test given needed no is

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a nice thing to do yes we're talking about
325000000 people and that's not going to

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happen as you can imagine and no it would
never happen with anyone else say their

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countries do it but they do it in

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a limited form will probably be the leader
of the fact so the question I have for

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you is how prevalent should testing be so
there are 2 types of tests we have p.c.r.

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Test that actually look for the virus and
those are important that we have enough

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testing capacity to test all of those who
have symptoms so we know who you know

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who's not particularly when we start
beginning to develop therapies and there are

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already many clinical trials and obviously
you need to test them to see if they're

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infected to put them into an appropriate
clinical trial knows tests need to be more

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widely available so that every person who
has symptoms could be could be tested

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certainly anybody sick
enough to have to come into

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a health care facility either with an
outpatient patient we need to be able to test

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simply we need to have enough tests
capability for well. We haven't section

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enclosed populations cruise ship everything
home college go on. We need to be able

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to test all the individuals there to learn
who's in fact the truth not currently

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infected as

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a separate issue of the serologic tests
which don't measure actual virus but

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measure the antibodies response to the
virus and those are just coming on but now

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those really are most useful not for acute
diagnosis but to determine the fact is

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that you've misread what percentage of the
population been infected at that effect

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differentially as we now believe
African-Americans are not the minority How about

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immunocompromised station at the been more
and they have been higher attack rate

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than urban vs. Suburban or rural areas
what about the differences in age and for

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the serologic tests you know we don't have
to test everything american much like

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the Gallup Poll we need to test anough
people randomly chosen from the population

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and from substantial population
such as minority women and men

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people with underlying disease

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a variety of ages to be able to typically
be able to look at those groups so that

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number will not be in the millions that
will be in the thousands to potentially

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over 10000 people that can be determined
statistically by epidemiologists sense

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that

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a station that was Professor of Medicine
in the Division of Infectious Diseases at

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the University of North Carolina Dr David
Weber more than 1600000 people have

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contract the disease and
that is according to

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a Johns Hopkins University coronavirus
Resource Center British Prime Minister Boris

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Johnson's health is improving and he's

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a move out of the intensive care unit where
he continues to be treated for covert

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19 on the government's plate in his
absence a review of lockdown measures and

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a colossal overdraft Reuters Lucy fielder
has that story but his Prime Minister

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Blair. Johnson is getting better in intensive
care where he is battling to live 19

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his culture minister said this day he was
quite stable improving set up and engaged

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with medical staff of 55 year old was
admitted to hospital on Sunday and has spent

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3 nights in emergency care
but he has not been put on

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a ventilator his stand in foreign secretary
Dominic Rob faces 2 main challenges one

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is reviewing Britain stringent lockdown
at an emergency Cobra meeting no decision

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was expected Thursday but the mayor of
London and other senior officials say the

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measures will stay in place as Britain
enters what scientists say is the deadliest

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phase of the outbreak with deaths expected
to rise over the coming Easter weekend

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the head of Britain's National Health
Service among many saying social distancing

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must go on for the number of new infections
and possible solutions maybe starting

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to flatten hopes of a grain
of virus crisis nearing

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a peak basted Britain's stock markets also
on the government's plate how to finance

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a vast increase in spending to support

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a shattered economy the world's 5th largest
economy is facing what could be the

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worst hit since World War 2 The Bank
of England has agreed to expand the

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government's overdraft. Ready financing
government borrowing the fund company

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raised on the debt market the last time
that happened was during the financial

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crisis of 2008 the government has made
historic spending and tax cuts ideas to try

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to shield companies and workers from what
could be the biggest downturn in more

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than a century ramping up borrowing plans
by tens of billions of pounds u.k.

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Hospital debts from crédit 19 rays a
daily record of 938 to more than 7000 as

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a few days ago that was what is reporter
Lucy fielder detainees in Australian

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immigration centers are pleading to be
released because of covered 1000 fears that

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there's barely. One confirmed case of

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a novel coronavirus in the detention network
inmates say it is impossible for them

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to self isolate and protect themselves
from the disease filmers reports that in

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protest some say they are on

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a hunger strike detainees at the villa
with immigration center in Sydney fear an

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outbreak of the new coronavirus inside
the facility that houses more than 400

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people would be impossible to control
their pleading to be released some say

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they're so desperate they've gone on

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a hunger strike we're not going to. Write
or retrieve but this is going to be full

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of wire so we can reach out for

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a story you might use to go to you know
to get some former teacher who you know

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green know the truth we see.
Even the doctor and be sure

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we have human beings so we're
even with true government. No

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talk just now before it gets
here it's true right in

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a letter to the Prime Minister Scott
Morrison detainees insist they're living in

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a potential Cove it 19 death trap for the
community and the prime minister. To hear

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. Them before. Going to the site of
the surgeon is really everybody.

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Going for

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a hike and you have. Already
the room where. When

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you get. Them Out comes. The
government insists there are

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established plans for dealing with

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a potential corona virus outbreak
within Australia's detention network

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a spokesperson said detainees showing
symptoms of coded 19 would be quarantined in

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test States there are about 1440
people including those from Iran New

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Zealand and. Dawn being held in detention
on the Australian mainland 40 percent are

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asylum seekers wall around $600.00 of
being held for visa breaches the average

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length of time in detention is more
than $500.00 days film Assef of v.o.a.

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News Sydney the Western u.s.

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State of California has more than 100000
homeless residents and officials are

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struggling with how best to help them
during the coven 1000 pandemic they face

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a dilemma where should the homeless go
cram people into shelters and risk more

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infections or move them into hotels and
trailers or simply leave them in their

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tents and cars for the homeless the
pandemic is an additional challenge to

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a hard life on the streets the ways Michel
Quinn takes things from here that he

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never can I get to live for every night.
And Dre Hinson is handing out mass this

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morning to homes people who live along the
freeway in Berkeley California homeless

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activist and civil rights lawyer tensing
also gives out food that's in tents

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and cleans up the camps and
then they make that tent for x.

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To be giving them albeit things to stay
faithful and clean when they live in

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squalor California one of the richest
economies in the world has the greatest

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number of people in the u.s.

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Who live outdoors and now it has covert
19 which threatens to hit the most

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vulnerable the hardest some cities and
counties here have placed sick homes people

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and those exposed to the
virus in hotel rooms be

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a rented trailers and open the convention
centers for beds but many are still

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outside this is

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a different approach than the hotel
helping realistic risk mitigation bad

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in this environment where
you could stay in your head

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a new 10 day. Area felt
isolate can't supply bed.

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Because it's really hard to get into the
hotel for you know Joe Pendleton lives in

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his van with his dog graze
my think it's definitely

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a lot safer to isolate
in my van and then in

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a big public space we shared our system
Pendleton an Army veteran who works with

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volunteers to set up makeshift handwashing
stations at homeless encampment we've

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come up with our own system of moving people
to camps if we suspect they're sick so

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they're quarantined from everybody
else where homeless not helpless. Yes

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a cup Prado is

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a lift driver who has stopped working
because of the pandemic she lives in

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a recreational vehicle with anything we
have any information about without I still

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see how to make sure that any business
what's going on make sure that they not buy

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the shelter in place orders
because allow my I'm

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a lot of my health people don't have phones
so they cannot stay up with the news

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officials in some cities are looking to
buy hotels so that after the pandemic

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people aren't kicked back on the street
Michelle Quinn Daily News Berkeley

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California and still coming up on the
program we need to have things that are

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successes we need to help things that are
finished really need to be able to say oh

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look at that I did that because that's
what helps mitigate the anxiety you are

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experiencing You're listening to v.o.a.

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News. This is in Indiana. Saturday

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April 11th marks the 50th anniversary of
the launch of the Apollo 13 mission which

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NASA calls it successful feel you
are happy. There is nothing at.

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All at how the Apollo 13 crew for you can
you didn't even know the junior Johns

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wagger Jr and Fred Hayes Jr 30. 1970
the mission was heading to the moon an

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oxygen tank in the

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a public service module ruptured and
exploded the extent of damage to the service

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module was

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a new thing too later when the command
module simply routed from the planned lunar

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landing and intimidate were ignored with
the help of their talented team in Houston

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the crew shouldered aboard the new module
were able to maintain this is the real

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reason to bring the spacecraft and its
crew safely back home to Earth Tony from

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70979 view lanes repentantly 0.

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Vo ways international edition continues I'm
Steve Miller throughout the world many

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countries are scheduled to hold elections
in 2020 and South Korea is getting that

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process underway Ryan Brooks from
Reuters News has these details.

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Facemasks mandatory plus plastic gloves
and sanitized before you cast your vote

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South Korea kicked off early voting for
its parliamentary elections on Friday and

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they're the 1st elections to open among
countries hit hard by the coronavirus

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crisis. It was

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a little uncomfortable since I had to put
on plastic gloves but because you've got

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to vote it was reassuring the election
itself is actually next Wednesday but

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officials are hoping people will take
advantage of the option to vote early in

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thousands of stations across the country
and in doing so reduce crowding at polling

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stations in

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a few days the polling sites on Friday were
disinfected and anyone whose temperature

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was too high were directed to special boots
8 polling stations have also been set

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up specifically for the more than 3000
coronavirus patients getting treatment as

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well as hundreds more medical staff South
Korea once had the largest number of Cove

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in 1000 cases outside of China but infection.
As are down after widespread testing

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and social distancing. On Friday it only
reported $27.00 new cases and the City of

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Daegu once the biggest epicenter outside
will Han reported 0 the success of South

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Korea's fierce battle against
the virus may translate into

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a boost for President Mungy and his ruling
party in the polls he cast his ballot

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early in front of cameras on Friday before
the outbreak his party's ratings were

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battered by a stagnant economy
and domestic scandals but

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a recent poll showed their approval
rating had jumped by 15 percent that was

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Reuters Ryan Brooks the
United States has taken

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a different approach than some European
countries in providing relief to workers in

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industries that have been shut down to
contain the spread of the coronavirus while

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countries like Germany and France are
reimbursing businesses to keep workers on the

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payroll via wage Brian
pattern reports the u.s.

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Has mostly adopted to increase government
assistance for millions of workers once

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they have been laid off from their jobs
or lose employment entirely the u.s.

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Unemployment system has been swamped after
nearly $10000000.00 workers were idled

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in the last month due to the coronavirus
outbreak and millions more filed for

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jobless benefits I actually haven't gotten
them I meant. The system is overwhelmed

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you can't call and if you call him. When
you're around the world wide spread

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economic shutdowns and posed to slow the
deadly pandemic have left many businesses

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on the brink of collapse in parts of
Europe governments are paying companies to

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keep workers on the payroll to stabilize
the economy and ease financial anxiety

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during the public health crisis then the
worker heads someplace and you know

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they're going to go when the crisis is
over and they're there are health care.

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But in the u.s.

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Most workers are eligible for. Assistance
only after they lose their jobs many also

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lose their employer provided health care
coverage and some groups like undocumented

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immigrants are excluded from receiving
unemployment benefits the federal government

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is sending $1200.00 directly to Americans
with moderate incomes and Congress is

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negotiating a 2nd round of
stimulus payments the u.s.

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Government does have one program aimed at
keeping workers on the job loans to small

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businesses that are forgiven if employers
retain workers during the pandemic the

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reason why everything is so convoluted
is probably because they did

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a long. Series all
incredibly because this is.

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The money leads to businesses not
behaving normally won't say Well as

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long as they reopen in some states the
National Guard is helping distribute food to

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those in dire need as many waiting for
assistance struggle to pay for basic needs

00:26:00
and no idea what we're going to do without
right the next month. Or that's going to

00:26:06
come from. Our electricity bill once
bureaucratic delays and bottlenecks are

00:26:11
resolved through financial assistance
should help unemployed Americans survive in

00:26:16
the short term but concerns about

00:26:18
a slow economic recovery leave many wondering
if their old job will be available

00:26:24
after the pandemic ends
Brian Padden v.o.a.

00:26:27
News Washington the Cove in 1000 pandemic
has up ended people's lives across the

00:26:33
globe and many countries schools and
businesses are closed families are separated

00:26:39
people are afraid of getting the virus and
they are worried about their loved ones

00:26:43
but they will perhaps get
sick and die there's

00:26:46
a lot of exactly coming with this pandemic
but there are ways to cope more from

00:26:53
view ways Carol Pearson and the shelves
at the grocery store where one of the.

00:26:57
Early signs that the new corona
virus was spreading in the u.s.

00:27:01
People began buying and hoarding more food
and supplies than they needed can yanker

00:27:07
is the clinical director of the stress
trauma and resilience program at Ohio State

00:27:13
University Wexner Medical
Center he spoke to v.o.a.

00:27:17
By Skype and while people coping mechanisms
are over while they begin to do things

00:27:23
to manage uncertainty Jaeger says there
are better ways people can cope with the

00:27:28
stress that he ground themselves and cover
stations with family members knowing

00:27:34
their home is safe through the variety of
of communication methods we have today.

00:27:42
With video chats people can see their
family members and friends even if they are

00:27:46
far away they can also use exercise
to help them cope Scott b.

00:27:52
Is

00:27:53
a psychologist at Cleveland Clinic who
specializes in treating anxiety we know that

00:27:58
that is useful for our physical wellbeing
and our emotional well being great

00:28:03
research on physical exertion being good
treatment for depression friends ideas

00:28:10
while Jaegers says another important thing
is to say goals even small ones we need

00:28:17
to have things that are successes we need
to help things that are finished we need

00:28:22
to be able to say oh look at that I did
that because that's what helps mitigate the

00:28:27
anxiety you were experiencing He also says
it helps to look back at the way we've

00:28:32
handled other challenges all of us are
growing the most when we're living outside

00:28:38
of our comfort zone certainly this is

00:28:41
a time where the overwhelming majority of
us are finding ourselves outside of our

00:28:46
comfort zone he says despite the uncertainty
and stress Don't forget to laugh doses

00:28:53
of humor are good for us I think it is

00:28:55
a way to activate the brain can. Actually
protect ourselves better and function

00:29:02
humor is really good medicine b.

00:29:04
Says when you share an experience
even from a distance it's

00:29:08
a way of bringing the community
together Carol Pearson the l.a.

00:29:13
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Steve Miller in Washington have

00:29:40
a great weekend. Weather

00:29:57
David Rivkin can make it in unprecedented
3800 meter gold medals in some

00:30:04
session at the now the lame Tokyo
lympics next year remember v.o.a.

00:30:11
Sports fans G.'s show ran what many
believe was the greatest 800 ever

00:30:18
to win the Olympic title in London in
2012 smashing the world record and they

00:30:25
can David very Dijon do it again in Tokyo
after winning gold in London and Rio

00:30:32
He's

00:30:32
a great athlete no doubt about it but the
last trace was way back in 27 tane dishes

00:30:39
and played with the injuries soft as so
many impressive achievements to alleviate

00:30:43
colds and breaking the world record with
114.91 in London events all of 8 years ago

00:30:50
and he drank in the world for. That famous
blue track in the Olympic Stadium in

00:30:55
August 2010 and then. In the heart of Italy
in reality it's another famous track

00:31:01
one week later by David Asia's now 31 and
he'll turn 32 in what will now be feeling

00:31:08
pain here 2021 and my view is that the
odds are against him no one is the early

00:31:14
thirty's and they. Same thing only has
the same strong link with his coaching

00:31:21
advisor. Who has achieved as

00:31:25
a coach bad for example during school
of. Any kind and they weren't the same

00:31:32
magic one more time on balance I still
think this will be very hard not to deny

00:31:38
David riches enormous talent but I wonder
all toll have the injuries taken remember

00:31:45
this is not about a mass level run

00:31:47
a business is the best of the best and
time marches on and those world records in

00:31:52
a 100 are now 10 years ago and while
running events are technical There's also

00:31:58
a big change in required is not quite
the same as a footballer having

00:32:02
a layoff or still having the technical
skills working on them while they're injured

00:32:07
and getting back into shape and they still
have the awareness of what happens on

00:32:11
the page in athletics and take the $800.00
because we're looking every day usually

00:32:16
a 100 you have tactics of course Prasco
playing with Championship round up to 2 or

00:32:21
3 races it's reached

00:32:22
a final and track and field has its own
distinctive Chadsey of competition and

00:32:29
especially hard to go in for a
running event less than fully fit in

00:32:33
a throwing competition my guessing one's
super throw your ball is trapped and that

00:32:38
might just might be enough to be the
opposition. Another point is the one after

00:32:44
that it's fans want to see the best in
action and so do the journalists who cover

00:32:49
the sport and I think there is

00:32:50
a danger of forgetting that time moves
on board is don't stay the same I'm not

00:32:56
saying this to. I've
interviewed once or twice

00:33:00
a year appear in meetings and I don't know
well but in my many years covering the

00:33:04
sport I've come across

00:33:05
a number of former as long as it's only
the top stars but those who nonetheless

00:33:10
good solid international athletes I
think he's going to saying I want more

00:33:15
chairmanship to one more chance so
I can go live his have not reached

00:33:19
a final I'm going to come back next year.
I think deep down I suspect it's because

00:33:24
they don't have a plan for
the next step in their lives

00:33:28
a life whether or not wearing

00:33:29
a tracksuit if I could add some more time
intrigue comment sometimes journalists

00:33:35
want those same type of forms to remain
in the spotlight because they associate

00:33:39
them with their own youth and the carnal
has long time coach has been quoted as

00:33:46
saying that could postpone the Tokyo
Limburg to next year will help reduce in

00:33:52
terms of regaining. They've
enjoyed. Now do you

00:33:59
think there's the background will be

00:34:01
a positive factor definitely
So I'm not saying that this is

00:34:05
a forlorn quest is worth pursuing and
us. Observers should have to retain

00:34:11
a sense of realism on the plus side Colm
O'Connell has been such an important

00:34:17
guiding light in the development of so
many Kenyans leads great ones he coached

00:34:21
a previous world record holder in the 800
while some kid was Kenyan born and also

00:34:27
pupil or sumpin Triggs to run for
Denmark it was caters record which for

00:34:32
a day should have broken Berlin in 2010
there are many more who have developed

00:34:36
under calm O'Connell's since he arrived
in 1976 if you think of marathon

00:34:43
runners such as Mary Kay attorney Ok play
God and then on the track Peter oh no I

00:34:49
saw him win

00:34:49
a surprise in him big time fall in 1500
in Seoul in 188 because tables are

00:34:55
a Supreme Court for. Barely starting to
read out the schools on the board and David

00:35:01
Rudisha is definitely on it the impression
which every day she makes on the media

00:35:05
is a very level headed individual
very much like again American

00:35:11
a great sporting talent which has developed
to also integrate just look online

00:35:17
along the limping 2012 and the
Olympic final and he don't mean

00:35:21
a Senate race from starting gun to

00:35:23
a finish line and he I suppose one
of the key differences between

00:35:28
a lump again World Championships election
is that the world's current champions can

00:35:35
be invited by world that formerly the i.w.

00:35:39
Have to compete that is they don't have to
go through their national trials to make

00:35:45
they can you know live big team in the
day even more division I have to run the

00:35:49
national trials just like
any other contender for

00:35:53
a place yes and the Kenyan trials given
the quality especially in the middle and

00:35:58
long distance talent

00:36:00
a brutal affairs and the respect of
reputation and shamans Now that said David

00:36:06
Asia's achievements as
one of the greatest ever

00:36:09
a 100 meter runners and the current world
record holder speak for themselves if he

00:36:14
were never interim on another step it would
still be one of the great ones Thanks

00:36:18
Sanjay that's the energetic Candy Edwards
speaking with us from London and

00:36:25
we'll hear more of an days after
leg inside in the days. This is

00:36:32
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00:37:24
up with one of the top female sports
journalists here in the USA and the focus of

00:37:30
their conversation was the Olympics Here's
Dan We're joined now on the money. You

00:37:37
want to get a column going
to Christine Brennan

00:37:40
a great. Number of the Olympics for
many year and I were in the you know

00:37:46
him and me and made her the opening
ceremony that we're going to

00:37:53
remember you heard him about Sharon are
we going to get ready for what he's going

00:37:58
to go and I'm going to look like oh my
God 2021 of all can come according to

00:38:05
quite welcomed I don't want to end I was
going to be Wendy thanks so much and yeah

00:38:10
I want to never forget to be next to you
during those 2 are you married opening

00:38:14
ceremony. And I'll never forget
that 808-0808 good day and

00:38:21
engaging and remember how I know you do
but it was midnight or one before we got

00:38:26
out and I remember how hot it was how hot
and humid and at midnight and down the

00:38:32
grime that went on everything you know just
from then pollution in the air and I or

00:38:36
about our skin and it went an amazing thing
it was fun but able to extraordinary

00:38:42
level of heat and the intensity of

00:38:44
a year and even late into the evening for
school and now I'm going to remember. Our

00:38:50
why it's right and we're going to do
whatever and in the lower level of you know

00:38:54
where there were no air circulation you
know. Fires were blowing at full blast.

00:39:01
At the engineering feats by the Chinese
organizing committee Absolutely I know I

00:39:07
was I was thinking that and I was talking
then you said I love it because I'm

00:39:10
Christian here we are prone to your
later on one point that there were

00:39:15
a number of previews for you about the
Olympics downing a list together for

00:39:20
a potential ask you to interview and here
I have been talking to them and they've

00:39:25
been talking to me about what it's
going to be like for them and set

00:39:27
a kind of their schedule now that the
coronavirus and Democrats are still whether

00:39:33
it's back to a year you had an interesting
story recently in USA Today about

00:39:39
a batch of athletes who had their Olympic
dreams interrupted the news from the

00:39:43
American athletes who were not able to
attend the 1980 Olympics in Moscow because

00:39:50
he was

00:39:50
a job in some of those stories and she
went counter when you went back and looked

00:39:55
at some of the states who had to put their
career hold 40 years ago it's really

00:39:59
bitter for so many of them and they're all
in their fifty's or sixty's now they're

00:40:04
successful people they're living their
lives had kids you know marriages divorces

00:40:09
you know the whole great business success
good people on the 12th which will be

00:40:14
Sunday is a anniversary the
40 years today that the u.s.

00:40:18
Olympic committee and House of Delegates
which was their governing body at the time

00:40:23
I under intense pressure from President
Jimmy Carter and his White House voted not

00:40:28
to participate the u.s. Olympic
Committee that was called the u.s.

00:40:31
Olympic and Paralympic Committee
but back then because he was so c.

00:40:34
Voted not to participate and then I needed
time out of the game to mask out because

00:40:38
of the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan
and I remember I was in college and I

00:40:44
remember hearing about this and I love
the Olympics even now it's I'm still

00:40:47
a student I'm not yet covering them as my
career but but I remember thinking balun

00:40:52
Jimmy Carter says this is our president
says this then they need to do this and

00:40:57
they. I wanted to feel the athletes who
said yes they felt if the country says we

00:41:00
need to do this we need to do it well
unfortunately now looking back I don't even

00:41:04
at the time frankly within a few
months it was futile and it was such

00:41:08
a mistake and it wasn't just dandy us of
course it was $64.00 other nations so

00:41:13
$65.00 nations in all boycotted and then
the Soviets and their allies returned the

00:41:18
favor in 84 when l.a.

00:41:20
Is a you guide Olympics and there was

00:41:22
a 76 point kind of some African by the
African nations so you really have

00:41:26
a boycott of the lympics in 76 in
Montreal 80 and Mosconi $84.00 in l.a.

00:41:31
From $72.00 in Munich which of course was
tragic in its own way and the terrible

00:41:35
terrible odd terrorist attack in 11 Israeli
athletes and coaches killing all of

00:41:40
them so went from 72 all the way to 88 was
sold as your 1st Olympics then it was

00:41:46
really had everyone in the entire world was
back and and of course it OK's you say

00:41:50
those things right it's like Ok Well yeah
but the human stories. The actual digging

00:41:56
down and digging into some of the personal
stories it's what I mean we know what

00:42:02
tragedy is right now in sports
the tragedy but it it's it is

00:42:07
a sport tragedy for these for some
of these people for example there's

00:42:11
a man named Craig Beardsley and I write
about him in the past so he's my go to guy

00:42:15
when I talk about the boycott he said the
world record in the 200 meter butterfly

00:42:20
he was

00:42:20
a swimmer from New Jersey and he said that
world record 10 days after his Olympic

00:42:25
race and class Cal went off without him
because of course of the boycott so he

00:42:30
couldn't go and he swam a 2nd and

00:42:32
a half aster than the Soviet swimmer who
won that 911 call battle in Moscow so

00:42:37
thank you and I have as well I got a
lifetime it's like you know it's it's

00:42:40
a huge huge gerunds in swimming so here
is great Beardsley obviously the fastest

00:42:45
swimmer in the world and not only does
he not even have an Olympic medal but he

00:42:50
doesn't get

00:42:50
a chance to even go to the Olympics so what
does he do he spends and he's 19 at the

00:42:54
time he spends the next 4 years of his
life going to the end of the. Florida and

00:42:58
he's training and sole focus is the next
4 years to the Olympic trials in 84 in

00:43:05
Indianapolis going for the alan

00:43:07
a Summer Olympic Games I
covered those trials I was

00:43:10
a young reporter at The Miami Herald and I
covered those 184 Olympics going trials

00:43:14
and I remember hearing about this guy Greg
Beardsley among many by the way who were

00:43:18
trying to come back
couldn't couldn't swim in

00:43:21
a day at the Olympics because of the boycott
deprived of it and of course then are

00:43:24
trying in 84 and this was really one of
those heartbreaking moments that happen

00:43:28
every night in the finals where some of
these people were coming back and trying to

00:43:32
make it and Krieger's it was one of them
and sure enough he gets back in the pool

00:43:36
for the in the finals for the 200 men
butterfly and back then to made it 1st place

00:43:43
going to the Olympics 2nd place went to the
Olympics 3rd place went home and Craig

00:43:48
Beardsley then 23 years old
finished 3rd missing the u.s.

00:43:52
Team by point 367 seconds one 3rd of

00:43:55
a 2nd touchdown he said I was devastated
I went to the scoreboard I was done and

00:44:01
felt the plaited I was emotionless at that
point I was done and really sad to me

00:44:07
you know of course I wrote those l.a.

00:44:08
Games I'm sure some of your listeners
remember those Olympics it was sent to

00:44:12
a wonderful national moment one tuned in
people watched I was there covering them

00:44:17
but you know it's just sad chain
national experience a shared experience

00:44:21
a great Beardsley and

00:44:22
a family went on vacation in Hawaii Dan
we're going to war in Iraq and I and I mean

00:44:26
to get over that phone number called and I
know turn your back on that your control

00:44:31
our turn our well yeah and then he literally
did not turn on the television at all

00:44:35
and watch

00:44:36
a 2nd half but couldn't watch it and as he
said to me he said we were just pawns in

00:44:41
a political game that's Christine Brennan
sports columnist for USA Today newspaper

00:44:48
and Christine was talking with Dan free
Bill I am Helen Melissa Linda champion by

00:44:54
genius

00:44:54
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00:46:05
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00:46:12
my feeling colleague
when joins us now with

00:46:16
a report on mental health and athletes
during the coronavirus epidemic.

00:46:24
Hey there sonny when Americana limpy and
Simone Biles found out the Tokyo games

00:46:29
were postponed she broke down and cried the
most decorated gymnast in history said

00:46:35
it wasn't her physical health that worried
her she was concerned about the toll on

00:46:40
her mental health the corona virus outbreak
has said light on the issue of mental

00:46:45
health across the globe in the United
States a recent survey showed over

00:46:50
a 3rd of respondents were feeling the
negative effects of the pandemic both

00:46:55
mentally and psychologically. In the world
of sports professional athletes face the

00:47:00
challenge of not only staying physically
fit but mentally fit as well and they find

00:47:06
themselves with

00:47:07
a void to fill with no competitions to
focus on for the indefinite future Tillis

00:47:13
pair Hoffman is general secretary for the
world soccer players union chief pro he

00:47:19
says there is an additional concern for
athletes who are already prone to anxiety

00:47:24
and depression. Issues consideration. Was.

00:47:37
Psychological problems. Early.

00:47:44
On. And. This works the
coronavirus pandemic

00:47:51
has brought Football League matters to

00:47:53
a standstill and top players in the
biggest clubs have come under pressure to

00:47:58
accept wage cuts to help manage costs
during the stop it but their Hofmann says

00:48:04
young athletes who played in smaller leagues
are also struggling to make ends meet

00:48:09
.

00:48:21
Literally. There is enormous distrust.

00:48:28
Of the season and their husband says women
players are especially vulnerable and

00:48:33
often have to deal with accommodations that
are inferior to their male counterparts

00:48:39
I dismiss your chances. Of few players.

00:48:52
Who travel to another country to
pursue their career. On their own.

00:49:01
Which means sitting in a tree in

00:49:03
a small. Russian. Creates

00:49:11
enormous pressure that we're
trying. To trace not trying to.

00:49:18
Go It's not trying.

00:49:25
To reach it's $92.00 or
3 days later which. Is

00:49:31
a long way away anyways in an article
published by thieves entitled keep your mind

00:49:36
sharp the union reminds
players to maintain as

00:49:40
a healthy lifestyle with adequate sleep
and to stay connected with family and

00:49:44
friends via social media

00:49:46
a pro also advises players to focus only
on what they can control and to avoid

00:49:52
watching too much news in particular
coverage on the coronavirus to keep stress

00:49:58
levels down not bad advice and that is
often made for today and for the week

00:50:03
setting that already you have

00:50:05
a good weekend Thanks Gwen that's my
video I colleague when. I'm Sunny young

00:50:12
and you're listening to the sunny side
of sports on the Voice of America

00:50:19
this is the view there's.
A real. Why didn't.

00:50:29
The. With the National Basketball
Association season suspended and

00:50:36
practice facilities shuttered because
of the coronavirus pandemic multiple

00:50:43
all star players are planning to
pass the time by returning to

00:50:48
a favorite childhood game horse
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris

00:50:55
Paul Atlanta. Trey young Utah
Jazz guard Mike Conley and

00:51:02
Chicago Bulls guard Zach Levine will
participate in the competition which will be

00:51:08
televised by e.s.p.n.

00:51:11
The tournament will consist of 3 rounds
the 1st will be broadcast on Sunday

00:51:18
while the semifinals and the championship
round will be held back to back on April

00:51:24
16th Now this is not the
N.B.A.'s 1st foray into horse

00:51:31
horses a shooting game in which a player

00:51:35
a cruise the latter whenever he can't
duplicate his opponent's made shot with

00:51:42
the 1st person to spell out h o

00:51:45
r as he by failing to match
the 5 shots losing at its

00:51:51
best the horse platform will be

00:51:55
a creative trick show and put on displays
some of the great creative moves

00:52:02
by some of basketball's
best players in 20092010

00:52:09
horse was added to the official n.b.a.

00:52:12
All star weekend slate Oklahoma City
Thunder star Kevin Durant's now

00:52:19
with the Brooklyn Nets won the competition
both of those years. And that

00:52:26
wraps up the April 10th edition of
the show thank you for tuning in

00:52:32
v.o.a. Is sunny Young in Washington have

00:52:35
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