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Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak are colliding with partisan trench warfare in Wisconsin. Voters are stuck in the crosshairs.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s courts and law correspondent.
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Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak are colliding with partisan trench warfare in Wisconsin. Voters are stuck in the crosshairs.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate’s courts and law correspondent.
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The news to know for Tuesday, April 7th, 2020!
We’re talking about the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.: where it seems the virus has peaked and what health officials are now saying about going to the grocery store. Also, what a new government report found about U.S. hospitals, and why President Trump is pushing back.
Plus: a new vaccine in the works, the NFL goes digital, and Lady Gaga announces an all-star benefit to help healthcare workers.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, do mosquitoes transfer COVID-19? Also, is any help on the way for self-employed Americans? The answers in our new “Talk to Me Tuesday" segment.
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Sources:
U.S. Death Toll: Johns Hopkins
NY Possible Plateau: NBC News, NYT, AP
Avoiding Shopping: Business Insider, Today
COVID-19 in Kids: NPR, AP, CDC
Hospital Supplies Watchdog Report: Politico, NBC News
Ventilator Donations/Loans: ABC News, The Hill, AP
Boris Johnson in ICU: The Hill, Washington Post
Wisconsin Primary Today: NY Times, AP, Vox
Biden/Trump Phone Call: CNN, Politico
Testing 2nd Potential Vaccine: TechCrunch,, Business Insider, Press Release
Facebook Coronavirus Survey: Engadget, DigitalTrends, CNBC, Facebook
Google Location Data: Wired, Techcrunch, Google
Schools Ban Zoom: Washington Post, Cnet, Engadget, Zoom Guidance
NFL Draft Going Virtual: AP, SB Nation, NFL
Lady Gaga Announces Benefit: AP, NPR, CNBC, People
Mosquitoes Don’t Transmit COVID-19: WHO
Self-Employed & Small Biz Resources: SBA.Gov, Bloomberg
Unemployment Insurance: DOL.Gov
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Wisconsin will be moving forward with in-person voting today, despite efforts to postpone the election for the sake of public health. We check in on what’s happening there and in other states set to vote soon. Plus, we interview Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes about the election and what this means for November.
And in headlines: the ACLU sues to block parts of Puerto Rico’s coronavirus curfew, chaste pandas mate in Hong Kong, and the Mississippi governor makes time to honor fallen racists.
Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions – tech and gaming – he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek.
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