Journal we speak with the hills reid wilson author on the coronavirus pandemic. Afterwards we discussed key campaign 2020 with cook political reports Jessica Taylor. Journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, may 18. States across the country are reopening economies and lifting restrictions on activities like going to parks, golfing, dining out, shopping, and going to the gym. This is happening while the u. S. Has seen over 1. 4 million cases and nearly 90,000 deaths. We want to talk to all of you about reopening where you live. Do you support or oppose the idea . If you support it . , 2027488000, if you are 2027488001. Ning, at can also text us 2027488003. New york times put together an interactive map that shows states that are reopening in blue on your screen. Those with regional openings are in yellow. Light blue means they are reopening soon. , solid yellow, i should say, are still shutdown. Regional openings have these lines through them a little difficult to see on your
A group of colleagues and i gained admission to Psychiatric Hospitals by simulating, by faking a single symptom. We said we heard voices. The voices said, empty, dull, thud. The moment we were admitted to the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. We have tested her for every Infectious Disease and all of the results are negative. Or eeg is completely normal. Her mri is normal. Its all normal. Her condition continues to regress. Mania, paranoia. First they are saying its schizophrenic, than they are saying its psychotic. We should look at hospitals better equipped to deal with this. You look fine. Host when did this happen to you . Susannah i was 24 at the time. A lot of that time i dont remember. Its always very bizarre to see it recreated in movie form. I wrote about about a time that is very much lost to me, and then it was recreated, so i have very strange feelings about
Because the majority of the states hit first and hardest have been coastal states, which President Trump and some of his allies have noted tend to vote more democratic. Those coastal states have now bent their curve, as you can see, collectively, which is what you see on the left side of the screen. Now, compare that to the curve of noncoastal states on the right. The places where cases are rising the quickest appear to be in more rural and, yes, redder areas. The data matches what other experts are seeing as well, including those in the White House Task force. This is undisclosed task force data, obtained by nbc news, and it shows that the counties with the fastest rise in cases are located in states like tennessee, kansas, missouri, kentucky, and nebraska, among others, as you can see, sort of reinforcing that curve chart that we showed you. What this means for the reopening debate, though, is unclear. But it comes at a moment when the white house and Public Health experts appear to
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