Discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is patricia durgess, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she had discovered a cure for covid19. But there she was, april 11, on facebook, quote, this amazing treatment stands to provide a potential cure for covid19 patients that is safe and natural. And wouldnt you know it, she would be happy to sell it you to.
Americans had already died from covid and we all knew it was going to get so, so much worse. The future was looking then, and would turn out to be, incredibly grim. On that same day, april 11, a woman in missouri said publicly she had made an important discovery, one that if true, could turn the whole pandemic around. This missouri woman, her name is Patricia Derges, was licensed in missouri as an assistant physician. She had done med school at a school in the caribbean but she hadnt been accepted into a residency. She wasnt a full doctor. The rules say a person with midlevel professional accreditation like hers can only do so if they do it in collaboration with a fully accredited doctor. Theres nothing wrong with being a physician assistant, theres lots of room in our system for lots of different licensed professionals. But i think its safe to say that april 11, just about a month into the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the person you would expect to be announcing that in fact she
All in the bay area, low clouds, lots of this mo the afternoon hours, we are watching the fire zone forecast is welcome to the wind picks up, nothing too extreme around time is 50 miles an hour. More of your forecast a few minutes. Standing by right now we have an update on the commute. Reporter good morning, we have traffic that is moving along slowly on some of these commutes at the bay bridge toll plaza for example. You will see its backed up all the way to the main metering lights which are on, this is about a 15 minute delay, nothing unusual about that should be gone by 8 00 unless it is a problem this is the 880, i moved too quickly for me. Here it is, goodnews. If you are leaving the city in fremont, the crash is clear, traffic on the ultimate pass approach is still very heavy. The south a commutes to 80 in san jose and all the other freeways are doing well, lets get back to the headlines. Straight to a developing story, we are following overnight, hundreds of people took part i
Of the podcast, democracy in color. Thanks, steve, for joining us. Thanks for having me on. And david daley, the upcoming book, unrigged. Thanks for joining us, david. Pleasure to be here. Hi, everybody. My names rebecca nagel, im a journalist and host of a podcast, this land, and im really, really excited to be digging into this conversation over next hour the next hour because i think it is more important now than ever. I think, you know, in this moment of a Global Pandemic, we are seeing the systemic failures of our government right now. You know, sort of all of the cracks in the system that were already existing are more apparent than ever, and i think a lot of us have our eyes on this upcoming election and if that election going to be a solution or make the problem worse. So, steve, ill direct the first question to you, you know, with a lot of democrats [audio difficulty] singular focus on beating donald trump in november, theres a lot of debate about whether or not those efforts
And if you missed any of our coverage, watch anytime ondemand at cspan. Org coronavirus. At the keyok battleground states in campaign 2020, we are joined here in washington with craig elder, the Washington Bureau chief for the milwaukee journal sentinel. As you look at ulysses and the covid19. Craig wisconsin is a divided state and also has a divided government with a republican majority in the legislature but a democratic governor. Growings been a lot of partisan disagreement and conflict over how to manage the pandemic between the governor and the legislature and wisconsin is a little unique in that we have this situation where a state Supreme Court with a conservative majority struck down the governors stayathome order. So, overnight lifting the restrictions that had been put in place and which were gradually going to be lifted anyway. The state of play in wisconsin. Wisconsin also had two elections. Host i want to focus on campaign 2020 that let us go back to 2016 with the results