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	Podcast:		Amanpour
	Episode:		Amanpour: Tim Phillips, Michael Specter, Richard Levitan
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:55:42
	Publish Date:		2020-04-29 17:44:03
	Description:		With the number of coronavirus cases in the United States now standing at over 1 million the nation is struggling economically. Tim Phillips, president of Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, joins Christiane Amanpour to argue why we shouldn't bail out the states. He explains why the economy needs the be reopened slowly state by state. Michael Specter, staff writer at The New Yorker and professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, gives an insight into the man behind the White House's coronavirus responded: Dr Anthony Fauci. He says Fauci changed medicine in the United States. Then our Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Richard Levitan, emergency physician at Littletown Reigonal Healthcare, about why Covid-19 patients should be going to hospitals sooner. Levitan has worked in medicine for over thirty years and when the outbreak began to overwhelm New York City in March he signed up to help Bellevue Hospital; he reveals what he learned on the front lines.
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