The Evening: Task Force Wind Down, Meat Shortage, Helplessly Hoping and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, May 5th.
** Task Force Winding Down
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Vice President Pence told reporters today that the coronavirus task force created to manage the federal government’s response to the pandemic could be disbanded within a month because “of the tremendous progress we’ve made as a country,” as the
Washington Post reports ([link removed]) .
** Meat Shortage
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Hundreds of Wendy’s restaurants have run out of hamburgers. Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, is limiting the amount of ground beef and pork that customers can buy at some stores. And Costco, where shoppers typically buy in bulk, has placed a three-product cap on purchases of fresh beef, poultry, and pork, as the
NYT reports ([link removed]) .
** Source Still Unknown
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Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today it was still unknown whether the coronavirus emerged from a wet market in China, a laboratory, or some other location, but reaffirmed the U.S. view that it was probably not man-made, as Reuters reports ([link removed]) .
** On the Horizon
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On the Horizon banner image The Covid-19 crisis will change the Europe we have known for the past 70 years. What is on the short- and long-term horizon once the dust has settled? CSIS's Europe Program director Heather Conley outlines ([link removed]) how the pandemic might impact the European Union.
CSIS’s “On the Horizon (#) ” series offers insights into the more fundamental changes we might anticipate for our future social and economic world as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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** In That Number
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** 1,000
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More than a month has passed since there was a day with fewer than 1,000 deaths from the virus. Almost every day, at least 25,000 new cases are identified, meaning that the total in the United States—which has the highest number of known cases in the world with more than a million—is expanding by 2 to 4 percent daily.
Source: NYT ([link removed])
** Critical Quote
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** “How many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later?”
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— Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
** iDeas Lab
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New analysis ([link removed]) from Beyond Parallel surveys satellite imagery of a previously undisclosed facility near Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea likely related to its expanding ballistic missile development program.
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.
** Optics
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CSIS
(Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Capitol today.
** Recommended Reading
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Check out recent analysis on U.S.-China relations from CSIS’s Trustee Chair in China Business & Economics, including a report ([link removed]) on China’s overseas talent programs and a new blog ([link removed]) .
** Online Events
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Tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m. ([link removed]) , CSIS’s Global Health Policy Center will host a conversation with Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS, to discuss the future of the global HIV response in light of the ongoing pandemic.
Earlier, at 7:00 a.m. ([link removed]) , the International Institute for Strategic Studies will convene a panel of experts to consider the impact of new missile systems and technologies on strategic stability.
Later, at 1:00 p.m. ([link removed]) , the Women’s Foreign Policy Group will host a virtual panel discussion assessing the impact of Covid-19 on U.S. national security.
** Video
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Korea and Japan Marc Knapper discussed recent events on the Korean peninsula with CSIS experts Victor Cha, Sue Mi Terry, and Mark Lippert this morning. Watch the full video here ([link removed]) .
** Podcasts
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Die Welt
In the latest episode of Babel, host Jon Alterman speaks with Nabih Bulos, the Middle East bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, about disinformation efforts in the region during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Listen on Apple Podcast ([link removed]) & Spotify ([link removed]) .
** Smiles
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Obviously, there aren’t many new sounds in rock and roll that are breaking through to the mainstream these days. That hasn’t happened in rock since the 90s with grunge. But I’m fascinated by the way today’s musicians are transmitting classic rock into something that contemporary audiences can embrace and take forward into the future.
Content generators are flooding the internet with great material from their archives, and Howard Stern is putting some of the best music out there. The other day he released this clip of Brandi Carlile covering CSN’s “Helplessly Hoping” in 2018. It transmits well: [link removed].
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