Episode 30
While the truce in Gaza holds, Israel is hitting Hamas in the West Bank, and Palestinians there are deeply concerned they, too, could be forced out. Chris Livesay has more. The country of Jordan is about 300 miles from the Gaza Strip, but Tuesday in the Oval Office, Jordan's leader King Abdullah was right in the middle of the Gaza Strip's future. President Trump reiterated that the U.S. will take over the territory, the Palestinians aren't coming back and that countries in the region will foot the bill for the operation. Weijia Jiang has been following the developments. Grants from the National Institutes of Health have helped create breakthroughs in cancer treatments, heart disease and vaccine development. But scientists from some of the nation's top medical labs are warning that the Trump administration's plan to cut $4 billion in funding for equipment and research staff could jeopardize medical progress. Dr. Celine Gounder joins to discuss. For the first time the pandemic began, deaths from influenza have outpaced deaths from COVID-19 in 22 states, plus New York City and Washington, D.C. Dr. Jon LaPook has the latest numbers.
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