Anything But Politics

Episode Notes Coronavirus Updates The WHO has now reported that more than 90,000 people have been infected by the COVID-19 virus, with the global death toll rising above 3,000. Cases have spread in recent days to Oman, India, Qatar, France, and Iran, where 77 people have died from the virus. After the first death was recorded in the U.S. in Washington state earlier this week, state officials have now confirmed six deaths, and the virus has spread to at least fifteen states. Federal employees who visited infected patients in California did not follow proper safety procedures, one whistleblower reports, as they took commercial flights and were not tested after leaving the quarantine sites. The CDC encountered problems developing diagnostic testing for the virus, and President Trump is facing backlash for appointing Mike Pence chief of a new coronavirus task force. U.S.-Taliban Negotiations The U.S. government signed a deal with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar this week to withdraw all U.S. and NATO troops from Af