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Just got a call. An unfortunate milestone in Washington, D.C.:

The area's Medical Reserve Corps is activating. It's asking health care professionals like me to volunteer to conduct COVID-19s testing.

This creepy automated message puts it out:
While the DC Medical Reserve Corps is primarily made up of health care professionals, as the message points out, they are also taking volunteers with NO MEDICAL EXPERIENCE

If you're in DC & want to volunteer to save lives, DM me and I'll share orientations details for TOMORROW
The Medical Reserve Corps continues to seek volunteers, both with and without medical experience, for COVID19 drive-through testing.

Orientation is now TOMORROW (MONDAY).

Sign up below and DM me if you don't immediately get details

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A listener writes in:

In 2008, Sen. Burr told his wife to pull family's cash out of ATM at at the height of the financial crisis while putting out a statement advising North Carolinians not to panic

politico.com/blogs/on-congr…
"On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, 'Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take."

politico.com/blogs/on-congr…
Burr claimed at the time that he had not relied on insider information.
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Sen. Burr responds to my piece from this morning.

You can read the story here:
npr.org/2020/03/19/818…
Burr says: "This lunch was hosted on Feb. 27 by the North Carolina State Society. It was publicly advertised and widely attended."

The Tar Heel Circle is a much more exclusive part of the NC state society.

NC State Society membership: $25.

Tar Heel Circle: $500-10K
Senator Burr here conflates the Tar Heel Circle with the much broader NC State Society

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Tim Mak
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SCOOP: Secret recording obtained by NPR shows that Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr raised alarms about Coronavirus weeks ago in private meeting with well-connected constituents -- concerns he never shared with the public

npr.org/2020/03/19/818…
To understand this, we have to remember Feb. 27th: Only 15 Coronavirus cases in U.S., and first death in US had not occurred.

Trump was suggesting it could be seasonal.

"It's going to disappear. One day, It's like a miracle. It will disappear,"

npr.org/2020/03/19/818…
On that same day, Burr delivered alarming message at a private luncheon:

"[Coronavirus] is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history... It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

We have the tape:
npr.org/2020/03/19/818…
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