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desperation is setting in for millions
of Americans this is the line for a food
pantry in Pennsylvania hundreds of cars
snaking down the highway it brings to
mind images of bread lines from the
Great Depression of the 1930s in Miami
these folks are ignoring social
distancing to get their hands on a
precious unemployment application form
there is hope today that better days are
coming the hospitalization rate does
suggest that it's coming down and we are
flattening the curve but dr. Anthony
Falchi warns we cannot let our guard
down we've got to continue in many
respects to redouble our efforts at the
mitigation of physical separation in
order to keep those numbers down and
hopefully even get them lower and does
he really think we should never shake
hands ever again
sounds crazy we're never shaking hands
again I I did it almost a little bit
tongue-in-cheek but not really there was
a bit of reality to that this hit us
smack in the face we're learning now
that the kovat 19 virus reached New York
City from Europe in mid-february much
earlier than previously thought the
virus has spread throughout the city's
mass transit system and it is
devastating the ranks of transit workers
at least 41 of them have died and 6,000
more have fallen ill that's three times
the rate of first responders like cops
and paramedics with hundreds dying every
day freezer trucks have been brought in
to store the bodies we spotted these
trucks lined up side by side outside
Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan
reinforcements are on the way these
health care volunteers from upstate New
York got a hero's send-off as they
headed south to lend a much-needed
helping hand to the Big Apple and can
the virus be spread by neckties that's
the warning from the governor of
Virginia a physician he no longer wears
a tie neckties actually Harbor
contagious pathogens and Kelly Ripa is
feeling the strain of being cooped up
I'm currently not speaking to two of my
three kids right now my kids like won't
hug me don't they're like my guys
weren't we've all been in lockdown to
get
we're we're spying you can give me a huh
it's fine anyway I'm sorry I didn't I
don't know why I'm crying
last night Jewish people observe the
start of Passover and in all the
centuries of time it has never been
conducted like this virtually over zoom
pestilence wells hail locusts the peak
of kovat 19 is expected to hit the USA
in just four days
landing Easter Sunday it is forecast
that more than 2,200 Americans are
expected to die from the virus on that
one day the Easter which is a good day
for a resurrection will be the peak it's
gonna be close to that for other other
parts of the country maybe a week later
if they're that part behind New York and
Los Angeles but that's a good sign
because after that I'm hoping we'll
start skiing downhill it'll be easier
because you'll have enough beds enough
ventilators to deal with new patients
who get ill
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