It's Thursday, April 2nd, 2020, and this month is already looking like it's going to

be tougher than March.

I'm Sean Ramis for him, and this is your coronavirus update from today.

Explained.

Today we got news that 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week.

That brings the total number to 10 million Americans who have lost their jobs in just the

last two weeks.

Much more detail on that in today's episode.

The loss of jobs in America also means the loss of health insurance, according to an analysis

of state and federal data from the Economic Policy Institute.

Roughly, 3.5 million Americans likely lost their health insurance in the past two weeks.

And that's of course scary because not only are we in the middle of a global pandemic,

but the United States has the most cases of COVID-19 in the world, something like 250,000.

We have doubled the number of confirmed cases in Italy.

In better news, Florida is finally taking this seriously.

The governor there ordered residents to stay at home on Wednesday shortly after the number

of confirmed COVID-19 cases there jumped by more than 1,000 in a single 24 hour period.

Florida now has over 8,000 confirmed cases.

Nearly 40 of these United States have now issued state home notices.

Texas is the biggest holdout.

There are about 4,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases there.

Meanwhile in New York, where this is still just the worst, the state could run out of ventilators

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