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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology, and this is this week in

Cardiology for April 10th, 2020.

Of course, it is not a normal world.

It is a COVID-19 world.

First, the numbers. It helps me to look at these each week.

When I recorded last week, there were a quarter million cases in the United States.

Today there are nearly half a million.

The rate of rise is about doubling, is less than the week previously, which had seen a

threefold rise.

Again, testing greatly affects the case count.

So let's look at deaths.

Last week, there were approximately 6,000 deaths in the US. Today there are about 16,000 deaths.

So the death rate increase of 2.7 is substantially less than last week's fivefold increase.

While the view from many overburdened hospitals in New York could hardly be called good or

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