I'm Sean Ramasferum and this is a coronavirus update from today's

explain for Tuesday, March 24th, 2020.

We're now approaching 400,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world in

something like 194 countries and territories. The Olympics have officially been

postponed until 2021. This will only be the fourth time the games have been

canceled or postponed following the three times prior during the two world wars.

A World Health Organization spokesperson says the United States has now the

potential to become the next center of the crisis with almost 50,000 confirmed

cases and many many more believed to be unreported. On Monday COVID-19 deaths in

the United States surpassed 100 in a single day for the first time. The United

States Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said this week it's gonna get bad.

Meanwhile, President Trump can't wait to get back to business as usual. His new

refrain appears to be the cure cannot be worse than the problem. He says he's

not looking at months of the country being shut down and has been calling for

businesses to reopen sooner than expected and for people to get back to work.

He proposed Easter, which is just a few weeks away, might not be a great idea in

New York City where the White House's own coronavirus response coordinator,

Dr. Demra L. Bricks said the attack rate, which is the percentage of the

population infected with the virus, was nearly one in 1,000 in New York City.

That's five times higher than in other parts of the country and more cases

per capita than Italy. Public health types are warning the rest of the country

to take note of New York situation. Thomas R. Frieden, who used to run the CDC and

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