Awaiting coronavirus task force briefing; Aircraft carrier commander relieved of duty for leaking memo on virus outbreak; Trump tests negative for coronavirus on second test;

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Coronavirus cases surpass one million worldwide; Source close to task force: "Certainly possible" virus can spread through talking and breathing; Source: Thousands of ventilators in maintenance as federal government struggles to meet needs; Over 90 percent of Americans under stay-at-home orders; New York Governor: Enough ventilators in our stockpile to last six days; Defense Department seeks 100,000 body bags anticipating virus deaths; Record 6.6 million file jobless claims in one week; Case for wearing masks; Mnuchin commits to sending out stimulus checks in two weeks; Trump invokes Defense Production Act for a second time to increase ventilator production;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.6	Experts on the White House Coronovirus Task Force are about to brief the public on another
1:20.3	deadly day in the coronavirus pandemic.
1:23.0	Globally now, more than 1 million people have now tested positive.
1:28.0	Here in the United States, more than 5,600 have died and at least 236,000 have been infected.
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