Welcome in podcast listeners. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Really good news overnight about the forecast for the coronavirus on the I am H E model the University of Washington's that the White House has been citing 20,000 less deaths taken off their board on the newest model that they put out there. You can check it out. We'll be discussing it and how it impacts the return of sports also loaded guests for you. Shannon spake as well as John.

And I'm not sure if you're going to be able to talk about the coronavirus. I think you guys will enjoy this. It's outkicked 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern and it begins now.

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Your listening to Fox Sports Radio. I hope all of you are having a fantastic start to your day. We appreciate you spending it with us. Whatever you may be doing for a living, whether you are out and about getting ready for work, whether you are finishing with work, certainly if you are in the hospital or health care industry, if you are working in grocery stores, if you are delivering product all over this country, if you are a garbage man who doesn't get a

credit at all for showing up and continuing to keep the streets clean with your cop, if you are a, if you're a fireman, whatever you are to keep American industry, spinning, we appreciate all that you are doing and we thank you for listening to us. If you are not out at work, if you are furloughed, if you are right now unemployed because of the coronavirus crisis, I have been tried to be the most optimistic person in the world of sports media.

I have been trying to be associated with the coronavirus, not saying that it's not bad, not saying that that there isn't going to be a loss of life, but more positivity as we continue to move closer and closer to the peak, the worst part of the coronavirus things continue to look better. Let me explain.

Yesterday, we had our third straight day of less total new daily cases in the United States. I want to repeat this. It doesn't mean that every day we have gone down, it means we peaked on Saturday and it means that we have had less cases than Saturday on Sunday, that we have less cases than Saturday on Monday, that we have less cases on Tuesday than we had Saturday.

We hit the peak on Saturday so far and we have gone down each of the next three days compared to the number that was out there on Saturday. That is a big deal. That means that the overall, that's wild by the way, the number of tests has been increasing. That means that the number of people who are being infected by this disease is declining every single day. It appears right now.

All right. Other big news, the White House and by the way, the White House has reached out to us to out kick and offered up several different guests as they have recognized how big our audience has become and how many of you can be reached by the White House.

Tomorrow, we're going to have the surgeon general of the United States on live. Today, we are going to have a member of the communications team with Donald Trump on in our two to talk about the coronavirus, a member of the communications team, not Donald Trump. All right. I think we'll probably get Donald Trump on this show. The president down the line, but that's a credit to you guys that the White House has reached out to the program and said, hey, can we put people on you?

We're going to have a member of the White House and say, hey, can we put people on you? We're going to have a member of the White House and say, hey, can we put people on you?

We're going to have a member of the White House and say, hey, can we put people on you? We're going to have a member of the White House and say, hey, can we put people on you?

Gladly positive. But the model that is cited by the White House, the model of the coronavirus, cited by the White House the last week where they said, between 100,000 and 240,000 people are going to die from the coronavirus in this country.

That's a lower than the initial models that were out there that said 2,000,000 plus people are going to die.

They updated that model late last night. It's the University of Washington's model and they cut another 20,000 deaths off of their forecast.

So the newest model, and I just tweeted this out if you want to go look at it for yourself, the newest model now says that 60,000 people are going to die in this country from the coronavirus during the entirety of the outbreak.

60,000 people, which obviously is a high loss of life, but putting that 60,000 into context. Again, the most recent forecast that came out late last night, it says that 60,000 people are going to die according to the IHME model from the University of Washington.

It says we are going to hit the peak of daily deaths in four days, four days from now, and significantly, it basically has everything done by mid-May.

So we're talking about effectively by June 1, this model has the entirety of this thing done. And if you're wondering, okay, what do you mean by effectively done on May 27, it projects that 36 people in the entire country will be dying of the coronavirus.

By June 1, I'm trying to hit the forecast here and get to the right date. By June 1, we're talking about roughly 15 people dying of the coronavirus in the entire country according to this forecast.

So everybody out there who is talking about sports returning, we're talking about by June 1, this entire thing being gone in our country according to the IHME forecast.

And again, an overall projection of a peak death number on four days from now on April 12, that is what is that? I can't even keep up with what day of the week it is. Is that Saturday?

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