British prime minister Boris Johnson in intensive care; Health officials: the virus peak could come in days or weeks; Investigating coronavirus origins and how it spread so quickly; Multiple states releasing low-risk inmates after first prisoners die

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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UK PM Boris Johnson moved to intensive care with coronavirus; Surgeon general: His week could be "Pearl Harbor moment"; More than 10,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.; Trump trade adviser defends his disagreements with doctor Fauci: "I'm a social scientist"; Heated disagreement breaks out in situation room over drug Trump is pushing as coronavirus treatment; Big week for stimulus relief; rush on small business loans, personal direct deposits begin; Source: one loan application took 72 mins, 13 system crashes; Former fed chair Janet Yellen: unemployment may reach depression levels "for a time"; Alabama inmates warn prisons are not prepared for coronavirus: "death is imminent for us"; AG Barr tells some federal prisons to release vulnerable inmates due to coronavirus; Some churches remain open, putting faith above risk; 14 states exempt religious gathering in "stay home" orders; Source: Biden and Trump spoke by phone to discuss coronavirus response; Navy captain Crozier fired after sounding alarm over coronavirus outbreak on USS Theodore Roosevelt; Acting Navy secretary calls ousted captain "stupid" in address to crew;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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0:00.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:02.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:07.0	And we begin this hour with Breaking News just minutes ago.
0:11.0	We learned that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now been moved
0:15.0	to intensive care as he battles coronavirus.
0:19.6	Johnson was first
0:23.5	tested positive.
0:25.1	The Prime Minister is one of 1.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases
0:29.6	around the globe.
0:30.7	There are more than 73,000 deaths from coronavirus worldwide that have been
0:36.1	reported in the in the United States more than 10,000 people have died.
0:41.5	10,389 as of this hour. Neighbors, friends, family members. This time
0:48.8	last week there were 1,200 deaths, now more than 10,000.
0:54.4	As the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr.
0:56.9	Anthony Fauchy is now warning, the US
1:00.3	is struggling to get coronavirus under control.
1:04.0	First, let's go to CNN, Bianco Nobile in London.
1:08.0	Bianco, tell us what you're learning about Boris Johnson.
1:11.0	Well, Jake, it's a rapidly developing situation.
1:16.4	The last statement that we had from Downing Street was that the Prime Minister was taken
1:19.8	to the intensive care unit at 7 PM local time time so now that's about two hours ago.
1:25.0	At that point the statement said that he was conscious and was being moved to that
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