Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin with breaking news moments ago.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally surpassed 1 million and there are 51,000 deaths worldwide.

Here in the United States, there are a confirmed

236,000 cases and 5,648 deaths at this hour.

This, as we learned of a new projection

that 94,000 people may die in the United States

by August of the coronavirus.

And scientific experts have now informed the White House

that research suggests that coronavirus can also be spread from someone

infected not just by that individual sneezing or coughing, but also by that individual

merely speaking or maybe even just by breathing.

There have been discussions inside the Trump administration over whether to tell the general public to wear masks.

And now Los Angeles is advising its residents to wear non-medical grade masks or face coverings.

Obviously, this poses its own new challenges given the supply

shortages still plaguing hospitals across the nation for surgical masks and 95

masks other personal protective equipment, and of course, ventilators to say nothing

of the continued lag in testing kits for a country the size of the U.S. and health care

workers are sounding the alarm.

Every day when I go to work I feel like a sheep going to slaughter.

We are dying.

We are getting sick. It doesn't matter how many ventilators we get if we are dead and cannot run the ventilators

Among those lost so far an ER doctor who survived cancer twice and a seven-week-old baby in Connecticut

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