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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Coronavirus deaths are being underreported in America

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Texas is going to begin screening drivers who enter the state from virus-stricken Louisiana, and Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned last night for violating her own guidance to stay home.

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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

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202 for Monday, April 6th. In today's news, Scotland's chief medical

0:29.3

officer is forced to resign for violating her own guidelines to stay home. A tiger tests

0:35.7

positive for the coronavirus as Texas musters rangers to protect the border

0:41.0

with Louisiana.

0:43.4

And this contagion is creating conflicts

0:46.0

for churches during a holy week

0:48.4

when people seek solace.

0:52.2

But first, the big idea. Americans are being advised to steal ourselves for one of the

0:59.7

most agonizing weeks of our lifetime, If not U.S. history. The dead in the United States

1:06.4

already number more than 9,500, triple the toll of the terrorist attacks of

1:12.0

September 11th.

1:13.0

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams reached back further

1:17.0

and says, as the country surpasses 333,000 confirmed cases,

1:22.0

that this week is going to feel like Pearl Harbor.

1:26.6

The virus is transforming life not just here, but globally, sending Britain's Prime Minister

1:31.4

Boris Johnson to the hospital on Sunday, 10 days after he learned of his positive test.

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