It's Monday, April 13th, 2020. I'm Sean Ramis from. It's kind of rainy, kind of sunny

in Washington, DC. So I'm outside looking for a rainbow. I don't see one yet. But in the

meantime, here's your coronavirus update from today explained. It's official now. The

United States has the highest COVID-19 death toll of any country. Of course, people

suspect China is dramatically underreporting its death toll and the rest of the world's

numbers are probably under count too. China is reportedly restricting research on the

origins of this novel coronavirus. According to CNN, the country now requires all academic

papers on how this all got started to be vetted by the central government.

Back here in our government, Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Health was

on CNN on Sunday. He said the country could start easing stay-at-home measures as early

as next month. He also said we would have saved many more lives if the country had shut

down in February instead of March. The president communicated some displeasure with that line

of thinking on Twitter Sunday night. He shared a tweet that said, quote, time to hashtag

fire Fauci. Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden today, FYI. Meanwhile, states on the west

coast of the United States seem to be fairing better than their eastern counterparts so much

so that California, Oregon and Washington state are shipping ventilators to New York. If

you're wondering what the west coast did differently, it certainly took stay-at-home orders

more seriously early on in the crisis as of today, 700 or so have died in California

compared to about 10,000 in New York. If you've been thinking about vegetarianism, this

might be a good time to give it a try. Smithfield Foods just shut down one of the largest

pork processing facilities in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after nearly 300 employees tested

positive for COVID-19. And while we're on trying new things, the Supreme Court of the

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