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Okay, so we have a lot of good news on coronavirus. And we actually do. So first piece of good news,

I mean, it doesn't sound like good news, but it is. The toll of the U.S. virus deaths has been under 700 nationwide for the third straight day. So put this in contrast, when we were at our height, we were close to 3,000 a day. We were losing close to 3,000 people a day. We are now down to under 700. And to put that even more into contrast, the number of Americans who die on a normal day is about 7,500

Americans dying on a normal

day is about 7,500 Americans dying on a normal day. So with COVID-19 during the heat of this thing,

when it was really just running roughshod through New York, you were increasing the death

rate across the country by something like one-third. I mean, it was an insane level. And you

were seeing in New York, specifically, people dying at a rate of like four to five times what they were normally dying of in New York. 700 people a day dying across the United States. It sounds bad, and it is bad, obviously, it's a lot of people. But in comparison to the number of people who die daily in the United States generally, it is certainly not on the

order of what it was. And that's a very, very good thing. In fact, the CDC is now releasing new

information demonstrating the infection fatality rates. And the CDC is saying that the fatality

rates for coronavirus, and this is, by the way, for identified cases, this does not include

the asymptomatic.

And they say about 35% of all cases are now asymptomatic.

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