As the death count mounts, Democrats launch investigations into the Trump administration's coronavirus response.

Bernie just won't drop out. And the Trump team prepares to target Joe Biden. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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Go check them out at ExpressVPN.com slash pen. That's expressvPN.com slash Ben. Well, obviously, we have tons of news to get to today. So let's just begin. It's all bad. I'm just going to put that out there right now. Not a lot of good news to report to you here today. This is going to be a rough, rough couple of weeks, as President

Trump said. Could be a rough month. Hopefully, it's only a rough month and not beyond that.

The latest death count in the United States is over 5100 yesterday. We saw in excess of 1,000 deaths

in the United States from coronavirus in Italy, in excess of 720 deaths in Spain, in excess of 900

deaths in France, in excess of 500 deaths in the UK,

nearly 600 deaths. So this thing is beginning to spike in terms of death across the West.

The question is when it peaks, how long that peak lasts, whether the summer kills it off.

The stats are ugly at this point. They are going to get ugly over the next couple of weeks

because as we

identify new cases, there's a time delay between when the cases are identified and when people

actually die from this stuff. Meanwhile, we're hearing reports that the death toll in even countries

that are being open like Italy might be greatly undercounted. According to the Wall Street Journal,

Margarita Stoncati and Eric Silver is reporting in the town of Coqualeo, in hours drive east of here, the local nursing home is east of Milan, a local nursing home lost over a third of its residents in March. None of the 24 people who died that were tested for coronavirus, nor were the 38 people who died in another nursing home in the nearby town of Lodi. These are not isolated incidents. Italy's official death toll from the virus stands at 13,155, the most of any country in the world. But that number tells only part of the story because many people who die from the virus don't make it to the hospital and are never tested. So just as I've been saying all along, there are tons and tons of people who aren't being tested who have coronavirus and are not dying. there are also tons of people who are dying and are not being tested because by the time they die, it's too late to test them. They're not at the hospital. Lots of people dying outside the hospital. So probably the estimates go that maybe twice as many people are dead in Italy as we already know about. Meanwhile, over at the White House, experts are apparently telling the White House that research

is showing coronavirus can be spread not just by sneeze or coughs, which should create that

six-foot radius that you're supposed to be outside of, but also just by talking or possibly

even breathing, which is just wonderful, and does suggest that everyone's an idiot for suggesting

that we shouldn't be wearing face masks full-time. While the current coronavirus-specific research

is limited,

the results of available studies are consistent. With aerosolization of virus from normal breathing, according to the letter, written by Dr. Harvey Feinberg, chairman of a committee with the National Academy of Sciences. Feinberg says that he will start wearing a mask when he goes to the grocery store. He's not going to wear a surgical mask. Clinicians need those. but I have a nice Western-style bandana.

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