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trailing indicator of where we are on this virus, and that is the death count. The death count in

New York was very high last night. The death count overall in the United States was very high

yesterday, but that is because we're moving quickly toward the peak. So the death count tends

to lag the actual number of infections that have been identified by a significant amount of time, anywhere from a week to two weeks. Last night we saw over 1,800 Americans dead over the course of the last day, which is a big number. I mean, it's definitely a big number normally in America, about 7,500 Americans die in a given day. So add to that, 1,800 Americans, although deaths from other causes is down fairly significantly

because everybody is staying in, so nobody's dying in car crashes. For example, overall,

right now the United States has suffered around 13,000 deaths, and virtually all of those have

accrued in the last two weeks. We have well over 400,000 cases. The majority of the cases

that have been identified, or at least the vast plurality of the cases that have been identified, have been identified in New York, 142,000 cases. The majority of the cases that have been identified, or at least the vast

plurality of the cases that have been identified in New York, 142,000 cases identified in New York,

over 5,000 deaths in New York, approaching 6,000 deaths in New York. So New York is indeed the epicenter

of all this, followed by New Jersey. What's been kind of amazing is to look at the contrast

between, say, New York and

New Jersey and California, another highly popular state, which to date has still seen under 500

deaths in the state of California. And the lockdown orders that went into place in California

went down three, four days earlier than the lockdown orders that went into place in New York,

maybe a week earlier on the very outside in places

like San Francisco. With all of that said, the big factor here is that not only did California

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