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All righty. Well, I promise that was the last Passover day. That's it. We're done. There's no more Passover.

So for all the people who are emailing saying,

where are you? Passover's eight days long, at least outside of Israel. We're done. Okay. So there are no

more Jewish holidays for another 49 days, right? Not until Chivalot. So you have at least a month

and a half until we get to another set of Jewish holidays. So nothing but Shapiro-e goodness from now

until then. So we bring you your latest

coronavirus updates, obviously, because it is the only thing happening in the news. One of the

more odd things about doing the show during this period in time is there's only one thing

happening in the news. Literally no other things happening in the news. So let's jump into what is

happening in the news. So yesterday was a

really bad day in the United States for a number of deaths. Apparently over 4,500 deaths recorded in the

United States. Now, how many of those deaths were a result of the changed CDC standards in terms

of what counts as a COVID-19 death? I'm actually not sure. It doesn't really matter because the

bottom line is that those deaths are attributable to COVID-19. According to the Washington Post, COVID-19 deaths have snowballed from a few isolated cases to thousands across the country each day. The U.S. Surgeon General warned last week that it would be like Pearl Harbor. It turned out to be more than five times, as many Americans died from COVID-19 last week, then were killed at Pearl Harbor.

If you look at a single week, what you see is that COVID-19 was just on the verge of overtaking

heart disease as the number one killer across the country.

Last week, COVID-19 killed more people from April 6th to April 12th than any other cause

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