Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, April 13th. In today's news, demand from coronavirus patients is causing shortages of asthma drugs and sedatives.

Experts inside the government say reopening the economy by May 1st could be unrealistic.

And a difficult lonely Easter was live streamed worldwide.

But first, the big idea.

Some victims of the coronavirus see their conditions collapse so fast that doctors and loved ones are left reeling. Such was the case of

59-year-old Keith Redding. Swathed in protective gear, his wife Dana knelt beside

her husband's hospital bed here in DC and

repeated over and over the only words she could think of I love you. She

reached through the tangle of tubes that were taking the blood from his body and

flushing it with oxygen and clutched his limp hand in one of her gloved ones. It had been barely three weeks since Keith started feeling weary and nauseated. Then came the diarrhea and the horse hacking cough. Early symptoms of COVID-19, though neither of them knew it then.

By the time Dana drove Keith to the emergency room on March 11th,

a week after his symptoms first appeared, some 30% of his lungs had been damaged.

On a 3D cat scan of his chest, the profusion of viral particles and dead cells showed up like scattered bits of broken glass.

His condition declined as the disease spread through his body, a storm of inflammatory proteins

overwhelming his vital organs one by one.

More than a million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

The number of confirmed cases in the United States now stands at more than 550,000

and the number of deaths in our country reached more than 21,000 on Sunday.

The majority of people are able to fend off the infection without hospitalization,

but for reasons doctors still don't fully understand,

far too many others have been like Keith.

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