Nearly 2,000 deaths just yesterday in U.S.; WH Task Force: Baltimore, Philadelphia and DC next coronavirus hot spots; Federal support to end for coronavirus testing sites; Front line health care workers face trauma & stress;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This Sunday predicted to be the peak of daily deaths in U.S.; Death toll from virus surges above 15,000; Rate of new cases in U.S. falling as deaths continue to rise; Dr. Fauci: Normal summer "can be in the cards"; New guidelines for DC grocery stores: shoppers to wear masks; Federal government blocked private labs from using coronavirus tests in late January; Sources: Trump to announce second coronavirus task force solely focused on reopening economy; Treasury Secy: U.S. businesses could reopen in May; White House says it will test press attending today's briefing for coronavirus; 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment in one week; 16.8 million Americans file for unemployment in three weeks; Fed Reserve rolls out $2.3T in programs to rescue U.S. economy; Senate Dems block GOP attempts to add $250B to small business stimulus program; Doctors and nurses surrounded by sick & dying patients; President of Ecuador investigating mishandling of bodies; British PM out of intensive care; Doctor who warned him about PPE shortages dies; Death toll in Spain now over 15,000; CNN analysis shows it could be significantly higher; Commuters crowd Tokyo streets despite state of emergency;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:05.0	Welcome to the lead up Jake Tapper.
0:07.0	The global death toll from coronavirus stands at now more than 93,000 at this hour. The lives lost in the United States nearing 16,000, 15,938 to be exact.
0:20.7	Again, the U.S. with less than 5% of the world's population has
0:26.2	approximately 17% of the reported coronavirus deaths according to official
0:31.7	numbers.
0:33.0	You can see on your screen the huge surge in deaths in the United States.
0:35.8	This time, last week the death toll was at about 5,600.
0:39.6	Now it's just under three times that horrific figure from a week ago.
0:44.0	Yesterday, this nation saw its deadliest day yet,
0:47.1	again from coronavirus, nearly 2,000 lives in the US lost
0:52.2	in just one 24-hour period, almost half of those, were in the state of New York where Governor Andrew Cuomo warned today, do not underestimate this virus the governor ending his press conference on
1:06.3	this note.
1:07.3	How confident am I a federal responsibility and action?
1:14.2	Not that confident.
1:18.0	Not that confident, the governor says.
1:20.0	As we near this Sunday, Easter Sunday,
1:22.2	which is now projected to be the peak of the deadly deaths from daily deaths from coronavirus here in the U.S. with 60,000 total deaths projected by the end of August.
1:32.2	Right now, there are more than 450,000
1:35.7	people infected in the United States. 1.5 million cases reported globally.
1:42.0	As CNN's Erica Hill reports for us now, despite cases reported globally.
1:42.6	As CNN's Erica Hill reports for us now, despite the revised model projections, deaths
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