New York becomes ground zero again – this time for the coronavirus pandemic

The Daily 202's Big Idea

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Plus, President Trump clashes with governors over relaxing restrictions, and medical workers are rushing to update their wills in case they don't survive the pandemic.

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0:00.0	The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by DXC technology.
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0:05.5	Thrive on Change.
0:10.7	Good morning.
0:11.5	I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily
0:14.4	202 for Friday, March 27th. In today's news, it was the worst week for our
0:21.4	economy in decades and the pain is just beginning.
0:26.0	President Trump clashes with governors over relaxing restrictions and medical workers
0:32.4	rush to update their wills and plan their own funerals in case
0:37.1	they don't survive this pandemic.
0:41.2	But first, the big idea. New York City received 6, 406 emergency 911 calls on Tuesday.
0:52.0	It was the highest volume ever recorded in that city in a single day
0:56.7	surpassing the number of 911 calls made on September 11th, 2001.
1:04.0	Sadly, they broke that record again on Wednesday and then on Thursday.
1:08.8	The EMS in New York was on track to get 7,000 calls by midnight.
1:13.8	Everyone I'm talking to in New York
1:15.7	says they hear the hunting sirens of ambulances
1:18.3	all night long from Queens to Brooklyn to Manhattan.
1:22.0	More than half our country's coronavirus cases
1:24.4	are in the New York metro area.
1:26.0	It is the hottest of hot spots.
1:28.6	Once again, 19 years after September 11th, New York finds itself again as ground zero.
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