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The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dr. Birx: encouraging signs but we haven't reached the peak; Dr. Fauci: Antibody tests coming "in a week or so"; Antibody testing could show exposure & recovery rate; Key to knowing who is able to return to work & when; Trump pushing to re-open U.S. as early as May, despite health officials' warnings; Today now unexpected to be peak of daily deaths; Kansas Gov sues GOP lawmakers to stop gatherings of over 10 people, including church, ahead of Easter; Source: Wall St. friends urge Trump to re-open country soon; JP Morgan predicts April April unemployment to hit 20%, U.S. economy to shrink ny 40%; Trump calls on other nations to cut oil production;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	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. You have been listening to President Trump and the White House
0:05.3	Corona virus task force during their briefing. It has been going on for more than two hours now, so we are going to resume our regular programming and this is the lead and I am Jake Tapper the death toll from coronavirus
0:18.2	globally has now surpassed 100,000 according to Johns Hopkins University. It is more than 101,000 and more than 18,000 of those
0:28.8	deaths are in the United States. The death toll at this moment a horrific 18,022 in the United States.
0:36.3	This time last week that number was about 7,000.
0:39.4	Meaning since then some 11,000 of our neighbors and friends and family members have been lost in this country
0:45.7	just in the last week due to this pandemic.
0:49.6	There are 1.6 million cases being reported worldwide.
0:53.2	Almost half a million of those are in the United States.
0:56.2	In fact, New York State alone now has more reported cases
1:00.6	than any other country in the world. That of course means you have to believe
1:06.1	China and Russia and Iran and other countries that aren't necessarily
1:10.1	reliable when it comes to accurate data.
1:13.0	That's a huge if.
1:14.1	But on that information, New York is at that level.
1:17.6	The briefing at the White House that we just cut away from
1:20.5	also brought some news that two companies have been tapped by the
1:23.5	Trump administration to develop machines that can sterilize n95 masks for
1:28.7	health care workers. The president and his team also delivered a clear message that mitigation, the steps that the American people are taking stay at home physical and social distancing.
1:38.2	Those steps are working.
1:40.0	President Trump pressed on when he might call on the nation to reopen said it would be the biggest decision he has ever had to make.
1:48.0	The US has not yet reached, of course, the deadly peak of the pandemic.
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