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Mike Allen speaks to Roger Stone, who just had his sentence commuted by President Trump,

plus how the coronavirus is disrupting meat consumption.

But first, shortages of personal protective equipment is today's one big thing.

Florida logged its biggest single day total of coronavirus cases yesterday, a new record.

Miami-Dade County is where most patients are hospitalized.

And Mayor Carlos Jimenez said six hospitals were already at full capacity and the others aren't far behind.

It won't be long and so we've had a sharp increase in the number of people going to the hospital.

A number of people are in ICU. We still have capacity, but it does cause me a lot of concern.

In Houston, COVID-19 patients are being treated in emergency rooms because of a lack of hospital space there.

There's also a problem with protective equipment, so much so that some nurses in Texas

are protesting.

The patients are asking me where's my equipment? And I'm telling them that this is all we've been provided.

Now there's growing concern that we didn't learn enough from the PPE shortages we faced in March

in April because we're back in the same situation.

Bob Herman covers health care business for Axios from Valparaiso, Indiana.

We had this very bad outbreak in New York and New Jersey.

We saw images of nurses wearing garbage bags as gowns and I think the answer is we never really got better prepared.

Here's the big picture. The American Medical Association recently wrote to both

FEMA and Vice President Pence to urge them to help physicians in all

settings get personal protective equipment.

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