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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Revised models give reasons for hope, but reality is grim

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Plus, the president’s embrace of hydroxychloroquine illustrates how he prioritizes anecdote over science, and Boris Johnson is getting oxygen in an ICU.

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

0:24.5

202 for Tuesday, April 7th. In today's news, the coronavirus is

0:30.8

clobbering the African American community.

0:34.2

The President's embrace of hydroxychloroquine illustrates how he

0:37.8

prioritizes anecdotes over science.

0:41.2

And Boris Johnson is getting oxygen in an ICU.

0:47.0

But first, the big idea.

0:50.0

There are now more than 1.3 million confirmed cases worldwide of COVID-19.

0:57.2

The virus has killed more than 73,000 people globally.

1:02.2

Here in the United States, least 10,908 people have died as of 9

1:08.0

PM last night and we have at least 367,000 cases.

1:13.4

The cascading news about this pandemic is stomach churning,

1:17.6

but it can start to feel abstract

1:19.4

because the numbers are growing so staggeringly large.

1:23.7

It's important to remember the human faces behind each statistic.

1:28.0

Every number is someone's child or brother or sister or mother or father.

1:33.0

One of our newly fallen here in the D.C. area

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