It's Thursday, April 9, 2020, and the weather in DC is really turning.

So I'm going to do this part of the show from outside.

I'm Sean Ramisfer.

I'm in this is your coronavirus update from today's point.

Dr. Anthony Fauci finally had some half-decent news for the United States today, emphasis

on the half he's saying it looks like the US debt toll could be $60,000 instead of $100,000

or 200,000 thanks to social distancing.

That is of course still a very staggering amount of deaths.

799 people died in New York City since yesterday.

The death toll in the city is now over twice the number who died on 9-11.

New research suggests that this coronavirus started spreading in New York City as early

as mid-February.

That was weeks before the first confirmed case.

The research also suggests that the virus spread mainly from Europe, not Asia, apparently

Europe and the United States are outbiting Latin American and African nations for medical

supplies like masks and tests.

That means countries without enough ICU beds also won't have enough tests and masks.

And that news comes as Oxfam says around half a billion people could be pushed into poverty

as a result of this pandemic.

The eight organizations asking richer countries to take urgent action to help nations in need.

And of course that picture is a little topsy-turvy right now.

We got new jobs numbers today in the United States and other 6.6 million Americans filed

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