Special Edition II: Expert: Peak of deaths in the U.S. could be three weeks away; Trump says U.S. should reopen by Easter despite advice from health experts; Spain's death toll surpasses China, second-highest globally;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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World Health Org says the time to act was last month; At least 11 states report over 100 new coronavirus cases; Why is the U.S. behind in coronavirus testing; One NYC hospital system reports cases up tenfold in one week; Trump makes light of Romney's negative test result; 185 new deaths reported in U.S. today, deadliest day so far; India's 1.3 billion residents under mandatory 21-day lockdown; Prince Charles tests positive, now in self-isolation; Some Latin American leaders downplay coronavirus threat; Mexican Pres: Families should still live normal life; Brazil's President calls coronavirus the "little flu"; How to balance kids and school and working from home;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	and breaking news.
0:02.2	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper this afternoon.
0:04.5	The World Health Organization Director General warned that the time to act
0:08.3	against the coronavirus, coronavirus was actually one month ago, but that this is a second opportunity, an opportunity
0:15.0	quote, which we should not squander and do everything to suppress and control this virus, unquote.
0:20.8	This hour, the number of deaths in the US is now more than 800 to give you some perspective on how fast the death toll is accelerating yesterday at this time
0:29.2	There had been 646 deaths the cases course, confirmed cases also continuing to spike growing
0:35.7	about 11,000 just in the last 24 hours. Now we have close to 62,000 people infected in the
0:41.6	U.S, confirmed infected.
0:43.2	The real number is assuredly more than that.
0:45.9	One hospital system in New York has seen a tenfold increase in coronavirus patients in the
0:50.0	past week.
0:51.0	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the hospitalizations across the state
0:54.3	are surpassing predicted numbers so far and that the peak of this crisis there could still
0:58.8	be three weeks away.
1:00.3	The calls for ventilators and protective equipment across the country still dire as we learned
1:04.8	33 doctors have now died from the coronavirus in Italy.
1:08.7	The Italian Federation of Doctors saying a lack of protective equipment is to blame and the World Health Organization
1:13.9	says the entire world in fact is facing a significant shortage.
1:17.6	And as CNN's Nick Watt reports for us now, now states across the country are bracing
1:21.5	for what's next. a upping capacity and navy hospital ship coming soon but New York is still 20,000
1:36.4	beds shy of what they say they'll need.
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