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

2002 for Wednesday, April 1st. In today's news, some New York hospitals have stopped resuscitating coronavirus patients

as rationing arrives in America. The United Nations says this pandemic is the single biggest challenge facing the globe since World War II

and the contagion is bringing out the worst in some people but it's also bringing out the best.

First though, the big idea.

President Trump and the physicians advising the federal pandemic response

delivered a bleak outlook for the spread of the

coronavirus across our country predicting a best case scenario of 100,000 to

240,000 fatalities in the United States,

and summoning all Americans to make additional sacrifices

to slow the spread.

For context, we lost 58,000 troops in the entire Vietnam War.

Yesterday, the death toll from the coronavirus in the United States exceeded the death toll from

the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.

Trump has adopted a newly somber and sedate tone,

we'll see how long it lasts,

and contradicted many of his own previous assessments of the virus.

He instructed Americans to continue social distancing, school closures,

and other mitigation efforts for an additional 30 days

and to think of the choices they make as matters of life and death.

Trump and his task force members said that community mitigation practices in place for the past 15 days have worked and that extending them is essential.

The mathematical modeling the White House presented suggests that doing so could save hundreds

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