The deaths that haven’t been counted

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

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Summary

Emma Brown on which deaths count toward the covid-19 death toll. Jeff Stein reports on the $500 billion the Federal Reserve plans to lend big corporations with little restrictions. Plus, Reed Albergotti explores what happens when cannabis is deemed an essential service.

U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of the pandemic, far more than previously known.

The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.

Weed is deemed ‘essential’ in California, but many pot businesses are on the brink of failure

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:15.2	I'm Martín Powers.
0:19.1	It's Tuesday, May 5.
0:22.5	Today, while the COVID death toll might be much higher than it seems, how CEOs could
0:28.6	benefit from corporate bailouts and cannabis as an essential service.
0:36.6	About eight weeks ago, when much of the country started quarantining at home, we started
0:41.1	seeing some scary models about how many Americans could die from COVID-19.
0:46.4	Breaking news tonight, millions of Americans ordered a shelter in place as the coronavirus
0:50.8	pandemic.
0:51.8	There were some models that assumed no social distancing, for example, or limited social
0:56.2	distancing that had, like, two million.
0:58.8	We have 350 million people in the United States, and you do the math.
1:05.6	And then, by the end of March, the White House came out with its own numbers.
1:09.8	So of course, this is a projection.
1:11.4	And it's a projection based on using very much what's happened in Italy and then looking
1:16.6	at all the models.
1:18.4	But the White House said, in briefings, by the coronavirus task force, was about 100,000
1:25.4	to 240,000 people would die.
1:28.4	They estimated.
1:29.6	If we could hold that down, as we're saying, to 100,000, it's a horrible number.
1:35.7	We all together have done a very good job.
1:38.3	The modeling that Dr. Berg showed predicts that number that you saw.
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