It's Thursday, March 26th, 2020, and the Senate unanimously agreed on something.

I'm Sean Ramos-Furham, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

96 United States Senators voted in favor of an $880 page, $2 trillion stimulus package

late on Wednesday.

We made an entire episode about what's included yesterday, but the big news for people earning

up to $75K a year is checks for $1200.

The big news for wealthy corporations is a $500 billion slush fund.

The House is expected to pass its own version of the bill tomorrow after that it's over

to President Trump's desk for sharpie time.

Unemployment numbers came in from the Labor Department today, and they were staggering

in a history-making kind of way, 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last

week for context, and well over a half-century of collecting unemployment data, the highest

number of claims ever recorded was something like 700,000 in October of 1982.

From grim to grim, more than 1,000 people have now died as a result of COVID-19 in the

United States.

New York is now reporting close to 40,000 confirmed cases, but keep in mind the true number

of cases is expected to be much, much higher.

Louisiana has far fewer cases confirmed at the moment, something like 2,000, but the

governor there says his state is experiencing the fastest growth of new cases in the world

right now, potentially due to Marty Grafestivides from a few weeks ago.

Meanwhile, the president continues his campaign to get the country back to business as usual.

He tweeted on Wednesday, the lame stream media is the dominant force trying to get me to

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