It's Tuesday, March 31st, 2020, the last day of March sadness.

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

The numbers of new infections appear to be stabilizing in places like Spain and Italy.

Italy's new cases just hit a two-week low.

Unfortunately, the United States is bracing itself for a surge in cases.

New York's confirmed cases jump something like 14% just overnight.

Dr. Fauci and Dr. Berks from the president's coronavirus task force are expected to provide

more details this evening, but it seems like the country was just a little too late to the

social distancing thing.

And as a result, hospitals across the country will be overwhelmed, leading to more cases,

more deaths.

This is not to downplay the importance of social distancing.

According to political doctors and state leaders in California are saying that the Bay

areas early moves to lockdown residents have prevented a surge of coronavirus patients

from overwhelming the region's hospitals so far.

The entire Washington, D.C. area imposed similar lockdown measures on Monday after seeing

cases continue to rise in this region.

And employees from whole foods across the country plan to call in sick today to protest

unsafe working conditions at the grocery stores.

This was an effort to press its parent company, Amazon, owned by the richest person in the

world to provide more protection and higher pay to employees.

After a colleague at another store tested positive for COVID-19, one employee told the

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