United States coronavirus death toll surpasses 27,000; Awaiting White House coronavirus briefing; What it's like to fend off Covid-19 while staying home;

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Industry leaders tell Trump: More testing before reopening; L.A. Times: Los Angeles may ban concerts, sporting events until 2021; Los Angeles County sees record deaths for second straight day; New York Governor: Distancing won't completely end until "we have a vaccine"; Study: People may be most infections before showing symptoms; New face covering orders in New York, Maryland and Los Angeles; Governors across the United States emphasizing science, not politics, to decide when to reopen; FDA authorizes two more coronavirus antibody tests; CDC: 9,200+ health care workers have been infected; Union: 30 food and grocery workers dead, thousands impacted; New York Governor: Ordering public wearing of mouth/nose coverings when unable to do social distancing; Business leaders press Trump for more testing; Testing delays; Global backlash after Trump cuts World Health Organization funding amid crisis; Testing bottlenecks; Update on vaccine development; Harvard study says United States may need to endure periods of social distancing until 2022 if vaccine isn't found; Lead scientist: Vaccine could be available to public next spring; Coronavirus patients dying at home; Officials struggle to keep track of virus deaths in homes;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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1:13.5	I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room and we're following breaking news.
1:17.2	We're awaiting the White House Coronovirus Task Force briefing, which we understand will begin very soon. We'll be monitoring that as the
1:26.0	U.S death toll from the pandemic. Tops 27,000 with more than 600,000 confirmed cases.
1:33.4	Globally, there are now more than 2 million known cases
1:36.8	and more than 130,000 deaths.
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