It's Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 and we lost John Prime last night.

I'm Sean Ramesh Firm and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

If you don't know John, chances are you know his music.

He was your favorite songwriter's favorite songwriter.

John would have said he was in heaven before he died on Tuesday due to COVID-19 complications

at the age of 73.

Old woman named after my mother, my old man is another child that's grown old.

If dreams were lightning, thunder were desire.

This old house would have burnt down a long time ago.

Make me a angel, the flies from a comrade.

Make me a poster of an old rodeo.

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.

Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for president today.

It's officially the Donald and Joe show.

So, poor one out for Bernard.

The daily death toll from this coronavirus in the United States peaked on Tuesday with nearly 2000 fatalities in one day.

We've lost roughly 13,000 Americans in this pandemic at this point with something like 400,000 confirmed cases.

Nearly a third of people living in apartments in the United States didn't make April rents according to an organization that tracks these kinds of things.

It's pretty clear that people will need more help from the government.

Democratic leaders announced today that they want $250 billion in aid for food programs, states and hospitals on top of $250 billion the Trump administration has asked for to support businesses.

Democrats also want to make sure half of that business stimulus will be reserved for businesses owned by farmers, veterans, people of color, and women.

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