1)
From
ABC News, I am Daria Albinger. Health
experts have been saying that the coronavirus pandemic will get worse over the
next few weeks. Today we are learning
that the US death toll’s more than quadrupled over the week up by nearly
a thousand in just 24 hours. One of the
latest victims, a six-week-old in Connecticut, not far from what’s been called
the epicenter of the US epicenter of the virus.
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“Nearly 400 people have died of COVID-19 in
New York since Tuesday, and Governor Andrew Cuomo said the latest models now
showing apex here at the end of April; “We’re still on the way up to the
mountain.” At the top of the curve, if
people comply with social distancing, Cuomo said the state would still need
75,000 hospital beds and 25,000 ventilators to help with the compliant. Cuomo ordered playgrounds here in New York
City to close, but parks remain open as long as there’s distancing. Aeron Kateresky, ABC News, New York.”
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California is saying a jump in demand for ICU
patients. Governor Gavin Newsom says
it’s up 16% a day to 774; “Many of you may think that’s sounds relatively
modest to what’s happening in other parts of this country, and that may be
true, but it’s incredibly important to impress upon you that that number
represents roughly quadrupling compared to where we were just six days ago.” Newsom also closing schools in the state for
the rest of the academic year.
4)
Louisiana reporting its largest increase in
deaths in the last 24 hours. Governor
John Bel Edwards said current projections show people are going to come to
hospitals, need ventilators, be unable to get them and die; “There is no reason
to think that Louisiana won’t look like Italy.”
Forty-five
states now have stay-at-home-orders. The
latest issued them, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi all taking effect on
Friday.
5)
The
Navy now says 93 crew members on the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested
positive for COVID-19. A thousand
sailors have been taken off the ship and more are expected to follow. You’re listening to ABC News.
6-1) I’m Connell
McShane. This is the Fox Business
report.
“Stocks
kicking off the month in quarter sharply lower. Investors are increasingly concerned that the
coronavirus will keep the economy shutdown longer than expected, with the Dow
falling 974 points, Nasdaq down 340, S&P 500 down 114.
6-2) And
airlines falling today after showing a passenger traffic was down 86% in 2
weeks, and cruise operators also sliding amid renewed fears over the health of
the industry.
6-3) And Home
Depot is taking further measures to help stand the spread of the coronavirus,
and is limiting the number of customers allowed into its stores and eliminating
major spring promotions to avoid driving high levels of traffic to its
locations. The company is also expanding
benefits for its employees including weekly bonuses for fulltime, hourly and
part-time staffers at its stores and distribution centers.
That’s your Fox Business report. I’m Hilarie Barsky, invested in you.”
