WTF Just Happened Today?

Day 1173: "Not a big Trump fan."


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  • Daily Damage Report.
  • Global: Total confirmed cases ~1,331,000; Total deaths: ~74,000; Total recoveries: ~275,900. (Johns Hopkins University)

  • U.S.: Total confirmed cases ~357,000; Total deaths: ~10,500; Total recoveries: ~19,000.

  • Markets: The Dow, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all closed up more than 7%. (Washington Post)

  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state may be starting to reach the apex of its crisis as coronavirus deaths are “effectively flat.â€� Cuomo extended the state’s “stay at homeâ€� order until April 29. (NBC News)

  • Number of new cases in Germany declines for the fourth consecutive day.

  • British prime minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care as he battles coronavirus. Johnson was hospitalized yesterday. (Bloomberg)

  • Live Blogs: New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News / The Guardian / CBS News / ABC News / CNBC / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal

    1/ Trump warned “there will be a lot of death� and this will be “toughest week� as coronavirus infections in the U.S. surpassed 347,000 confirmed cases and

    the death toll topped 10,000. Trump, however, said “We have to open our country again. We don’t want to be doing this for months and months and months.� Trump added that he wants “fans back in the arenas� as soon as possible. “We cannot let this continue,� he said. “So at a certain point, some hard decisions are going to have to be made.� (Politico / NBC News / Wall Street Journal)

    • Surgeon General Jerome Adams: “The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9/11 moment. It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curve and get through to the other side, everyone needs to do their part. (

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