Today's Top Stories: April 3, 2020
Channel: My Daily Grind News
Date: 2020-04-03

Today's Top Stories: April 3, 2020. Coronavirus tops 1 million infections and 50,000 deaths, economy in tailspin, Dow down, unemployment way up, Trump casting blame.


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Coronavirus update:
April 3, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic map

1,056,077 infected, up from 962,977 yesterday.
55,781 deaths, up from 49,180 yesterday.
Relevant COVID-19 stories:

    Coronavirus Vaccine Race Gets Unlikely Partner: Cigarette Makers
    Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing
    Coronavirus at beaches? Surfers, swimmers should stay away, scientist says

Economy Update:
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DJIA is down about 400 in the very low 21k range. More bad news yesterday. Official unemployment rate is up to 4.4 percent.

10 percent is not far off. Economists are predicting as much as 30 percent unemployment, which would surpass the depths we sunk to in the Great Depression.
Relevant Economy stories:

    Coronavirus stimulus checks: When to expect up to $1,200, what you need to do, and more
    The companies that are pledging not to lay off workers amid the coronavirus unemployment crisis 

Politics:

All is quiet on the political front, except for COVID-19 related stories. So let’s go with that.

Some things Trump has said about coronavirus (a timeline from the CBS News):

President Trump says he has always taken the coronavirus very seriously from early on, pushing back at reporters who cite statements he’s made in the recent past dismissing the severity of the virus.

    “No, I’ve always viewed it as very serious,” Mr. Trump said on March 16. “There was no difference yesterday from days before. I feel the tone is similar, but some people said it wasn’t.”

    January 22, 2020: “We do have a plan”

    January 30, 2020: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five — and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us … that I can assure you.”

    February 23, 2020: Situation is “very much under control.”

    February 26, 2020: The 15 cases in U.S. “within a couple days is going to be down close to zero.”

    February 29, 2020: “Everything is really under control.”

    March 6, 2020: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”

    March 10, 2020: “Just stay calm. It will go away.”

    March 24, 2020: Wants country and economy “raring to go by Easter.”

    March 24, 2020: “We begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

    March 31, 2020: “This is going to be three weeks like we haven’t seen before.”

Does any of that sound like he’s got this “under control?” US death toll is now at 6,786 and cases of infections are at 265,506, highest of any country. Deaths rank #3 and are doubling every few days. We haven’t even peaked here yet.

And wait for the Southern states to be blasted by this. It’s going to get really really ugly (well, way uglier than it is now).
Relevant Politics stories:

    A timeline of what Trump has said on coronavirus
    Trump sows uncertainty and seeks to cast blame in coronavirus crisis
    Navy expected to relieve captain who raised alarm about COVID-19 on ship

Cooking Tip from Alton Brown:

A different way of making rice. Hopefully, tastier, too.
Alton Brown on rice
Offbeat Story of the Day:

I don’t feel like reporting one today. Isn’t the “regular” new offbeat enough? Offbeat Story of the Day will be back on Monday.

…IF we’re still here…

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