Continue. It will be dark for awhile. Were going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. But the other side of this, course ever of course is the unprecedented economic devastation, right . J. P. Morgan chase predicted unemployment will hit 20 . Thats Great Depression levels. The unemployment claims weve seen are off the chart in terms of filing. Retail sales fell 8. 7 in march, the largest monthly drop on record. And this is all we should say hitting low income households the hardest. The survey conducted at the end of march found 21 of low income workers lost their jobs compared to just 9 of high income workers. We seen seemingly endless lines of cars waiting at food banks around the country, this one in san antonio, texas served over 10 240 10,000 families that day. Also, the health risk is more acute for people who work in low paying jobs and still have those jobs and have to work on the front lines, janitorial workers, meatpackers who cant leave those jobs.
Thats 3,000 more deaths than the previous projection, the revised number due to what researchers call an explosive increase in mobility among americans in states that have reopened. Meanwhile, several of the top u. S. Medical officials may have been exposed to the virus. Dr. Anthony fauci, cdc director dr. Robert redfield and fda commissioner stephen hahn are all undergoing quarantine after coming into contact with a white house staffer or staffers who recently tested positive for coronavirus. Today a trump economic adviser said everyone in the white house knows the risks theyre taking. I knew when i was going back in that i would be taking risks that id be safer sitting at home at my house than going into a west wing that even with all the testing in the world and the best medical team on earth is a relatively cramped place. We set up a big data operation in the basement when i got there, and we were interacting constantly with people who were going to and from fema. Right at the begi