CNNW CNN Newsroom Live April 2, 2020
Thanks for being with us. Well, the worldwide number of people infected with could he vied 19 is rapidly rising to 1 million. Johns Hopkins University has recorded more than 47,000 deaths so far, a figure expected to go far higher in coming weeks. The United States has some of the sharpest daily increases anywhere. Johns hopkins has counted 216,000 cases to date and over 5,000 fatalities. If government forecasts are correct, the death toll among americans could eventually hit a quarter million or more. It is astounding. Stayathome orders in dozens of states have not slowed the disease from spi...