Speaker Pelosi calls on Trump to abandon lawsuits seeking to strike down the ACA:
Total coronavirus cases: More than 378,000 in the world and more than 16,500 deaths. More than 100,900 people have recovered.
- 43,963 cases in the U.S., with 560 deaths:
- 42 in California
- 154 in New York
- 95 in Washington state
- 90 in New Jersey
- 35 in Louisiana
- 25 in Georgia
- 15 in Michigan
- 14 in Florida
- 9 in Illinois and Texas
- 8 in Connecticut
- 7 each in Colorado and Indiana
- 6 in Virginia and Ohio,
- 5 in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Vermont and Wisconsin
- 3 each in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and South Carolina
- 2 each in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma and Tennessee
- One each in Minnesota, Mississippi, South Dakota and Utah
‘We can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself’
- New York, the hardest-hit state in the US, now has 21,689 coronavirus cases and 157 deaths.
- New York City alone has 13,119 cases. At least 2,213 of those patients are hospitalized and 525 are in the intensive care unit.16 states across the US have issued stay-at-home orders.
- Calls to postpone the Summer Olympics are growing.
- The Olympic Games are scheduled to start on July 24. Current options include a postponement or a scaled-down version. Cancellation is “not on the agenda,” the IOC said on Sunday.
- Predicting a three-month surge of coronavirus patients, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for 50,000 more hospital beds.
- Italy has confirmed 601 new coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 6,077 and 63,927 cases.
- Trump has signed an executive order making it a crime to excessively stockpile personal protective equipment that is needed by medical personnel fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump whines about not getting credit for saving thousands of lives by closing “our Country to China (and Europe) very early, long before it was considered acceptable to do so. “
- An Arizona man died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate in an attempt to protect himself from becoming infected with the coronavirus.
- Chloroquine has been touted by Trump as a possible treatment for Covid-19, but it’s also “an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks,” Banner Health said in a statement.
- Chloroquine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. But the FDA has not approved it to treat the coronavirus.
Great! More unproven cures- Fox News = Malpractice.
