7 Major Coronavirus Developments — One Providence Restaurant Overrun with Orders — April 5, 2020

Raimondo's Dark Warning

Governor Gina Raimondo said on Saturday that Rhode Island's hospitals will be overwhelmed in the coming weeks,

“We’ve more than doubled our rate in hospitalizations this week,” said Raimondo. “Were that to continue, you can imagine very quickly going from 97 to 2000 or more. I’m not saying we will, but we have modeling we could go much higher.”

“I do foresee using 2000 field beds,” said Raimondo when asked. “Our mission is to prepare for the worst. Our hospitals will be overwhelmed. That’s what we know will happen."

“There will be thousands of people in the hospitals in Rhode Island in the months to come. Whether that’s 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, or 6,000 depends on whether the people of Rhode Island continue to obey the social distancing rules,” said Raimondo. 

29 Percent of U.S. Economy is Shut Down

It may seem like even more.

The Wall Street Journal reports Sunday that at least 29% of the U.S. economy is now shuttered.

WSJ reports:

"At least one-fourth of the U.S. economy has suddenly gone idle amid the coronavirus pandemic, an unprecedented shutdown of commerce that has darkened stores from Manhattan to Gilpin County, Colo., an analysis conducted for The Wall Street Journal shows.

The study, by the economic-analysis firm Moody’s Analytics, offers one of the most comprehensive looks yet at how much of the world’s largest economy has shut down in the past three weeks, and which states and regions are being slammed the hardest. While the full extent of the economic damage won’t be apparent for years to come, the abrupt halt of commerce caused by state-imposed closures has never occurred on such a wide scale, economists say.

Moody’s analyzed every county in the U.S. and the composition of its industries to estimate how government orders to reduce activity have likely affected output. As successive states have imposed such orders, the impact has grown."

Trump's Conference Call with Sports Leagues

President Donald Trump is pushing for a return of the full season of the NFL.

"They want to get back," Trump said of the sports leagues during his daily COVID-19 press briefing on Saturday.

"They've got to get back. They can't do this. Their sports weren't designed for it. The whole concept of our nation wasn't designed for it. We have to get back. We want to get back soon."

Numbers

806 Cases in Rhode Island

11,736 Cases in Massachusetts

17 Deaths in RI

216 Deaths in Massachusetts

311,637 Cases in the United States

8,802 Deaths in the United States

1,218,154 Global Cases

66,038 Global Deaths

250,186 Global Recoveries

Trump Warns of "A Lot of Death"

“There will be a lot of death,” President Donald Trump said referring to the data and coming surge.

He made the comments at Saturday's briefing.

More Men Dying Than Women

Coronavirus data reported by more than a dozen states and New York City all point to two consistent pieces of emerging data.

"In most states, slightly more women are getting infected than men. But of more than 3,600 deaths in 13 states and New York City that report fatalities by gender, the majority of victims are men," reports that Washington Post.

Sunday GoLocal Coverage

1 PM Governor Gina Raimondo's Briefing