Worldwide. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. That means about one in every 2,000 of the people in the world have been diagnosed. In the United States there are more than 1. 56 million cases. So far weve lost more than 94,000 americans. Also breaking this morning, more than 2. 4 million more americans filed jobless claims last week. The total now stands at 38. 6 million americans in the nine weeks since this pandemic started. For some context, thats about 1 Million People shy of the entire population of california. 30 minutes from now, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will give that Daily Briefing. Once that starts, well take you there live. As always, we have our doctor on duty to answer our medical questions. Dr. Patrice harris, the president of the american medical association. Well get to dr. Harris in a moment. We have our reporters fanned out across the country covering the crisis affecting all of us right now. We start this thursday with those eye popping jobless numbers
A good friday morning to you. Craig melvin coming to you live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. Im back from minneapolis, minnesota. Weve seen a full range of emotions over the last week and a half. Anger, sadness. Now some hope after that Memorial Service in honor of george floyd, you cant help but get a sense that there is some new optimism for change in our country. We are still seeing thousands of americans peacefully protest. This is the scene in washington, d. C. A short time ago. Theyre even painting the streets there. Thats 16th, by the way, 16th street goes straight to the white house. Black lives matter. Takes up several blocks. Americans also grappling with another reality, coronavirus. Weve lost more than 108,000 lives to the virus. Amid all of this, President Trump is still speaking right now. Hes addressing the nation from the rose garden. Hes talking about a jobs report that just came out. The president saying, quote, this is a great day for everybody. To be clea
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