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Coronavirus cases rise, jobless claims surge to 6.6 million

Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi, Alexis Christoforous, and Anjalee Khemlani discuss the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic.

Video Transcript

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: Let's check in with Anjalee Khemlani now for the new number of coronavirus cases globally, and also Anjalee, I know that Bill Gates is talking out now about the pandemic, and just how long this shutdown should last. What is he saying?

ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Absolutely, Alexis. So as you know, the numbers we hit more than 900,000 yesterday, and the World Health Organization correctly predicting that we're going to hit at least a million cases by the end of this week, possibly even today at the rate that the numbers have been increasing. The US meanwhile more than 200,000 cases confirmed as of right now, 216. And we're hearing that-- that assumption of 50,000, that's right now at 48.

So really the numbers keep climbing unfortunately, showing that this containment effort has been very hard. That is leading to experts, like Bill Gates, saying, that we really do need to consider a national lockdown. He said, quote, "despite urging from public health experts, some states and counties haven't shut down completely. In some states, beaches are still open. In others, restaurants still serve sit down meals. This is a recipe for disaster."

And that, you know, really emphasizing the fact that the virus doesn't know boundaries. It doesn't know county line, state line. So it needs to be a nationwide effort in order to control this. And that kind of leads to what, you know, a lot of other health experts are saying, in terms of the testing as well. We know that with the increased capacity for testing, we're supposed to see a significant picture of what the outbreak looks like, but there are concerns now that the testing isn't being done as much as it should be, and there are tests just sort of lying around unused, causing even more concern of what we're able to see and how we're able to curb this outbreak.

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: The unused test just seems to be a travesty, at this point, Anjalee. I understand you were also on a call with the former CDC director, Tom Frieden. What did he have to say?

ANJALEE KHEMLANI: Absolutely. So he was addressing the press more broadly. And I was able to ask him, you know, it seems to me that people like him, a former administration officials, are aware a lot of the information is coming from for this outbreak, whether you're talking about analysis or inside information because they do still have access to the various departments that they were formerly of. And he-- he mentioned the fact that, you know, with-- without a daily CDC briefing, which is what we should be getting, it's like, quote, "fighting with one hand behind your back." And so it's very concerning to know that someone in his position is seeing what the detrimental effect is of not having that daily information.

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: All right, Anjalee Khemlani. Thanks for the update.

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