Monday Morning C-19 Update

NOTE - Below is a radio-friendly notepad used on the Need To Know Morning Show on AM1100 The Flag WZFG.  Spelling, punctuation, etc are not edited.  

LETS TAKE A LOOK AT THE UP TO THE MINUTE NUMBERS......

4 new CONFIRMED CASES IN NORTH DAKOTA SUNDAY, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 98....2 OF THEM IN CASS COUNTY.... NO FATALITIES YESTERDAY, STILL THE ONE FROM LAST WEEK...CASS COUNTY NOW HAS HAD 20 TEST POSITIVE......ABOUT 37-HUNDRED HAVE BEEN TESTED ACROSS THE STATE.

Minnesota HAD FOUR MORE DEATHS SUNDAY, MAKING NINE TOTAL.....62 NEW CONFIRMED CASES...THERE ARE NOW 503 IN ALL…....STILL 4 IN CLAY COUNTY....ABOUT 18-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN TESTED.

In South Dakota, 22 NEW POSITIVE TESTS SUNDAY....90 NOW TOTAL....STILL JUST ONE FATALITY.... ABOUT 32-HUNDRED HAVE BEEN TESTED....

ACROSS THE US, ALMOST 18 THOUSAND CONFIRMED NEW CASES SUNDAY....IT BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES TO JUST OVER 142-THOUSAND.......515 FATALITIES IN LAST 24 HOURS...... IN ALL, NEARLY 25-HUNDRED HAVE DIED, AND ABOUT A THOUSAND OF THOSE CAME IN THE LAST 2 DAYS...

worldwide THE DEATH TOLL STANDS AT just OVER 34-THOUSAND....AFTER ADDING ABOUT 4-THOUSAND FATALITIES YESTERDAY.....THERE ARE MORE THAN 730-THOUSAND CONFIRMED CASES, UP ABOUT 60-THOUSAND FROM SATURDAY.... WHILE more than 155,000 PEOPLE have had the virus worldwide and have recovered.....

ITALY AND SPAIN CONTINUE TO BE THE HARDEST HIT, WITH ABOUT 800 DEATHS EACH ON SUNDAY.....ITALY NOW WITH ALMOST 11-THOUSAND DEAD, 3 TIMES MORE THAN CHINA HAS HAD....

ACCORDING TO THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL....ON AVERAGE, AT LEAST 128 PEOPLE HAVE DIED PER DAY FROM THE FLU SINCE OCTOBER 1ST...AS WE MENTIONED, 515 DIED IN THE LAST 24 HOURS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS...

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SUNDAY HEADLINES

Three MORE Sanford Fargo EMPLOYEES HAVE tested positive for COVID-19. A COMPANY STATEMENT SAYS THE 3 ARE PHYSICAL THERAPISTS WHO WORK IN SANFORD HOSPITALS...THIS COMES JUST A DAY AFTER THE COMPANY REPORTED THAT ONE OF IT'S STAFFERS TESTED POSITIVE AFTER WORKING WITH RESIDENTS AT EVENTIDE NURSING HOME IN MOORHEAD..... THE 3 ARE ISOLATING AT HOME ...Seven patients are being notified they may have been exposed.

ND Gov. Doug Burgum has requested a major presidential disaster declaration to unlock federal assistance to support North Dakota’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic…..The governor’s request seeks assistance for public infrastructure and facilities; mitigation grants for counties and tribal nations; assistance for individuals and households; and supplemental nutrition and transitional sheltering assistance, among other aid.

THE ND STATE HEALTH OFFICE ALSO AMENDED SATURDAY'S ORDER ABOUT RETURNING TRAVELERS....Originally, the order applied to residents who have returned to North Dakota in the last 14 days and those who will return in the future, but THE AMENDMENT removes the quarantine requirement for people who have already returned...A STATE SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE change was made to reduce confusion for travelers who had already returned and gone back to work....The amendment also EXEMPTS WORKERS IN MORE THAN A DOZEN SECTORS LIKE HEALTH CARE, AG, AND ENERGY..

4 NEW FATALITIES IN MINNESOTA SUNDAY....three OF THEM residents of long-term care facilities, ABOVE THE AGE OF 80, in THE MINNEAPOLIS AREA....The four deaths represent the largest one-day jump in Minnesota fatalities since the first confirmed case in the state on March 6. They bring the state's death toll to 9...THE ONE OF SUNDAY'S 4 WHO "DIDN'T" RESIDE IN A LONG TERM CARE FACILITY was in their 50s and had underlying health conditions....Before Sunday, the five previous deaths all involved people in their 70s and 80s who had underlying health problems...

BIG NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SUNDAY WHERE President Trump extended the voluntary national shutdown for a month, bowing to public-health experts who told him the VIRUS could claim over 100,000 AMERICAN lives....It was a stark shift in tone by the president, who only days ago SAID HE HOPED THAT the country COULD REOPEN BY EASTER....HE SAID HIS ADVISORS TELL HIM THAT THE PEAK OF THE OUTBREAK IS LIKELY ABOUT 2 WEEKS AWAY...THE ORIGINAL 15 DAY GUIDELINES WERE SET TO EXPIRE TODAY....THE PRESIDENT SAID HE DEFERRED TO HIS MEDICAL EXPERTS WHO FELT THAT ANYTHING BEFORE THE END OF APRIL WOULD BE UNWISE....

The FORUM REPORTS THAT OTTER TAIL COUNTY HAS ITS first confirmed case of coronavirus...The adult patient was tested and is in isolation at home... The patient did have recent international travel.

Abbott Laboratories SAYS IT'S unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as five minutes....THE DEVICE IS PORTABLE ENOUGH THAT it can be used in almost any health-care setting....The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1..... A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes

THE VIRUS HAS CLAIMED IT'S FIRST VICTIM FROM THE COUNTRY MUSIC WORLD...Joe Diffie DIED SUNDAY after contracting COVID-19, according to his Facebook page....THE Grammy Award-winning artist had hits with "John Deere Greene," "Pickup Man," and "Third Rock from the Sun," announced the diagnosis Friday and said that he was under medical care....IT'S NOT KNOWN IF HE HAD A PREVIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION....DIFFIE WAS 61.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said she has recovered from being ill from COVID-19 disease 

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison SAYS HE'S deploying secret shoppers and putting Menards on notice in the state’s first efforts to crack down on price gouging during the COVID-19 emergency.....Ellison’s office had received 483 complaints of price gouging by Friday, INCLUDING SEVERAL AT MENARD'S...

As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections.

THE STATE OF New York HAS PASSED A grim milestone: Over 1,000 killed by virus, more than two-thirds of the deaths in NYC.

West Virginia has reported the state's first death linked to the new coronavirus pandemic....THE VICTIM WAS AN 88 YEAR OLD WOMAN...West Virginia was the last U.S. state to report a FIRST confirmed case....THAT WAS BACK on March 17....Hawaii and Wyoming are the only remaining states with no reported coronavirus deaths