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.....

NO NEW FATALITIES SUNDAY IN NORTH DAKOTA, BUT 21 MORE PEOPLE TEST POSITIVE....THE TOTAL NOW IS OVER 200 FOR THE FIRST TIME AT 207.... .6 MORE IN CASS COUNTY - 54 NOW IN ALL, 17 MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTY....….. THERE ARE NOW ALMOST 68-HUNDRED WHO HAVE BEEN TESTED ...63 HAVE HAD THE VIRUS AND RECOVERED.....31 ARE HOSPITALIZED.... still 3 DEATHS IN THE STATE.....IF YOU'RE TRACKING THE MORTALITY RATE IN ND....WE STAND RIGHT NOW AT 1.44 PERCENT, 3 DEATHS WITH 207 CONFIRMED CASES.

FIVE MORE DIED YESTERDAY IN MINNESOTA - ..BRINGING THAT NUMBER TO 29….…14 OF THOSE DEATHS COMING IN THE LAST 3 DAYS....70 NEW CONFIRMED CASES SUNDAY, THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY TOTAL YET.....AND NOW A TOTAL OF 935 CONFIRMED CASES…NO NEW CASES IN CLAY COUNTY, STILL 13 ......ABOUT 27-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN TESTED....451 HAVE RECOVERED....THE AVERAGE AGE OF THOSE TO DIE IS 86....

NO FATALITIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA SUNDAY ... STILL 2 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SPREAD......28 NEW POSITIVE TESTS THERE SUNDAY....240 NOW TOTAL..... ABOUT 5-THOUSAND HAVE BEEN TESTED....

ANOTHER DAY WITH MORE THAN A THOUSAND DEATHS ACROSS THE US.... MAKE IT 4 STRAIGHT.....1,154 SUNDAY MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, AND MORE THAN 95-HUNDRED ARE DEAD IN ALL....WITH MORE THAN 23-THOUSAND CONFIRMED NEW CASES....TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES NOW MORE THAN 330-THOUSAND ......BUT....ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, MORE THAN 17-THOUSAND HAVE HAD THE VIRUS AND RECOVERED....

worldwide THE DEATH TOLL JUMPED BY ABOUT 46-HUNDRED....CURRENTLY STANDING AT JUST MORE THAN 70-THOUSAND....ALMOST 1.3 MILLION CONFIRMED CASES........... WHILE ALMOST 260-THOUSAND have had the virus worldwide and have recovered.....

COMPARING TO FLU NUMBERS....BETWEEN 30-THOUSAND AND 60-THOUSAND DIE OF THE FLU EVERY YEAR IN AMERICA.....SO WHILE OUR TOTAL NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS IS STILL WELL SHORT OF THAT, AT 96-HUNDRED.....WE ARE RAPIDLY APPROACHING THE TOTAL OF 12,469 THAT DIED OF THE SWINE FLU A LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO...

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*LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR MONDAY MORNING HEADLINES.

A FARGO WOMAN HAS STARTED A PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG TO GET ND GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM TO ISSUE A SHELTER IN PLACE. DENISE FRENCH SAYS As a citizen, wife, and mother, I am frightened at the prospect of needless deaths because of a lack of leadership at the state level....MORE THAN 32-HUNDRED PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED THE ONLINE PETITION.

FARGO, WF, AND MOORHEAD SCHOOLS WILL CONTINUE TO DISTRIBUTE MEALS TO SCHOOLKIDS THIS WEEK, BUT FARGO AND WEST FARGO WILL NOT MAKE DELIVERIES ON FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK ON GOOD FRIDAY...

THE FORUM REPORTS THAT MORE THAN 14-HUNDRED WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS ARE NOW DOING CONTACT TRACING ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA...THEIR JOB IS TO talk to those who have been exposed TO THE VIRUS to find out who else might have been exposed, so they can be isolated to contain the spread.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency county offices are open by phone appointment only until further notice.....FSA staff are available to help agricultural producers with program signups, loan servicing and other matters. The agency also is relaxing the loan-making process and adding flexibilities for servicing loans to provide credit to producers in need.

MPR NEWS REPORTS THAT THE STATE COULD LOSE 3 BILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE FROM THE VIRUS....It’s a reversal from just a month ago, when officials forecast a projected surplus of $1.5 billion that would pile up by July 2021.

the POPULAR University of Washington INSTITUTE ON HEALTH, has lowered its expected death toll from in Minnesota from 2,000 to 932....GOVERNOR WALZ SAID IN HIS 12 MINUTE STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS LAST NIGHT - CREDIT STATE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ISOLATED AND STAYED HOME, BUT SAYS NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO LET UP.

THERE IS SPECULATION THAT THE GOVERNOR MAY OFFICIALLY EXTEND HIS STAY AT HOME ORDER, WHICH EXPIRES FRIDAY....SUNDAY Walz formally asked the White House for a major disaster declaration to combat COVID-19.....Under a disaster declaration, FUNDING WOULD BE RELEASED FOR activation of an emergency operations center, National Guard costs, law enforcement, mental health support, and other measures necessary to protect public health and safety.

THE MN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS that the most common age group for Minnesotans confirmed with the coronavirus is between ages of 20 and 44.....BUT older residents appear to be more likely to need intensive hospital care if they are exposed.....The median age of a Minnesotan with a confirmed coronavirus case was 49 but the median age of someone who was hospitalized or treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital was 63....THE MEDIAN AGE OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED IS 86....

WE WILL HEAD INTO THE NEW WEEK WITH ONLY 9 STATES DECIDING AGAINST STAY AT HOME ORDERS....THEY ARE ND, SD, NEBRASKA, WYOMING, UTAH, IOWA, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA AT SOUTH CAROLINA.

The nation's top doctor warned SUNDAY that the upcoming week would be quote - "the hardest and saddest week" of their lives.....Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Fox News Sunday that this is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment.....HE'S ALSO calling on the handful of governors who have yet to issue stay-at-home orders to at least enforce restrictions for one week in order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.....
“Ninety percent of Americans are doing their part, even in the states where they haven’t had a shelter-in-place. But If you can’t give us 30 days, governors, give us a week, give us what you can so that we don’t overwhelm our health care systems over this next week, and then let’s reassess,PRESIDENT TRUMP IN HIS DAILY PRESS CONFERENCE SUNDAY, again talking about his optimism on the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, saying we know the drug well, it seems to be working for many, and we have a lot of it....SOT

In New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, governor Andrew Cuomo says there is a glimmer of hope, with daily deaths dropping slightly in recent days, along with intensive care admissions and the number of patients who needed breathing tubes inserted.....Still, he warned that it was "too early to tell" the significance of those numbers.Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday that the state will return more than 400 ventilators of the 500 it has received from the federal government so they can go to New York and other states hit harder by the coronavirus.....The governor said Sunday that his statewide stay-at-home order and weeks of social distancing have led to slower rates of infections and deaths in Washington......

Washington state has 7,666 confirmed cases of the virus and 322 deaths,

THE US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS THAT 1.75 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE CORONAVIRUS, NEARLY TWICE THE NUMBER OF TESTS THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday night that there has been “a horrifying global surge in domestic violence” AS MILLIONS WORLDWIDE ARE BEING TOLD TO SHELTER IN PLACE...He said that in some countries “the number of women calling support services has doubled.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital Sunday for tests because he is still suffering symptoms, 10 days after he was diagnosed with COVID-19....the 55 year old Johnson has been quarantined in his Downing Street residence since being diagnosed on March 26...He's the first known head of government to fall ill with the virus.