The Morning Dispatch: Are We In a Depression?

Plus, food banks are struggling with donations even as fresh food rots in the field.

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Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • As of Sunday night, there are now 965,910 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States (up 96,740 over the weekend) and 54,876 deaths (up 4,989 over the weekend), according to the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard, leading to a mortality rate among confirmed cases of 5.7 percent (the true mortality rate is likely much lower due to incomplete testing regimens). Of 5,441,079 coronavirus tests conducted in the United States (780,829 conducted over the weekend), 17.8 percent have come back positive. There are 126,647 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 complications (an increase of 3,026 over the weekend), and 107,045 have recovered from the virus (an increase of 26,842 over the weekend).

  • Top Navy officials have recommended that Capt. Brent Crozier be reinstated to his post aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, where he was removed from command earlier this month. Crozier had written a letter asking for authorization to evacuate and quarantine his ship because of the threat of COVID-19, and the letter was leaked to the press.

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    Johntadian

    Interesting (in a sick way) that it seems Trump talked the talk, but Joe walked the walk as far as "Grab the p***y" goes.

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  2. BrassMonkey92

    I bought my father some obnoxious hawaiian shirts for his birthday, which is a few days away. I plan to buy my mother, whose birthday is shortly after mother's day, a complementary set of tropical shrts so they can both enjoy their quarantine induced stay-cation in style.

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  4. Teri Smith

    I loved your opening sentence. Fantastic and hilarious!

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    C C Writer

    Does this mean Special Report with Bret Baier will not be pre-empted any more?

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  6. Robert Orban

    Regarding blood clots, I wonder if this indicates the people who suspect they have COVID-19 should be taking considerable daily does of aspirin?

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  7. Tristan Martin

    I can't tell you how we'll celebrate Mother's Day yet, but I can tell you how I'd like to. I would send a Queso Burro (trademark pending from the Isgurs I assume). Who wouldn't love that gift? Frankly I think the Dispatch should put all available resources on the establishment of this amazing new service. The people are demanding it. FOR AMERICA!

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    J Carpenter

    Re: CBO Projections. Man, it is reassuring to know so soon that we will probably learn absolutely nothing about assigning much value to any model based on things you can't measure well. Economic projections are worthless enough when it's the normal banking system and credit markets giving you grief, and not a state-induced heart attack.

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  9. Rob O.

    I am picking up my 74-year-old father today from the hospital after a stay unrelated to the virus. My 73-year-old mother won't be able to provide the care he needs but is also desperately afraid of COVID. So I need to somehow follow the rules of social distancing while being a caretaker in intimate circumstances. Meanwhile, my wife is deeply stressed about the well-being of the small non-profit she works for while suffering from severe morning sickness with our third baby (fourth if you count the adoption). I actually don't know what the actual gifts will be yet. I do know I need to do everything I can for the moms in my life, this year more than any before it.

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    Kevin Durant?

    From the PPP funding, $860 million has gone to publicly traded companies (which also have employees btw)

    That is less than 1/1,000th of the total

    But people are rioting at Shake Shack because nobody has a brain

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