April 23, 2020 coronavirus news
CNNPresident Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House on April 22. “I’d love everything open,” Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, appearing to offer up the city as a “control group” without social distancing measures to compare against other places with strict guidelines. “We’re just not making progress on testing”: To end the coronavirus pandemic, the US is either going to have to continue with extreme social distancing measures or do it with “ubiquitous” testing, according to Dr. Anish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Initiative. And the US isn’t making enough progress on the latter, Jha said: “We have estimated we need at least three times as much testing as we have right now.” New revelations about ventilators, strokes: About a quarter of coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study of New York’s largest health system showed. Hector Retamal, a photojournalist with Agence France-Presse, who covered the lockdown and is documenting the city’s reopening, says the anxiety is palpable: “I still see the fear in people who timidly return to the streets.” A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s daily Coronavirus: Fact Vs. Fiction newsletter.