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Unemployment claims soared to 3.3 million last week, most in history
The fastest moving story of the morning comes from CNN, and is their coverage of the record unemployment claims last week. This is 4x higher than the previous recorded high.
This story was published less than an hour ago, and is predicted to hit 40k engagements (likes/shares/comments) in the next hour, but will end the day much higher than that.
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Current interactions: 21.2k
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Predicted interactions: 40k
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NYC Nurse Who Treated COVID-19 Patient Dies as One Hospital Reports 13 Deaths in One Day
The second most engaged story comes from NBC New York on the death of an NYC nurse who was treating COVID-19, as well as reporting on more than a dozen deaths in one hospital.
The article will hit 84k engagements in the next four hours.
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Current interactions: 20.5k
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Predicted interactions: 84.1k
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Grocery store throws out $35,000 worth of food it says woman deliberately coughed on
The third most engaged story is the above from The Washington Post, which looks at a grocery store in Pennsylvania that had to throw out $35,000 worth of produce after a woman coughed on them.
It will rise above 43.4k engagements in the next three hours.
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Current interactions: 7.8k
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Predicted interactions: 43.4k
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The biggest story from around the world
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Georgia hospital worker with coronavirus found dead at home with her child by her body
The biggest English-language article of the past 24 hours was this story of a death in Georgia.
A coronavirus test was performed posthumously to determine wither the mammogram technician had been exposed to the virus. The 42-year-old woman had no known underlying health conditions, NBC News reported.
The article has received 622k engagements since yesterday afternoon.
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Total Interactions: 622.4k
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Spotlight: Data visualizations
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Jumping off from the spotlight section in yesterday's newsletter, today we wanted to highlight an excellent piece of data visualization from The New York Times.
The interactive article allows you to imagine, with the help of input from experts, different scenarios regarding social distancing and how that will affect the total number of cases, and how much it manages to flatten the curve.
Factors that input into the model include the effect of warm weather on the virus, the infectiousness, the length of the response and the aggressiveness of testing.
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The article has thus far had a slow rise in engagements, but it is predicted to keep rising. This is unsurprising, as we have seen these types of explanatory data journalism become highly engaged as people discover them and share them with their networks over a longer period of time.
This is just the latest in a series of fascinating data visualization pieces from The Times, more of which you can view here (potential hospital bed shortages), here (how states reacted to social distancing), and here (how COVID-19 could compare to other deadly diseases in the US).
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What else you need to know today
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Turkey's Ghost Ships
The BBC recently investigated secret arms shipments to Libya, and from where they were coming. The video looks at how foreign powers may be clandestinely intervening in Libya's ongoing civil war.
The article is one of the biggest non-coronavirus stories of the morning, and is expected to hit 13.2k engagements.
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Current interactions: 2.1k
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Predicted interaction: 13.2k
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Accused Christchurch mosque shooter pleads guilty to killing 51 people
The man accused of murdering 51 worshippers at Christchurch mosques has changed his plea to guilty, after an initial one of not guilty last year, CNN reports.
The article is expected to reach 1.5k engagements by this afternoon.
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Current interactions: 890
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Predicted interactions: 1.5k
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