The rampage began with intimate-partner violence Welcome to the Maclean's daily newsletter. As the coronavirus disrupts life in Canada, and Canadians get used to the notion of "social distancing" and "flattening the curve," Maclean's has expanded this newsletter to include everything you need to know about the global pandemic. You'll still find our best stories of the day at the bottom of the newsletter, but we'll also catch you up on news and notes from around the world. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have the will, we have the expertise, but we don’t have the data.” — Arjumand Siddiqi, the division head of epidemiology at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, speaking to the Globe and Mail. Like other experts, Siddiqi wants to analyze the pandemic and offer advice, but is stymied by gaps in the data in Canada. More than 43,000 Canadians have been infected with COVID-19, while around 2,300 have died. Today, the United States has more than 50,000 deaths, the most of any nation, with nearly 900,000 infected. Worldwide, 2.8 million people have been infected while nearly 200,000 have died. The death toll at Ontario’s long-term care homes is even worse than officially reported. While the province’s total number of deaths stands at 763 as of Friday, according to its iPHIS database, that doesn’t include 110 more deaths reported to the government’s Ministry of Long-Term Care but not yet transferred into the iPHIS system, CTV reports. It’s the latest in a series of data discrepancies for the province. With no sports being played in Scotiabank Arena, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment has transformed it into a massive kitchen. The undertaking started with 2,800 meals daily, and soon will be churning out 10,000 meals daily for Toronto’s front-line workers as well as the city’s most vulnerable populations. COVID-19 can get out of control before anyone realizes it is in a population, as an outbreak in the U.S. military has shown. On April 2, Capt. Brett Crozier was fired from command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier after his plea for help from his superiors to deal with a small but growing COVID-19 outbreak in the cramped quarters of his ship was made public. Today, the military finally finished testing the crew of nearly 5,000: some 840 had been infected, including the captain, while one sailor died. On Friday, CNN reported that Navy leaders recommended Crozier be restored to command of his ship. The collapse of demand for oil around the world because of the COVID-19 crisis has led to the sight of 27 massive oil tankers anchored off of southern California. The tankers serve as floating storage as the industry struggles to deal with a growing over-capacity problem. Many news organizations are writing evocative obituaries of those who died from COVID-19, including the New York Times’s Those We’ve Lost series. One is that of Philip Kahn, 100, who died recently in New Jersey. One hundred years ago, his twin brother, Samuel, died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The World War II veteran always feared another pandemic in his lifetime, his grandson, Warren Zysman, told CNN . “It was something he brought up quite frequently,” Zysman said. “I would have conversations with him, he would say to me, ‘I told you history repeats itself, 100 years is not that long of a period of time.’ ” k.d. lang reveals her pandemic playlist to Maclean's, including classics from John Prine, Jane Siberry and Debussy. The three-part saga of two American senators and the art of making a tuna melt has transfixed social media. First, watch Sen. Mark Warner make his soggy mayo-rich concoction on Instagram. Then watch as Sen. Kamala Harris gently shows her colleague a better way to make a tuna melt. Finally, listen to Warner defend his choices on CBC Radio’s As It Happens. You’ll never look at the sandwich or think of politicians the same way again. —Patricia Treble As of the latest update, this is the number of confirmed cases in Canada. We're updating this chart every day.
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