View on Zencastr Today, we go back to April 17, 2020. We were in the thick of the pandemic and most of the country was under lockdown.  A glance into what’s news from that day gave me this dire report: "The number of reported deaths in the U.S. from covid19  spiked to nearly double the prior record Thursday, as governors extended their lockdown orders, and the Trump administration released new federal guidelines to reopen the economy. "In the 24 hours ending at 8 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, 4,591 people were reported to have died from Covid-19, according to a Wall [...]