from california congressmember ro khanna, also cochair bernie sanders presidential campaign, and vanita gupta, obama justice department official who is calling for states to proceed with elections while protecting public health. then mass shutdowns and layoffs are putting millions of u.s. restaurant workers who live paycheck to paycheck at risk. we will speak with restaurant organizer and laid-off worker. all of that anand more, coming . welcomome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. confirmed cases of coronavirus have topped 200,000 worldwide, with over 8000 deaths reported. one of the hardest-hit nations is iran, where researcrchers at -- worn the rate of infections won't peak until may, and that as many as 3.5illion people could die. officially, iran has reported just under 1000 deaths, but the world health organization believes the actual death toll could be five times higher. italy reported 340 five new cases in the last 24 hours with a dedental topping 2500. in spain prime minister pedro , sanchez addressed a mostly-empty parliament only a a fe