Washington (CNN) The Senate's historic $2 trillion stimulus package is set for debate on the House floor Friday. The chamber will convene at 9 a.m. to consider the largest emergency aid package in US history in response to the coronavirus outbreak and its economic fallout, following a remarkable 96-0 Senate vote late Wednesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- who turns 80 today -- has said she would prefer that the Senate measure is adopted by unanimous consent, which would spare members who are isolating or at risk from having to travel back to Washington. But Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York freshman, is leaving open the option of objecting, potentially forcing House members to return and delaying a vote. Pelosi, however, told reporters that won't happen. "We will be passing the bill tomorrow," she said today, CNN's Haley Byrd and Clare Foran report.

What's in there

CNN's reading team went through it. The key elements include:

$250 billion set aside for direct payments to individuals and families, $350 billion in small business loans and $250 billion in unemployment insurance benefits.

A major amount of funding for hard-hit hospitals -- $130 billion -- as well as $150 billion for state and local governments that are cash-strapped due to their response to coronavirus.

A $500 billion fund for Treasury to provide loans and support for distressed industries. That includes $25 billion for passenger air carriers, $4 billion for cargo air carriers and $17 billion for businesses that work in national security. The rest of the funds, $454 billion, can be spent as loans to businesses, states and municipalities.

A historic spike in unemployment

A record number of Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week as public health guidelines have shuttered businesses and kept workers at home.

Initial jobless claims soared to a seasonally adjusted 3.28 million in the week that ended March 21, according to the Department of Labor. That is the highest number of initial jobless claims in history, since the federal government started tracking the data in 1967. The previous high was 695,000 claims filed in the week ending October 2, 1982.

As CNN Business' Anneken Tappe writes:

The key difference between the coronavirus shock compared with past periods of economic distress: it is sudden and impacts virtually every industry and business model around.

As a result, economists are expecting millions of job losses in the coming weeks.

Temporary joblessness is still joblessness

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin minimized the numbers, saying they are "not relevant" in light of the forthcoming government aid. A selection of replies:

"The secretary is wrong. We disagree, the numbers are very relevant. People are hurting and they're hurting right now. For someone who gets a paycheck from the government he is disconnected from reality," said Mark Jaffe, CEO of the Greater New York Chamber.

"First, not relevant? I guess he doesn't understand that all of those people will be losing healthcare at the end of the month in the middle of this pandemic," Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said in a statement to CNN.

'The virus makes the timeline'

The US death toll from coronavirus has now topped 1,000.

More than 200 deaths from the virus were reported Wednesday in the US -- a new high for fatalities recorded in a single day.

More than 74,000 people in the US have now had positive tests for the novel coronavirus.

Experts have said the numbers will rise dramatically as more tests are administered and analyzed.

Is there a timeline for a return to normal life?

In the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci: "You don't make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline."

"You've got to respond in what you see happen," Fauci told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday on "Prime Time." "And if you keep seeing this acceleration, it doesn't matter what you say. One week, two weeks, three weeks -- you've got to go with what the situation on the ground is."

High-risk, medium-risk and low-risk areas

Trump told US governors on Thursday his administration is preparing to issue new social distancing guidelines based on geographic risk factors that would allow some places to relax restrictions sooner than others. In a letter, Trump said new coronavirus testing capabilities would allow his administration to identify "high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk" counties.

He said this week he'd like to see the country "raring to go" by Easter. That's on April 12, a date that many health experts say is unlikely.

A letter from the President

Zach got some official government mail concerning coronavirus that credits Trump with his administration's social distancing guidelines, even as he continues to agitate for a quick return to normal.

But as Zach noted, this is another power of incumbency: Campaign mail that doesn't cost the President a thing.