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United States
Coronavirus Cases:
24,218
Deaths:
302
Recovered:
171
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New York 10,372 +1,974 56 +10 10,316
Washington 1,793 +269 94 +11 124 1,575
California 1,391 +184 24 +1 6 1,361
New Jersey 1,327 +437 16 +5 1,311
Michigan 787 +235 5 +2 782
Illinois 753 +168 6 +1 2 745
Florida 659 +96 12 +1 647
Louisiana 585 +48 16 +2 569
Georgia 555 +70 14 541
Massachusetts 525 +112 1 1 523
Colorado 476 +113 5 +1 471
Texas 473 +79 5 4 464
Pennsylvania 391 +88 2 +1 389
Tennessee 371 +138 1 +1 370
Wisconsin 281 +71 4 +1 1 276
Ohio 247 +74 3 +1 244
North Carolina 246 +70 246
Connecticut 194 4 190
Maryland 190 +41 2 +1 4 184
South Carolina 173 +47 3 +2 170
Nevada 161 +52 2 159
Virginia 152 +29 2 1 149
Mississippi 141 +61 1 140
Minnesota 138 +23 1 +1 24 113
Oregon 137 +23 4 +1 133
Utah 136 +24 136
Indiana 129 +43 3 126
Alabama 125 +19 125
Arkansas 118 +22 118
Arizona 108 +30 1 +1 1 106
District of Columbia 77 +6 3 74
Missouri 74 +9 3 +1 71
Maine 70 +14 70
Iowa 68 +23 68
New Hampshire 65 +9 65
Kentucky 64 +16 2 2 60
Kansas 57 +8 1 56
New Mexico 57 +14 57
Rhode Island 54 54
Oklahoma 53 +4 1 1 51
Vermont 49 +20 2 47
Hawaii 48 +22 48
Delaware 40 +2 40
Nebraska 38 +1 38
Idaho 36 +5 36
North Dakota 28 +2 28
Montana 27 +9 27
Wyoming 23 +4 23
South Dakota 14 1 13
Alaska 14 +2 14
West Virginia 11 +4 11
Diamond Princess Cruise 49 49
Grand Princess Cruise 23 1 22
Others 45 +11 1 +1 44
Total: 24,218 4,825 302 46 171 23,745
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March 21 (GMT)
4835 new cases and 46 new deaths in the United States
269 new cases and 11 new deaths in Washington State
112 new cases in Massachusetts, total rises to 525
New York now has over 10,000 cases New York is doing more tests than any other state in the United States, according to Governor Cuomo, who said 45,000 tests have been performed in New York State, compared to 23,000 in California (which has twice the population) and 23,000 in Washington State (with 1/3 of the population, therefore maintaining a higher number of tests per capita compared to New York)

New deaths include:
1st death in Minnesota: a Ramsey County resident in their 80s
10 new deaths in New York
5 new deaths in New Jersey
1 new death in Oregon, first in Marion County
1st death in Tennessee: a 73-year old man with underlying health conditions in Nashville
1st death in Arizona: a Maricopa County man in his 50s with underlying health conditions
1 death in Ohio: an 85-year-old man was an Erie County
2 new deaths in South Carolina: elderly people suffering from underlying health conditions
1 death in California: the first death in Contra Costa County: a patient in their 70s
1 death in Maryland: a Baltimore County resident in his 60s who suffered from underlying medical conditions D.C. schools will be closed until April 27
1 death in Missouri: a woman in her 60s, who suffered from multiple health problems prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19
March 20 (GMT)
5594 new cases and 49 new deaths in the United States. 23% of the US Population is ordered to "stay at home" after governors in California (40 million residents), New York State (20 million), Illinois (13 million), and Connecticut (3.5 million) ordered nonessential workers to remain at home to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Connecticut issues a "stay at home" order for its 3.5 million residents that goes into effect Monday at 8 p.m
Texas declared a public health disaster for the first time in more than 100 years
Illinois: Governor Pritzker issues an immediate "stay at home" order for all residents "to avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives" The order goes into effect at 5 p.m. Saturday.
New York: Governor Cuomo orders 100% of all non-essential workers to stay home
Pennsylvania: Governor Wolf orders all businesses that aren’t ‘life-sustaining’ to close
California: Governor Gavin Newson orders the state’s 40 million residents to “stay at home.” The order is “open ended.” Modeling predicts that 56% of the state’s population will be infected over the next 8 weeks. Only essential businesses will be allowed to remain open. All indoor public and private gatherings with 10 or more people are prohibited

New deaths include:

The first death in Massachusetts: an 87-year-old military veteran from Winthrop
7 new deaths in King County (WA)
1 new death in Snohomish County (WA)
1 new death in Illinois, a woman in her 70s in Cook County
1 new death in Indiana: an adult resident of Marion County over age 60
1 new death in Missouri (Jackson County) a woman in her 80s with no prior travel history
1 new death in Texas: a man in his 80s in Harris County
1 new death in Riverside County (CA)
1 new death in Louisiana
2 new deaths in New Jersey
1 new death in Florida
8 new deaths in New York, as De Blasio is demanding the federal government mobilize the military to help in the response efforts
First 2 deaths in Wisconsin: a man in his 50s from Fond Du Lac County and a man in his 90s from Ozaukee County
3 new deaths in Georgia
First 2 deaths in Vermont: a man from Windsor County and a woman from Chittenden County, both older individuals who likely received the virus through community transmission
1 new presumptive death in Ohio
1 new death in Connecticut: a man in his 80s from New Canaan (the second person from New Canaan to die)

New Cases include:

80 new cases in Texas, of which 19 in Dallas County
75 new cases in Tennessee
3 new cases in Alabama
March 19 (GMT)
4530 new cases and 57 new deaths in the United States

Deaths include:

3 deaths in Illinois
1 death in California, the first in San Benito County: a man in his 60s
1 death in Louisiana: a patient in his 60s with underlying health conditions
7 deaths in Georgia
1st death in Maryland: a man in his 60s with an underlying medical condition
1 death in Washington State: a woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions

New cases include:

256 new cases in Michigan
134 new cases in Illinois
13 new cases in Oregon
16 new cases in Arkansas
1,238 new cases in New York
46 in California, L.A. County
2 in Missouri, first 2 in Christian County
1 new case in Wisconsin, La Crosse County: a man in his upper 20s
27 new cases in Texas including 14 in Bexar County, 3 in Collin County, 1 in Van Zandt
2 new cases in Idaho, 1 in Twin Falls County, 1 in Blaine County
2 new cases in Nevada, Washoe County: a man in his 30s who recently traveled to Europe and a man in his 30s who recently traveled to Washington
March 18 (GMT)
2848 new cases and 41 new deaths in the United States

US – Canada border to temporarily close to nonessential travel
Trump compares the sacrifices needed to those made during World War II, saying that "now it is our time, we must sacrifice together. We are all in this together and we’ll come through it together. It is the invisible enemy. That’s always the toughest enemy. But we’re going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think we’ll going to do it even faster than we thought, and it will be a complete victory, a total victory"
US working to determine if the self-swab coronavirus test is as effective as the other testing process. It would be a much easier test
all foreclosures and evictions to be suspended until the end of April

New deaths include:

1 death in Clark County (Washington State)
1st death in Missouri, a Boone County resident who had traveled abroad and was self-isolating at home
1st death in Connecticut, an 88-year old man from Ridgefield
2 new deaths in New Jersey, total rises to 5
2 new deaths in Santa Clara County (California): a man in his 50s and a man in his 60s
1 new death in Tarrant County (Texas): a 77-year old man

New cases include:

17 new cases in North Carolina
8 new cases in Kentucky, including 2 in Jefferson County, one of whom is an 8 months old
13 new cases in Alabama, including the first in Calhoun County
4 new cases in New Hampshire, 2 in Grafton County, 1 in Rockingham County and 1 from Carroll County
38 new cases in Massachusetts
1 new case in North Carolina, Moore County
3 new cases in Kansas, 1 in Leavenworth County, 1 in Wyandotte county and 1 in Johnson County
128 new cases in Illinois
17 new cases in Minnesota
March 17 (GMT)
1748 new cases and 23 new deaths in the United States
New deaths include:

First death in Illinois: a Chicago woman in her 60s with an underlying condition
1 new death in Colorado (second in the state)
3 new deaths in King County (WA), bringing the total to 46
1 death in Suffolk County (New York): a woman in her 90s
1 death in Nassau County (New York): a 96-year-old man
2 new deaths in Santa Clara County (California): a man in his 50s (who was hospitalized on March 12) and a man in his 80s. It is not known if either had underlying health conditions
First 2 deaths in Riverside County (California)
1 new death in Bergen County (New Jersey): a man in his 90s

New cases include:

First case in West Virginia
30 new cases in King County (WA), total rise to 518
Ohio: 67 cases, mapped here by county and date
1st case of community spread in Galveston County (Texas)
1st case in Frederick County (Maryland)
1st case in Madison County (Alabama)
432 in New York state, of which 118 in New York City, 157 in Westchester County, 1 in Essex County
2 new cases in Fairbanks (Alaska)
First case in Peoria County (Illinois): the person was screened over the phone and tested at home by OSF Healthcare
1 new case in Tulare County (California) hospitalized in critical condition
March 16 (GMT)
983 new cases and 18 new deaths in the United States. Starting immediately and for the next 8 weeks, CDC recommends canceling all events of 50 or more people
New cases include:
– 1 new case in California (Nevada County)

– 6 new cases in New Hampshire

– 5 new cases in Washoe County, Nevada

– 2 new cases in Harris County, Texas

– First case in southern Indiana: a man in Floyd Count who, during the past week, attended a number of events and gatherings, all listed in detail by the Heath Department

– 3 new cases in Orange County, California, including 2 that did not appear to be related to travel or with previously confirmed cases

– 80 in New Jersey

– 1 new case in Hawaii: an Oahu resident who took a family trip to Florida and returned with family on March 8. The next day, the resident developed a cough, but no fever

March 15 (GMT)
737 new cases and 11 new deaths in the United States
– All New York City schools will shut down immediately and stay closed for at least 1 month All hospitals will be required to cancel elective surgeries

– Illinois: all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers through March 30

– Ohio: all bars and restaurants will close Sunday at 9 p.m. indefinitely ‘This is a once in a lifetime pandemic’ said Ohio Dept. of Health Director Amy Acton

New deaths include:

– at least 3 new deaths in New York: a 79-year-old woman, a 78-year-old man, and a 53-year-old woman with diabetes and heart disease

– 2 new deaths in King County (WA)

– Death of a female in her 50s in New Jersey

– First death in Oregon: a 70-year-old man in Portland who had tested positive just four days ago and reportedly had other health problems.

New cases include:

– First case in Howard County (MD). County Executive Calvin Ball has declared a state of emergency and announced that The Mall in Columbia and other commercial gathering places will be closed for at least a week

– 32 new cases in King County (WA)

– 2 new cases in Schenectady County (NY), which declares State of Emergency

– First 2 cases in Putnam (NY)

– FIrst case in San Bernardino County (CA): a woman who recently returned from London

– 6 new cases in Suffolk Country (New York)

– 9 new cases in North Carolina, just one day after adding 8. Total now reaches 32

– 4 new cases in Indiana, including the first in Hamilton County. Marion County’s case total has doubled since Saturday from 3 to 6

– 39 new cases and 1 new death in Florida: a 77-year-old from Lee County is the fourth Florida resident to die after testing positive for coronavirus

– 2 new cases in Hawaii (on Maui and Oahu). Details have emerged regarding the latest 2 cases in Kauai: a couple who had traveled from Indiana arriving in Maui on March 2. Shortly after their arrival, one of the visitors developed a fever, shortness of breath and cough and went to an urgent care facility. On March 7, the second visitor also developed symptoms and went to urgent care. A day later, both of the visitors flew to Kauai, staying at the Kauai Marriott, and on March 9, one of the visitors visited again an urgent care facility. Finally, on March 12, the two informed health care workers that they had close contact with an individual who had tested positive for coronavirus. 2 health care workers in Maui and 1 in Kauai are now in self-isolation because they were not wearing protective equipment

– 9 new cases in Utah (Salt Lake County) First case of community spread identified

– 8 new cases in Michigan

– First case in San Luis Obispo County (California): a person over the age of 65 with underlying health conditions who exhibited a fever, cough, and shortness of breath

– 1 new case in Missouri: a person in their 20s who had traveled to Austria

– 2 emergency room doctors (in NJ and WA) are in critical condition after treating patients with COVID-19, according to reports

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Last updated: March 21, 2020, 04:30 GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
19,658
Deaths:
264
Recovered:
147
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19,247
Currently Infected Patients
19,183 (100%)
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New York 8,403 +5 46 8,357
Washington 1,524 83 124 1,317
California 1,254 +47 24 +1 6 1,224
New Jersey 890 11 879
Illinois 585 5 2 578
Florida 563 11 552
Michigan 552 3 549
Louisiana 537 14 523
Georgia 485 14 471
Texas 429 +35 5 4 420
Massachusetts 413 1 1 411
Colorado 363 4 359
Pennsylvania 311 +8 1 310
Tennessee 263 +30 1 +1 262
Wisconsin 219 +9 3 1 215
Connecticut 194 4 190
North Carolina 189 +13 189
Ohio 174 +1 3 +1 171
Nevada 161 +52 2 159
Maryland 149 2 +1 4 143
South Carolina 126 3 +2 123
Virginia 125 +2 2 1 122
Minnesota 115 115
Oregon 114 3 111
Utah 112 112
Alabama 108 +2 108
Arkansas 100 +4 100
Indiana 86 3 83
Mississippi 80 1 79
Arizona 79 +1 1 +1 1 77
District of Columbia 77 +6 3 74
Missouri 73 +8 3 +1 70
Kentucky 64 +16 2 2 60
Maine 56 56
New Hampshire 56 56
Rhode Island 54 54
Kansas 50 +1 1 49
Oklahoma 49 1 1 47
Iowa 45 45
New Mexico 43 43
Delaware 39 +1 39
Nebraska 38 +1 38
Hawaii 37 +11 37
Idaho 36 +5 36
Vermont 29 2 27
North Dakota 26 26
Wyoming 22 +3 22
Montana 21 +3 21
South Dakota 14 1 13
Alaska 12 12
West Virginia 8 +1 8
Diamond Princess Cruise 49 49
Grand Princess Cruise 23 1 22
Others 34 34
Total: 19,658 265 264 8 147 19,247
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March 21 (GMT)
275 new cases and 8 new deaths in the United States

1st death in Tennessee: a 73-year old man with underlying health conditions in Nashville
1st death in Arizona: a Maricopa County man in his 50s with underlying health conditions
1 death in Ohio: an 85-year-old man was an Erie County
2 new deaths in South Carolina: elderly people suffering from underlying health conditions
1 death in California: the first death in Contra Costa County: a patient in their 70s
1 death in Maryland: a Baltimore County resident in his 60s who suffered from underlying medical conditions D.C. schools will be closed until April 27
1 death in Missouri: a woman in her 60s, who suffered from multiple health problems prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19
March 20 (GMT)
5594 new cases and 49 new deaths in the United States. 23% of the US Population is ordered to "stay at home" after governors in California (40 million residents), New York State (20 million), Illinois (13 million), and Connecticut (3.5 million) ordered nonessential workers to remain at home to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Connecticut issues a "stay at home" order for its 3.5 million residents that goes into effect Monday at 8 p.m
Texas declared a public health disaster for the first time in more than 100 years
Illinois: Governor Pritzker issues an immediate "stay at home" order for all residents "to avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives" The order goes into effect at 5 p.m. Saturday.
New York: Governor Cuomo orders 100% of all non-essential workers to stay home
Pennsylvania: Governor Wolf orders all businesses that aren’t ‘life-sustaining’ to close
California: Governor Gavin Newson orders the state’s 40 million residents to “stay at home.” The order is “open ended.” Modeling predicts that 56% of the state’s population will be infected over the next 8 weeks. Only essential businesses will be allowed to remain open. All indoor public and private gatherings with 10 or more people are prohibited

New deaths include:

The first death in Massachusetts: an 87-year-old military veteran from Winthrop
7 new deaths in King County (WA)
1 new death in Snohomish County (WA)
1 new death in Illinois, a woman in her 70s in Cook County
1 new death in Indiana: an adult resident of Marion County over age 60
1 new death in Missouri (Jackson County) a woman in her 80s with no prior travel history
1 new death in Texas: a man in his 80s in Harris County
1 new death in Riverside County (CA)
1 new death in Louisiana
2 new deaths in New Jersey
1 new death in Florida
8 new deaths in New York, as De Blasio is demanding the federal government mobilize the military to help in the response efforts
First 2 deaths in Wisconsin: a man in his 50s from Fond Du Lac County and a man in his 90s from Ozaukee County
3 new deaths in Georgia
First 2 deaths in Vermont: a man from Windsor County and a woman from Chittenden County, both older individuals who likely received the virus through community transmission
1 new presumptive death in Ohio
1 new death in Connecticut: a man in his 80s from New Canaan (the second person from New Canaan to die)

New Cases include:

80 new cases in Texas, of which 19 in Dallas County
75 new cases in Tennessee
3 new cases in Alabama
March 19 (GMT)
4530 new cases and 57 new deaths in the United States

Deaths include:

3 deaths in Illinois
1 death in California, the first in San Benito County: a man in his 60s
1 death in Louisiana: a patient in his 60s with underlying health conditions
7 deaths in Georgia
1st death in Maryland: a man in his 60s with an underlying medical condition
1 death in Washington State: a woman in her 80s with underlying health conditions

New cases include:

256 new cases in Michigan
134 new cases in Illinois
13 new cases in Oregon
16 new cases in Arkansas
1,238 new cases in New York
46 in California, L.A. County
2 in Missouri, first 2 in Christian County
1 new case in Wisconsin, La Crosse County: a man in his upper 20s
27 new cases in Texas including 14 in Bexar County, 3 in Collin County, 1 in Van Zandt
2 new cases in Idaho, 1 in Twin Falls County, 1 in Blaine County
2 new cases in Nevada, Washoe County: a man in his 30s who recently traveled to Europe and a man in his 30s who recently traveled to Washington
March 18 (GMT)
2848 new cases and 41 new deaths in the United States

US – Canada border to temporarily close to nonessential travel
Trump compares the sacrifices needed to those made during World War II, saying that "now it is our time, we must sacrifice together. We are all in this together and we’ll come through it together. It is the invisible enemy. That’s always the toughest enemy. But we’re going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think we’ll going to do it even faster than we thought, and it will be a complete victory, a total victory"
US working to determine if the self-swab coronavirus test is as effective as the other testing process. It would be a much easier test
all foreclosures and evictions to be suspended until the end of April

New deaths include:

1 death in Clark County (Washington State)
1st death in Missouri, a Boone County resident who had traveled abroad and was self-isolating at home
1st death in Connecticut, an 88-year old man from Ridgefield
2 new deaths in New Jersey, total rises to 5
2 new deaths in Santa Clara County (California): a man in his 50s and a man in his 60s
1 new death in Tarrant County (Texas): a 77-year old man

New cases include:

17 new cases in North Carolina
8 new cases in Kentucky, including 2 in Jefferson County, one of whom is an 8 months old
13 new cases in Alabama, including the first in Calhoun County
4 new cases in New Hampshire, 2 in Grafton County, 1 in Rockingham County and 1 from Carroll County
38 new cases in Massachusetts
1 new case in North Carolina, Moore County
3 new cases in Kansas, 1 in Leavenworth County, 1 in Wyandotte county and 1 in Johnson County
128 new cases in Illinois
17 new cases in Minnesota
March 17 (GMT)
1748 new cases and 23 new deaths in the United States
New deaths include:

First death in Illinois: a Chicago woman in her 60s with an underlying condition
1 new death in Colorado (second in the state)
3 new deaths in King County (WA), bringing the total to 46
1 death in Suffolk County (New York): a woman in her 90s
1 death in Nassau County (New York): a 96-year-old man
2 new deaths in Santa Clara County (California): a man in his 50s (who was hospitalized on March 12) and a man in his 80s. It is not known if either had underlying health conditions
First 2 deaths in Riverside County (California)
1 new death in Bergen County (New Jersey): a man in his 90s

New cases include:

First case in West Virginia
30 new cases in King County (WA), total rise to 518
Ohio: 67 cases, mapped here by county and date
1st case of community spread in Galveston County (Texas)
1st case in Frederick County (Maryland)
1st case in Madison County (Alabama)
432 in New York state, of which 118 in New York City, 157 in Westchester County, 1 in Essex County
2 new cases in Fairbanks (Alaska)
First case in Peoria County (Illinois): the person was screened over the phone and tested at home by OSF Healthcare
1 new case in Tulare County (California) hospitalized in critical condition
March 16 (GMT)
983 new cases and 18 new deaths in the United States. Starting immediately and for the next 8 weeks, CDC recommends canceling all events of 50 or more people
New cases include:
– 1 new case in California (Nevada County)

– 6 new cases in New Hampshire

– 5 new cases in Washoe County, Nevada

– 2 new cases in Harris County, Texas

– First case in southern Indiana: a man in Floyd Count who, during the past week, attended a number of events and gatherings, all listed in detail by the Heath Department

– 3 new cases in Orange County, California, including 2 that did not appear to be related to travel or with previously confirmed cases

– 80 in New Jersey

– 1 new case in Hawaii: an Oahu resident who took a family trip to Florida and returned with family on March 8. The next day, the resident developed a cough, but no fever

March 15 (GMT)
737 new cases and 11 new deaths in the United States
– All New York City schools will shut down immediately and stay closed for at least 1 month All hospitals will be required to cancel elective surgeries

– Illinois: all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers through March 30

– Ohio: all bars and restaurants will close Sunday at 9 p.m. indefinitely ‘This is a once in a lifetime pandemic’ said Ohio Dept. of Health Director Amy Acton

New deaths include:

– at least 3 new deaths in New York: a 79-year-old woman, a 78-year-old man, and a 53-year-old woman with diabetes and heart disease

– 2 new deaths in King County (WA)

– Death of a female in her 50s in New Jersey

– First death in Oregon: a 70-year-old man in Portland who had tested positive just four days ago and reportedly had other health problems.

New cases include:

– First case in Howard County (MD). County Executive Calvin Ball has declared a state of emergency and announced that The Mall in Columbia and other commercial gathering places will be closed for at least a week

– 32 new cases in King County (WA)

– 2 new cases in Schenectady County (NY), which declares State of Emergency

– First 2 cases in Putnam (NY)

– FIrst case in San Bernardino County (CA): a woman who recently returned from London

– 6 new cases in Suffolk Country (New York)

– 9 new cases in North Carolina, just one day after adding 8. Total now reaches 32

– 4 new cases in Indiana, including the first in Hamilton County. Marion County’s case total has doubled since Saturday from 3 to 6

– 39 new cases and 1 new death in Florida: a 77-year-old from Lee County is the fourth Florida resident to die after testing positive for coronavirus

– 2 new cases in Hawaii (on Maui and Oahu). Details have emerged regarding the latest 2 cases in Kauai: a couple who had traveled from Indiana arriving in Maui on March 2. Shortly after their arrival, one of the visitors developed a fever, shortness of breath and cough and went to an urgent care facility. On March 7, the second visitor also developed symptoms and went to urgent care. A day later, both of the visitors flew to Kauai, staying at the Kauai Marriott, and on March 9, one of the visitors visited again an urgent care facility. Finally, on March 12, the two informed health care workers that they had close contact with an individual who had tested positive for coronavirus. 2 health care workers in Maui and 1 in Kauai are now in self-isolation because they were not wearing protective equipment

– 9 new cases in Utah (Salt Lake County) First case of community spread identified

– 8 new cases in Michigan

– First case in San Luis Obispo County (California): a person over the age of 65 with underlying health conditions who exhibited a fever, cough, and shortness of breath

– 1 new case in Missouri: a person in their 20s who had traveled to Austria

– 2 emergency room doctors (in NJ and WA) are in critical condition after treating patients with COVID-19, according to reports

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: One After Another, States Are Ordering Residents to Mostly Stay Indoors
New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois were preparing to follow the lead set by California and New York in telling people to stay mostly inside. The Federal Reserve moved to backstop municipal money market funds, and the U.S. was set to close borders with Mexico and Canada.

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A Trump administration official working in Vice President Mike Pence’s office has tested positive. And the Dow erased the “Trump bump,” ending the week below its level from the day before the president’s inauguration.

Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Friday. New York’s governor has sharply limited outdoor activity across the state, including by ordering nonessential businesses to keep all of their workers home. Credit… Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
Soon more than 1 in 5 Americans will be under orders to stay mostly indoors.
One by one, localities and now some of the nation’s biggest states are beginning to limit people’s movements as they struggle to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus before fast-growing caseloads overwhelm their hospitals.

In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo moved Friday to sharply limit outdoor activity across the state, including by ordering nonessential businesses to keep all of their workers home. His wide-ranging executive order, which takes effect on Sunday at 8 p.m., was issued as the number of known cases in the state jumped to over 7,800.

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“These provisions will be enforced,” Mr. Cuomo said at a briefing in Albany. “These are not helpful hints.”

Then, within the space of an hour Friday afternoon, several other big states followed suit. Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut issued an order similar to Mr. Cuomo’s, and Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey said he planned to order on Saturday that all nonessential businesses in that state shut down as well.

And in Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a statewide “stay at home” order on Friday, asking all 12 million residents to leave the house only when necessary. All nonessential businesses must also stop operating under the order, which is effective at 5 p.m. Saturday.

“I don’t come to this decision easily,” Mr. Pritzker said at an afternoon news conference. “I fully recognize that, in some cases, I am choosing between people’s lives and saving people’s livelihood. But ultimately, you can’t have a livelihood if you don’t have your life.”

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Their moves were announced as California woke up Friday to new rules closing the state’s nonessential retail shops and sharply limiting outdoor movement, after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Californians — all 40 million of them — to stay in their houses as much as possible. There was initially confusion there over how the order would be enforced and interpreted, but Californians were told they could still take walks and leave their neighborhoods to hike or go to the beach, as long as they were able to practice social distancing.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans also issued a stay at home order on Friday, asking the city’s 390,000 residents to go out for “critical needs only.”

States and localities announced the new rules as the death toll in the United States surpassed 200, and as Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., recorded their first deaths. There have now been deaths in more than half the states, with the most in Washington State, New York and California.

New York will allow healthy people under age 70 to go out for groceries and medicines, and to exercise and walk outside, as long as they stay six feet away from others. Mass transit will continue to run so that health care workers and other people with other essential jobs can get to work, but people will be urged not to use it unless absolutely necessary. Nonessential gatherings of any size will be banned.

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And certain essential businesses will be allowed to remain open, including: grocers, health care providers, pharmacies, gas stations, convenience stores, banks, hardware stores, laundromats, child-care providers, auto repair, utilities, warehouses and distributors, plumbers and other skilled contractors, animal-care providers, transportation providers, construction companies and many kinds of manufacturers.

The Senate is close to a deal for a $1 trillion rescue plan.
Senators neared a bipartisan deal on Friday on a sweeping $1 trillion economic stabilization package to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, as lawmakers and President Trump’s top advisers raced to work through differences and struck crucial compromises on legislation that could be enacted within days.

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Democratic and Republican negotiators were close to agreement Friday evening on providing expanded unemployment benefits for workers affected by the virus, including self-employed workers and people whose hours have been reduced by the dimming of economic activity as large parts of the economy shut down to slow the disease’s spread.

A person familiar with the agreement, speaking on condition of anonymity because it was not yet final, said the benefits would come close to covering the full lost wages for a typical worker.

Democrats were prepared to drop their opposition to several large corporate tax cuts as part of the compromise. And Republicans were ready to agree to a direct payment that would apply equally to workers with incomes up to $75,000 per year, before phasing out and ending altogether for those earning more than $99,000. The two sides were also near agreement on providing assistance for state and local governments that are set to lose tax revenues amid the crisis.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said he hoped to strike a deal in principle by midnight on Friday, an ambitious goal given the wide divergence between the two parties over how to structure a government rescue package unlike anything Congress has contemplated.

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One of Vice President Mike Pence’s staffers has tested positive.
A Trump administration official working in Vice President Mike Pence’s office has tested positive for the coronavirus, though that person did not come into close contact with Mr. Pence or President Trump, according to a spokeswoman.

“This evening we were notified that a member of the office of the vice president tested positive for the coronavirus,” Mr. Pence’s spokeswoman, Katie Miller, said in a statement. “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual.”

Ms. Miller added that “further contact tracing is being conducted in accordance with C.D.C. guidelines.” She did not immediately reply to a request for more details about the official’s role, or when their last day at work before being tested was.

Several Trump administration officials have self-quarantined over concerns of exposure to the virus. This week, Mick Mulvaney, the outgoing acting White House chief of staff, entered self-quarantine in his home state of South Carolina, after his niece, with whom he shares an apartment in Washington, fell ill and was awaiting test results.

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Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said this week she was working from home after coming into contact with a member of the Brazil delegation that also tested positive.

Last week, Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter and adviser, had stayed home “out of an abundance of caution” after an Australian official she recently met with tested positive for the coronavirus, a White House spokesman said. By Friday, Ms. Trump had returned to work, watching from the sidelines as her father sparred with reporters in the briefing room.

A person familiar with the situation said she had tested negative for the virus.

Haiti announces a state of emergency after confirmed cases.
The country of Haiti announced a state of emergency on Thursday, after two patients were confirmed to have the coronavirus.

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Both patients were being treated in the University Hospital of Mirebalais, in the country’s central plateau. Both had been out of the country recently.

In a televised press conference Thursday evening, President Jovenel Moïse announced schools and universities would be closed, meetings of more than 10 people forbidden and a nightly curfew implemented across the Caribbean’s most densely populated country.

If extreme precautions are not taken, the virus could quickly overwhelm the country in a matter of weeks, warned Elizabeth Campa, senior health and policy advisor for Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian nonprofit organization that runs the Mirebalais hospital in partnership with the government. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti has only 124 intensive care unit beds for a population of about 11 million, and the capability to mechanically ventilate fewer than 70 patients, according to a recent survey of hospitals done by the Research and Education consortium for Acute Care in Haiti study group.

But — given that 75 percent of the population live in deep poverty, on less than $2.50 a day, without access to electricity or clean water — it is hard to imagine how many could survive the containment measures being implemented in places like France and Italy.

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Businesses and investors struggled with another day of market turmoil that erased the “Trump Bump.”
Wall Street ended its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis with the Dow below where it stood on the day before President Trump was inaugurated. The S&P 500, which fell more than 4 percent, is not far from that mark as well. The president has trumpeted the so-called Trump bump throughout his presidency as evidence of his success.

In its latest effort to prop up the markets, the Federal Reserve moved to keep mutual funds from crashing as investors cash out by offering banks an incentive to buy local debt from money markets.

Starbucks will close its cafes in the United States in response to the coronavirus crisis, though it will remain open for delivery and drive-through customers, and said it would close all its stores in Britain.

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Hedge fund managers are already looking to make money from the crisis. Some hedge funds are looking to invest in beaten-down companies poised for a rebound. And the hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin is starting up a new fund at Citadel to take advantage of the volatility and price discrepancies caused by the selling pressure in the bond market.

The more than two million Americans reporting to work each day to sell food and other household staples amid the coronavirus pandemic are a new class of emergency worker. The cashiers and stockroom employees at your local grocery are a source of calm, signifying that, even as demand has surged, supply chains remain intact and the essentials that people need remain available. But these same employees are growing tired and, because they constantly interact with customers, fearful of getting sick themselves.

The top two executives at United Airlines asked employees to contact members of Congress and urge them to bail out the aviation industry, noting that deep cuts would have to be made if government assistance does not materialize by month’s end. And Delta disclosed that the company expected second-quarter revenue to fall 80 percent compared with the same period last year.

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One reprieve: Americans now have until July 15 to file tax returns, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday.

Here’s what happened at the White House briefing: Border closures, warnings against immigration and more.
At a White House briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that border closures to nonessential travelers from Canada and Mexico would go into effect at midnight on Saturday.

Mr. Pompeo also reiterated that the State Department had implemented a Level 4 travel advisory warning Americans against traveling abroad. He said U.S. citizens “should arrange immediate return” unless they intend to remain abroad for an extended time. “If you choose to travel, it may well be fairly disruptive,” he said.

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President Trump suggested that immigration would strain health care systems.

“During a global pandemic they threaten to create a public storm that would spread the infection to our border agents, migrants and the public at large,” Mr. Trump said, referring to people seeking to enter the country.

Speaking on a day when the worldwide death toll stood at more than 10,000, including more than 200 in the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that there was a “fundamental public health reason” for closing the northern and southern borders. “Understand that: There’s a public health reason for doing that.”

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, corrected President Trump’s earlier suggestion that a malaria drug could cure coronavirus. Credit Credit… Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Pompeo used the term “Chinese virus,” continuing their efforts to rename a virus that causes a disease public health experts purposely named Covid-19 to avoid the spread of blame and xenophobia.

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The term has angered Chinese officials and a wide range of critics, and China experts say labeling the virus that way will only ratchet up tensions between the two countries, while resulting in the kind of xenophobia that American leaders should discourage. Asian-Americans have reported incidents of racial slurs and physical abuse because of the erroneous perception that China is the cause of the virus.

“It’s not racist at all,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday, explaining his rationale. “It comes from China, that’s why.”

On Thursday, a Washington Post photographer took an image of Mr. Trump’s speech materials on the White House podium that showed the word “coronavirus” crossed out and “Chinese” replaced in Sharpie.

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American passengers from the Costa Luminosa describe a chaotic evacuation from France.
A charter flight carrying more than 230 Americans and more than 75 Canadians who had been evacuated from the Costa Luminosa cruise ship in France idled on the tarmac in Atlanta for about five hours on Friday because health officials learned that three of the evacuees had tested positive for the coronavirus.

According to two people who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the episode, the test results became known during the flight, triggering the hourslong delay that frustrated, angered and frightened those on the plane.

“Everyone is up in arms,” Kelea Edgar Nevis, 47, said in a text message from the stuck plane. “We’re going to have a mutiny.”

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The return trip itself had been a harrowing all-night odyssey, with busloads of the passengers stuck for hours in Marseille before boarding the flight to Atlanta. Left without food for more than 24 hours, they started fainting on the plane. Several had severe coughs.

Jennifer Catron, an evacuee who described herself as a wedding photographer with some medical experience, described a chaotic, dramatic flight with perhaps two dozen medical issues, some emergencies, some relatively minor.

“This plane is a medical disaster,” Ms. Catron said in an email during the flight.

The French media reported that more than 600 passengers disembarked on Thursday, of whom 75 were tested and 36 found positive for the virus, none of them French. The French passengers were bused home, and the handful of Spanish passengers were taken to a flight for Barcelona, the report said, while many American and Canadian passengers were taken to the Atlanta-bound flight. Italian passengers remained on the ship for a final leg of the voyage to their country.

Scores of the evacuees on the flight to Atlanta also booked onward flights to their home cities, despite having been near sick people all night and on the cruise since at least March 5.

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With critical supplies running low, Trump resists pressure to use a wartime law to mobilize industry.
Mr. Trump signaled Friday that the federal government was mobilizing industry to provide urgently needed resources to help halt the spread of the virus, but he did not specify what steps he had taken after days of conflicting messages about his intentions.

On Friday, he said without evidence that he was using the Defense Production Act to help acquire “millions of masks.”

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“The states are having a hard time getting them,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “We are using the act for things like this.”

If Mr. Trump’s pledge comes to pass, after weeks of promises that failed to materialize, the supplies could relieve the strain on state and local governments. But at times, the president seemed to suggest that private industry was already stepping up, without being compelled by the government.

“We are literally being besieged in a beautiful way by companies that want to do the work and help our country,” Mr. Trump said. “We have not had a problem with that at all.”

The White House did not immediately respond to inquiries asking for examples of companies or industries that have been compelled under the law to spur production, as Mr. Trump claimed.

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Some of the president’s advisers have privately said they share conservatives’ longstanding opposition of government intervention and oppose using the law, and the president again suggested his own ambivalence toward using it.

At the same time, the president has faced increasing pressure from government officials and the health care industry to find a way to speed up new supplies.

Before Mr. Trump’s appearance on Friday, New York City’s mayor warned that the city was within weeks of running out of crucial supplies, with doctors and nurses confronting dwindling stocks of protective gear and hospitals facing shortages of lifesaving ventilators.

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And medical leaders in Washington State, which has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the country, have begun preparing a bleak triage strategy to determine which patients may have to be denied complete medical care in the event that the health system becomes overwhelmed in the coming weeks.

There have now been deaths in more than half the states, with the most in Washington State, New York and California.

The nation’s blood supply faces a dire shortage.
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The American Red Cross normally supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood, but more than 4,500 of its blood drives had been canceled, resulting in nearly 150,000 fewer donations.

Typically, the Red Cross needs to receive 13,000 blood donations daily, so it has already lost around 11 days of stock. Red blood cells are viable for 42 days, platelets for only five, so new donations are essential.

“It’s an unprecedented situation,” said Dr. Pampee Young, chief medical officer of biomedical services at the Red Cross. “We are already actively triaging units, determining which hospitals can and can’t get blood.”

While donor blood is not being used to treat coronavirus patients, transfusions are still needed for cases such as trauma, organ transplants or complications of childbirth.

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“The worst case scenario could be a bleeding young patient who was in a car accident, and there’s no blood,” said Dr. Young. “We’re not quite there yet, but that is the ultimate fear.”

The death toll mounts in Italy, and Britain closes its pubs.
Italy reported 627 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, its highest number in a single day, bringing its death toll above 4,000. Spain became the second European nation to register more than 1,000 deaths, and officials there warned that the country’s health care system could soon be overwhelmed.

French officials continued to tighten restrictions on movements ahead of the expected peak of the epidemic there. In Germany, authorities in the southern state of Bavaria issued an order asking people to stay indoors in most cases — the most far-reaching measure in the country, which had been appealing to people’s sense of public duty and reason to keep them at home.

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And Britain, which had resisted the kind of wide scale closures that many other nations adopted days ago, reluctantly agreed to shutter one of the symbols of the nation: the pub. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the country’s cafes, pubs and restaurants to close Friday night, along with nightclubs, theaters, gyms, movie theaters and sports and leisure facilities.

The measures will apply throughout the United Kingdom, after agreements were reached with the authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

“We have a real threat to our country and to the ability of our National Health Service to manage it,” said Mr. Johnson, who added that he would keep the transportation network open.

His announcement came as the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, said that the government would help pay a big part of the wages of those unable to work. Up to 80 percent of the pay of those workers could be covered, said Mr. Sunak, who added that welfare provision would increase.

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The fast spread of the virus means that many nations are facing simultaneous shortages of desperately needed medical equipment — from protective garb to beds to ambulances — as their health care systems buckle under ever higher caseloads.

“The health situation in Madrid is critical,” said Ángela Hernández, the deputy secretary general of Amyts, an association of doctors in Madrid. “We’re no longer in a phase of health alert, but instead of alarm.”

In the Catalonia region, hospital patients are being housed in hotels. Some hospitals in the Basque region have now dedicated most floors to coronavirus cases.

And in France, there is a growing outcry over the scarcity of face masks. Jérôme Salomon, a top official at France’s health ministry, said that 35 million had already been distributed and promised that authorities were ramping up production and distribution.

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Health officials in Germany, which has 28,000 intensive care beds, are attempting to increase capacity by setting up temporary hospitals in empty rehabilitation clinics, hotels and trade fair halls.

After the onset of spring filled Bavaria’s parks and beer gardens with people sitting closely together, the state issued new rules prohibiting people from leaving home except for reasons including grocery shopping, caring for a relative or taking a walk — and only alone or with family members.

“Everyone can and everyone must do their part in this crisis,” the Bavarian governor, Markus Söder, in Munich on Friday. “People are going to die. Corona is not just a flu, it is a new virus.”

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You can still help others in the time of social distancing.
Reaching out to provide assistance or charity in this trying time can ease your own anxiety too. Consider supporting local businesses, safely donating blood or reaching out in more creative ways.

One family had a difficult choice.
Reporting and research were contributed by Frances Robles, Richard Fausset, Catherine Porter, William Davis, Michael Cooper, Alan Blinder, Katie Rogers, Maggie Haberman, Emily Cochrane, Andy Newman, Kenneth P. Vogel, Catie Edmondson, Jesse Drucker, Monica Davey, Raphael Minder, Elaine Yu, Motoko Rich, Elian Peltier, Megan Specia, Marc Santora, Ian Austen, Elisabetta Povoledo, Katie Robertson, Aurelien Breeden, Melissa Eddy, Edward Wong, David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick, Erica L. Green, Roni Caryn Rabin, Sui-Lee Wee, Katrin Bennhold, Richard Pérez-Peña, Tim Arango, Jill Cowan, Sarah Mervosh, Stephen Castle, Nick Corasaniti, Nancy Wartik, Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, Maya Salam, David Zucchino, Isabella Kwai and Dan Barry.

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