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The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than
375,000 people and killed over 16,000. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in
the elderly or those with existing health problems. More than 100,000
people have recovered so far, mostly in China.
TOP OF THE HOUR:
— Trump signs order making it a crime to stockpile scarce medical supplies
— US official: Virus attacking 1 of every 1,000 people in New York metro
area
— US govt postpones deadline to get REAL ID to board domestic flights
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order making
it a crime to excessively stockpile personal protective equipment that is needed by medical personnel fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Attorney General William Barr says the Justice Department has already
launched investigations into people who are hoarding supplies and price gouging. He says investigators will go after people who are “hoarding
these goods on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the
market.”
The executive order allows the president to designate some items as
“scarce.”
Barr says, “If you are sitting on a warehouse with surgical masks, you
will be hearing a knock on your door.”
No specific items have been identified yet and the Justice Department will
work with Health and Human Services to enforce the president’s order.
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WASHINGTON — COVID-19 is attacking nearly 1 of every 1,000 persons in the
New York metro area of New Jersey, New York City and parts of Long Island.
Deborah Birx, coordinator of the U.S. coronavirus response, says that’s
five times what other areas are seeing.
She says that 28% of the specimens from the New York metro area are
testing positive, compared with less than 8% in the rest of the country.
New York officials are asking that only people with severe symptoms get
tested.
Birx says clearly the coronavirus has been circulating in the New York
metro area for a number of weeks for it to have that level of penetration
into the general community.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the federal government is
postponing the deadline for obtaining REAL ID-compliant identification
cards because of the coronavirus.
Travelers would have been required to present REAL ID cards to board U.S. flights starting on Oct. 1. The president says a new deadline will be
announced soon.
Under the law, Americans are required to visit their state’s Department of Motor Vehicles and obtain a REAL ID-compliant card, or alternative such as
a U.S. passport, if they want to fly domestically or access federal
facilities.
The nation’s governors have urged the Department of Homeland Security to
extend REAL ID deadline for no less than a year.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he plans to issue an executive order mandating that anyone arriving on a flight from New York
City and the surrounding area submit to self-quarantine for two weeks.
DeSantis says over 100 such flights arrive daily in Florida and he
believes each one contains at least one person infected with the
coronavirus. Passengers will be screened when they arrive and told they
must self-quarantine. They won’t be allowed to stay with family or friends because that is one way the virus is spread.
DeSantis says he’s been in contact with federal officials about curtailing
such flights, but hasn’t heard back yet. He didn’t say how the self-
quarantine would be enforced.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he understands DeSantis’ order
since New York is an epicenter for the virus in the U.S. However, he has
mixed feelings about travel restrictions and says, “I’m not sure it’s the
most enlightened approach.”
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SAO PAULO — In Brazil, the head of Sao Paulo state’s center overseeing the fight to stop the spread of coronavirus has tested positive.
Gov. Joăo Doria on his official Twitter account confirmed the diagnosis of
Dr. David Uip, an infectious disease specialist.
Doria appeared with Uip in multiple news conferences recently. Doria says
he was recently tested for Covid-19 and will release results once they are available.
Brazil has reported 1,891 cases of coronavirus, the most in Latin America. Almost 40% are in Sao Paulo, which is Brazil’s most populous state. That’s wherer 30 of the nation’s 34 deaths have occurred.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — All commercial passenger flights bound for Puerto
Rico will be forced to land at the island’s main international airport.
Gov. Wanda Vázquez says the Federal Aviation Administration approved her request in a bid to curb coronavirus cases.
The Luis Muńoz Marín airport in San Juan is the only one in the U.S.
territory with temperature scanners. The National Guard is posted there
and has screened over 25,000 passengers. At least nine are awaiting test results.
Puerto Rico has a total of seven airports, including a second
international one located in the northwest town of Aguadilla. The island
has reported two deaths and 31 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
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ROME — The man known in Italy as Patient No. 1 in the country’s
devastating outbreak of the coronavirus is out of the hospital a month
after he arrived in critically ill condition.
Authorities in Italy’s hardest hit region of Lombardy played an audio
message recorded by the 38-year-old man in which he says, “You can get
cured of this illness.”
The man identified only by his first name of Mattia spent 18 days in
intensive care on a respirator. After that time, he says he began to do on
his own “the most simple and beautiful thing: that is, to breathe.”
The man is awaiting the birth of a child within days. Last week, Italian
media reported the death of his father, who lived in one of the first
towns in Lombardy that were at the heart of the outbreak’s start.
Italian doctors say that even before Mattia’s case, they suspect the virus
was circulating in Italy and that some patients who died of pneumonia last
fall might have had coronavirus.
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PHOENIX — An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition
after the couple took an additive used to clean fish tanks.
Banner Health says the couple in their 60s took chloroquine phosphate and
got sick within 30 minutes.
Last week, Trump misstated that the malaria medication chloroqine was a
known treatment for COVID-19. Even after the FDA chief clarified that the
drug still needs to be tested, Trump overstated the drug’s potential
upside in containing the virus.
Dr. Daniel Brooks, medical director of Banner Poison and Drug Information Center, says the last thing health officials want is for emergency rooms
to be swamped by patients who believe they found a vague and risky
solution that could potentially jeopardize their health.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. — Federal inspectors say they found three serious problems during their check of a Seattle-area nursing home hard-hit by the new coronavirus.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, along with state
regulators, found in a March 16 inspection that the Life Care Center of Kirkland failed to rapidly identify and manage sick residents and didn’t
notify the Washington Department of Health about the increasing rate of respiratory infections among residents. The nursing home also lacked a
backup plan in the absence of Life Care’s primary doctor, who fell ill.
At least 35 COVID-19 deaths are linked to the nursing home. Life Care
officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s daily newspaper is suspending its print
edition as a result of the coronavirus-related shutdown.
It is only the second time in its more than 150-year history that
L’Osservatore Romano will cease printing starting Thursday. The other time
was on Sept. 20, 1870, when Italian forces entered Rome in the final major
push of the process to unify the Italian peninsula and defeat the Papal
States.
Editor-in-chief Andrea Monda says the newspaper’s online edition will
continue unchanged throughout the crisis, and the print edition will
return as soon as possible. Italy, the European epicenter of the virus pandemic, has ordered all non-essential industry to shut in a bid to
contain the virus.
L’Osservatore Romano prints a daily edition in Italian and weekly or
monthly editions in English, Spanish, French, German and Polish. The
content skews heavily toward international news and features on religion
and culture, though the daily also publishes papal speeches, decrees and appointments.
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CAIRO — Sudan’s transitional authorities say they are releasing over 4,200 prisoners as part of government measures to stem the spread of the
coronavirus.
SUNA, the official news agency, says the first group went free Monday from
a prison in Om Dorman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum. It said the
rest would be released in the coming days.
Sudan announced a nightly curfew across the country starting Tuesday to
stem the spread of coronavirus. Sudan has two cases, including a fatality.
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MILWAUKEE — Democratic National Committee officials are exploring
contingencies in case the coronavirus outbreak makes a routine
presidential nominating convention impossible.
Statements from convention planners don’t explicitly outline the
possibility of a virtual convention. But their acknowledgement underscores
the unknowns the party faces amid the pandemic and stay-at-home orders
across the county.
The convention is scheduled for July 13-16 in Milwaukee. It would attract
about 4,000 delegates and tens of thousands of activists, Democratic
donors and media.
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SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah state leaders are
criticizing a large gathering of family and friends who converged at Salt
Lake City’s airport to welcome home missionaries even though people are supposed to be keep their distance to prevent the coronavirus from
spreading.
Photos and videos show hundreds of people gathered Sunday inside the
airport’s parking lot to greet 900 missionaries from The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints returning from the Philippines. Many people
stood shoulder-to-shoulder.
There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus among the missionaries who
were serving. Church spokesman Daniel Woodruff declined to comment on the criticism.
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NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo promises 1,000 temporary hospital beds will
be set up inside a Manhattan convention center as officials race to
prepare for an overwhelming number of coronavirus patients.
Cuomo says the pandemic is “is going to get much worse before it gets
better.”
The number of positive coronavirus cases in New York state has surged to
over 20,000, with more than half the cases in New York City. The city has emerged as a worldwide hotspot for the outbreak, with more than 12,000
known cases.
In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city plans to reserve thousands
of hotel rooms for people with mild cases of the coronavirus and others
unable to return to their homes while awaiting test results.
Lightfoot says the city has partnered with five hotels and will have 1,000 rooms available by Tuesday. Chicago officials describe the plan as a
proactive measure to keep hospital beds available for people with severe symptoms.
Illinois officials have reported 1,285 cases as of Monday and 12 deaths;
that’s up from 1,049 cases and nine deaths a day earlier.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus has stepped up restrictions on the movement of
all citizens in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus with a
nationwide three-week ban on all unnecessary trips outside the home.
President Nicos Anastasiades says that a “disobedient, ill-disciplined and reckless” minority of people who continue to flout existing restrictions
are potentially putting lives at risk. He warned in a televised address
that the measure is necessary to head off the unchecked spread of the new
virus that could lead to the collapse of the health system.
Anastasiades ordered all citizens to remain indoors unless they have to go
to work, pick up food and other essential supplies, visit the doctor or a pharmacy, go to the bank or help others in need. The order remains in
effect until April 13.
Anastasiades says all citizens who must be outside have to carry their
I.D. card or passport and those who don’t conform could face criminal
charges and an on-the-spot fine of 150 euros ($161).
Cyprus has 116 confirmed coronavirus cases and one death.
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SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Navy hospital ship set sail from San Diego and planned
to spend a few days at sea getting its newly formed medical team used to working together before arriving in Los Angeles to help the city free up
its hospital beds.
USS Mercy commanding officer Capt. John R. Rotruck says the ship has 1,000
beds and will begin taking patients who do not have coronavirus from area hospitals a day after it docks in Los Angeles. The ship will have 1,128 active-duty medical personnel on board, 58 reservists and nine of its 12 operating rooms will be ready to perform surgeries.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had called on President Donald Trump to send
the ship to the Port of Los Angeles because of the growing number of cases
in the state.
For now, Navy officials say the ship will remain in the area as long as
it’s needed. It could be sent on to other cities on the West Coast.
The USS Comfort hospital ship is preparing to go to New York, where the governor has been pressing for medical help.
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Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
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truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
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