| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News | |
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| Good Tuesday afternoon. Watch our live NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic tonight at 10 p.m. ET, anchored by Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, across NBC, MSNBC, and our streaming service NBC News NOW. | |
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U.S. reaches grim milestone as coronavirus deaths top 3,000 | |
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| COVID-19 has now killed 3,559 people in the U.S., surpassing the official death toll of 2,977 from the 9/11 attacks. Health officials are having “very active discussions” about recommending the public wear masks, and across the country 3 out of 4 Americans are now being told to stay home. Here are the latest developments: | |
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- U.S. deaths have also surpassed China’s official toll (3,305), and are now third highest in the world behind Italy (12,428) and Spain (8,189).
- The number of confirmed cases in the U.S. has surged to nearly 180,000, the largest number of infections in the world.
- This evening, the White House is expected to release the models that projected 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. from coronavirus, in the best case scenario.
- CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has tested positive for coronavirus, he said in a statement. Cuomo said he had “fever, chills and shortness of breath,” after being exposed to people who later tested positive. Cuomo says he is self-quarantining in his basement.
- Some Whole Foods workers across the country are staging a sickout today, and demanding more safety measures, hazard pay, and guaranteed sick leave. It follows strikes on Monday by dozens of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and at the grocery delivery service Instacart.
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| Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protections |
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Fauci: "Very active discussions" about masks for everyone | |
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| Should we all be wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic? | |
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| There are “very active discussions” among the White House task force about widening the use of masks, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infections disease expert. | |
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| "I believe there will be some very serious consideration about more broadening this recommendation of using masks," Fauci told CNN today. "We're not there yet, but I think we're close to coming to some determination." | |
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| Fauci's comments came after the Washington Post reported that the CDC is considering changing guidelines to advise people to cover their faces during the pandemic, citing a federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. | |
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| That official told the Post that the guidance under consideration would tell the public not to use medical coverings, like surgical masks and N95 masks, and would instead encourage the use to do-it-yourself cloth masks. | |
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| President Trump said on Monday that he could foresee a moment where he would recommend Americans wear masks "for a short period of time after we get back into gear." | |
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| Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Fox News today that "the data isn't quite there" to say whether there's a benefit to wearing masks in public. | |
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| "We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face so wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease," Adams said. He added that masks "can also give you a false sense of security." | |
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New York braces for coronavirus apex in 7-21 days | |
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| New York state, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, will see the apex of infections within 7-21 days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today. | |
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| Cuomo said the figures come from five different projection models. The state now has 75,795 confirmed cases, including 43,139 in New York City alone. There have been 1,550 deaths in the state. | |
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| Gabe Gutierrez is reporting on the growing crisis at New York City hospitals, as they are rapidly being pushed to their limits. | |
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| A makeshift field hospital in Central Park was set to open today, and an indoor training center at the stadium in Queens that hosts the U.S. Open is also being converted into a temporary hospital. | |
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| The state is facing a critical shortage of ventilators. "It's almost impossible to buy a ventilator," Cuomo said. New York has ordered 17,000 ventilators from China at $25,000 each, but only has a firm commitment to receive 2,500 in the next two weeks, according to Cuomo. | |
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| The governor also voiced his frustration over having to compete with other states for the life-saving equipment, and with the federal government's handling of the shortage. | |
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| "It's like being on eBay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator," Cuomo said. He also accused FEMA of having "bigfooted" the states and driving up prices by submitting bids of its own. | |
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| "What sense does this make? The federal government, FEMA, should have been the purchasing agent. Buy everything, and then allocate it by need to the states." | |
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| Gov. Cuomo says main battle against COVID-19 will be apex of the curve |
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Governors under growing pressure to issue 'stay at home' orders | |
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| Blayne Alexander is in Georgia tonight, where the southern part of the state is emerging as a coronavirus hot spot. | |
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| Gov. Brian Kemp is facing growing pressure to impose tougher restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Georgia, where there are more than 3,000 cases and over 100 deaths. | |
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| Dougherty County, a small county with a population of about 90,000, has seen 18 deaths, the most in the state. | |
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| On Monday, about 50 of Georgia's mayors held a conference call to discuss the growing crisis. Most agreed that a "statewide stay-at-home order and other policies were needed to remedy the inconsistent, confusing patchwork of policies now in place," according to Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. | |
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| Kemp has taken a more piecemeal approach, closing bars, restaurants and schools, and ordered a shelter-in-place for the "medically fragile." | |
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| Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing similar scrutiny. DeSantis has also declined to give a statewide order, as cases there have now risen to 5,704 with 71 deaths. | |
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| Ali Mokdad, one of the epidemiologists behind the new models being cited by the White House, said he advised Florida officials that a statewide stay at home order must be issued, the Miami Herald reported. | |
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| While states debate stay at home orders, there is new evidence from Seattle area — the nation's first known hotspot — that social distancing measures are working. | |
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| Tom Costello will report on projections showing that each infected person in the Seattle area is spreading the coronavirus to 1.4 other people, compared to 2.7 earlier in March. | |
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