More people have now died in U.S. coronavirus pandemic than on 9/11
The coronavirus death toll surged past 3,400 on Tuesday, eclipsing the total from the 9/11 terror attacks as New York City traded"Ground Zero" for"epicenter."
Cities and states tightened stay-at-home restrictions. Thousands of retailers across the nation, large and small, closed their doors. And many furloughed employees. Guns shops in Los Angeles won a reprieve, however, when authorities retracted an order to close them. Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he’s heeding a federal Department of Homeland Security advisory issued that listed gun and ammunition dealers as “essential critical infrastructure workers.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said that a recommendation that all Americans wear masks was"under very active consideration" by the federal task force on the crisis. Field hospital opening in New York City's Central ParkA 68-bed emergency field hospital erected in Central Park was set to receive patients infected with the coronavirus starting Tuesday. A team of 72 doctors, nurses and other health care workers from Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian disaster-relief organization, have mobilized the facility, which is equipped with 10 ventilators.
Italy has had the most deaths: more than 12,000. That includes 812 on Monday, up from 756 on Sunday. Spain has seen more than 8,200 deaths, including 849 on Monday, it's highest total to date. • 'I can't pay it back. So I pay it forward': These volunteers deliver food to quarantined coronavirus families.
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