The scientists leading the administration’s fight estimated the virus could kill between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans. New data suggests many as 25 percent of infected people may not show symptoms.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Deaths Surpass China’s, but China’s Figures Remain in Doubt
The White House is expected to release models showing the future course of the disease, and the C.D.C. is reviewing its guidance on wearing masks as new data suggests many people with no symptoms are infecting others.
As Governors Plead for Tests, Trump Promises Ventilators to Europe
Maryland, Virginia and Arizona issued statewide stay-at-home orders, and the F.D.A. granted emergency approval for the use of two malaria drugs to treat some coronavirus patients.
Coronavirus Live Updates: As Toll Mounts, Lawmakers Look to Next Phase of Response
A 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship, the Comfort, docked in Manhattan. Warnings against travel and gatherings were extended through April. In Washington, talk turned to expanding paid sick leave.
‘I Didn’t Know Whether to Mourn or to Celebrate’: An Afghan Reporter’s Girlhood Education
As a U.S. peace deal with the Taliban unfolds, a Times journalist recalls how a visit to one of Afghanistan’s most progressive rural schools triggered a bittersweet flashback to her own childhood dreams.
Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines to April 30 as U.S. Cases Top 140,000
The global count has passed 700,000, an official warns Britain that some kind of lockdown may last for months and Joe Biden urges mail-in elections.
White House Airlifts Medical Supplies From China in Coronavirus Fight
Officials have teamed up with medical supply companies to speed the arrival of masks, gloves, gowns and other goods.
Coronavirus Live Updates: State and City Leader Clamor for Medical Supplies as U.S. Cases Top 135,000
The global count has passed 670,000, an official warns Britain that some kind of lockdown may last for months and Biden urges mail-in elections.
Trump Signs $2 Trillion Bill as U.S. Virus Cases Pass 100,000
President Trump, who had questioned the need for additional ventilators, pushed industry to make more. A new survey of mayors found dire shortages of urgently needed supplies.
A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus
Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.