White House submits additional $45.8 billion funding request to Congress—in addition to the trillion-dollar package currently being negotiated—to cover unanticipated costs for array of federal agencies fighting the coronavirus.
9:24 a.m.: White House submits additional funding request to Congress
In this photo taken on March 16, 2020, a doctor watches a coronavirus patient under treatment in the intensive care unit of the Brescia hospital in Italy. Hospitals in northern Italy are struggling to make room for the onslaught of coronavirus patients.The majority of cases and fatalities were still reported in China, but that percentage is continuing to diminish as the outbreak worsens in other countries such as Italy, Iran and the United States.
Laurie Kuypers, a registered nurse, reaches into a car to take a nasopharyngeal swab from a patient at a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing station for University of Washington Medicine patients, March 17, 2020, in Seattle. Dr. Steven Anderson, an emergency room doctor from Auburn, Washington, speaks with ABC News about the coronavirus.Anderson said"there's a lot of stress" among medical professionals right now, and he described the mood as"frightening."
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