HHS official Robert Kadlec said 350 million respirators are used annually—but demand could surge up to a billion in a six-month period amid the coronavirus pandemic: 'It’s a very high demand item.”
“If, for any reason, you believe you have been exposed to the coronavirus or you have symptoms, we don’t want people to be worried about the cost of testing, to be worried about the cost of treatment," Pence said."We are making sure that medicaid and medicare cover the treatment for anyone that contracts the coronavirus."
6:28 a.m.: Jet Blue passenger who arrived at Palm Beach Airport from New York City diagnosed with coronavirushas been positively diagnosed with the coronavirus, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue says.Coronavirus map: Why flattening the curve for coronavirus matters In New York, Port Authority officials said Jet Blue immediately started additional cleaning of the area where the flight departed,"as well as surrounding gates, the security checkpoints, check-in counters and kiosks, elevators, restrooms and any other area the passenger went through based on security camera footage."
A man walks past the closed Air France counters at the Terminal 1 section at John F. Kennedy International Airport on March 12, 2020 in New York.6:04 a.m.: The National Guard deploys to hard-hit New Rochelle, New York A solitary woman checks her cellphone on a normally busy North Avenue inside what's called a "containment area" in New Rochelle, N.Y., Wednesday, March 11, 2020. State officials on Tuesday called for closing schools, houses of worship and any other spaces were large numbers of people gather within a 1-mile radius of a point near a synagogue where an infected person had attended events.
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