On Monday, residents of the San Fransisco Bay Area were ordered to “shelter in place” for at least three weeks, meaning they should confine themselves to their homes except for essential reasons, including buying food or medical necessity
Mike Pence, commander of the U.S. coronavirus task force for some reason. Photo: ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the United States should brace for a domestic coronavirus outbreak, with the director of its National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases explaining that “it’s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more, but a question of when this will happen.
Officials in a growing number of cities and states have announced that schools will close this week, including in New York City, Massachusetts, Oregon, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, and Kentucky. Some schools in California, Washington State, and Texas have closed as well.
An increasing number of New York City institutions have closed to the public, including Broadway theaters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Met Opera, and the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been postponed. Many New York talk shows have begun taping without studio audiences, with some suspending production altogether.
Trump also announced plans to accelerate and expand access to coronavirus testing, saying that millions of tests for the virus would be made available, though he added that he did not think that many would be necessary. He gave more authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, who will now be able to lift restrictions on doctors and hospitals to give them more flexibility in fighting the virus, including the ability to treat patients remotely.
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