NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan about the steps his state has taken to respond to the coronavirus epidemic.
From restaurant closings to school cancellations to activating the National Guard, many of the measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus have come at the state level. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, has been leading his state's response. He's also chairman of the National Governors Association, and he joins us now.CHANG: All right, so you have ordered schools to close in your state. You're limiting bars and restaurants to curbside takeout and delivery only.
CHANG: But are you concerned that a patchwork of responses might result from the various states rather than coordinated nationwide action? Does that concern you? HOGAN: Well, it's not quite - that's not quite how I would view it. But it's a little bit of both. And I talked about this. So look; we need the help of the federal government on these ventilators, and they are trying to work with us. We have - we did get a supply from the national stockpiles yesterday in our state - and some other states are. But we're also directly having to go on our own and not wait for those - that help and that assistance and all of those things.
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