Cities hit by COVID-19 are now taking steps to contain the virus. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the state is deploying the National Guard to New Rochelle, a coronavirus hot spot just north of New York City. The state’s health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, said the state is moving from “a containment strategy to more of a mitigation strategy.”
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee warned Tuesday that cases could reach 64,000 by May if health officials and the public aren’t able to contain the outbreak now.
“If we assume there are 1,000 or more people who have the virus today, what the experts are telling us, in an epidemic like this, looking at the characteristics of this virus, people who are infected will double anywhere from five to eight days,” he said. “If you do that math, it gets very disturbing.”
Dozens of universities have canceled classes on campus and moved courses online to prevent the spread. Several companies have told employees to work from home including Google, which has expanded the policy to its more than 100,000 employees in North America.
Markets have fluctuated wildly amid the spread of the virus. Stocks suffered through a historic sell-off Monday, but clawed back much of those losses during Tuesday’s trading session.
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