The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 195 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan).
As of March 24, 2020 at 02:33 GMT, there have been 43734 confirmed cases and 553 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that drug trials to test coronavirus treatments will begin in the state Tuesday, after President Trump on Thursday said the Food and Drug Administration approved one of the drugs for clinical trials, as New York becomes the epicenter for the pandemic in the U.S.
- During a Sunday press briefing, Cuomo said 750,000 doses of chloroquine, 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine and 10,000 doses of Zithromax were acquired by New York state for the trial.
- Chloroquine (an anti-malaria drug) and hydroxychloroquine (used for lupus and arthritis) were approved by the FDA for clinical trials as possible coronavirus treatments, while Zithromax is a brand-name antibiotic.
- A French study that Trump promoted on his Twitter Saturday found early evidence that taking a combination of hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax could be effective in treating coronavirus, but the results do not prove that the two drugs can effectively treat coronavirus, and FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said that “We may have the right drug, but [chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine] might not be in the appropriate dosage form right now, and it might do more harm than good.”
The National Guard has begun installing four hospital units for coronavirus patients inside the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan.
Dozens
of troops arrived at the sprawling 1.3 million-square-foot convention
center on Monday morning, hours after Governor Andrew Cuomo and
President Donald Trump confirmed plans to set up 1,000 beds inside.
The
Federal Emergency Management Agency is slated to oversee the set-up of
four separate wings with 250 beds each, and will also staff and stock
the facility with medical supplies.
'This
is literally a matter of life and death,' Cuomo said Sunday. '[If] we
get these facilities up, we get the supplies, we will save lives. If we
don't, we will lose lives. That is the simple fact of this matter.
'From my point of view, construction can start tomorrow. There is no red tape on the side of New York.'
New
York City is now the focal point of America's outbreak, with more than
12,000 of the almost 40,000 confirmed cases in the US and 100 of the
nation's 477 deaths as of Monday.
California's governor said on Monday that the state needs 50,000 additional hospital beds to accommodate a surge in coronavirus patients predicted by computer modeling.
Governor Gavin Newsom, speaking at an afternoon press conference, said that some of those beds could be made available by hospitals but that thousands more will need to be found if predictions of the course of the illness prove true.
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