The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting
199 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances: the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan, and the Holland America's MS Zaandam cruise ship.
As of March 29, 2020 at 02:04 GMT, there have been 123750 confirmed cases and 2227 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
In a Friday night tweet, Gov. Phil Murphy announced that President Donald Trump had approved his request to deploy National Guard troops in New Jersey to assist the state’s fight against the novel coronavirus.
Murphy said in the tweet that he had spoken to Trump on the phone Friday afternoon and shared a letter signed by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
The troops will be able to help transport needed supplies, staff testing facilities and any other tasks need in New Jersey. All 50 states, including Washington D.C., as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands, maintain National Guard troops. Murphy will now act as commander-in-chief for New Jersey’s flank.
The grim numbers keep getting worse by the day, with New Jersey now having at least 11,124 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 140 known deaths, as state officials Saturday reported 2,289 new positive tests and 32 new deaths from an outbreak they expect to linger in the state through at least May.
The National Rifle Association is suing to have California gun stores declared essential businesses amid Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus emergency.
The NRA, along with several other plaintiffs including two individuals, filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Newsom is among as the defendants listed in the lawsuit, as is Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who on Thursday issued a statement that gun stores in the county are not an essential business and that they must close to the general public.
Newsom has left the matter of whether firearm retailers are essential to the discretion of county sheriffs.
“Municipalities who target lawful gun stores for closure aren’t promoting safety—by weaponizing their politics to disarm you and your loved ones, these shameless partisans are recklessly promoting a gun-control agenda that suffocates your self-defense rights when you need them most,” said Jason Ouimet of the NRA.
The lawsuit contends that Newsom’s order, and Villanueva’s enforcement of that order, is depriving lawful gun owners of their Second Amendment rights.
“The circumstances posed by the (COVID-19) outbreak are noteworthy, but do not excuse unlawful government infringements upon freedom. In fact, the importance of maintaining the ongoing activities of essential businesses for the safety, health, and welfare of Californians makes (the plaintiffs’) point: the need for enhanced safety during uncertain times is precisely when (the plaintiffs) and their members must be able to exercise their fundamental rights to keep and bear arms,” according to the lawsuit.
During a tour of a Bloom Energy factory in Sunnyvale, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the number of people in California’s intensive care units rose 105% overnight, from 200 on Friday to 410 on Saturday. Hospitalization numbers also rose sharply, by 38.6%, from 746 on Friday to 1034 on Saturday.
Ventilators from federal stockpile not working: Gov. Gavin Newsom said that 150 of the 170 ventilators provided to Los Angeles from the federal stockpile were not working when received. The machines were loaded into cars and trucks and brought to Sunnyvale, where a volunteers are refurbishing them in a former storage facility. Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley company, has converted space and brought in staff to fix ventilators that had been in state storage.
As of March 29, 2020 at 02:04 GMT, there have been 123750 confirmed cases and 2227 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
Hospitals across Ventura County are
planning potential bed expansions and searching for protective
equipment to gear up for a possible surge of COVID-19 patients,
officials said Tuesday.
Admissions are already up
but the influx is coming mostly from other illnesses and not the
coronavirus, said Steve Carroll, administrator of Ventura County
Emergency Medical Services.
If a dramatic rise of
COVID-19 patients emerges, it could mean the region’s eight hospitals
need far more licensed beds than the current capacity of 1,252. The
hospitals also need supplies to protect doctors and nurses and equipment
to help patients breathe.
“I know all of our
hospitals are seeking alternatives and additional supplies of
ventilators,” Carroll told the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on
Tuesday.
Hospitals have stopped elective surgeries,
restricted bedside visits and made plans to set up tents and conference
rooms as patient care areas, Carroll said. Some that have recently
opened new hospitals have pursued state licensing to allow them to add
beds and care in the old buildings.
“It appears
that we have the capacity to increase by a few hundred to several
hundred beds,” he said, noting different calculation models offer
varying assessments of what would be needed if the surge comes. "I’ve
heard that we possibly need 50% more capacity... but I’ve also heard
that we need 100% more."
More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died from coronavirus and at least 39 have tested positive, including the chief of police.
For the 2,200-person department, that has meant officers working doubles and swapping between units to fill patrols. And everyone has their temperature checked before they start work.
An increasing number of police departments around the country are watching their ranks get sick as the number of coronavirus cases explodes across the U.S. The growing tally raises questions about how laws can and should be enforced during the pandemic, and about how departments will hold up as the virus spreads among those whose work puts them at increased risk of infection.
An Air National Guard team deployed in Ventura County on Friday, part of efforts to fill in depleted volunteer ranks as the need for emergency food quickly increases.
Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom had called on National Guard personnel to help as communities dealt with a growing COVID-19 outbreak.
In Oxnard, a team of 20 men and women packed boxes and filled bags at Food Share, the county's only regional food bank. Pallets were stacked high along some rows of the warehouse, a few full of diapers and other paper products – no toilet paper – recently donated by Procter & Gamble.
Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom had called on National Guard personnel to help as communities dealt with a growing COVID-19 outbreak.
In Oxnard, a team of 20 men and women packed boxes and filled bags at Food Share, the county's only regional food bank. Pallets were stacked high along some rows of the warehouse, a few full of diapers and other paper products – no toilet paper – recently donated by Procter & Gamble.
In a Friday night tweet, Gov. Phil Murphy announced that President Donald Trump had approved his request to deploy National Guard troops in New Jersey to assist the state’s fight against the novel coronavirus.
Murphy said in the tweet that he had spoken to Trump on the phone Friday afternoon and shared a letter signed by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
The troops will be able to help transport needed supplies, staff testing facilities and any other tasks need in New Jersey. All 50 states, including Washington D.C., as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands, maintain National Guard troops. Murphy will now act as commander-in-chief for New Jersey’s flank.
The grim numbers keep getting worse by the day, with New Jersey now having at least 11,124 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 140 known deaths, as state officials Saturday reported 2,289 new positive tests and 32 new deaths from an outbreak they expect to linger in the state through at least May.
“We are now into five digits, as we predicted — at the pace we expected,” Gov. Phil Murphy said at the Trenton War Memorial during his daily coronavirus press briefing.
For
the second straight day, New Jersey has recorded its largest one-day
increase in deaths from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
The National Rifle Association is suing to have California gun stores declared essential businesses amid Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus emergency.
The NRA, along with several other plaintiffs including two individuals, filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Newsom is among as the defendants listed in the lawsuit, as is Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who on Thursday issued a statement that gun stores in the county are not an essential business and that they must close to the general public.
Newsom has left the matter of whether firearm retailers are essential to the discretion of county sheriffs.
“Municipalities who target lawful gun stores for closure aren’t promoting safety—by weaponizing their politics to disarm you and your loved ones, these shameless partisans are recklessly promoting a gun-control agenda that suffocates your self-defense rights when you need them most,” said Jason Ouimet of the NRA.
The lawsuit contends that Newsom’s order, and Villanueva’s enforcement of that order, is depriving lawful gun owners of their Second Amendment rights.
“The circumstances posed by the (COVID-19) outbreak are noteworthy, but do not excuse unlawful government infringements upon freedom. In fact, the importance of maintaining the ongoing activities of essential businesses for the safety, health, and welfare of Californians makes (the plaintiffs’) point: the need for enhanced safety during uncertain times is precisely when (the plaintiffs) and their members must be able to exercise their fundamental rights to keep and bear arms,” according to the lawsuit.
During a tour of a Bloom Energy factory in Sunnyvale, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the number of people in California’s intensive care units rose 105% overnight, from 200 on Friday to 410 on Saturday. Hospitalization numbers also rose sharply, by 38.6%, from 746 on Friday to 1034 on Saturday.
Ventilators from federal stockpile not working: Gov. Gavin Newsom said that 150 of the 170 ventilators provided to Los Angeles from the federal stockpile were not working when received. The machines were loaded into cars and trucks and brought to Sunnyvale, where a volunteers are refurbishing them in a former storage facility. Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley company, has converted space and brought in staff to fix ventilators that had been in state storage.
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