Sick parents with 102° fevers denied coronavirus test, as son begins vaccine trial
As Pennsylvania parents stayed home with Coronavirus symptoms, their son participated in a test that could change the course of a global pandemic. 'I just wanted to help'Washington was the canary in the coal mine of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the first state in which COVID-19 was identified as having landed within the nation’s borders, on Jan. 21. As the rest of the country was still relatively complacent about the new disease, thinking it was something that was confined to China, Washington State was bracing for the worst. When it appeared the pandemic was inevitable, Moderna Inc.
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The world is battling the COVID-19 outbreak that the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, which has claimed more than 3,564 lives and infected more than 182,203 people in the U.S.
(Pictured) A closed tattoo shop is boarded up closed amid concerns of COVID-19 spreading in Dallas, Texas on March 31.
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A person crosses a bridge in front of the Mount Sinai logo at Mt. Sinai Hospital on March 31 in New York.
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A woman jogs along a mostly empty National Mall on March 31 in Washington, D.C.
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A worker checks part of a delivery of 64 hospital beds from Hillrom to The Mount Sinai Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus in Manhattan, New York on March 31.
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Passersby stop to peer in to CenturyLink Field Event Center, which is being turned into a military field hospital for non-coronavirus patients during the coronavirus outbreak in Seattle, Washington on March 30.
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Caution tape and zip ties are used to stop children from playing on swings during the coronavirus outbreak, at a park in Seattle, Washington on March 30
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A healthcare worker sits on a bench near Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City, Mar. 30.
White House Considers $1 Billion Price Tag for Ventilators — and Has Second Thoughts
The White House had been preparing on Wednesday to announce amid an escalating pandemic that a joint venture between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems would begin producing as many as 80,000 desperately needed ventilators when word suddenly came down that the announcement was off. The decision to cancel the announcement, according to government officials, came after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it needed more time to assess whether the estimated cost was prohibitive — more than $1 billion, with several hundred million dollars to be paid upfront to General Motors to retool the car parts plant in Kokomo, Ind., where the ventilators would be made with Ventec’s technology.
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U.S. President Donald Trump examines a coronavirus testing kit as he prepares to speak during the daily coronavirus response briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Mar. 30.
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A nurse takes part in a candlelight vigil outside UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center to "show solidarity and support for nurses across the nation and to demand stronger leadership from the federal government in protecting the health and safety of all healthcare workers and their patients," according to event organizers, in Los Angeles, California, Mar. 30.
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The One World Trade Center is illuminated in red, white and blue in recognition of the ongoing nationwide effort to combat coronavirus during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, as it is seen from Exchange Place, New Jersey, March 30, 2020.
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A portrait of President George Washington hangs as people give blood at a donation center inside the White House East Room replica at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum to help with a shortage of blood donations due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Yorba Linda, California, Mar. 30.
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People wait in line to be tested for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while wearing protective gear, outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City, Mar. 30.
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A man walks with a face mask past a mural amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Francisco, California, Mar. 30.
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People arrive at a temporary homeless shelter with painted social-distancing boxes in a parking lot at Cashman Center on Mar. 30, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada was closed last week after a homeless man who used their services tested positive for the coronavirus, leaving about 500 people with no overnight shelter. The city of Las Vegas, Clark County and local homeless providers plan to operate the shelter through April 3rd when it is anticipated that the Catholic Charities facility will be back open. The city is also reserving the building spaces at Cashman Center in case of an overflow of hospital patients.
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A container ship is seen as hundreds of shipping containers are seen stacked at a pier at the Port of New York and New Jersey in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mar. 30.
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A sign about the coronavirus is displayed over Route 50 in Davidsonville, Maryland on March 30.
Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.
by Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tried to plug a crucial hole in its preparations for a global pandemic, signing a $13.8 million contract with a Pennsylvania manufacturer to create a low-cost, portable, easy-to-use ventilator that could be stockpiled for emergencies.
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Beds are set out in rows at the Federal Medical Station for hospital surge capacity set up at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on March 30.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to members of the press after the arrival of the USNS Comfort hospital to Pier 90 on the Hudson RIver on March 30 in New York City.
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A Pittsburgh Public Works employee removes a basketball rim from a court on the Northside of Pittsburgh on March 30. The rims were removed because people were not following social distancing rules while using the courts over the weekend.
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DeliverLean employee Victoria Rua prepares meals to be distributed to senior citizens as part of an emergency meal program in Miami-Dade County during the coronavirus pandemic on March 30 in Hollywood, Florida.
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Amazon workers at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse strike in demand that the facility be shut down and cleaned after one staffer tested positive for the coronavirus on March 30.
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A huge thank you sign placed in front of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York City on March 30 to thank all hospital workers helping to fight coronavirus.
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Healthcare professionals prepare to screen people for the coronavirus at a testing site erected by the Maryland National Guard in a parking lot at FedEx Field on March 30 in Landover, Maryland.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the US Army Corps of Engineers and the state are putting up a 250-bed field hospital at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas during a press conference in Austin, Texas Sunday, March 29, 2020. The space can expand to nearly 1,400 beds. Joining him was former State Representative Dr. John Zerwas (left) and Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner John Hellerstedt, MD. (
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A grocery store worker is protected by a shield at a Vons store on March 29 in Solana Beach, California.
Pentagon says it still hasn't sent ventilators because it hasn't been told where to send them
Despite having committed to transferring 2,000 ventilators in military stocks to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services to fight the coronavirus outbreak, the Pentagon has not shipped any of them because the agencies have not asked for them or provided a shipping location, the Pentagon's top logistics official said Tuesday. In order to ship the badly needed equipment, the Defense Department has to be given a location to send them by civilian authorities who have to decide where the items are most needed."There was discussion with HHS on where to send them.
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A new makeshift morgue is set outside Lenox Health Medical Pavilion on March 29 in New York City.
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An empty Lexington Avenue is seen in New York City.
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People walk around an almost empty Grand Central Terminal on March 29.
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People walk on the beach next to State Route 1 amid an outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), along the Pacific coastline outside of Big Sur, on March 29 in California.
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Empty shelving of toilet paper and paper towels is shown at a Target store on March 29 in Encinitas, California.
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A mural that reads "state of emergency" with a dollar-sign is pictured in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood as efforts continue to help slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on March 29 in Seattle, Washington.
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A woman is seen during check-in at Miami International Airport on March 29 in Miami.
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Javits Convention Center that has been converted to hospital due to Covid-19 pandemic is seen in New York City on March 29.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, on March 29, in Washington.
A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work
WASHINGTON — President Trump has repeatedly assured Americans that the federal government is holding 10,000 ventilators in reserve to ship to the hardest-hit hospitals around the nation as they struggle to keep the most critically ill patients alive. But what federal officials have neglected to mention is that an additional 2,109 lifesaving devices are unavailable after the contract to maintain the government’s stockpile lapsed late last summer, and a contracting dispute meant that a new firm did not begin its work until late January. By then, the coronavirus crisis was already underway.
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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, on March 29.
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Engineers at Rice University Thomas Herring, left, Danny Blacker, center, and Fernando Cruz, right, work to create a low cost ventilator that they designed and which they hope can be used to treat coronavirus disease patients in Houston, on March 29.
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A Samaritan's Purse crew works on building a 68-bed emergency field hospital specially equipped with a respiratory unit in New York's Central Park across from The Mount Sinai Hospital, on March 29.
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People exercise at the closed Carmel High School field amid an outbreak of the coronavirus, in California, on March 29.
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Signs in support of healthcare workers are posted outside of Mercy Hospital on March 29, in Miami.
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Surrounded by his family, Trent Allen, top, pastor at Calvary Chapel Jackson, speaks into a laptop as he conducts a live stream church service from his living room on March 29, in Brandon, Miss.
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Rev. Peter Gower waves to worshipers as they leave the parking lot where they listened over their radios to Mass he held from the front door of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church on March 29 in Johnston, R.I.
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People inside their cars watch a movie at a drive-in theater while keeping social distancing on March 28, in Fort Lauderdale.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio helps load some of the 250,000 face masks donated to city health workers by The United Nations to help with the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak at the United Nations Headquarters on March 28 in New York City.
Coronavirus in the US: How all 50 states are responding – and why there is no federal stay-at-home order
At least 38 states have stay-at-home orders in effect, covering millions of Americans. Pressure is growing for the holdouts to follow suit.An aerial view of Bronte Beach with the words "Stay Home" written into the sand by local lifeguards on April 2 in Sydney, Australia.
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A sign reminding people to wash their hands is seen at the bathrooms of a rest area of the Rhode Island Welcome Center, where Rhode Island State Troopers and National Guard Officers installed a checkpoint, amid restrictions on travel due to (COVID-19) outbreak, in Richmond, Rhode Island, March 28.
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A nurse demonstrates outside the emergency entrance at Jacobi Medical Center on March 28 in New York, demanding more personal protective equipment for medical staff.
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Medical personnel wait to screen people arriving at the testing site in Boston, on March 28. The drive-thru testing site is only open to qualified first responders who meet the state criteria for testing.
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President Donald Trump waves as the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort pulls away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk, on March 28. The ship is departing for New York to assist hospitals to fight the pandemic.
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Hospitals can split a single ventilator between two patients infected with the coronavirus, the Trump administration said Tuesday, but cautioned that the practice should only be done if there are no other options.
A shortage of ventilators, machines that allow seriously ill patients to breathe and stay alive, is one of the top concerns of the coronavirus crisis. Hospitals across the country could soon be facing situations where they need to prioritize treatment with limited resources.
Coronavirus deaths are rising at Virginia, New Jersey nursing homes: At least 43 residents have died since mid-March
A pair of nursing homes, one in Virginia and another in New Jersey, are in crisis mode amid escalating coronavirus death tolls.The deaths at Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Henrico County near Richmond, about 115 miles south of Washington, D.C., have more than doubled in the past five days. Residents started contracting the virus in the middle of March. The center reported its 33rd death Wednesday.
New federal guidelines from the Surgeon General said the strategy of ventilator splitting "should only be considered as an absolute last resort" since the reliability and safety of it is not known.
© Getty Images Trump administration tells hospitals ventilators can be shared among coronavirus patients However, the guidelines noted that many institutions are evaluating the practice, and protocols are being developed and tested, and in some places, preliminarily implemented as hospitals become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
In an open letter to health workers, Surgeon General Jerome Adams and assistant secretary for health Adm. Brett Giroir gave technical guidance to hospitals that may be exploring ventilator splitting.
They cautioned that using one ventilator for two patients is technically possible, but it has never been tried on humans. The practice "should only be considered if a hospital cannot provide clinically proven, reliable, and safe methods to manage acute respiratory failure."
At least one hospital in New York has reportedly begun splitting ventilators between patients, in preparation for when they have no choice.
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The letter from Trump administration health officials is a tacit acknowledgement that states and hospitals will not have enough ventilators to care for the number of COVID-19 patients they expect, and runs counter to the public messaging from administration officials.
Governors have been pleading with the administration for more supplies. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has said his state needs 30,000 additional ventilators by the time the peak of the crisis hits.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) on Tuesday said he anticipates running out of ventilators by April 4. He said the state needs at least 14,000 ventilators but has secured fewer than 300.
But administration officials have been downplaying the possibility of ventilator shortages. President Trump last week questioned whether Cuomo really needed 30,000 ventilators.
Deborah Birx, the top health official leading the White House's coronavirus response, also pushed back on the possibility of shortages.
"To say that to the American people, to make the implication that when they need a hospital bed, it's not going to be there, or when they need that ventilator, it's not going to be there - we don't have evidence of that right now," Birx said last week.
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© Getty Images Trump administration tells hospitals ventilators can be shared among coronavirus patients 
As Pennsylvania parents stayed home with Coronavirus symptoms, their son participated in a test that could change the course of a global pandemic. 'I just wanted to help'Washington was the canary in the coal mine of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the first state in which COVID-19 was identified as having landed within the nation’s borders, on Jan. 21. As the rest of the country was still relatively complacent about the new disease, thinking it was something that was confined to China, Washington State was bracing for the worst. When it appeared the pandemic was inevitable, Moderna Inc. 
The White House had been preparing on Wednesday to announce amid an escalating pandemic that a joint venture between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems would begin producing as many as 80,000 desperately needed ventilators when word suddenly came down that the announcement was off. The decision to cancel the announcement, according to government officials, came after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it needed more time to assess whether the estimated cost was prohibitive — more than $1 billion, with several hundred million dollars to be paid upfront to General Motors to retool the car parts plant in Kokomo, Ind., where the ventilators would be made with Ventec’s technology. 
by Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tried to plug a crucial hole in its preparations for a global pandemic, signing a $13.8 million contract with a Pennsylvania manufacturer to create a low-cost, portable, easy-to-use ventilator that could be stockpiled for emergencies. 
Despite having committed to transferring 2,000 ventilators in military stocks to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services to fight the coronavirus outbreak, the Pentagon has not shipped any of them because the agencies have not asked for them or provided a shipping location, the Pentagon's top logistics official said Tuesday. In order to ship the badly needed equipment, the Defense Department has to be given a location to send them by civilian authorities who have to decide where the items are most needed."There was discussion with HHS on where to send them. 
WASHINGTON — President Trump has repeatedly assured Americans that the federal government is holding 10,000 ventilators in reserve to ship to the hardest-hit hospitals around the nation as they struggle to keep the most critically ill patients alive. But what federal officials have neglected to mention is that an additional 2,109 lifesaving devices are unavailable after the contract to maintain the government’s stockpile lapsed late last summer, and a contracting dispute meant that a new firm did not begin its work until late January. By then, the coronavirus crisis was already underway. 
At least 38 states have stay-at-home orders in effect, covering millions of Americans. Pressure is growing for the holdouts to follow suit.An aerial view of Bronte Beach with the words "Stay Home" written into the sand by local lifeguards on April 2 in Sydney, Australia. 
A pair of nursing homes, one in Virginia and another in New Jersey, are in crisis mode amid escalating coronavirus death tolls.The deaths at Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Henrico County near Richmond, about 115 miles south of Washington, D.C., have more than doubled in the past five days. Residents started contracting the virus in the middle of March. The center reported its 33rd death Wednesday. 
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