COVID Timeline
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is asking the FDA to approve new technology that will help sterilize surgical masks.
Even as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S., the CDC’s advice around masking remains unequivocal: Healthy people who do not work in the healthcare sector and are not taking care of an infected person at home do not need to wear masks.
Nearly all U.S. states have declared a state of emergency in response to COVID-19. In the U.S., the Department of Defense approves HHS’s request for 5 million N95 masks.
US health officials said they’ll need an additional 270 million face masks to fight the deadly new coronavirus outbreak — as they asked Congress to greenlight a 2.5-billion-dollar funding plan. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the country has a stockpile of 30 million N95 surgical masks, but that 300 million would be needed to protect health workers in an outbreak.
First COVID-19 death in the United States.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. CDC Confirms Person-to-Person Spread of New Coronavirus in the United States.
China reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in people associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province.