Positive test results continue to surge, with 25 dead in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.
The governor aimed his message particularly at younger people, noting that 32 percent of the state’s reported cases are people in their 20s and 30s.
Meanwhile, area hospitals worked to stay ahead of the still-rising curve of infections amid continued national shortages of respirator masks and other protective gear. Doctors are re-using high-grade N95 respirator masks while treating multiple patients. The federal Center for Disease Control has sanctioned that practice as long as the masks are removed after each encounter and safely stored.
“I am confident in our state’s ability to be a leader in developing treatments and perhaps even a vaccine for covid-19,” the governor said in a statement. “The challenge is that the best way to stop the virus is to halt the things that drive our economy, so of course you’re not going to see things return to normal until we as consumers are confident that we can go out,” said economist Sonya Ravindranath Waddell, who leads the regional economics group at the Richmond Fed.Last week alone, initial unemployment claims in Virginia topped 46,000 — about double the next highest level on record, in 1989, Mengedoth said.
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