'They're not going home to sleep. A lot of them have slept in their cars because they don't want to infect their families,' Anthony Almojera, paramedic and vice president of the FDNY EMS officers union, said of first responders.
An infant in Chicago who tested positive for the coronavirus has died, Illinois state health officials said Saturday."There has never before been a death associated with COVID-19 in an infant," said Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike.Illinois currently has 3,491 coronavirus cases, with 47 deaths. More than 85 percent of the deaths are among people age 60 and over.
But Powell said that in just the first three months of 2020, total demand has already hit 136 million — more than 20 times higher than the typical rate, calculated on a monthly basis. Mask manufacturers are attempting to meet the need, but those efforts are unlikely to match the pace of the coronavirus outbreak. The largest N95 mask manufacturer, 3M, has ramped up domestic production to 35 million a month, but that won’t even cover the demand in March. And there's every reason to believe that need will grow in the weeks ahead.
“We’re moving in the right direction,” he said, but he says the demand “if anything, is artificially low.”
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