Advisory Board March 20, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday ordered the first statewide lockdown in the country in hopes of stemming the spread of the new coronavirus, as governors throughout the United States warned that their states’ health systems are quickly nearing capacity.
The governors’ warnings came as Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion economic stimulus proposal that calls for sending $1,200 to every American.
US sees spike of confirmed COVID-19 cases
The United States saw its first COVID-19 case in late January. Since then, the country’s number of reported cases of COVID-19 have been on the rise, and have particularly surged over the past two weeks as more diagnostic tests for the disease became available.
As of Friday morning, state and...