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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn speaks on March 19 at a White House news conference on the coronavirus outbreak. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Holland America's cruise ship Zaandam navigates through the Panama Canal on Sunday. Passengers and crew, some of whom may have COVID-19, have been stranded on the ship while looking for a country to accept them. Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in February. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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Justice Department Looking Into Senator's Stock Sell-Off

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at a drive-through coronavirus testing site in front of Hard Rock Stadium on Monday. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption

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Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, discussed one of the models used to estimate potential deaths from coronavirus in U.S. during a briefing Tuesday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady speaks in January. Arwady says the city is "one of the most prepared" for the crisis but would still not be able to handle the drastic number of predicted hospitalizations. Derek Henkle/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A ventilator stands at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2020. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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The Race To Make Ventilators

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Migrant workers and their family members line up outside a New Delhi bus terminal hoping to board a bus for their villages. Millions have lost their ability to earn an income because of the government-imposed lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Bhuvan Bagga/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers On A Long And Risky Trip Home

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French secretary of state for equality between men and women, Marlène Schiappa, in Paris in 2017. Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, seen here in Ashgabat in October 2019, earlier offered remedies to combat the virus from a book on medicinal plants that he authored. Alexei Druzhinin/AP hide caption

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Russian regional officials via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 30, 2020. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption

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Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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