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加利福尼亚发布“留在家中”命令；美国死亡人数达到200
丹·惠特科姆，大卫·谢泼德森
加利福尼亚州路透社/路透社-加利福尼亚州周四发布了一项前所未有的全州“住宿在家”命令，涉及4000万居民，华盛顿州警告美国人无限期返回家园或留在国外，因为该国的冠状病毒死亡人数已达200人。
州长加文•纽瑟姆（Gavin Newsom）的指令立即生效，标志着在COVID-19疫情引发的日益严重的公共卫生危机中，政府进行了最大，最彻底的打击，他预计该疫情将在八周内感染该州一半以上的地区。
两名官员在此事简报中说，随着当局加强措施以防止该病毒传播，华盛顿可能最早在周五宣布限制跨美墨边境的旅行，将过境限制在基本旅行范围内。这将在周三关闭与加拿大的边界时采取类似措施。
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迅速蔓延的呼吸道疾病已经摧毁了美国人的大多数生活模式：关闭学校和企业，促使数以百万计的人在家工作，迫使许多人失业，并大大减少了旅行。
美国国务院告诉公民，如果他们出国旅行，“您的旅行计划可能会受到严重干扰，您可能会被迫无限期地留在美国境外。”
刺激包装
随着经济的低迷，参议院共和党人宣布了一项1万亿美元的经济刺激计划，直接向企业和美国公众提供资金。唐纳德·特朗普总统一直在急切地呼吁该方案。
这将是国会的第三项紧急冠状病毒法案，此前，该计划已实施了超过1050亿美元的计划，包括免费冠状病毒测试，带薪病假和扩大的安全网支出，以及一项用于抵制高度传染性病原体扩散和开发疫苗的83亿美元措施。
股市暴跌和美国死亡人数激增导致特朗普本周大幅改变了对这种疾病的态度，在花了数周的时间淡化了风险之后要求采取紧急行动。
在美国，已经有超过13,000人被诊断出患有COVID-19疾病，并且有200人死亡，到目前为止，华盛顿州，纽约和加利福尼亚州的死亡人数最多。
WORLD NEWSMARCH 19, 2020 / 7:24 AM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
California issues ‘stay home’ order; U.S. death toll hits 200
Dan Whitcomb, David Shepardson
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LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – California issued an unprecedented statewide “stay at home” order on Thursday for its 40 million residents and Washington warned Americans to return home or stay abroad indefinitely, as the number of coronavirus deaths in the country hit 200.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s directive, effective immediately, marks the largest and most sweeping government clampdown yet in the worsening public health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak, which he predicted could infect more than half the state within eight weeks.
As authorities ramped up measures to keep the virus from spreading, Washington could announce restrictions on travel across the U.S.-Mexico border as soon as Friday, limiting crossings to essential travel, two officials briefed on the matter said. That would follow a similar measure on Wednesday closing the border with Canada.
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The fast-spreading respiratory illness has shattered most patterns of American life: shuttering schools and businesses, prompting millions to work from home, forcing many out of jobs and sharply curtailing travel.
The U.S. State Department told citizens that if they travel internationally, “your travel plans may be severely disrupted, and you may be forced to remain outside of the United States for an indefinite timeframe.”
STIMULUS PACKAGE
With the economy swooning, Senate Republicans unveiled a $1 trillion economic stimulus plan to provide funds directly to businesses and the American public. President Donald Trump has been eagerly calling for that package.
It would be Congress’ third emergency coronavirus bill following a $105 billion-plus plan covering free coronavirus testing, paid sick leave and expanded safety-net spending, and an $8.3 billion measure to combat the spread of the highly contagious pathogen and develop vaccines.
The plunging stock market and surging U.S. death toll has caused Trump to sharply change his tone on the disease this week, demanding urgent action after spending weeks downplaying the risks.
Over 13,000 people across the United States have been diagnosed with the illness called COVID-19 and 200 have died, with the largest numbers so far in Washington state, New York and California. tmsnrt.rs/3dkIMIL
FILE PHOTO: California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, California, U.S. October 9, 2019. REUTERS/ Mike Blake
Newsom said his ‘stay at home’ order was essential as modelling showed 56% of California’s 40 million people would contract the virus in the next eight weeks, and require nearly 20,000 more hospital beds than the state could provide.
“We are confident the people of California will abide by it, they will meet this moment,” Newsom, a first-term Democrat told a news briefing from the state capital in Sacramento.
Los Angeles, as the nation’s second-largest city, would likely be “disproportionately impacted” in the coming weeks, he said.
Two Los Angeles Lakers players have the coronavirus, the NBA franchise said on Thursday, after four players from the Brooklyn Nets tested positive for the disease a day earlier.
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The virus has taken the greatest toll in Washington state, which reported eight more deaths on Thursday, bringing the toll there to 74.
Hospitals across the country say they face shortages of medical gear, with doctors in Seattle reduced to making their own face masks out of sheets of plastic.
“We’re days away from running out of the equipment we need,” said Melissa Tizon, Associate Vice President of Providence St. Joseph Health, which runs 51 hospitals across five western states. “We’re expecting more shipments later on but until then we’ve got to improvise.”
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TEST DELAYS
With the United States slow to roll out mass testing for the virus that has infected more than 244,000 people worldwide, officials fear the number of known cases of the respiratory illness that can lead to pneumonia lags far behind reality.
There are no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19, but several options are being tested.
New York City, where many young people last weekend packed local bars and restaurants, has been eerily deserted after nightfall.
“It’s a skater’s dream,” said Dyanna Hernandez, 20, who had joined a dozen friends in Manhattan’s Union Square to enjoy the freedom of what she called a “ghost city” after three days stuck at home. “I can’t really be quarantined.”
The epidemic, which has killed over 10,000 globally so far, has drawn comparisons with traumatic periods such as World War Two, the 2008 financial crisis and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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