With the New York area still deep in crisis, fear mounted over the spread of the scourge into the nation’s heartland. Twenty-four residents of an Indiana nursing home hit by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have died while a nursing home in Iowa saw 14 deaths. The death rate — the number of dead relative to the population — is still far higher in Italy than in the US, which has more than five times as many people. Andrew Cuomo said the daily number of deaths was stabilizing, “but stabilizing at a horrific rate.”“What do we do now? But Cuomo said the decision is up to him, and no such determination has been made.

Source: Manila Times April 12, 2020 21:22 UTC