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The first cases relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C., were reported on March 7, 2020. [1] The city has enacted a variety of public health measures in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus, including limiting business activities, suspending non-essential work, and closing down schools.
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The next day, March 19, Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine during his daily briefing as potential treatments by prescription for COVID-19. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] For the next several weeks Trump continued to promote the drug as a potential "game changer" in treatment of the virus. [ 109 ]
After days of stalemate, Congress passed a stopgap funding bill Saturday to keep the government open through mid-November, narrowly avoiding a shutdown which could have had devastating effects.
On May 1, thousands of anti-lockdown protesters displaying the Confederate Flag, a sign written in German that read "work will set you free", Nazi symbols [31] and signs with slogans like "Give me liberty or give me COVID-19" gathered for a Re-open Illinois rally in Springfield organized by American Revolution 2.0.
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The pandemic affected the city of Columbus, Ohio , as Ohio's stay-at-home order shuttered all nonessential businesses, and caused event cancellations into 2021.
Here's what to know about whether government offices will be open or closed on Jan. 9. ... to a federal law requiring the popular short-form video app to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ...
Some states have said they would use their own funds to keep open certain national parks, like the Grand Canyon. ... During the last government shutdown in 2018-19, an estimated 420,000 federal ...