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(70,522 posts) Wed Mar 18, 2020, 08:38 AM Mar 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/17/trump-praised-west-virginia-keeping-coronavirus-out-thats-not-how-this-works/

“We have all of this equipment in stock and we’re looking at different sites and a few different locations,” Trump said.
“And we’re not going to need them in West Virginia, where so far, I guess they have none.”

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, after West Virginia announced its first patient Tuesday. At least 100 people infected with the virus have died in the United States, a toll that experts expect to rise quickly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/17/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-2OGLQBFTRZENRCMNP6TWDSFITA