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Pat McCauley gathers groceries and other items left on her porch by her daughter, Cheri Chandler, right, at her home, Friday, March 6, 2020, in Kirkland, Wash. Pat and her husband Bob have been self-quarantined in their home during the past week due to having visited friends at the Life Care Center nursing home — which has become the epicenter of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state — several times in February. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California
March 6, 2020 8:58 p.m.

21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus and 19 of them are crew members, Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday, amid evidence the vessel was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of more than 10 cases during its previous voyage.