Cooks prepare pasta at a soup kitchen at the San Cayetano church in Jose Leon Suarez neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The Argentine government said Tuesday that the number of people requesting food assistance has increased following the lockdowns that have left many people unable to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
March 31, 2020
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Help heads to NYC as experts predict over 100,000 US deaths
NEW YORK (AP) — With refrigerated morgue trucks parked on New York City's streets to collect the surging number of dead, public health officials projected Tuesday that the coronavirus could ultimately kill more than 100,000 people across the U.S. Some states that have become hot spots warn they're running low on ventilators, while two cruise ships pleaded for Florida to allow them to dock to carry off the sick and dead.