Members of the Connecticut National Guard move sports equipment from a field house to a football and soccer field before unloading supplies for a "surge" hospital that is being constructed to help out during the current coronavirus crisis, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. The 250-bed field hospital will facilitate overflow in the event that regional hospitals treating COVID-19 patients reach capacity. (AP Photo/Kathy W…
March 31, 2020
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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count. President Donald Trump warned Americans to brace for a “rough two-week period” as public health experts projected 100,000 to 240,000 people could die in the U.S. even if Americans follow social-distancing guidelines.