🔐 ~ America shuts down as Congress is warned 150MILLION will be infected with coronavirus: Highways and airports are deserted, DC is a ghost town and millions of people mob grocery stores to get supplies ~ |

Source (Daily Mail)

• Congress' attending physician Dr. Brian Monahan has predicted that between 70 to 150 million people in the United States could eventually be infected with the novel coronavirus
• The figures were highlighted by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Thursday
• It would see 46 percent of the U.S. population infected with the virus at the upper end of the projection
• At the low end of the projection this would mean about 700,000 deaths with the virus' current mortality rate
• 'We really need to be careful with those kinds of predictions,' said Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• As of Thursday, there are more than 1,700 cases and 41 deaths in the United States
• A top health official estimates Ohio alone has 100,000 undiagnosed cases
• The dramatically increasing outbreak has caused a state of emergency to be called in New York City where shoppers were scrambling for supplies on Thursday evening
• Highways and streets in the normally frantic city lay quiet at rush hour
• Washington D.C. is a ghost town as all public tours are suspended until the end of March
• Airports remain silent as Americans await the start of a ban on travel from Europe at Friday midnight
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