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gas mask for virus, Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. President Trump has directed his quarterly salary be used by the Department of Health and Human Services in the effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the White House said Tuesday. The quarterly salary, $100,000, will be donated to “confront, contain and combat” the disease, press secretary Stephanie Grisham tweeted Tuesday. The president has pledged his quarterly salary away to various government agencies. Last quarter, he donated the $100,000 to fight the opioid crisis and before that, to Homeland Security, Transportation and Veterans Affairs.
gas mask for virus - Last week the White House asked Congress for $2.5 billion in supplemental spending to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. The request included $1.25 billion in new money, with the rest coming from unspent funds. The measure would help the federal government, as well as state and local agencies, potentially prepare to respond to an outbreak and allocate cash for vaccine development, a senior administration official told Fox Business. CDC UPDATING CORONAVIRUS CASES DAILY, NO LONGER REPORTING 'PATIENTS UNDER INVESTIGATION'
gas mask for virus, The Department of Health and Human Services has already tapped into an emergency infectious disease response fund and has been attempting to transfer more than $130 million from other HHS accounts. The funding would reimburse the Pentagon, which has been housing evacuees from China for their 14-day quarantine at several military bases in California. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The U.S. so far has suffered nine fatalities and 118 confirmed cases.
gas mask for virus - Dr. Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, joins Martha MacCallum on 'The Story.' The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday that it would no longer report on the number of persons under investigation (PUI) for suspected coronavirus, nor those that eventually test negative. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, CDC’s director for the national center for immunization and respiratory diseases, also said in a telebriefing on Tuesday that the agency would be updating case counts on its website only once per day, meaning that states that report new cases after the CDC has already updated their website would not be reflected in the chart until the following day. Part of the reason, Messonnier said, is that the situation is rapidly evolving.
gas mask for virus - She urged people to begin checking with their local health departments as many states have begun testing on their own. WASHINGTON STATE REPORTS ADDITIONAL CORONAVIRUS DEATHS BRINGING TOTAL TO 9 Hours after the briefing, during which Messonnier said there had been 6 deaths in the U.S. related to the coronavirus, health officials in Washington state updated their numbers to reflect 9 deaths in the state and 27 positive confirmed COVID-19 cases. As of Tuesday afternoon, the CDC's chart still reflected six deaths.