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|Articles|April 15, 2020
Contagion Live News Network: Coronavirus Updates for April 15, 2020
Author(s)Michaela Fleming
Stay up to date on the latest coronavirus updates from April 15th.
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Welcome to the Contagion Live News Network, I’m Michaela Fleming and this is your coronavirus update for Wednesday April 15, 2020.
There are now more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide. Six hundred thousand of those cases are in the United States.
According to Johns Hopkin, there have been more than 3.1 million tests performed in the United States. The largest number of tests have been conducted in New York, with nearly 500,000 tests performed.
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Today’s new COVID-19 articles also zero in on medication shortages that are occurring across the United States and a detailed review of where supplies from the
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For the Contagion Live News Network, I’m Michaela Fleming, thanks for tuning in.
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