The flurry of announcements Wednesday marked the most concentrated campaign yet by the Trump administration to slow the advance of covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. He likened himself to a “wartime president.”President Trump at the White House after speaking with his coronavirus task force on Wednesday. ADAnd the Trump administration is working with “several groups” to potentially overhaul the coronavirus testing regime by determining the feasibility of wide-scale self-swabbing, the president said. Laurie Kuypers, a registered nurse, reaches into a car to take a nasopharyngeal swab from a patient at a drive-through coronavirus testing station for University of Washington Medicine patients in Seattle. State officials also have contacted the Trump administration about the potential for deploying naval ships into Florida’s ports to provide additional medical capacity.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2020 00:33 UTC