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Italy virus cases soar again; NY eyes temporary hospitals

by Associated Press
| March 21, 2020 11:03 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and in Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.

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