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Doctors plead for supplies, while nations seek to slow virus

by Associated Press
| March 24, 2020 12:04 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors and nurses pleaded for supplies such as masks and ventilators that are critical in their battle to treat a surging number of coronavirus patients, while governments on Tuesday continued to roll out measures that have put more than one-fifth of the world’s population under some form of lockdown.

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