A bipartisan deal on a ballooning stimulus package appeared to hit a snag Sunday, Rand Paul became the first senator to test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, and New York's mayor warned that the crisis "is going to get a lot worse" as the nation lurched through another day under the virus' siege.
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It's a scenario few health-care leaders want to contemplate much less discuss: What if the ranks of desperately ill patients overwhelm the nation's ability to care for them?
A bipartisan deal appeared imminent Sunday on a ballooning stimulus package aimed at pumping life into a national economy staggered by coronavirus-driven shutdowns and quarantines.
In July 1949, with a polio epidemic under way, Springfield officials ordered children under 16 years old into quarantine - confined, with few exceptions, to their own backyards.
