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Coronavirus: U.S. Death Toll Now At 14; New Cases In Maryland, Colorado, Pennsylvania

The CDC says that six U.S. states — Alabama, Maine, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming — currently have no labs with the verified ability to run COVID-19 diagnostic tests.
A medic drives an ambulance at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Wash., which has been linked to most of the deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus disease COVID-19 so far.

Updated at 11:15 a.m. ET

At least 14 people in the U.S. have died from the coronavirus disease COVID-19, after a Seattle-area hospital confirmed two additional deaths Thursday night. There are now confirmed cases of the coronavirus in 22 states, after the pathogen was found in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Colorado.

The two deaths occurred at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland, Wash.,

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