A man swims in the normally crowded popular beach Los Corales, in La Guaira, Venezuela, Saturday, March 21, 2020. Most people are staying home after nonessential activities were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
March 21, 2020
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March 21, 2020 9:24 p.m.
As virus spreads, growing need for hospital beds, supplies
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and 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.