An emergency room nurse transports a bucket of donated flowers up a ramp leading to the ER outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, Saturday, March 28, 2020. The hospital has been heavily taxed recently treating an influx of coronavirus patients. Currently New York leads the nation in the number of cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is keeping a running tally. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
March 28, 2020
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NY delays presidential primary; Trump nixes quarantine idea
NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus cases rose in the national epicenter of New York, President Donald Trump surprised governors of the state and neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut by saying Saturday that he might impose a quarantine on their residents before tweeting later in the day that a travel advisory was the way to go.