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This GoPro image provided Saturday March 28, 2020 by the French Army shows doctors taking care of evacuated patients infected with the Covid-19 disease, aboard a military plane from Mulhouse, eastern France to Bordeaux, southwestern France, Friday March 27, 2020. France is evacuating its citizens infected with the coronavirus in Eastern France. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Dicod via AP)

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'Off the charts': Virus hot spots grow in middle America
March 28, 2020 9:35 p.m.

'Off the charts': Virus hot spots grow in middle America

DETROIT (AP) — The coronavirus continued its unrelenting spread across the United States with fatalities doubling in two days and authorities saying Saturday that an infant who tested positive had died. It pummeled big cities like New York, Detroit, New Orleans and Chicago, and made its way, too, into rural America as hotspots erupted in small Midwestern towns and Rocky Mountain ski havens.