Three major American states are locking down their residents in the face of a rapidly advancing virus storm that is already severely straining health systems in parts of Europe.
New York and Illinois announced that they would largely restrict residents to their homes starting this weekend, after America's largest state, California, did so Friday.
The three states have a combined population of more than 70 million people. With American hospitals already under pressure, officials are desperate to prevent — or at least limit — a repeat of what has happened in China and Europe, where the outbreak overwhelmed medical services in the central Chinese city of Wuhan earlier this year and now is pushing them to the limit in Italy and Spain.
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