Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she will be signing an order to mandate masks in her city to try to slow down the number of coronavirus infections
From CNN's Lauren Mascarenhas
They found that most of the patients did not have classic coronavirus symptoms, in contrast to what is seen in adults and some pediatric reports from China. Of the four patients who required mechanical ventilation, only one did not have an underlying health condition – an otherwise healthy child who suffered a cardiac arrest. Three of the patients on ventilators qualified for compassionate use of the antiviral drug remdesivir and were eventually taken off the ventilators.
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