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diy face mask, CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The viral outbreak began in China and has infected more than 87,000 people globally and caused nearly 3,000 deaths. According to the Associated Press, there have been 72 cases in the U.S. and one fatality. On Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that a new case of the coronavirus appeared in Chicago overnight. A day earlier, officials confirmed the first virus-related fatality in the U.S. occurred in Washington state.

diy face mask - Vice President Mike Pence tells 'Sunday Morning Futures' the U.S. is more prepared than any other nation to deal with the coronavirus. Vice President Pence, speaking to Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures,  warned that we know that there will be many more cases of coronavirus in the United States and that President Trump had ordered the stockpile of masks to increase from 43 million to approximately that amount on a monthly basis. Pence also announced that the Trump administration has expedited the process to produce a coronavirus vaccine, and that clinical trials will begin within an utterly unprecedented six weeks. Although the vaccine likely won't be available this season, Pence said, work was proceeding as quickly as possible under the circumstances.

diy face mask, At the same time, Pence emphasized that the administration's efforts rendered the risk to Americans low -- contrary to recent statements from commentators and others, like billionaire Bill Gates, who ominously declared the coronavirus a  once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about. EXCLUSIVE: HHS SECRETARY SPEAKS ABOUT NEW CORONAVIRUS CASE IN CHICAGO His assessment doesn't agree with our health experts, but I agree with his generosity, Pence, whom Trump appointed to head up the White House's coronavirus task force, remarked flatly.

diy face mask - Pence additionally told Maria Bartiromo that there were heartening signs overseas, and that  there were actually fewer new cases in China than in the balance of the rest of the world. A health worker wearing a protective suit adjusts his goggles as he prepares to transport patients in Daegu, South Korea, Sunday, March 1, 2020. The coronavirus has claimed its first victim in the United States as the number of cases shot up in Iran, Italy and South Korea and the spreading outbreak shook the global economy.(Ryu Young-seok/Yonhap via AP)

diy face mask - Pressed on that claim, given concerns that China has been providing inaccurate numbers, Pence responded,  Well, we had CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] officials that were just in China a few short weeks ago, and they informed we that they were able to look at the raw data, and from their initial look, it did line up with much of the data that we were receiving. We'll continue to ask the hard questions; we'll continue to call on China to be even more transparent than they've been.