By Veronica Rocha, Fernando Alfonso III, Joshua Berlinger, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton and Meg Wagner, CNN
From CNN’s Anneken Tappe
US stocks opened in the red this morning, retracing yesterday's sharp gains, as worries about the coronavirus outbreak once again took over.
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Clay Bentley is under quarantine in a hospital in Rome, Georgia, which is just outside Atlanta. He spoke with CNN this morning from his hospital room.
"It's been a long road. But I'm getting through it. I'm improving daily," he told CNN
He said he went to the hospital when he first started feeling sick — but when a flu test came back negative, staffers sent him home. He went back when he kept getting worse, and he was initially diagnosed with coronavirus.
He said he's been given fluids, antibiotics and breathing treatments.
Bentley said he hopes more people will be tested so the community can contain the spread.
"You know, this is what I see, instead of dealing with it, doing the testing and testing the people that need to be tested, everybody's running in fear," he said. "I feel like everybody's running in mass hysteria trying to take care of things instead of finding the people who need to be tested and let's take care of the problem."
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From CNN's Chloe Melas
Studio audiences for several Disney-owned talk shows will be suspended over concern for the growing number of coronavirus cases in New York, the Walt Disney Television announced today.
"LIVE with Kelly and Ryan," "The Tameron Hall Show" and "The View," — three nationally broadcast ABC shows based in New York — will no longer have studio audiences in attendance.
"Given the current developing situation in New York City, we have made the decision to suspend live audiences from attending our news broadcasts and talk shows," a Walt Disney Television spokesperson told CNN.
"The Wendy Williams Show" announced a similar change on Tuesday.
Stay safe out there, you know what Naomi Campbell would do.
From CNN's Madeline Holcombe
Relatives and friends should not visit patients in nursing and assisted living centers as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, the head of the United States' largest association of long-term and post-acute care providers told CNN.
"We are encouraging all people, including family members and loved ones, to not visit nursing homes and assisted living facilities," American Health Care Association President Mark Parkinson said Tuesday.
"Until we get this under control, our new guidance, as of today, is to family members, to loved ones: Don't visit the facilities; instead, come up with an alternate way to communicate," he said, including phone, text, FaceTime or Snapchat.
"The grim reality is that, for the elderly, COVID-19 is almost a perfect killing machine," Parkinson said.
From CNN’s Paula Newton
Ontario has confirmed a case of the novel coronavirus likely from community spread at a mining conference that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended.
A man in his 50s tested positive for the virus after returning from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s conference in Toronto, Public Health Sudbury and Districts in Northern Ontario said in a statement.
The conference ran from March 1 to 4 and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the conference on March 2. The event is one of the largest mining conferences in the world with thousands of attendees from dozens of countries.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, Sudbury’s Medical Officer of Health, said there is no need for attendees to self-isolate at this time.
“Our focus is on breaking the chain of transmission to limit the spread of infection and as a precautionary measure, we are asking those who attended PDAC 2020 to monitor for symptoms for 14 days,” says Dr. Sutcliffe.
From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will ask the state's business leaders to reduce workplace density during the coronavirus outbreak.
Possible tactics include running two shifts of workers and letting workers who can work from home to do so.
He said in a city like New York City, “there’s no such thing as social distancing, you’re always within six feet of a person.”
“We really need to take more aggressive actions. This is not going away on its own," he added. “Like it or not, we’re going to have to make some tough decisions, and we’re going to have to start to act united to reduce the density, more testing more testing more testing that’s the only way to reduce the spread.”
“We don’t want to overreact but we understand we have to take aggressive actions and we’re looking at all those large gatherings today and I will have an announcement either later today or tomorrow.”
Cuomo said the state cases as of this morning are at 193 — but added, “we’re going to get another tranche of numbers in the next couple of hours.”
“We test around-the-clock now so the number constantly adjusts, but it is constantly going up and that shouldn’t give people alarm," he said.
Cuomo said he anticipates the number of cases will keep going up for weeks, and warned that the virus is “much more advanced than we are seeing in any of these numbers.”
From CNN's Lauren Fox
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is preparing to ask President Trump to issue a national emergency declaration for the coronavirus.
Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Gary Peters will join Schumer in writing the letter.
What this could mean: A declaration would allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency to use the more than $40 billion available in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist state and local governments in their efforts to mitigate spread of COVID-19 and protect public health.
FEMA is providing support to state partners like first responders, providing them supplies, like gloves, hand sanitizers and masks, and working closely with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services.