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A nurse who treated COVID-19 patients at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System died March 24, reports NBC New York.

The U.S. COVID-19 death toll surpassed 1,000, with 1,046 deaths as of 11 a.m. CDT March 26. Nationwide, 69,246 American cases have been reported. 

Some hospitals are considering do-not-resuscitate orders for all COVID-19 patients, citing the high exposure risk for staff as protective equipment supplies run low, The Washington Post reports.

As COVID-19 spreads quickly across the country, hospitals are racing to respond — working on increasing bed capacity, staff and other key resources and equipment, namely ventilators, which are in short supply.

The new coronavirus does not appear to be mutating quickly, which may mean that when a vaccine is developed, it could offer lasting protection, scientists told The Washington Post.

A mammogram technician at Piedmont Newnan (Ga.) Hospital was found dead in her home March 19 and posthumously tested positive for COVID-19, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Hospitals nationwide are rushing to fill thousands of crisis nursing positions in preparation for a major surge in COVID-19 patients over the next few weeks, reports NBC News.

New York is creating a surge healthcare force to help support care for the huge surge in COVID-19 patients in the state, and 40,000 have signed up to join it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news briefing March 25.

President Donald Trump is pushing more action on the COVID-19 pandemic to the state level. Below are key updates from March 24-25 from the states hardest hit by the coronavirus:

The U.S. COVID-19 death toll jumped more than 300 in one day, from 492 deaths as of 11:30 a.m. CDT, March 24 to 802 as of 10 a.m. CDT, March 25. Nationwide, 55,243 American cases have been reported. 

New York plans to test the use "convalescent serum" — the blood serum of recovered COVID-19 patients — to treat patients infected with the virus, according to NBC News.

About one-fifth of Americans (22 percent) reported that their mental health had gotten worse as the new coronavirus pandemic intensified in the U.S., according to a new poll.

The new coronavirus remained on surfaces in cabins of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which housed one of the largest clusters of COVID-19 patients outside of mainland China , up to 17 days after its evacuation, a new CDC report reveals.

The following hospitals in Delaware received top marks on patients' HCAHPS surveys for nurse communication. 

Working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic may cause high rates of anxiety and depression among clinicians, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

President Donald Trump is pushing more action on the COVID-19 pandemic to the state level. Below are key updates from March 23-24 from the states hardest hit by the coronavirus:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ramped up his pleas for federal assistance in the state’s efforts to triage and treat more than 23,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, a number that he said is now doubling every three days.

The U.S. COVID-19 death toll jumped by more than 100 in one day, from 473 deaths as of 12 p.m. CDT, March 23 to 592 as of 11:30 a.m. CDT, March 24. Nationwide, 46,805 American cases have been reported. 

A man in Arizona is dead and his wife is in critical care after the couple ingested a non-medication form of chloroquine phosphate to stave off COVID-19, according to Phoenix-based Banner Health.