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Coronavirus Facts and Information thread:

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NYC Police Officers Break Up Indoor Wedding with Nearly 300 Guests in Violation of Social Distancing Rules

A wedding with nearly 300 guests in New York was broken up by sheriff's deputies over the weekend.

The illegal gathering was shut down around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night, the New York City Sheriff's Office said on Twitter. A total of 284 people were in attendance at the event — a number well over the city's social distancing guidelines that limit gatherings to 50 people — which took place at the Royal Elite Palace in Woodside, Queens.

The Royal Elite Palace did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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The "Royal Elite Palace."

The wedding hall's manager and owner were both charged with multiple offenses for violating the rules in place because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), NBC News reported.

Several other large gatherings were shut down over the weekend by the sheriff's office, including two bars that were operating in Queens with at least 100 people inside.

City officials have been warning of another possible city-wide shut down if growing clusters of COVID-19 cases are not able to be brought under control.
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Their infection rate has come down, but they're noticing clusters and trying to contain them.

While New York City's overall infection rate is currently low at 1.1 percent, according to NBC New York, the infection and hospitalization rates have been rising in several neighborhoods.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said last week that if the city-wide infection rate reaches 2 percent, then some re-openings will have to be reconsidered, and schools would shut down if the infection rate reaches 3 percent, NBC New York reported.

Department of Health & Mental Hygiene Dr. Dave Chokshi said at a Friday press briefing that COVID-19 clusters in Brooklyn and Queens could lead to broader, city-wide transmission, NBC New York reported.
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Hospitals feel squeeze as coronavirus spikes in Midwest

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The coronavirus tightened its grip on the American heartland, with infections surging in the Midwest, some hospitals in Wisconsin and North Dakota running low on space and the NFL postponing a game over an outbreak that’s hit the Tennessee Titans football team.

Midwestern states are seeing some of the nation’s highest per capita rates of infection, and while federal health officials again urged some governors in the region to require masks statewide, many Republicans have resisted.

Like other states, health officials in Wisconsin had warned since the pandemic began that COVID-19 patients could overwhelm hospitals. That’s now happening for some facilities as experts fear a second wave of infections in the U.S.
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Looks like a spike in the Midwest.
 
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If you're keeping track, this image was on the front page of the NY Times this morning.

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