That same tribe resisted pleas from state and local officials in late March to close entirely as other tribal casinos, restaurants, movie theaters, parks and beaches had. As of last Tuesday, the American Gaming Association website identified 280 tribal casinos that have so far reopened, while 244 remained closed. How tribes have managed the coronavirus pandemic may also reflect their relationship with state and local leaders, Her Many Horses said. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, for example, meets regularly with the tribal leaders to discuss how the casino reopenings are going. Ultimately Lamont sent a team of state agency heads to both casinos to review the operations and recommend some changes.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida officials on Tuesday reported a third person testing positive for a new strain of coronavirus, as states across the country struggled to keep abreast of the spreading threat from a rising number of infections. Meanwhile, Florida health officials expressed frustration that New York officials did not inform them of the infection of a New York patient who had traveled to Miami. Alberto Moscoso, a spokesman for the Florida Health Department, said the older woman had been traveling with her 22-year-old sister, a resident of California. Florida officials urged residents to take common sense precautions, such as washing hands frequently for at least 20 seconds and to avoid contact with people who are sick. The Florida Health Department's website reported that nearly 250 people were under public health monitoring as of Tuesday and that there were 16 pending test results.

Pedestrians wearing face masks walk on the sidewalks in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Iran's health ministry on Sunday raised the nationwide death toll from the new coronavirus to 54 as the number of confirmed infected cases jumped overnight by more than half to 978 people. Of the 385 newly confirmed cases, 170 are in Tehran, where schools and cinemas have remained closed for the second week. Lebanon, which has 10 confirmed cases, ordered all nurseries, schools and universities shut until March 8. Iran has the world’s highest death toll outside of China, where there has been 2,870 deaths among close to 80,000 cases.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists can’t tell yet how deadly the new virus that’s spreading around the globe really is — and deepening the mystery, the fatality rate differs even within China. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEATH RATE? In the central China city of Wuhan, where the new coronavirus first exploded, 2% to 4% of patients have died, according to WHO. But in the rest of hard-hit China, the death rate was strikingly lower, 0.7%. On average, the death rate from seasonal flu is about 0.1%, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Andre Kalil, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, speaks in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Dr. Kalil, Kalil, who will oversee a clinical trial of the coronavirus at the medical center, said the study developed quickly in response to the virus outbreak that is centered in China. – The first clinical trial in the U.S. of a possible coronavirus treatment is underway in Nebraska and is eventually expected to include 400 patients at 50 locations around the world, officials said Tuesday. Half of the patients in the international study will receive the antiviral medicine remdesivir while the other half will receive a placebo. Fourteen people who were evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan are being treated at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.