States to get test kits as White House amps up virus effort

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials scrambled Friday to get coronavirus testing up and running in every state, as the Trump administration signaled it may also invoke a 70-year-old defense law to guarantee the availability of protective gear should the virus spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said two more Americans tested positive for the virus out of the group of quarantined passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, and Santa Clara County in California reported another case, bringing the national total to 63. Health officials confirmed the Santa Clara case as the second in the United States believed to have been transmitted to a person who didn't travel internationally or come in clo