NY delays presidential primary; Trump eyes a quarantine

NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus cases kept rising in the national epicenter of New York, President Donald Trump said Saturday he is considering some type of an enforceable quarantine to keep people from leaving the state and parts of neighboring New Jersey and Connecticut. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he wasn't sure what the president meant. Meanwhile, Cuomo postponed New York's presidential primary from April to June, and nurses made anguished pleas for more protective equipment and rebuffed officials' claims that supplies are adequate. With New York cases expected to mushroom toward a mid-to-late-April peak, Cuomo took a manual-pump air mask in hand to show what might lie in store if needed ventilators don't arrive.

Here are the latest coronavirus developments in New York:

A TRI-STATE QUARANTINE?

Trump told reporters at the White House he was weighing the idea of a quarantine to prevent people in New York and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut from traveling for “short period of time, if we do it at all."

All 50 U.S. states have reported some cases of the virus that causes COVID-19, but New York has the most, with over 52,000 positive tests for the illness and more than 700 deaths.

The federal government has the power to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases among states, but it's not clear whether that means Trump can order people not to leave their states.

Trump, a Republican, said he had spoken with Cuomo, but the Democratic governor said there had been on talk of a quarantine when the two spoke Saturday morning.

“I don’t even know what that means, I don’t know how that could be legally enforceable, and from a medical point of view, I don’t know what you would be accomplishing," said Cuomo said at a news conference....