President Trump signed the $2 trillion economic stimulus package on Friday after it cleared both the House and Senate this week. He also directed General Motors to speed up ventilator production under the Defense Production Act.

Engineers in Italy are converting snorkeling masks into breathing aids for coronavirus patients. The invention was announced earlier this week by 3D printing company Isinnova.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the health specialist on the coronavirus task force, has said the virus's mortality rate is closer to that of a bad case of the flu. In a Thursday report published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci conceded COVID-19's death rate was twice that of the common flu, making it roughly 0.28 percent.

President Trump and New York's governor have agreed that the hard-hit state needs extra help, but the amount of assistance is still up for debate. The president took to Twitter on Friday, where he announced "thousands of federal government-delivered ventilators" were found in New York storage.

Following the passage of the coronavirus stimulus package, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) blasted the house speaker and minority leader for allegedly staging a "cover up." Massie slammed both Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy for not allowing him to speak on the floor.

A shrimp vendor at a market in Wuhan, China has been identified as the possible patient zero of COVID-19. Friday reports revealed a 57-year-old woman was the first person on record to be diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Hong Kong has implemented strict measures on group gatherings to stop to the spread of the coronavirus. On Friday, city leader Carrie Lam banned public gatherings of more than four people.

President Trump has ordered General Motors (GM) to make ventilators under the Defense Production Act. He signed a presidential memorandum on Friday, which directed the company to make however many ventilators HHS Secretary Alex Azar deemed necessary.