The World Health Organization officially classified the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic, and the virus’s worldwide death toll reached 6,500.1 2 President Trump addressed the American people from the Oval Office and announced that all travel from Europe to the United States would be suspended, as well as all “trade and cargo,” and that health insurers had pledged to waive the cost of coronavirus treatment, after which the White House clarified that the travel ban applied only to non-U.S.