Italy virus cases soar again; NY eyes temporary hospitals

The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds at convention centers and college campuses.Italy, at the heart of western Europe's rampaging outbreak, announced 793 new deaths and 6,557 new cases. More than 60 percent of the latest deaths occurred in the northern region of Lombardy, where hospitals have been reeling, i