WASHINGTON - Vice President Mike Pence said the U.S. government will issue guidance encouraging front-line health care workers to reuse personal protective equipment as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens in the country.Pence, speaking at a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing on July 8, said PPE supplies remain “very strong,” but the Trump administration will be encouraging health care workers “to use some of the best practices” to “preserve and reuse” face masks and other protective equipment.Pence claimed rates of positive coronavirus tests in the hard-hit Sun Belt states of Arizona, Florida and Texas were “flattening” and called for Americans to “keep doing what you’re doing.”RELATED: Health official: Trump rally 'likely' source of.