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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them — Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks. — On March 1, the day after the first coronavirus death …
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New York Times:
On a Saturday Night in Florida, a Presidential Party Became a Coronavirus Hot Zone — A weekend getaway at Mar-a-Lago put the president in contact with several people who later tested positive for the virus. He said he has no symptoms. — WASHINGTON — The lights were low …
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Vanity Fair
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Business Benches Trish Regan After Outcry Over Coronavirus Comments — The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” told viewers this week that concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.” — The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, whose on-air dismissal …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Republican chairwoman is ill and being tested for coronavirus after visiting Mar-a-Lago: report
Republican chairwoman is ill and being tested for coronavirus after visiting Mar-a-Lago: report
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New York Times:
There's a Giant Hole in Pelosi's Coronavirus Bill — The legislation passed by the House Friday night doesn't actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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Politico:
White House starts temperature checks for people around Trump — The White House on Saturday began checking the temperatures of anyone in close contact with President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence. — White House staff met reporters at the door of the press briefing room with a thermometer …
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Helped To Spread Coronavirus At Mar-a-Lago
Joanna Tan / CNBC:
Trump shared table with another Mar-a-Lago guest who tested positive for coronavirus: White House doctor
Trump shared table with another Mar-a-Lago guest who tested positive for coronavirus: White House doctor
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Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Third person at Mar-a-Lago with Trump tests positive for coronavirus
Third person at Mar-a-Lago with Trump tests positive for coronavirus
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Washington Post:
Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC's 450-page playbook for health crisis — The communication chaos on coronavirus is eroding the most powerful weapon we have: Public trust — Amid an outbreak where vaccines, drug treatments and even sufficient testing don't yet exist …
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Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
America's hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus in just EIGHT DAYS: Obama's Medicare boss issues dire warning as doctors say as many as 500,000 are already infected and 10 MILLION will need care — There are only 790,000 hospital beds 100,000 ICU beds total in all of the hospitals across the country
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Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Live Blog / Coronavirus updates live: France to close all restaurants, clubs, cinemas — Here are the latest updates from around the world. — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he had been tested for coronavirus, with results coming in a few days.
NBC News:
Mismanagement, missed opportunities: How the White House bungled the coronavirus response — Trump's own advisers acknowledged to NBC News that the failure to focus on widespread testing was a major misstep. — Luciana Borio once worked on President Donald Trump's National Security Council …
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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu — Longtime health reporter Charles Ornstein says that comparing the novel coronavirus to the flu is dangerously inaccurate. Not one public health expert he trusts has called that comparison valid.
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The White House, This Here Newsletter and Reason
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Says He's Been Tested and Extends Travel Ban to Britain and Ireland as Outbreak Hits 49 States — New York reported its first death from the virus, an 82-year-old woman in Manhattan. Apple said it would close its stores worldwide, except in China.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar — In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he's lost faith in the court. — James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. He sat on the District Court of the First Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years.
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
How coronavirus could change the Supreme Court
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized — (CNN)New studies in several countries and a large coronavirus outbreak in Massachusetts bring into question reassuring assertions by US officials about the way the novel virus spreads.
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Gregory Barber / Wired:
How Long Does the Coronavirus Last on Surfaces? — Researchers looked at how long the virus can survive on cardboard, plastic, and stainless steel, as well as after being aerosolized and suspended in midair. — By now, let's hope you're safely ensconced at home—going a little stir-crazy …
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has largely kept Britain open, opting for more targeted measures, a strategy that has startled some epidemiologists. — LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain once …
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The Daily Beast
Hollywood Reporter:
U.S. Movie Theaters Close in Parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey Amid Coronavirus Outbreak — Pennsylvania's Montgomery County and New Jersey's Bergen County have shuttered movie theaters after both areas saw COVID-19 cases rise. — The first major theater closures are happening in the U.S …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Western media parroting Chinese Communist Party propaganda — China is engaged in a wide-scale propaganda effort to convince the world that it is not responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, portraying itself with carefully distributed disinformation as being the most proactive, intelligent, and responsible of the world superpowers.
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Scripting News, Redstate and Twitchy
Associated Press:
Spain to follow Italy into lockdown as virus cases soar — BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain decided Saturday to follow Italy in declaring a nationwide lockdown to slow the accelerating spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Spanish media reported. — Spain's decision came as European countries took ever …
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Townhall and The Moderate Voice
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Joe Biden Forgets Year, Meanders Off Frame in Disastrous Livestream — Grandpa Joe Biden wants to run the country and save us from coronavirus when he can't even run a livestream and has no idea what year it is. — On Friday, Grandpa Joe held what his campaign billed as a “virtual town hall” in Illinois.
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Redstate and Louder With Crowder
Jamie Gangel / CNN:
Trump sends signed chart showing stock market gains to supporters after he declared coronavirus a national emergency — (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday sent a note to supporters that included a chart showing the Dow Jones Industrial Average dramatically rising roughly at the time he began …
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The Hill, Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Straight-talking Fauci explains outbreak to a worried nation — WASHINGTON (AP) — If Dr. Anthony Fauci says it, you'd be smart to listen. As the coronavirus has upended daily life across the globe, Fauci has become the trusted voice in separating fact and fiction.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Two senators take extreme measures to show allegiance to Trump — Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, a freshman senator up for reelection in November, launched a highly unusual new TV ad this week. — The content was standard, pro-Trump, anti-Democrat fare.