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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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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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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
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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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Helped To Spread Coronavirus At Mar-a-Lago
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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New York Times:
Trump Says He's Been Tested for Coronavirus and Awaits Results
Trump Says He's Been Tested for Coronavirus and Awaits Results
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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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Washington Post:
Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for action: Inside the Trump administration's troubled coronavirus response — The economy was grinding to a halt. Stocks were in free fall. Schools were closing. Public events were being canceled. New cases of the novel coronavirus were popping up across the country.
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.
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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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
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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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 …
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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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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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 …
Newt Gingrich / Newsweek:
I am in Italy amid the coronavirus crisis. America must act now—and act big — The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses two threats: public health and economic. — I am living in Italy, where my wife, Callista, is the ambassador to the Holy See. — I have watched first-hand …
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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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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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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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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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.
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.