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5:30 PM ET, March 18, 2020

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Washington Post:
White House coronavirus plan aims to send $2,000 to many Americans, includes $300 billion for small businesses  —  Talks remain fluid, but discussions with Congress are intensifying as virus fallout worsens  —  White House officials are working with congressional Republicans …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
This Is the Only Way to End the Coronavirus Financial Panic  —  Bailouts of companies or industries just cause division.  The answer: a government “bridge loan” to everyone.  —  The Covid-19 crisis will take time to be solved by science.  The economic crisis can be solved right now.
Tim Herrera / New York Times:
My Coronavirus Test: 5 Days, a Dozen Calls, Hours of Confusion
Discussion: VICE
Craig Gilbert / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Sen. Ron Johnson is telling people to keep coronavirus in perspective  —  Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin raised some eyebrows last week when he was quoted in The New York Times suggesting the media was devoting too little attention to the high rate of survival among people with coronavirus.
USA Today:
Trump invokes wartime authority of Defense Production Act to address coronavirus crisis - live updates  —  Courtney Subramanian John Fritze David JacksonUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to invoke a provision that would allow him to prohibit certain people …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Bernie Sanders suspends his 2020 campaign Facebook ads  —  Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign currently has no active Facebook ads, the morning after another disappointing finish in a series of primary contests.  —  Why it matters: A pause in digital advertising spend on Facebook …
Discussion: Deadline, New York Post, IJR and Twitchy
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Focus on the Incompetence  —  The “Chinese Virus” is a test.  Don't fail the test.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  Tests for COVID-19 are not yet widely available in this country, but a test for gullibility is now available on Twitter in the form of Donald Trump's feed.
Discussion: Politico, HuffPost, IJR and The Guardian
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
China's coronavirus propaganda campaign is putting lives at risk  —  The Chinese authorities are engaged in a full-scale effort to rewrite the history of the coronavirus epidemic.  Some in the West might be tempted to dismiss the significance of Beijing's propaganda efforts.  But they shouldn't.
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Michael Auslin / Real Clear Politics:
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
US Air Force Flew Half a Million Coronavirus Test Swabs From Italy to Tennessee  —  Similar missions to distribute COVID-19 test kits are expected in coming days.  —  UPDATE 2:30 PM: This story has been updated to include comments from Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman and Air Force Brig …
Discussion: Politico
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Thousands flock to Florida beaches, ignoring coronavirus concerns  —  Thousands of people in Florida are seemingly ignoring social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak.  Despite warnings from public health experts, photos and videos show beaches across the state packed with spring breakers.
George Conway / Washington Post:
There is no new Trump  —  If you think you've been hearing a different President Trump this week — more accepting of the reality of the coronavirus pandemic — don't be fooled.  The new Trump is the same as the old Trump.  He can't help it.  He's incapable of taking responsibility …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump invokes Defense Production Act as coronavirus response  —  President Trump announced Wednesday that he will invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA), which would allow the administration to force American industry to manufacture medical supplies that are in short supply in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: Breitbart and Redstate
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:   Trump invokes Defense Production Act to expand production of hospital masks and more
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Dow erases all gains made since Trump took office  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday erased all the gains it had made since President Trump took office amid the ongoing economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic.  —  The morning of Trump's inauguration, the stock index opened at 19,795 and closed at 19,827.
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Robert Brand / Bloomberg:
U.S. Stocks Plunge; Global Debt and Oil Tumble: Markets Wrap
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Yun Li / CNBC:
‘Hell is coming’ — Bill Ackman has dire warning for Trump, CEOs if drastic measures aren't taken now  —  Bill Ackman's plea to Trump to save US from the coronavirus's economic destruction  —  Bill Ackman urged President Donald Trump to shut down the country for 30 days to contain …
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Leaked McDonalds recording shows the company is fighting against parts of Trump's coronavirus bill that would give workers paid sick leave  — McDonald's is lobbying the Trump administration to make changes to a bill that would require some employers to provide paid sick leave amid the coronavirus outbreak …
Discussion: Raw Story
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump ban on fetal tissue research blocks coronavirus treatment effort  —  A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory has been thwarted in his efforts to conduct experiments on possible treatments for the new coronavirus because of the Trump administration's restrictions on research with human fetal tissue.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
There Aren't Enough Ventilators to Cope With the Coronavirus  —  The United States and other countries face a critical shortage of the lifesaving machines — and no easy way to lift production.  —  As the United States braces for an onslaught of coronavirus cases, hospitals and governments …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
How To Get More Ventilators And What To Do If We Can't
Discussion: Slate, Daily Mail and Financial Times
Kevin G. Hall / Miami Herald:
Ghislaine Maxwell stakes claim to a piece of Jeffrey Epstein's fortune  —  She hasn't appeared publicly in months and her former neighbors just off posh Park Avenue say they've heard nothing.  Yet from some mystery location, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime partner and alleged enabler …
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Coronavirus poses dreadful choice for global leaders: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives  —  The coronavirus pandemic has confronted governments around the globe with the ultimate bad choice: Wreck your economy or lose millions of lives.  —  While some initially hesitated …
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New York Times:
The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay, So What Happens Next?
Discussion: Breitbart and Wired
Associated Press:
California preparing for worst case scenarios  —  In readying the National Guard for action, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office emphasized that it's for duties routinely performed during natural disasters and other emergencies.  But Newsom grimly added that “we have the ability to do martial law ... if we feel the necessity.”
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Presidential race now leans toward the Democrats  —  ANALYSIS — More than 14 months ago, I wrote a column in this space suggesting that the 2020 presidential contest was a toss-up, but one that tilted toward the Democrats.  I offered caveats about the economy and the Democratic nomination …
William M. Arkin / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government  —  Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
How Washington Failed to Build a Robust Coronavirus Testing System  —  Government decisions that limited testing for the pathogen blinded the U.S. to the outbreak's scale.  Here's how it happened.  —  When cases of the new coronavirus began emerging several weeks ago in California …
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Questioning the Clampdown  —  Will people lose faith when they find out they are expected to get the virus anyway?  —  Experts now agree the virus's spread can be slowed but not contained.  It will take its place among mostly seasonal respiratory infections.
Discussion: CBS Boston
ir.theice.com:
New York Stock Exchange to Move Temporarily to Fully Electronic Trading  —  Equities and Options Trading Floors Will Temporarily Close  —  Fully Electronic Trading Begins With Market Open on Monday, March 23  —  Trading and Regulatory Oversight of All NYSE-listed Securities Will Continue Without Interruption
Washington Post:
This is not the end of the world, according to Christians who study the end of the world  —  Chuck Pierce's son was concerned, like a lot of other people looking out on a world of ransacked grocery stores and canceled sports seasons and eerie lines of people standing six feet apart from one another.
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Republicans like me built this moment.  Then we looked the other way.  —  Stuart Stevens is a writer and Republican political consultant who has advised a pro-Bill Weld super PAC in the 2020 election.  His book about the Republican Party, “It Was All A Lie,” will be published next month.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The Pandemic Is Too Big for Trumpworld to Spin  —  Last Friday, we got a sign that Fox News changed the party line on the coronavirus.  Then suddenly, Trump changed his tune, too.  Hmmm...  BEAST INSIDE  —  The Trumpy media from top to bottom is having a rough time of it these days.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes near Salt Lake City knocking out Utah's coronavirus hotline  —  The quake was reported shortly after 7 a.m. local time.  —  A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, early Wednesday, knocking out the state's coronavirus hotline, according to the governor.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is frantically rewriting his epic failures.  Don't let him.  —  In retrospect, it's now clear that when President Trump defiantly declared that “I don't take responsibility at all” for key aspects of his catastrophic response to the coronavirus, he meant it both seriously and literally.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Returns to Twitter (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Fox News is making a return to Twitter, more than a year after going silent on the social-media platform.  —  At 2:18 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2018, the Fox Corporation-owned cable-news outlet issued a tweet telling its followers that a federal appeals court …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
William Weld, Trump's Last G.O.P. Challenger, Exits Presidential Race  —  The former governor of Massachusetts carried out a long-shot primary campaign focused on appealing to moderate Republicans.  —  WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump officially racked up enough delegates to become …
 
 
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Jacob Heilbrunn / The National Interest:
The Next Coronavirus Nightmare: There's a Drug Shortage on the Horizon
CNBC:
Coronavirus live updates: US suspending visa services worldwide, layoffs hit restaurants
Washington Post:
Oil and gas companies want to drill within a half-mile of Utah's best-known national parks
Washington Post:
There's a massive audience for coronavirus news right now. That might not help the news business.
Discussion: The Big Picture
Pew Research Center:
U.S. Public Sees Multiple Threats From the Coronavirus - and Concerns Are Growing
Ryan Prior / CNN:
Searching for love in the time of coronavirus
Rick Rouan / The Columbus Dispatch:
Sherrod Brown worries Trump could use Ohio primary as precedent to delay general election
Discussion: National Review
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Los Angeles Times:
Hospitals are straining under the coronavirus. The big wave coming could break them
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Calls Undocumented Immigrants ‘Non-People’
Thomas M. Burton / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Sought to Expand Virus Drug Tests Over FDA Objections
Discussion: Townhall and New York Post
Ted Anthony / Associated Press:
Analysis: American attitudes make virus response a hard sell
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
US and Canada preparing to suspend non-essential travel between the two countries