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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S. — New C.D.C. data showed that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54. But the risk of dying was significantly higher in older people. — American adults of all ages …
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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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
GOP Senator Upbeat Coronavirus May Kill ‘No More Than 3.4 Percent of Our Population’ — “Right now, all people are hearing about are the deaths,” Republican Senator Ron Johnson told the New York Times last week. “I'm sure the deaths are horrific, but the flip side of this is the vast majority …
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.
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
Florida governor refuses to shut down beaches amid spread of coronavirus
Florida governor refuses to shut down beaches amid spread of coronavirus
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Tracey McManus / Tampa Bay Times:
Clearwater Beach will shut down for 2 weeks starting Monday
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is first congressman to announce testing positive for coronavirus — Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., on Wednesday became the first member of Congress to announce that he has tested positive for coronavirus, saying he had been stricken with a fever and headache this weekend.
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New York Times:
There Aren't Enough Ventilators to Cope With the Coronavirus
There Aren't Enough Ventilators to Cope With the Coronavirus
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ben McAdams become first members of Congress to test positive for coronavirus
Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ben McAdams become first members of Congress to test positive for coronavirus
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
More than 80 national security professionals break with tradition and endorse a presidential candidate — Biden — More than 80 career national security professionals have signed an open letter of support for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying that President Trump …
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Presidential race now leans toward the Democrats
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 2 — The matriarch of the large New Jersey family, herself sick with the virus, “doesn't realize her two oldest children have passed.” — Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday …
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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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.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
This is the biggest blunder in presidential history — As a preliminary matter, this is a lie, as this video shows: … The president has consistently downplayed, denied and misled the public about the seriousness of the threat. Moreover, since the first cases appeared in China in late December …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate passes House's coronavirus aid bill, sending it to Trump — The Senate passed the House's coronavirus aid package on Wednesday, sending it to President Trump, who is expected to sign it. — Senators voted 90-8 on the bill that passed the House in a middle-of-the-night Saturday vote …
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Washington Post:
Campaign signals Sanders may be open to exit — Bernie Sanders signaled Wednesday that he was open to ending his presidential run after another round of landslide losses to Joe Biden, and new signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Bernie Sanders suspends his 2020 campaign Facebook ads
Bernie Sanders suspends his 2020 campaign Facebook ads
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Emily Kopp / Roll Call:
CDC suggests nurses use bandanas, scarves during face mask shortage — As the national shortage of face masks becomes severe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says nurses can use bandanas and scarves as makeshift masks when caring for COVID-19 patients — although it's unclear whether they would protect medical workers.
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Yun Li / CNBC:
NYSE to temporarily close floor, move to electronic trading after positive coronavirus tests — The New York Stock Exchange said starting March 23, it will temporarily close its historic trading floor and move fully to electronic trading. — The move came after two people tested positive …
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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
Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
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Reuters:
Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus — SEOUL - In late January, South Korean health officials summoned representatives from more than 20 medical companies from their lunar New Year celebrations to a conference room tucked inside Seoul's busy train station.
CBS Baltimore:
Baltimore Mayor Begs Residents To Stop Shooting Each Other So Hospital Beds Can Be Used For Coronavirus Patients — BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Mayor Jack Young urged residents to put down their guns and heed orders to stay home after multiple people were shot Tuesday night amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Kushner coronavirus team sparks confusion, plaudits inside White House response efforts — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior adviser, has created his own team of government allies and private industry representatives to work alongside the administration's official …
DW.COM:
Iran faces catastrophic death toll from coronavirus — Beyond China and Italy, Iran has been hardest hit by COVID-19 — but it could get a whole lot worse, thanks to a lack of international aid, government mismanagement and nobody knowing quite who's in charge.
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Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
UK presses US to ease Iran sanctions to help fight coronavirus
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Here Are the 8 Senators Who Voted Against the Coronavirus Relief Package on Wednesday — Presented without comment: the eight senators who voted against the coronavirus relief package on Wednesday. — Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jim Inhofe (R-OK); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); …
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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 …
New York Times:
The President vs. the Experts: How Trump Downplayed the Coronavirus — From the start of the coronavirus outbreak, statements from the presidential pulpit have been far out of step with those of health experts and many inside the administration. President Trump contradicted some officials while they were standing right next to him.
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Josh Barro / New York Magazine:
Part of the Coronavirus Conventional Wisdom Has Become Too Pessimistic — Author's note: I don't want anyone to take this piece to suggest that things are not very bad, and will not remain very bad for a substantial period. This outbreak is not yet under control and won't be fully under control until …
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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 …
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Robin Young / WBUR:
Copy embed code — What can people do to help as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb? Emerging disease expert Laurie Garrett says that's the wrong question to ask. — “It's not just what you can do,” the author of “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance” says.
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.
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