Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing  —  The Georgia Republican is the second Senator who has gotten rid of their holdings right as the stock market went bad.  —  The Senate's newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks …

Her Facebook Friends Asked If Anyone Was Actually Sick.  She Had an Answer.  —  Heaven Frilot is normally a private person.  But this is not a normal time.  So she and her husband are now the face of the coronavirus for their conservative Louisiana community.

Newsom orders all 40M Californians to stay home in nation's strictest lockdown  —  BERKELEY — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered California's nearly 40 million residents to stay home, making it the first state to impose that strict mandate on all residents to counteract a looming surge of new infections.

Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown  —  No society can safeguard public health for long at the cost of its economic health.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over.

Who wins in the Senate GOP's big bailout  —  The $1 trillion proposal Senate Republicans unveiled Thursday night represents one of the most dramatic bailouts in American history, picking winners and losers during one of the worst economic crises in decades.  —  Airlines, financial markets …

US drugmaker doubled price on potential coronavirus treatment  —  Therapy touted by President Trump made more expensive in January as China outbreak spread  —  The only US drugmaker that makes a potential treatment for the coronavirus that was touted by President Donald Trump raised the price …

We Need Time to Absorb All This  —  Everyone is thinking through the reality of the coronavirus pandemic and how to rise to the occasion.  —  This is a quick piece that touches on where we are, where we may be going, and an attitude for the journey.  —  The screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan once …

‘At War With No Ammo’: Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire  —  The lack of proper masks, gowns and eye gear is imperiling the ability of medical workers to fight the coronavirus — and putting their own lives at risk.  —  The Open Cities Community Health Center in St. Paul …

Global Level 4 Health Advisory - Do Not Travel  —  Level 4: Do Not Travel  —  The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.  In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live …

Under the Virus's Cloak, Trump Pursues Long-Sought Policies  —  From border controls to anti-union efforts, the Trump administration is using the coronavirus to seek policies that the president wanted before the pandemic.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House, under the guise of its coronavirus response …

Coronavirus and Poverty: A Mother Skips Meals So Her Children Can Eat  —  Americans with tight financial resources have fewer options as they navigate coronavirus closures and layoffs.  —  BRENHAM, Texas — With her six hungry children in the car, Summer Mossbarger was one of the first in line for lunch at the drive-through.

COVID-19: NYC should brace for impact and shut down now.  —  Five days ago I wrote this medium post (COVID-19: New York Will Be The Next Italy, But Doesn't Have to Be).  In it, I forecast that NYC's hospitals would be at capacity as early as March 30.  Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Acting counterterrorism center head fired, according to former U.S. officials  —  The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center was fired Wednesday night in what insiders fear is a purge by the Trump administration of career professionals at an organization set up after 9/11 …

Red and Blue America Aren't Experiencing the Same Pandemic  —  Even a disease as far-reaching as the coronavirus hasn't entirely crossed the chasm between red and blue America.  —  In several key respects, the outbreak's early stages are unfolding very differently in Republican- and Democratic-leaning parts of the country.

Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance  —  What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time … Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only take a few weeks, there wouldn't be a peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society …

Coronavirus upends nation as three in four Americans' lives changed by pandemic: POLL  —  A new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows a far different portrait of a country.  —  As a deepening public health crisis rocks the nation, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday shows a far different portrait …

Trump's 500 Million Respirators Could Take 18 Months to Deliver  —  Listen  —  The 500 million N95 air-filtering respirator masks President Donald Trump said the federal government ordered could take up to 18 months to be delivered, according to the grant application.

Teva to Donate Potential COVID-19 Treatment, Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Tablets to Hospitals Nationwide  —  Teva will donate 6 Million tablets through wholesalers to hospitals by March 31, and more than 10 Million within a month  —  TEL AVIV, Israel & PARSIPPANY, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …

Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.  —  Here's what may lie ahead based on math models, hospital projections and past pandemics  —  When Jason Christie, chief of pulmonary medicine at Penn Medicine, got projections on how many coronavirus patients might soon be flocking to his Philadelphia hospital …

3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic  —  One: Don't trust the president.  —  So Donald Trump is now calling Covid-19 the “Chinese virus.”  Of course he is: Racism and blaming other people for his own failures are the defining features of his presidency.  But if we're going to give it a nickname …

Howard County 5-year-old is first Maryland child with confirmed coronavirus; Hogan says some Marylanders treating crisis like ‘spring break’  —  A 5-year-old girl in Howard County became the first Maryland child to test positive for the new coronavirus, Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday as he imposed …