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ProPublica:
Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Soon after he offered public assurances …
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Tim Mak / NPR:
Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows  —  Toggle more options  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus …
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:
Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets  —  As the coronavirus outbreak began to spread across the U.S. in mid-February, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) unloaded his holdings in dozens of stocks that would lose much of their market value over the coming weeks.
travel.state.gov:
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 …
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Politico:
State Department warns Americans: Don't travel abroad, come home if overseas  —  The State Department on Thursday issued an extraordinary advisory urging Americans not to travel overseas and to return to the United States if they can, a move that comes amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times:
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 …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story, Twitchy and The Hill
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump melts down and the media fails the public.  Again.  —  This is not the first time I have warned that the media's inability to confront President Trump with his untruths, and to portray vividly and accurately the extent of his derangement and ignorance (e.g., his unhinged rant in the East Room following his impeachment acquittal).
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Bloomberg:
Yes, Young People Are Falling Seriously Ill From Covid-19
Discussion: HuffPost
Gregg Re / Fox News:
McConnell's coronavirus stimulus plan would provide payments of $1,200 per person, $2,400 for couples  —  Saying lawmakers “need to take bold and swift action as soon as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday introduced legislation to provide as much as $1,200 per person …
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New York Times:
Mnuchin Proposes $1,000 Checks in $1 Trillion Stabilization Plan
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Francesca Bacardi / Page Six:
Evangeline Lilly won't self-quarantine, values ‘freedom’ over her life  —  Evangeline Lilly is taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic.  —  The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star, 40, posted a photo of her “morning tea” on Instagram and said it was “business as usual” …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Three pillars of Trump's case for reelection are collapsing all at once  — President Trump's reelection campaign was designed under the premise that the economy would be strong through November, but that's not true anymore.  — Trump also planned to make socialism a central focus of his attacks.
Axios:
Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden  —  Tulsi Gabbard announced Thursday that she will suspend her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign and endorsed Joe Biden.  —  The state of play: While she was one of the final three candidates left in the race …
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Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
More than half of Californians could become infected with coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom says to Trump  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked Congress for $1 billion in federal funds to support the state's medical response to the novel coronavirus, which he expects will infect more than half of all Californians.
Discussion: The US Sun
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Florida is Shutting Down For Spring Breakers: ‘The Party is Over’  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that he's putting an end to spring break revelry in his state with the coronavirus pandemic growing in the country.  —  In an interview on Thursday with Fox & Friends …
Discussion: TheBlaze
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Tampa Bay Times:
Florida reports 112 new coronavirus cases as governor laments lack of testing
Donal MacNamee / The University Times:
Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public  —  Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly implied that JSTOR had made its database accessible to the public for the first time.  In fact, only certain materials from its database are available to the public, and this has been the case for some time.
Cornelia Griggs / New York Times:
A New York Doctor's Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling  —  Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before.  But this is different.  —  Dr. Griggs is a pediatric surgery fellow.  —  I've had hard conversations this week.  “Look me in the eye,” I said to my neighbor Karen …
Washington Post:
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 …
Zac Davis / americamagazine.org:
Washington Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib will not seek re-election in order to join the Jesuits  —  Cyrus Habib, the lieutenant governor of Washington, will not seek re-election and is entering the Society of Jesus this fall, the lieutenant governor and the Society of Jesus confirmed to America on March 19.
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Cyrus Habib / americamagazine.org:   Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib: Why I am giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
New York Times:
Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded  —  Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus.  But little was done.  —  WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the respiratory virus began in China …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Week
The Daily Beast:
Trump's China Hawk Is Trying to Commandeer the Coronavirus Stimulus and Others in the White House Are Alarmed  —  A draft executive order obtained by The Daily Beast shows that Navarro has his sights on a massive disruption of the medical-supply chain to make it more America-centric.
Discussion: Redstate, Gizmodo and Raw Story
Mariel Padilla / New York Times:
‘It Feels Like a War Zone’: Doctors and Nurses Plead for Masks on Social Media  —  As supplies have dwindled, doctors and nurses have improvised ways to make their stock last.  Now they're urging leaders to help.  —  An intensive-care nurse in Illinois was told to make a single-use mask last for five days.
Discussion: Washington Post
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump shrugs off responsibility for any hospital equipment shortages by saying it's up to states  —  Watch Trump's evolution on coronavirus response  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump shrugged off responsibility for providing more medical equipment and gear to strapped hospitals combating coronavirus …
Discussion: Daily Kos and TheBlaze
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Suspends Conservative Huckster Jack Burkman Over Coronavirus Disinfo  —  SMEAR MERCHANT  —  Twitter suspended prolific smear merchant Jack Burkman on Thursday afternoon, after the blundering conservative operative sent tweets that threatened to incite a panic about coronavirus-related food shortages.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up  —  Axios has compiled a timeline of the earliest weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in China, highlighting when the cover-up started and ended — and showing how, during that time, the virus already started spreading around the world, including to the United States.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
You Cheered as He Fucked Up.  No Take Backs, Trumpists.  —  The virus doesn't follow him on Twitter.  It does what it does, and exploits time and complacency in its human hosts.  Trump gave it a six-week pass.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The cliché about authoritarian leaders being strong …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
CDC, the top U.S. public health agency, is sidelined during coronavirus pandemic  —  As the United States enters a critical phase in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the country's leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears to be on the sidelines …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
How long will Americans be fighting the coronavirus?  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, millions of Americans have seen their lives upended by measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.  —  Normally bustling streets are deserted as families hunker down in their homes.
Rebecca Fishbein / Jezebel:
Help, I Think I'm In Love With Andrew Cuomo???  —  My roommates moved out of my Brooklyn apartment just ahead of the pandemic, and their replacements haven't moved in yet.  (At this point, they might not move in at all.)  This means I haven't had much company in the last week …
Discussion: Just The News
Washington Post:
As layoffs skyrocket, America's unemployment safety net is underprepared to help many in need  —  Laid off workers are struggling to apply for unemployment aid as government websites crash and phone lines have hours-long waits  —  American workers are getting laid off at an unprecedented pace …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Coronavirus cases on Capitol Hill renew lawmakers' push for remote voting  —  They could even be the “most vulnerable population,” a research fellow said.  —  Congressional leaders are facing a growing number of calls from rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats to consider new rules to keep …
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Fran Marion / New York Times:
‘If I Caught the Coronavirus, Would You Want Me Making Your Next Meal?’  —  The government's relief bill doesn't cover many McDonald's workers.  It's time for the company to step up.  —  I've worked at McDonald's for over 10 years.  I'm that face that you see that serves you your hash browns …
Washington Post:
VIPs go to the head of the line for coronavirus tests  —  Dozens of NBA players have gotten tests while many other Americans wait for diagnoses.  —  For 11 days, Luke Janka, an educator from Brooklyn, went from doctor to doctor to emergency room, pleading for a coronavirus test.
 
 
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Joshua A. Douglas / Lexington Herald-Leader:
‘Perversion of democracy’ underway in Frankfort as lawmakers continue to meet amid pandemic
David Dayen / American Prospect:
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Discussion: NPR and Vox
BuzzFeed News:
They Still Have Jobs At Grocery Stores And Pharmacies.  Does That Mean They'll Catch The Coronavirus?
Discussion: Raw Story
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Discussion: Mother Jones
Justin Fox / Yahoo News:
No, We're Not All Going to Have to Stay Home for 18 Months
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
A Coronavirus Recession Could Doom Trump's Reelection Chances
Discussion: Washington Post and Blue Virginia
Eric Berger / Ars Technica:
Buzz Aldrin has some advice for Americans in quarantine