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Politico:
NYC morgues near capacity, DHS briefing warns — The Department of Homeland Security has been briefed that New York City's morgues are nearing capacity, according to a department official and a second person familiar with the situation. — Officials were told that morgues in the city …
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Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
New York state has 10 times the COVID-19 cases California has. Why? — New York's coronavirus outbreak has violently erupted over the past few days, and the state is now driving the national epidemic — while on the West Coast, public health experts are wondering if an early …
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Hospitals consider universal do-not-resuscitate orders for coronavirus patients — Worries that ‘all hands’ responses may expose doctors and nurses to infection prompts debate about prioritizing the needs of the many over the one — The Washington Post is providing this story for free …
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Twitter Deletes Post From The Federalist Proposing ‘Chickenpox Parties’ to Deliberately Spread Coronavirus — Twitter temporarily locked the account of The Federalist Wednesday after the conservative opinion site published a piece, written by a dermatologist based in Oregon …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Handful of GOP senators threaten to delay Senate coronavirus bill over ‘drafting error’ — “A massive drafting error in the current version of the coronavirus relief legislation could have devastating consequences,” the senators said. — A handful of Republican senators on Wednesday threatened …
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
Bernie Threatens Republicans — Says He Might ‘Put A Hold’ To Senate Coronavirus Package
Bernie Threatens Republicans — Says He Might ‘Put A Hold’ To Senate Coronavirus Package
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Bernie Sanders threatens to hold up coronavirus bill after 4 GOP senators push to cut unemployment aid
Bernie Sanders threatens to hold up coronavirus bill after 4 GOP senators push to cut unemployment aid
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Washington Post:
Stimulus bill prevents Trump and his family from benefiting from loan programs — Businesses controlled by President Trump and his children would be prohibited from receiving loans or investments from Treasury Department programs included in a $2 trillion stimulus plan agreed to early Wednesday …
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Boeing CEO says company may reject stimulus if Treasury seeks equity stake
Boeing CEO says company may reject stimulus if Treasury seeks equity stake
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Deal reached on $2-trillion coronavirus stimulus bill — largest by far in U.S. history
Deal reached on $2-trillion coronavirus stimulus bill — largest by far in U.S. history
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New York Times:
13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital — Hospitals in the city are facing the kind of harrowing increases in cases that overwhelmed health care systems in China and Italy. — In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions …
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Newest Shortage in New York: The City Is Running Out of Dogs to Adopt — Pet craze is spurring rally in Chewy shares amid a market rout — 'We definitely don't have any dogs left to match,' says rescue — Of all the shortages created by the coronavirus pandemic …
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Washington Post:
G-7 failed to agree on statement after U.S. insisted on calling coronavirus outbreak ‘Wuhan virus’ — Foreign ministers representing seven major industrialized nations failed to agree on a joint statement Wednesday after the Trump administration insisted on referring to the coronavirus outbreak as the …
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The Week
ProPublica:
Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment. — Even as company pharmacists protested, Walmart kept filling suspicious prescriptions, stoking the country's opioid epidemic. A Republican U.S. Attorney in Texas thought the evidence was damning.
Miriam Valverde / @politifact:
Donald Trump misses key facts in claim that New York governor refused to buy ventilators in 2015 — A 2015 New York state report said that in the case of a “severe” pandemic, the state would be short about 16,000 ventilators during the peak week. But the report did not recommend buying 16,000 ventilators …
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New York Times:
Fine Print of Stimulus Bill Contains Special Deals for Industries — Small banks, retailers and for-profit colleges got provisions they wanted. So did Boeing. Among those who could potentially benefit: President Trump's company. — WASHINGTON — Restaurants and retailers will get a tweak …
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Trump cabinet Bible study leader blames coronavirus on gay people and environmentalists — The minister who hosts a weekly bible study session for President Trump's cabinet has an opinion about the origins of the coronavirus. According to Ralph Drollinger, it's just another form of God's wrath …
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Trump Cabinet Bible Teacher Blames Coronavirus Pandemic on God's Wrath …
Trump Cabinet Bible Teacher Blames Coronavirus Pandemic on God's Wrath …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
How the Pandemic Will End — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting …
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Portland Mercury
New York Times:
Wall Street Gains as Washington's Rescue Deal Inches Forward: Live Updates — Here's what you need to know: — There's unease over Trump's White House briefings, even as ratings soar. — Stocks rose as Congress moved toward passing aid package. — Stocks on Wall Street rose on Wednesday …
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VICE
The Daily Beast:
CNN and MSNBC Staff Push Back on Airing Trump's Coronavirus ‘Lies’ — The nation's television news outlets, especially the three major cable-news networks, are grappling with a nagging paradox as President Donald Trump continues to orchestrate his White House briefings on the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
The Dos and Don'ts of Online Video Meetings — Do your co-workers really need to make their pets or toddlers part of the call? No. — In the age of coronavirus, many of us have transformed overnight from office workers into telecommuters. And we are increasingly relying on videoconferencing apps …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
AOC warns she may force House members to return for stimulus vote, potentially delaying final passage — (CNN)Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the high-profile freshman from New York, is leaving open the option of forcing House members to return to Washington to cast a vote on the $2 trillion stimulus package barreling through Congress.
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Bloomberg:
Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren't So Sure — 'We'll gradually bring those people back and see what happens' — Goldman veterans Blankfein and Cohn want the economy ‘back on’ — We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.
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Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
‘The peak will be bad’: Garcetti warns L.A. coronavirus crisis will get worse — Mayor Eric Garcetti warned Los Angeles on Tuesday that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is still to come and that residents should be prepared for more loss of life. — Garcetti said L.A. could be six …
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Katie Way / VICE:
Cuomo's Prison Workers Say They're Not Actually Making Hand Sanitizer — On March 9, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced a measure to fight “egregious” price-gouging: an initiative to produce 100,000 gallons of New York State-produced hand sanitizer every week, to be distributed for free …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders clings to a fantasy campaign — Former vice president Joe Biden has a lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) of more than 300 delegates in the Democratic presidential primary race. Biden has gotten the endorsement of hundreds of officeholders.
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Biden: “I think we've had enough debates”
Biden: “I think we've had enough debates”
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Townhall, New York Times and Deadline
WCVB:
Gov. Baker prohibits reusable shopping bags during coronavirus emergency — Part of new public health order regarding grocery stores and pharmacies — HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT — Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday announced a new public health order related to grocery stores …
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Greenwich Time:
Thousands of inmates released as jails face coronavirus threat — http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/ national/prisoners-threaten-suicide- stage-protests-as-the-coronavirus- sickens-inmates-and-prison-staff/2020/ 03/25/8232738e-0b1e-4fdb-8538- 456e269a8eb7_video.html(REF:Luis Velarde,REF:bennettd/The Washington Post)
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Hard Look at the Remaining Hospital Capacity across America — On the menu today: States are racing against the clock to increase capacity, but they might not be fast enough; what steps states are taking in preparation; and some unfortunate news from the direction of the New York Jets.
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New York Times:
‘Plz Cancel Our Cleaning’: Virus Leads Many to Cast Aside Household Help — One family laid off their nanny, but wondered if she would continue to video chat with their children, who missed her. Across the country, undocumented household workers are being cast out with little help.
Media Matters for America:
Fox's Brit Hume says it's an “entirely reasonable viewpoint” to expect that grandparents would be willing to die to protect the economy — Hume: “We don't shut down the economy to save every single life that's threatened by a wide-spread disease. We just don't”
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Scroll.in:
Coronavirus: Chef Floyd Cardoz, co-owner of Bombay Canteen, dies of Covid-19 in New Jersey … Chef Floyd Cardoz, who tested positive for Covid-19, died of the infection in a hospital in New Jersey on Wednesday, his family confirmed. He was the co-owner of two popular restaurants in Mumbai - the Bombay Canteen and O Pedro.
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Of course you've noticed Deborah Birx's style. That's why it's so reassuring. — The diplomatic doctor was missing from the weekend coronavirus task force briefings. Deborah Birx, the task force coordinator, was not in her usual position, behind the lectern and to President Trump's left.
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Wall Street Journal:
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? — Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude. — If it's true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
BuzzFeed Slashing Employee Pay Amid the Coronavirus Crisis — Some staffers, including executives, will see a nearly 25-percent pay cut. And one source said CEO Jonah Peretti will not take a salary as the crisis continues. — BuzzFeed is cutting pay for its employees as the company attempts to weather the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ray Dalio / LinkedIn:
The Changing World Order — Co-Chief Investment Officer & Co-Chairman of Bridgewater Associates, L.P. — Like1,555 — Comment107 — I believe that the times ahead will be radically different from the times we have experienced so far in our lifetimes, though similar to many other times in history.
Brad Brooks / Reuters:
New Orleans emerges as next coronavirus epicenter, threatening rest of South — (Reuters) - New Orleans is on track to become the next coronavirus epicenter in the United States, dimming hopes that less densely populated and warmer-climate cities would escape the worst of the pandemic, and that summer months could see it wane.
Bloomberg:
Malaria Drug Chloroquine No Better Than Regular Coronavirus Care, Study Finds — Small study of 30 patients is early look at highly-touted drug — Medicine already being given to patients in New York — We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response.
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Nurses Share Coronavirus Stories Anonymously in an Online Document — A health care worker in New Jersey created a digital venue for people in the field to chronicle poor working conditions that may put patients at risk. “It is disgusting,” one nurse wrote.
Washington Post:
Senate aid package quietly carves out billions intended for Boeing, officials say — Provision for company ‘critical’ to national security targets airplane maker, despite Max safety lapses — Lawmakers have inserted a little-noticed provision in the Senate's $2 trillion stimulus package aimed …
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