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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 …
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New York Post, The Week and Gothamist
The Daily Beast:
CNN and MSNBC Staff Push Back on Airing Trump's Coronavirus ‘Lies’ — Trump's daily pandemic briefings have devolved into an “open-mic night” full of “misinformation,” cable staffers said, as networks weigh how much of the events they must air. — The nation's television news outlets …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Briefings Are a Ratings Hit. Should Networks Cover Them Live?
Trump's Briefings Are a Ratings Hit. Should Networks Cover Them Live?
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New York Post, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Washington state radio station won't air Trump briefings because of ‘false or misleading information’
Washington state radio station won't air Trump briefings because of ‘false or misleading information’
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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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Outside the Beltway, The Week and Raw Story
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Pompeo calls for united ‘message’ after reportedly pushing G-7 members to call it ‘Wuhan virus’
Pompeo calls for united ‘message’ after reportedly pushing G-7 members to call it ‘Wuhan virus’
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
U.S. insisting that the U.N. call out Chinese origins of coronavirus
U.S. insisting that the U.N. call out Chinese origins of coronavirus
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The American Independent, NB Blog, Washington Post and Input
Micah Zenko / Foreign Policy:
The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History — It's more glaring than Pearl Harbor and 9/11—and it's all the fault of Donald Trump's leadership. — Last September, I met the vice president for risk for a Fortune 100 company in Washington, D.C. I asked the executive …
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The American Independent, Washington Post and The National Interest
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Politico:
Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook — The Trump administration, state officials and even individual hospital workers are now racing against each other to get the necessary masks, gloves and other safety equipment to fight coronavirus — a scramble that hospitals and doctors say has come too late and left them at risk.
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Raw Story
New York Times:
How the Stimulus Bill Would Affect American Businesses: Live Updates — Here's what you need to know: — Questions remain for the hotel industry. — Stocks rose as Congress moved toward passing the aid package. — Stocks on Wall Street rose on Wednesday as investors sized …
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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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Washington Post:
Politicians jockeying for covid-19 tests find proximity to Trump is the fastest route — Late last month, Mick Mulvaney, who was still the acting White House chief of staff at the time, told a crowd of conservative activists that the media was exaggerating the threat posed by covid-19 because …
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Raw Story
Nick Judin / m.jacksonfreepress.com:
Governor Orders Limited Gatherings, Declares Most Businesses ‘Essential,’ Supersedes Local Safety Efforts — Gov. Tate Reeves signed an executive order early this evening superseding a patchwork of local bans on public gatherings in Mississippi and other heightened restrictions …
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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The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Week, New York Post and The Hill
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Bernie Sanders threatens to hold up coronavirus bill after 4 GOP senators push to cut unemployment aid — The prospect of a planned Senate vote on a $2 trillion stimulus package in response to the coronavirus pandemic dimmed Wednesday as senators threatened to hold up the legislation.
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Fortune and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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 …
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Vox
David K. Li / NBC News:
Entire senior home in New Jersey, 94 people, presumed to have coronavirus — St. Joseph's Senior Nursing Home in Woodbridge already has 24 people who tested positive, with 70 more expected to also test positive. — An entire New Jersey nursing home is presumed to be infected with coronavirus …
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VICE
Zach Carter / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Handing Donald Trump The Keys To The Country — The Senate coronavirus bill is shocking. — The emergency coronavirus legislation that the Senate agreed to on Tuesday can only be described as an outrage. It is not an economic rescue package, but a sentence …
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Daily Kos, BIG by Matt Stoller, Pittsburgh City Paper and American Prospect
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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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NBC News and American Prospect
New York Post:
Worker at NYC hospital where nurses wear trash bags as protection dies from coronavirus — The shortage of safety gear at one Manhattan hospital is so dire that desperate nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags — and some blame the situation for the coronavirus death of a beloved colleague.
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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Marisa Taylor / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak — WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts …
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New York Times:
Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here's What Happens if We Do. — Social distancing for 2 weeks Social distancing for 2 months — Social distancing for 2 weeks Social distancing for 2 months — Interventions: 2 weeks Infections: 128M — President Trump says he wants the United States …
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Raw Story, Washington Post, Balloon Juice, US News and Bloomberg
BuzzFeed News:
Doctors And Nurses Say More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know — “The numbers are grossly under-reported. I know for a fact that we've had three deaths in one county where only one is listed on the website,” one California ER doctor told BuzzFeed News.
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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Reason, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
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.
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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
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.
Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Coronavirus: N.J. man charged with terroristic threats for allegedly coughing on Wegmans worker — When a Wegmans worker asked the man to step back, he leaned into her, coughed, and told her he had coronavirus, authorities said.. — A New Jersey man was charged with harassment …
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent Who Vanished on C.I.A. Mission to Iran Is Likely Dead, U.S. Concludes — The retired agent, Robert Levinson, was said to be the longest-held American hostage in history. A scandal erupted inside the C.I.A. over his disappearance. — WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials …
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CNN and The Daily Caller
Yahoo News:
Economies Already Look Totally Different From the Pre-Virus Age — (Bloomberg) — In the heat of a global crisis more sudden and severe than anything in living memory, economic orthodoxies are getting tossed aside at a furious pace. Some of them may be gone for good.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Nancy Pelosi became the most powerful woman in U.S. history — Nancy Pelosi is still often the lone woman at the table. But she has paved the way for many others. — A few dozen people gathered one early March evening at the National Museum of American History to celebrate the opening …
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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David Stout / New York Times:
Richard Reeves, Columnist and Author on Presidents, Dies at 83 — His books on Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton and others could be as unsparing as his syndicated column. He was also a familiar face on PBS public-affairs programs. — Richard Reeves, a journalist and author who explored the presidency …
Katherine Doherty / Yahoo Finance:
Distressed Debt Balloons to Almost $1 Trillion, Nears 2008 Peak — (Bloomberg) — The amount of distressed debt in the U.S. has quadrupled in less than a week to nearly $1 trillion, reaching levels not seen since 2008 as the collapse of oil prices and fallout from the coronavirus shutters entire industries across the globe.
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)
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.
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Virus Rules Let Construction Workers Keep Building Luxury Towers — The laborers, deemed “essential” by New York, work side by side, often sharing portable toilets that rarely have soap or hand sanitizer. — On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where, like most New Yorkers …