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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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Forbes, The Week, New York Post 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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IJR, Washington Post, Breitbart and TheBlaze, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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, Outside the Beltway 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’
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The Hill, BuzzFeed, CNN, One America News Network, Associated Press, ABC News and Breitbart
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
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.
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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Joey Nolfi / EW.com:
Kathy Griffin slams Trump's coronavirus response while in hospital with ‘unbearably painful’ symptoms
Kathy Griffin slams Trump's coronavirus response while in hospital with ‘unbearably painful’ symptoms
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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
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Man Who Planned to Bomb Hospital Amid Pandemic Dies in Incident With FBI — A domestic terrorism suspect in Belton, Missouri who allegedly planned to carbomb a hospital struggling with the coronavirus pandemic died while the FBI was trying to arrest him Tuesday, the agency confirmed.
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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
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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NPR, Washington Post, Raw Story, Balloon Juice and Bloomberg
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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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Trump throws support behind stimulus bill in Senate, as Fauci warns of other coronavirus ‘cycles’
Trump throws support behind stimulus bill in Senate, as Fauci warns of other coronavirus ‘cycles’
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Washington Post, Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Balloon Juice
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, Pittsburgh City Paper, BIG by Matt Stoller 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
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Former Wells Fargo CEO wants Americans back to work next month: 'Some may even die, I don't know' — Richard Kovacevich, the former CEO of Wells Fargo, wants Americans to get back to their jobs — even if it kills them. — In an interview with Bloomberg, Kovacevich said that he thinks …
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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
Charles Davis / Business Insider:
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warns of mass death, condemns ‘false hope,’ and tells us his city will be on lockdown for another 2 months — and to ‘be prepared for longer’ — Los Angeles residents will be confined to their homes until at least May, Mayor Eric Garcetti told Insider on Wednesday.
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 Week, The Daily Caller, Fox News, New York Post and The Hill
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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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.
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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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Handful of GOP senators threaten to delay Senate coronavirus bill over ‘drafting error’
Handful of GOP senators threaten to delay Senate coronavirus bill over ‘drafting error’
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The Daily Caller, The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story, HuffPost, Redstate and Marketplace
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
He urged saving the economy over protecting those who are ‘not productive’ from the coronavirus. Then he faced America's wrath. — Scott McMillan had had it with being cooped up, with the whole country being closed, with the collapsing market and the isolation, the constant worry …
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New York Times:
Trump May Defer Tariff Payments to Help Businesses: Live Updates — Here's what you need to know: — Big companies could see tax breaks — Trump weighs postponing tariff payments to help businesses. — The Trump administration is considering postponing tariff payments …
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VICE
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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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 …
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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Politico:
Biden blindsides Trump's Florida ally — MIAMI — Joe Biden lauded seven governors — drawn from both parties — by name on Monday, praising their leadership during the coronavirus crisis. — On Wednesday, he singled out one for sharp criticism: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Breitbart, Fox News and Contemptor
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.
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
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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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
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 …
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 …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
5 tips to keep you sane during the coronavirus crisis — This season isn't going to be easy, but by supporting each other, we will make it through. — As we shelter in place, engage in social-distancing, and otherwise do what we can to protect ourselves, our country …
Politico:
Here's what's in the $2T stimulus package — and what's next — The biggest economic stimulus in American history is hurtling toward passage, but Washington's colossal intervention to save the economy still chooses winners and losers among businesses and American workers.
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Politico and Marginal REVOLUTION