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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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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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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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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:
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
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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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.
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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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
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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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
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 …
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 …
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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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)
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 …
Deena Shanker / Bloomberg:
Inside the Maine factory racing to supply America with virus test swabs. — If you've ever used a home DNA kit, opened wide and said “ahh,” or measured the depth of a knife wound in a stabbing victim, chances are you've used a device made by Puritan Medical Products Co. And if you're tested for Covid-19 …