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New York Times:
Trump Administration Pulls Back From $1 Billion Coronavirus Ventilator Deal — A deal with General Motors and Ventec Life Systems to produce tens of thousands of the critical lifesaving devices seemed imminent. Then the announcement was pulled back. — WASHINGTON — The White House …
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Axios, emptywheel, The Independent, The Hill, Mediaite, Balloon Juice, Raw Story, Towleroad Gay News, Talking Points Memo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump downplays need for ventilators as New York begs to differ — Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York says his state needs tens of thousands of ventilators to respond to the escalating coronavirus pandemic. — President Donald Trump doesn't believe him. — Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News …
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PJ Media Home, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, American Greatness, Breitbart and Washington Post
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was ‘the best public health strategy’
Cuomo: Not sure if closing all businesses, keeping everyone home was ‘the best public health strategy’
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TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
New York Post:
Cuomo wonders if coronavirus quarantine may have backfired in some cases
Cuomo wonders if coronavirus quarantine may have backfired in some cases
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Instapundit and Breitbart
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that it was not the best strategy to shut …
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that it was not the best strategy to shut …
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Florida Politics
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Teen Who Died of Covid-19 Was Denied Treatment Because He Didn't Have Health Insurance — A 17-year-old boy in Los Angeles County who became the first teen believed to have died from complications with covid-19 in the U.S. was denied treatment at an urgent care clinic because he didn't have health insurance …
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The Independent, The Root, CBS Los Angeles, TechCrunch and CityLab
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Inside Joe Biden's bizarre coronavirus bunker — The Biden campaign has been studying the '18 midterms. — No, not the ones two years ago when Democrats took over the House by aggressively recruiting moderates and sweeping swing districts across the country, a precursor to Biden's own centrist strategy …
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Althouse
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Jay Cost / New York Post:
Coronavirus is killing the Biden campaign — and making him look like a fool
Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Bernie Sanders On His Campaign: 'It's Going To Be A Very Steep Road'
Bernie Sanders On His Campaign: 'It's Going To Be A Very Steep Road'
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IJR
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Sanders: 'It's going to be a very steep road' to beat Biden
Sanders: 'It's going to be a very steep road' to beat Biden
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Political Wire
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Peddle Bogus Wuhan Virus Stats To Bash America — Many in the media enthusiastically relish the claim that the United States has more people infected with the coronavirus than China does, even though China's numbers are unreliable.
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Washington Examiner, Reason, American Enterprise Institute and USA Today
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases — Following a series of missteps, the nation is now the epicenter of the pandemic. — Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday.
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Gizmodo, Washington Post, PJ Media Home, The Daily Signal, Sputnik News, Towleroad Gay News, The Verge and Forbes
New York Times:
We're Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County — As the coronavirus has spread across the United States, killing hundreds of people and sickening tens of thousands more, comprehensive data on the extent of the outbreak has been difficult to come by.
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Gizmodo, The Bulwark, The Guardian and FiveThirtyEight
Reuters:
‘Mr. No’: Meet the U.S. congressman who might delay the coronavirus bill — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Thomas Massie enraged President Donald Trump on Friday as he has leaders of Congress worried he will delay a planned Friday voice vote on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue plan …
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear. — “I'm okay. Don't tell Mom and Dad. They'll worry,” he wrote to his sister. He may be the first nurse in New York City to die from the coronavirus. — Kious Kelly, a nurse manager at a Manhattan hospital …
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New York Post, Redstate, Towleroad Gay News and Twitchy
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David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
When New York Needed Him Most, Bill de Blasio Had His Worst Week As Mayor — “For the vast majority of New Yorkers, life is going on pretty normally right now,” Bill de Blasio said on Morning Joe March 10, as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. topped 1,000. “We want to encourage that.”
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Boris Johnson Tests Positive; U.S. House Vote on $2 Trillion in Relief May Face Delay — The United States now has the most detected cases in the world. States are pleading for supplies as cases spike outside of New York City. And health workers, short on protective gear …
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NBC News, BBC and Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Maybe Trump Doesn't Care About Getting Re-Elected — Why else would he be downplaying hospitals' need for supplies at a time like this? — I'm just not able to process this one. — Item: “The White House suddenly called off a venture to produce as many as 80,000 ventilators …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump's Environmental Rollbacks Find Opposition Within: Staff Scientists — Federal scientists and lawyers, told to undo regulations that some have worked on for decades, have embedded data into technical documents that environmental lawyers are using to challenge the rollbacks.
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
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New York Times, POLITICUSUSA, Planet Detroit Newsletter, EXXONKNEWS, Raw Story, Fox News and TechCrunch
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Trump O'Clock Follies — The President's mendacious nightly press briefings on the coronavirus will go down in history for their monumental flimflammery. — During the Vietnam War, the United States had the Five O'Clock Follies, nightly briefings at which American military leaders claimed …
Washington Post:
Poll finds universal lifestyle changes, rising stress and growing fears about catching coronavirus — The spreading coronavirus pandemic has brought massive and sudden disruption to the daily lives of most Americans amid rapidly rising fears that they could become ill with the covid-19 disease …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Coronavirus impacts: Disrupted lives, elevated stress, and soaring worry: Poll
Coronavirus impacts: Disrupted lives, elevated stress, and soaring worry: Poll
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The Gateway Pundit
Frank Figliuzzi / NBC News:
As coronavirus deaths mount, Trump's handling of intelligence warnings looks worse and worse — I thought Trump's willful blindness might manifest itself in a failure to heed signs of a terrorist strike or a state-sponsored cyberattack. Instead, the missed warnings pointed to a pandemic.
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Kaiser Health News
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
U.S. government has 1.5 million expired N95 masks sitting in an Indiana warehouse — Nearly 1.5 million N95 respirator masks are sitting in a U.S. government warehouse in Indiana and authorities have not shipped them because they are past their expiration date, despite Centers …
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Balkinization, View from the Wing, Navigating Coronavirus, New York Post and The Week
Brad Schrade / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
City under siege: Coronavirus exacts heavy toll in Albany — Officials say the city's experience is a harbinger of what other Georgia communities will face — A rapidly growing rate of coronavirus infections has Albany under siege. Its main hospital is so overrun with sick and dying patients …
Ashton Pittman / MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS:
Churches, Stores Reopen As Governor Overrides Mayors' COVID-19 Orders — Roadside mannequins are inviting residents of Moss Point, Miss., to resume shopping at a local clothing store, restaurants are returning their dine-in services, and churches are re-opening their doors for services.
Katherine Stewart / New York Times:
The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals — Trump's response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies. — Ms. Stewart is the author of “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.”
USA Today:
The coronavirus test that wasn't: How federal health officials misled state scientists and derailed the best chance at containment — The coronavirus epidemic this week reached Beadle County, South Dakota. A single case tied to travel has exploded into 14 infections and counting …
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Reason
Phoebe Wall Howard / Detroit Free Press:
Henry Ford Health officials confirm letter outlining life and death protocols for COVID-19 — Henry Ford Health System has officially confirmed the accuracy of a detailed letter being circulated by doctors and others on social media outlining life and death guidelines for use during the pandemic.
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New York Times:
Why Is America Choosing Mass Unemployment? — European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise …
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Alabama Gov. Refuses To Issue Shelter In Place Order: ‘We Are Not California’ — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) said during a new conference on Thursday that she would not issue a shelter in place order that 21 other states have enacted to prevent further spread of COVID-19.
1100 Pennsylvania:
Trump wants U.S. resurrected in time for hotel's pricey Easter brunch — The president would love the country ‘raring to go by Easter’—the day his D.C. hotel usually holds an expensive, popular brunch buffet — On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump told Fox News viewers that he wanted the United States …
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Doctor Who Wrote Op-Ed on Coronavirus Infection Parties Says Federalist Made Unwanted Edits to Piece — Douglas Perednia says he never thought his opinion piece on “controlled infection” of the coronavirus, published in The Federalist, would draw such a heated backlash.
NBC Bay Area:
Union Locates 39 Million N95 Masks for Healthcare Workers, Local Governments — Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West announced Thursday that it located 39 million N95 masks and will make them available to state and local governments and health care systems …
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SEIU UHW, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Patterico's Pontifications
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Dr. Fauci Throws Cold Water on Trump's Target of Easter to Reopen the Country: ‘An Aspirational Projection to Give People Some Hope’ — Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, threw some cold water on President Donald Trump's target date of Easter …
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NPR
CNN:
When will you see money and benefits from the stimulus bill? — (CNN)The House is set to vote Friday, and President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign, a $2 trillion stimulus bill to address the dramatic economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
New York Times:
‘The Other Option Is Death’: New York Starts Sharing of Ventilators — To keep coronavirus patients breathing, hospitals pioneer a little-tested method. — A New York hospital system has begun treating two patients instead of one on some ventilators, a desperate measure that could help alleviate …
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Breitbart
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
A Bonanza for Rich Real Estate Investors, Tucked Into Stimulus Package — A small change to tax policy could hand $170 billion in tax savings to real estate tycoons. — The federal government's planned $2 trillion economic rescue package includes financial aid for individuals and industries …
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Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair
Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News:
After once downplaying ‘beer virus’ to crowd of seniors, Don Young now says threat is urgent and real — Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who on March 13 told a group of seniors that fears of the “beer virus” have been overblown by the media, on Thursday delivered a very different message.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Big-Government Contagion — Appropriators throw hundreds of billions at the virus—and at everything else. — The Senate did something good Wednesday night, passing a bill to inject liquidity into a virus-ravaged economy. It also did something dangerous, requiring the public to be on guard.
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Power Line and Cafe Hayek