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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus, Too — The decision by the school's president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then students started getting sick. — LYNCHBURG, Va. — As Liberty University's spring break …
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Blue Virginia and Outside the Beltway
American Enterprise Institute - AEI:
National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening — This report provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It outlines specific directions for adapting our public-health approach away from sweeping mitigation strategies as we limit …
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Bloomberg, STAT, Politico, National Review and Twitchy
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci: Coronavirus could kill over 100,000 Americans — Fauci also said it's not yet time for social distancing guidelines to be pulled back. — Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he anticipates the coronavirus could kill between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans while infecting “millions.”
Washington Post:
Experts converge on plans for easing coronavirus restrictions safely — The Trump administration's national social distancing guidelines expire early this week. So what's the plan? — If there's one thing people agree on, even as they debate the government's coronavirus response, it is this: We can't do this forever.
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New York Times
Nicky Robertson / CNN:
Fauci says Trump agreed not to invoke a strict quarantine after intensive White House discussions
Fauci says Trump agreed not to invoke a strict quarantine after intensive White House discussions
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Rolling Stone, Daily Kos, Vox, VICE, New York Post, Redstate and HuffPost
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
La. governor warns state's health care system could be overwhelmed by early April
La. governor warns state's health care system could be overwhelmed by early April
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Centers for Disease Control, Politico, Slate and The Hill
Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:
A Nurse Shared A Harrowing Photo Of COVID-19 Victims To Show How Horrifying The Outbreak Is — The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today.
New York Times:
The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed. — As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America's acute shortage. — Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded …
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Discourse.net
Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll shows Trump and Biden in a competitive race for the White House — President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are in a tightly competitive race for the White House in the November general election, with the president gaining ground on his likely challenger over the past month …
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Slate, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Week, The Guardian, New York Post, NBC News, Althouse, KLAS - 8 News Now and Politico
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Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
Biden consolidates support, but trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
Biden consolidates support, but trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce
Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce
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The Hill, CNN and Blue Virginia
Mitch Albom / Detroit Free Press:
Hey, President Trump: Her name is Gretchen Whitmer — First of all, she has a name. Gretchen Whitmer. She is not “the woman” or “all she does is sit there” or “you know who I'm talking about” — all phrases President Donald Trump has used besides saying the actual name of the person Michigan voters elected to govern us.
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Steve Gruber, The Daily Caller and USA Today
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WBNS-TV:
DeWine ‘stunned’ FDA limiting Ohio company's mask-sterilization technology — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted say they are disappointed in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to limit the use of an Ohio company's new technology to sterilize much-needed surgical masks.
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Kathleen McGrory / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida coronavirus cases are growing fast. Here's what that means. — Experts say the epidemic in Florida is already past the point of easy containment. … • • • — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Florida is doubling every three days …
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Orlando Sentinel, Daily Kos and Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
America's Make-or-Break Week — The bills are now coming due for big companies and millions of laid-off workers. Decisions made in the next few days will shape how coronavirus impacts the economy — Congress has passed a $2 trillion rescue plan but before those funds start to flow …
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Raw Story
Gina Cook / NBC4 Washington:
Maryland Man Arrested for Having 60 People Over for Bonfire, Violating Social Distancing Orders — A Charles County, Maryland, man who threw a party at his house has unintentionally social-distanced himself from everyone after authorities say he was arrested for refusing to comply with the governor's order against large gatherings.
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Bronx school told teachers to hide coronavirus case: ‘Staff can be fired’ — After learning that a teacher in their Bronx school building was sick with the coronavirus, faculty members were told they could be terminated for warning students to stay away, The Post has learned.
New York Times:
The Virus Has Transformed the 2020 Elections. Here's How. — Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional politician. — From the White House to the county courthouse, the coronavirus pandemic has drastically upended the 2020 elections.
Julia Prodis Sulek / Mercury News:
Meet the Bay Area doctor who ordered America's first coronavirus lockdown — Under intense pressure, Sara Cody's cohort made the move ‘none of us really believed we would do’ — She is the Bay Area's Anthony Fauci, Santa Clara County's most “essential” employee, the one who banished us …
Axios:
Inside the start of the great virus airlift — A plane from Shanghai arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York Sunday morning carrying an extraordinary load: 12 million gloves, 130,000 N-95 masks, 1.7 million surgical masks, 50,000 gowns, 130,000 hand sanitizer units, and 36,000 thermometers.
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The Week
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Cuomo: Trump's mandatory quarantine comments “really panicked people” — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference Sunday that President Donald Trump's unexpected Saturday announcement of a possible “short-term” quarantine of New York, New Jersey and parts of Connecticut to curb …
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Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Joe Biden's message on coronavirus: It's time to tell the unvarnished truth — Former Vice President Joe Biden delivers an address on the coronavirus in March 2020. Michael Brochstein/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media/Getty Images — “We should be telling the American people the truth. They're strong.
DW.COM:
German state finance minister Thomas Schäfer found dead — Police suspect Thomas Schäfer died by suicide after his body was found on train tracks near Wiesbaden. He was the finance minister for the state of Hesse, where Germany's financial center Frankfurt lies.
David Cohen / Politico:
Pelosi: ‘As the president fiddles, people are dying’ — “As the president fiddles, people are dying,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday morning. — Speaking to host Jake Tapper on CNN's “State of the Union,” Pelosi said President Donald Trump has not taken the coronavirus crisis seriously enough …
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NBC News
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Pelosi on Trump's coronavirus response: ‘As the President fiddles, people are dying’
Pelosi on Trump's coronavirus response: ‘As the President fiddles, people are dying’
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Daily Kos
Sky Palma / DeadState:
Mike Huckabee: ‘Smart mayors’ should tell citizens to load up on guns and ammo right now — During an appearance on Todd Starnes' radio show Todd Cast this Thursday, Mike Huckabee said that if lockdowns continue to be implemented in response to the coronavirus outbreak …