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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, 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. …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration — President Trump, who at one point called the coronavirus pandemic an “invisible enemy” and said it made him a “wartime President,” has in recent days questioned its seriousness, tweeting, “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.”
Mike Baker / New York Times:
Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working — Officials in Washington State worry that their gains are precarious, but they see evidence that containment strategies have lowered the rate of virus transmission. — SEATTLE — The Seattle area, home of the first known …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump extends social distancing guidelines to April 30, predicts ‘great things’ by June 1 — Trump last week said he wanted to see the much of the country opening back up by Easter. — President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he's extending his administration's guidelines on social distancing amid …
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New York Times:
Live Coronavirus News Coverage and Updates — The global count has passed 670,000, an official warns Britain that some kind of lockdown may last for months and Biden urges mail-in elections. — RIGHT NOW The Holland America cruise ship on which four passengers have died will be allowed to transit the Panama Canal.
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Financial Times:
Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads | Free to read — The countries affected, the number of deaths and the economic impact — The humanitarian costs of the coronavirus outbreak continue to mount, with more than 707,000 people infected globally.
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.
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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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
CBS News:
Remembering Maria Mercader, CBS News journalist for three decades — CBS News is mourning the loss of Maria Mercader, a network veteran who covered breaking news for nearly three decades and, most recently, helped shape strategy for the network's correspondents and reporters.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests a New York Hospital Is Losing Masks Because of Crime — President Donald Trump alleged a New York hospital is losing medical masks or even allowing them to be stolen, questioning how demand for the product could have spiked so rapidly during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump blames hospitals for mask and ventilator shortages
Trump blames hospitals for mask and ventilator shortages
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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 …
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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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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.
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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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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
Andrew J. Tobias / Plain Dealer:
Gov. Mike DeWine: FDA ‘reckless’ in limiting use of new mask-cleaning technology — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine on Sunday sharply criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approving only limited use of a new mask-cleaning technology developed by an Ohio research firm …
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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.
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 …
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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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.
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.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care — The drugs have been championed by President Donald Trump for treatment despite scant evidence. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building. The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued …
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Instapundit and Tech News
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
La. governor warns state's health care system could be overwhelmed by early April — The La. governor talks about how coronavirus cases are expected to surge there. — Gov. John Bel Edwards said cases of novel coronavirus are expected to surge in Louisiana and overwhelm hospitals.
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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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MarketWatch:
Trump wants his signature to appear on coronavirus stimulus checks — A civil servant would typically sign such federal disbursements, says former longtime Treasury Department official — WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a roughly $2 trillion stimulus package into law …
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The American Conservative
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Pompeo's pandemic performance ensures his place among the worst secretaries of state ever — Let's recall how the U.S. secretary of state has historically behaved at a time of grave international crisis: circling the globe (at least telephonically); formulating a coherent multilateral response …
Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Maryland nursing home hit with ‘tragic’ coronavirus outbreak, as 66 test positive, 11 hospitalized, governor says — Dozens of people have tested positive for coronavirus at a nursing home in the suburbs west of Baltimore, Maryland's governor announced late Saturday as the state's death toll from the virus has doubled.
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.