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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest — A database of daily fever readings shows that the numbers declined as people disappeared indoors. — Harsh measures, including stay-at-home orders and restaurant closures, are contributing to rapid drops in the numbers of fevers …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Naturally, We Now Have a Cottage Industry of Coronavirus Truther Assholes — The #FilmYourHospital hashtag has taken off on the right. It's absurd. It's also wildly offensive. — Right-wing figures eager to downplay the coronavirus pandemic's death toll have hit on a new idea: filming quiet hospital parking lots.
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Media Matters for America
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NBC News:
Coronavirus deniers take aim at hospitals as pandemic grows — Two videos illustrate the stark disparity in how the coronavirus outbreak is being portrayed on different parts of the internet. — On Saturday, a video taken outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York went viral …
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Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
Washington Post:
CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public — Should we all be wearing masks? That simple question is under review by officials in the U.S. government and has sparked a grass-roots pro-mask movement. But there's still no consensus on whether widespread use …
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LiveScience, New York Times and The Week
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Exclusive: Kushner Firm Built the Coronavirus Website Trump Promised — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — On March 13, President Donald Trump promised Americans they would soon be able to access …
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Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Rodney Howard-Browne, Megachurch Pastor Who Flouted Virus Rules, Arrested — Rodney Howard-Browne has been an outspoken opponent of social distancing requirements, claiming his church has machines that can stop the coronavirus. — A controversial Florida pastor who refused …
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Haley Hinds / WNYW-TV:
Tampa megachurch pastor arrested after leading packed services despite ‘safer-at-home’ orders
Tampa megachurch pastor arrested after leading packed services despite ‘safer-at-home’ orders
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WFLA-TV, FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Redstate and IJR
Tony Marrero / Tampa Bay Times:
Pastor of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed
Pastor of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed
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New York Times, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Pelosi Floats New Stimulus Plan: Rolling Back SALT Cap — A proposal to retroactively lift a limit on state and local tax deductions would largely funnel money to high earners in high-tax states. — WASHINGTON — As lawmakers prepare for another round of fiscal stimulus to address economic fallout …
New York Times:
Behind Trump's Reversal on Reopening the Country: 2 Sets of Numbers — An estimate of the number of possible deaths and polling that showed a cautious public changed, for now, the president's approach to the coronavirus pandemic. — WASHINGTON — The numbers the health officials showed President Trump were overwhelming.
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Raw Story and The American Independent
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Business Insider:
A GOP senator calls on Trump to reopen parts of the coronavirus-stricken economy because ‘death is an unavoidable part of life’ — Sen. Ron Johnson called on Trump to reopen segments of the US economy, saying “death is an unavoidable part of life” in a USA Today op-ed.
Wall Street Journal:
NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators — New York health center says it will support emergency-room staff who ‘withhold futile intubations,’ threatens to discipline doctors who talk to the press — NYU Langone Health, one of the nation's top …
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Raw Story
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Rural-state governors tell Trump they need tests and medical supplies, too — Several rural-state governors alerted President Trump on Monday that they are struggling to obtain urgently needed medical supplies and testing equipment, warning that despite the worsening coronavirus situation …
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The Rooster, Raw Story and Daily Kos
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Zeke Faux / Bloomberg:
Suspected Mask Profiteer Arrested for Coughing on FBI Agents — Brooklyn man allegedly sold N95 masks at inflated prices — He was charged with assault after claiming he was infected — A Brooklyn man was arrested for coughing on FBI agents who came to investigate whether …
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
FBI arrests man for allegedly coughing on agents, hoarding and selling medical equipment
FBI arrests man for allegedly coughing on agents, hoarding and selling medical equipment
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide ‘Sick-Out’ — Whole Foods employees are planning to strike on Tuesday to protest the lack of protections offered to workers during the coronavirus pandemic—the first national collective action led by workers at the company since it was founded in 1980.
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Associated Press:
How dire projections, grim images dashed Trump's Easter plan — WASHINGTON (AP) — The two doctors spread out their charts on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. — The projections were grim: Even if the U.S. were to continue to do what it was doing, keeping the economy closed …
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The Hill
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Politico:
Trump has been nudging MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to run for office — President Donald Trump introduced those tuning into his nightly coronavirus task force briefing on Monday to a special guest: Mike Lindell, the multimillionaire inventor and CEO of the MyPillow empire.
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Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Chinese researchers isolated deadly bat coronaviruses near Wuhan animal market — Chinese government researchers isolated more than 2,000 animal viruses, including deadly bat coronaviruses, and carried out scientific work on them just three miles from a wild animal market identified as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Yamiche Alcindor wants an answer, thank you very much — President Trump got one thing right in his Sunday coronavirus briefing. “You had a long time, a long question,” he told PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor as he brushed aside her attempt to ask a second question.Of course …
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Politico and The White House
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Woman Who Ingested Fish Tank Cleaner Is Prolific Donor to Democratic Causes — The Arizona woman who said that she and her 68-year-old husband ingested a substance used to clean fish tanks after hearing President Donald Trump tout chloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus has given thousands …
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American Greatness, Redstate, WayneDupree.com, Big League Politics, The American Mirror, Twitchy and Power Line
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Who Slammed AG Barr Obtains Unredacted Version of Mueller Report — A federal judge obtained the full and unredacted report on election interference and obstruction of justice prepared by former special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday. — A two-page filing submitted …
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Letters from an American
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's self-congratulatory presence marks stark contrast with death toll — (CNN)It is falling to President Donald Trump to lead America into its most tragic month in decades, as experts say the coronavirus pandemic could kill more citizens than the Vietnam and Korean wars combined.
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Breitbart and New York Post
The Boston Globe:
Democratic lawmakers, including Warren and Pressley, call for racial data in coronavirus testing — Democratic lawmakers are calling out an apparent lack of racial data that they say is needed to monitor and address disparities in the national response to the coronavirus outbreak …
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Althouse
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Group Behind Central Park Coronavirus Tent Hospital Asks Volunteers To Support Anti-Gay Agenda — On Tuesday morning, a makeshift tent hospital in Central Park will begin treating overflow patients from Mount Sinai, as the spread of COVID-19 begins to overwhelm local hospitals.
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West Side Rag and Fox News
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates — The coronavirus economic freeze could cost 47 million jobs and send the unemployment rate past 32%, according to St. Louis Fed projections. — There are nearly 67 million Americans working …
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The Atlantic, The Week, Sputnik News, HuffPost, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, Fortune and Raw Story
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / New Yorker:
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders — The debate over the role of government in addressing income inequality, housing insecurity, debt accumulation, and health care continues, now against the grim backdrop of the raging coronavirus. It is difficult to articulate the speed with which the U.S. and …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago — Stat, started in 2015 by the Red Sox owner John Henry, is drawing four to five times its normal audience. “We were built for this,” one of its editors said. — On New Year's Eve, Helen Branswell, a reporter at the science …
New York Times:
Healthcare stocks help lead Wall Street higher. — Stocks on Wall Street rose on Monday as investors bid up shares of health care companies as they reported progress on products that could help with the outbreak. — The S&P 500 climbed more than 3 percent, adding to a strong showing last week.
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Bloomberg
Selam Gebrekidan / New York Times:
For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power — Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them? — LONDON — In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by decree.
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Mother Jones, Raw Story and NPR
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Biden leads Trump by 10 points as economic pessimism grows — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points nationally in a new poll, bolstered by an advantage with independents. — The poll also shows pessimism about the economy growing, a factor that could help Biden and hurt Trump in the poll.
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The National Security Council sounded early alarms about the coronavirus — The covid-19 pandemic is first and foremost a public health crisis — but it is also a massive national security challenge. That aspect of the crisis is being managed by a leaner, quieter National Security Council staff …
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Outside the Beltway
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
William Helmreich, Sociologist and a Walker in the City, Dies at 74 — A scholar of Judaism as well, he walked every block in New York — totaling 6,163 miles — and wrote a book about his odyssey. He died of the coronavirus. … When William B. Helmreich was 9 years old, his father …
Cynthia Sewell / Idaho Statesman:
Idaho governor signs GOP's anti-transgender bills, setting up likely legal challenges — Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law two anti-transgender bills. — One bill would ban transgender girls and women from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.
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courthousenews.com
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Hannity must go — Recent personnel actions at Fox just happen to have fallen when people turn away from their phones and laptops. On Friday, March 13, news emerged that the Fox Business show of Trish Regan had gone on hiatus — along with another show — as part of the network's resource shift toward the coronavirus.
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:
'They Didn't Care': As Coronavirus Crippled Small Businesses, Some Lenders Pounced — At a time when American individuals and businesses are banding together, cash advance companies are aggressively going after small businesses struggling due to coronavirus.
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Instapundit
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s coronavirus response shows his staggering level of ignorance — After learning of Jerry Falwell Jr.'s decision to partially reopen Liberty University, my thoughts turned to the biblical account of Balaam's ass. — According to the Hebrew scriptures …
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The Guardian, WBMA-TV, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Blue Virginia
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Time is running out for states to prepare for mail voting — Election administrators and voting-rights experts say there's little time to change November voting procedures to account for coronavirus. — Turnout in the 2020 elections had been expected to break modern records but instead …
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ABC News, The Guardian and Atlanta Journal-Constitution