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2:45 PM ET, April 22, 2020

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New York Times:
Coronavirus Death in California Came Weeks Before First Known U.S. Death  —  The earliest U.S. deaths publicly attributed to the virus had been on Feb. 26, when two people died in the Seattle area.  Santa Clara County said an autopsy showed a Feb. 6 death was also related.
Discussion: CNN, Vox, ABC17NEWS and Raw Story
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sccgov.org:
County of Santa Clara Identifies Three Additional Early COVID-19 Deaths  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Three individuals who died at home in February and March were positive for SARS-CoV-2  —  Santa Clara County, CA - The County of Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner has identified three individuals …
Los Angeles Times:
Autopsies reveal first confirmed U.S. coronavirus deaths occurred in Bay Area in February  —  Two coronavirus-infected people died in Santa Clara County on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17, the medical examiner revealed Tuesday, making them first documented COVID-19 fatalities in the United States.
Discussion: Reason, Balloon Juice and KTLA
San Francisco Chronicle:
First known U.S. coronavirus death occurred on Feb. 6 in Santa Clara County
Discussion: National Review
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A disturbing new study suggests Sean Hannity helped spread the coronavirus  —  Sophisticated new research links Hannity's coronavirus misinformation to “a greater number of Covid-19 cases and deaths.”  —  Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, media critics have warned that the decision …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Study finds people who watched Sean Hannity were more likely to die from COVID-19
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Axios qualifies for PPP loan  —  Axios is among the small businesses that qualified for a PPP loan to protect existing jobs and help weather the coronavirus crisis.  —  Why it matters: We are in the somewhat unique position of being both a media company, which covers government and business …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: Biden's “four Cs” of Trump coronavirus criticism
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Cuomo says Bloomberg volunteered to help develop “tracing army”
Discussion: Breitbart
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Joe Biden to name selection panel for running mate by May 1  —  Former vice president Joe Biden said he intends to name the panel of advisers who will help him select a running mate by May 1, offering the nugget early Wednesday morning via an appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”
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Deepa Shivaram / NBC News:
Warren endorses down-ballot women candidates for the fall
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Biden to announce VP selection panel by May 1
Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Democratic lawmaker announces resignation week after endorsing Trump  —  A little more than a week after he announced that he was endorsing President Donald Trump, Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones announced Wednesday morning that he would not complete his term.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump prepares to hit the road  —  President Donald Trump is eager to hit the road.  —  As his own health officials continue to warn against nonessential travel, Trump has privately urged aides over the past week to start adding official events back to his schedule, including photo ops …
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NBC News:   Trump aides explore ways to get a ‘frustrated’ president out of Washington
Wall Street Journal:
Health Chief's Early Missteps Set Back Coronavirus Response  —  HHS Secretary Alex Azar waited for weeks to brief the president and oversold his agency's progress  —  WASHINGTON—On Jan. 29, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told President Trump the coronavirus epidemic was under control.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
CNN Boss Tells Staff They Will Not Return to Offices Until at Least September  —  STAY AT HOME  —  CNN won't send staffers back into its offices until at least September.  In an internal email obtained by The Daily Beast, network chief Jeff Zucker told staff that the vast majority of company staff will …
New York Times:
Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief  —  The president's family business pays at least $3 million a year to the federal government for the lease on its D.C. hotel, which is all but empty because of the virus.  The next monthly payment is coming due.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Organization, Written Out of U.S. Bailout, Taps Europe Aid
Discussion: The Hill
Bloomberg:
McConnell Says He Favors Allowing States to Declare Bankruptcy  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he favors allowing states struggling with high public employee pension costs amid the burdens of the pandemic response to declare bankruptcy rather than giving them a federal bailout.
Discussion: Fox News, Axios, Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
McConnell: Senate will confirm more judges as soon as it returns to session
Discussion: Breitbart
Denise Grady / New York Times:
New U.S. Treatment Guidelines for Covid-19 Don't See Much Progress  —  A panel of experts said there was insufficient evidence about many drugs that have been considered as possible remedies for coronavirus patients, including some President Trump has advocated.
Discussion: CNN, medRxiv and Washington Times
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New York Times:   The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Las Vegas mayor: Reopen casinos, let the ones with the most infections then close  —  Standing in front of an empty storefront along Main Street, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was beaming with optimism, believing that businesses would make it through the coronavirus pandemic.
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner  —  An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth.  —  As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily.  Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities …
Discussion: The Verge and Kaiser Health News
Washington Post:
The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous.  But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping.  —  The ads on Facebook sounded populist and passionate: “The people are rising up against these insane shutdowns,” they said.  “We're fighting back to demand that our elected officials reopen America.”
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Trump's Coronavirus Response May Be Turning Off Older Voters  —  Two of the political data points that currently spell bad news for Donald Trump are steadily worsening public assessments of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and Joe Biden's strong position among voters over 65 …
CBS Miami:
Congresswoman Donna Shalala Admits Mistake In Stock Sales & Apologizes  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Miami Congresswoman Donna Shalala admits she made a mistake by failing to report at least a half dozen stock sales she made after being elected to the House in 2018.
Discussion: Axios and Miami Herald
Larry Elliott / The Guardian:
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country  —  Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression  —  Donald Trump's botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a “third world” country and on course …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Is Biden Gaining Older Voters, and Losing Young Ones?  —  Even modest differences could prove crucial in an election that begins with numbers and coalitions very similar to those in 2016.  —  After impeachment, a coronavirus pandemic and four years of tweets, the early national polls show …
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Many small businesses say loans won't get them to rehire  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some small businesses that obtained a highly-coveted government loan say they won't be able to use it to bring all their laid-off workers back, even though that is what the program was designed to do.
David Knowles / Yahoo News:
Birx says Georgia residents ‘can be very creative’ about getting tattoos and haircuts while social distancing  —  Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the leading medical experts on President Trump's coronavirus task force, tried to reconcile the controversial order by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reopening …
Discussion: Daily Kos, New York Post, CNN and The Hill
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Few Americans support easing virus protections  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite pockets of attention-grabbing protests, a new survey finds Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
GOP Quietly Pushes Through Long-Sought Priorities As Pandemic Rages  —  Rolling back environmental regulations, imposing voter ID, banning abortion — it's all happening while the public is focused on the coronavirus.  —  President Donald Trump announced Monday night that he planned to suspend all immigration to the United States.
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Stacey Abrams on ‘The View’: Reopening parts of Georgia right now ‘makes no sense’  —  “It simply puts more Georgians at risk,” she said of the decision.  —  As the public campaigning ramps up to be presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's vice presidential pick, Stacey Abrams …
Discussion: Townhall and Twitchy
Conversations with Tyler:
Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox (Ep.  93)  —  Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / RSS  —  Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next rescue package is now in doubt  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED, by Thursday morning, the HOUSE will be voting on the half-trillion-dollar coronavirus relief bill that just passed the Senate, readying it for a trip to the White House for President DONALD TRUMP'S signature.
Robert Chappell / Madison365:
“Reopen Wisconsin” protest permit denied; organizers say it'll happen anyway  —  Organizers of a protest against Governor Tony Ever's “Safer at Home” order say the Department of Administration (DOA) has denied their permit application citing “the state of emergency,” but the protest will go on.
Discussion: The Hill and Althouse
J.D. Vance / The American Mind:
End the Globalization Gravy Train  —  Donor dollars shouldn't be made in China.  —  In the present crisis, we find ourselves locked in an interminable debate about whether to “reopen” the economy.  To put my cards on the table, I've found many of the orders issued by governments …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Why we can't build  —  The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19.  Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images  —  America's inability to act is killing people.  —  In a viral essay, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple exhortation: It's time to build.
Discussion: Spectator USA
 
 
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ABC News:
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