Coronavirus
- ‘I Don’t Think We Should Ever Shake Hands Again.’ Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus Should Change Some Behaviors for Good by Amy Gunia (TIME)
- We Still Don’t Know How Many People Are in the Hospital With COVID-19 by Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)
- Peter Navarro Is the Worst Possible Person to Be in Charge of Pandemic Supplies by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
- What a Terrible Time to Cut Federal Funding for Coronavirus Testing by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Experts Think We’re Flattening The Coronavirus Curve, But Hospitalizations Haven’t Peaked Yet by Jay Boice (FiveThirtyEight)
- Fauci Says U.S. Coronavirus Deaths May Be ‘More Like 60,000’; Antibody Tests On Way by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- The Two States Where Trump’s COVID-19 Response Could Backfire in 2020 by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next. by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
- Coronavirus: Almost 20% of NYPD’s uniformed staff off sick by James Crump (Independent)
- Black People Are Dying From COVID-19 at Higher Rates Because Racism Is a Pre-Existing Condition by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
- Coronavirus now leading cause of death in US by Kaelan Deese (The Hill)
- Trump officials lay groundwork for May reopening by Brett Samuels, Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
- Postmaster General warns that Postal Service will run out of money by end of fiscal year without aid by Marty Johnson (The Hill)
- Analysis: Trump vs. the WHO: Breaking down the president’s claims and the WHO’s actions by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving by RO Kwon (NY Times)
- The Trump administration is cutting federal resources for coronavirus testing sites, forcing states to run them in the ongoing fight against the pandemic by Tyler Sonnemaker (Business Insider)
- Trump administration wants to reopen as much of the US economy as possible by the start of May, a new report says by Joseph Zeballos-Roig (Business Insider)
- Trump Removed the Head of the Coronavirus Bailout Oversight Board. Its Members Could Be Next. by Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica)
- WHO warned of transmission risk in January, despite Trump claims Peter Beaumont and Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Trump administration pushing to reopen much of the U.S. next month by Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Jose A. Del Real, and William Wan (Washington Post)
- House probes role of Jared Kushner as federal government seizes orders of COVID-19 medical supplies by Igor Derysh (Salon)
Coronavirus: Unemployment
- Jobs Carnage Mounts: 17 Million File For Unemployment In 3 Weeks by Jim Zarroli, Avie Schneider (NPR)
- More Than 16 Million Americans Have Lost Their Jobs In The Past Three Weeks by Neil Paine (FiveThirtyEight)
- Coronavirus: US weekly jobless claims hit 6.6 million (BBC)
- Unemployment claims near 17 million in three weeks as coronavirus ravages economy by Rebecca Rainey, Quint Forgey (Politico)
Coronavirus: Fed
- Mission Critical To Save The Economy: Fed Goes Even Bigger With Massive Loan Help by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Fed pulls out $2T lending bazooka to boost businesses, cities by Victoria Guida (Politico)
- Federal Reserve Rolls Out $2.3 Trillion Plan to Stabilize Economy by Martin Crutsinger / AP (TIME)
Coronavirus: Aid / Relief Package
- Senate Democrats Block GOP Effort To Boost Small-Business Aid by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- Partisan battle over US coronavirus aid for small businesses (Al Jazeera)
- Progressives Push for Rescue Package that Puts People Over Corporations by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
Other News
- Poll finds Biden with 11-point national lead on Trump by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Barr says he supports Trump’s ouster of intelligence watchdog who received whistleblower complaint that helped spark impeachment by Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post)
Opinion
- The Supreme Court Fails Us by Linda Greenhouse (NY Times)