Coronavirus: Reopening Economy
- I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary. by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- Opinion: Trump’s new troll: He won’t “reopen” the economy — he just wants someone to blame by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Trump dismisses calls for nationwide COVID-19 testing before reopening economy: “Do you need it? No” by Jake Johnson (Salon)
- Trump says he’ll announce members of ‘opening our country council’ next week by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump to announce council focused on reopening the US for business by David Smith (The Guardian)
- Trump calls decision on reopening US the biggest of his life by Morgan Chalfant, Brett Samuels (The Hill)
Coronavirus: Testing
- Coronavirus Antibody Tests Expected in the U.S. in Days, Says Fauci by AP (TIME)
- Coronavirus Tests Are Being Fast-Tracked by the FDA, but It’s Unclear How Accurate They Are. by Lydia DePillis, Caroline Chen (ProPublica)
- Trump is woefully confused about why more coronavirus testing is vital by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- America is still failing on coronavirus testing by German Lopez (Vox)
Coronavirus: New York
- Coronavirus: New York has more cases than any country (BBC)
- Coronavirus: New York ramps up mass burials amid outbreak (BBC)
- State of New York Now Has More Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Than Any Country in the World by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Cuomo calls on Trump to use DPA to ramp up coronavirus testing by Jessie Hellmann (The Hill)
- Cuomo Won’t Open New York Until Millions of People Are Tested for Coronavirus by Tess Owen (VICE)
- Nurses Were Promised $10K a Week to Serve in NY Hospitals. They Say It Was a “Classic Bait and Switch.” by Will Peischel (Mother Jones)
- New York’s Inequalities Are Fueling COVID-19 by Clare Malone (FiveThirtyEight)
Coronavirus: California
- California Leads the Nation in Response to COVID-19 by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- LA County Will Begin Random Coronavirus Testing Today by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
Coronavirus
- Fox News’ Brit Hume Hits Donald Trump With The Painful Truth About His Coronavirus Briefings by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
- Coronavirus May Reshape Who Votes And How In The 2020 Election by Pam Fessler (NPR)
- Inside NASA’s crash effort to help fight coronavirus by Jacqueline Feldscher (Politico)
- Trump sought a national revival by Easter. Now he has a new Easter message. by Gabby Orr (Politico)
- Opinion: Coronavirus is not some great leveller: it is exacerbating inequality right now by Owen Jones (The Guardian)
- Why Isn’t the White House Using the Nation’s Pandemic Experts? by Roger Pielke Jr. (Slate)
- The Navy Is Losing Its Fight Against the Coronavirus by Mary Harris (Slate)
- Yes, Trump Hotels Do Appear to Qualify for Coronavirus Bailout Benefits by Meg Cramer (Mother Jones)
- The United States Has a Very Low COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’ by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Fauci: Administration discussing immunity cards for Americans by J. Edward Moreno (The Hill)
- WATCH: White House Task Force Briefing On Coronavirus Response by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Trump administration seeks bipartisan coronavirus negotiations with Congress by Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android by Russell Brandom, Adi Robertson (The Verge)
- Schiff unveils bill to create coronavirus commission to review US response by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis by Jeff Stein, Heather Long, and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Not-that-bad or not-that-high: How advocates of a return to normal misrepresent coronavirus deaths by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Live updates: Confirmed coronavirus death toll has reached 100,000 worldwide; Trump’s push to reopen U.S. economy spurs worries over resurgence of infections by Siobhán O’Grady, Rick Noack, Alex Horton, John Wagner,
Katie Mettler, Brittany Shammas, Miriam Berger, and Eva Dou (Washington Post) - ‘Speak the truth’: Obama says ‘biggest mistake’ mayors can make in coronavirus pandemic is to misinform the public by Allyson Chiu (Washington Post)
- Trump tweets about ratings for his coronavirus press briefings for the 3rd day in a row as death toll approaches 17,000 and unemployment nears 17 million by John Haltiwanger (Business Insider)
- The White House Pushed FEMA To Give its Biggest Coronavirus Contract to a Company That Never Had to Bid by J. David McSwane and Yeganeh Torbati (ProPublica)
- FEMA Report Warned of Pandemic Vulnerability Months before COVID-19 by Thomas Frank, E&E News (Scientific American)
- A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House by Lena H. Sun, William Wan, and Yasmeen Abutaleb (Washington Post)
- Opinion: How Trump turned ventilators into a form of patronage by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Fauci: Kids could get ‘infected’ if Florida reopens schools by Matt Dixon (Politico)
- Trump’s Labor Department Fights to Protect Workers From Benefits by Eric Levitz (NY Magazine)
- U.S. allies, encouraged by Washington, said goodbye to their Cuban doctors. As coronavirus surges, some are arguing for their return. by Anthony Faiola and Kimberley Brown (Washington Post)
Other News
- Barr backs Trump on firing of intel IG, calls Russia investigation baseless by Matthew Choi (Politico)
- Bill Barr is back: He wants to “reopen” the country — and undo the Russia probe by Heather Digby Paraton (Salon)
- New Trump Ad Suggests a Campaign Strategy Amid Crisis: Xenophobia by Nick Corasaniti, Jeremy W. Peters and Annie Karni (NY Times)
- Ex-Ambassador, Washington Governor Says Trump Campaign ‘Fanning Hatred’ With New Ad by AP (Time)
- Trump admin looks to cut farmworker pay to help industry during pandemic: report by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- Trump says US will cut oil production to secure global deal by Rebecca Beitsch (The Hill)