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Should WHO Head Resign Over Coronavirus Coverup?

Behind closed doors, Trump's coronavirus task force boosts industry and sows confusion: "Jared and his friends decided they were going to do their thing," one official said, referring to the president's son-in-law. "It cost weeks."

Called to Comfort: How Chaplain Residents Are Walking Through COVID-19 With Patients and Staff

Editor at The Economist: ‘Something fishy’ about Boris Johnson’s intensive care stay

Corporate America Fleeced Us Again: The coronavirus bill is an orgy of corporate welfare that rivals the 2008 bailout.

Coronavirus could halt L.A. concerts, sporting events until 2021, Garcetti says

In Detroit, virus or no virus, many people have a job they need to get to and one way to get there. The bus.  So while most people are avoiding public spaces, the riders — and drivers — on the No. 17 bus don't have that luxury.  Instead, they help keep the city going, even as they put themselves in harm’s way.  Rolling Through the Pandemic

How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus ‘Checks’ Averaging $1.7 Million

Inside an Urgent Mission to Protect the Homeless From Coronavirus: More than half a million people across the United States experience homelessness on any given night, and they face acute risks from the coronavirus.

The Coronavirus Reveals That the Stars Are Not Like Us: If there was ever a fourth wall dividing celebrities and the rest of us on social media, the quarantine has broken it.

Three Cheers

Covid-19: A Best Case Scenario: Now is the time to imagine a better world.

We Can Afford to Beat This Crisis: Even deficit hawks like Joe Biden know that when faced with the genuine prospect of annihilation, the only adequate response is to do whatever it takes to prevent it.

The Mobilization That Must Start Now: With the coronavirus bearing down on our economy, we must deploy all our resources now to survive—so that one day we may thrive.

How to Save the Postal Service: For starters, nationalize Amazon and the rest of the essential infrastructure of the digital age.

We’re Struggling With the Coronavirus in Spain—but We’re Vastly More Prepared Than the US: I am locked down in Barcelona, but at least there is universal health care and a tradition of mutual support.

Paycheck Protection Program out of money: Thousands of small businesses shut out

Coronavirus cases skyrocket in South Dakota after governor dismisses quarantine measures

Lead scientist says coronavirus vaccine could be ready soon

Philly Counts launches COVID-19 Community Response Captain Program

This is where all 50 states stand on reopening

Beaumont Health launches nation’s largest serological testing study for COVID-19 antibodies

The Trump administration awarded a $55 million contract to a bankrupt company with zero employees for N95 masks, which it's never manufactured

Strip clubs and lobbyists want access to coronavirus stimulus cash

Coronavirus Shows Capitalism Is a Razor’s Edge

This Is a Health Crisis—Stop Treating It Like a War: Even by his standards, Trump is a terrible wartime president

“We Are Essential”: Voices from the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Crisis: These are the voices of the people living, working and fighting through this crisis.

Corrupt billionaire brothers’ meat plants are riddled with coronavirus

Dr Andrew Kaufman Rejecting CoronaVirus

Called to Serve

Community Organizers Double Down During Pandemic

How elderberries can help you fight the flu

How Elderberries Fight Against Viruses, Colds, and the Flu

'No evidence' of virus immunity in recovered patients - WHO

Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina

Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures

The claim: Gilead Sciences received special protective status from the FDA for a drug that may effectively treat COVID-19

Fact check: Drugmaker Gilead Sciences claimed rights to a possible COVID-19 treatment

The US needs an 'army' of contact tracers if there's any hope of getting back to normal

John Oliver Exposes Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s Coronavirus BS

‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at  work

Disney to stop paying 100,000 workers but is still on track to give shareholders $1.5 billion: Move will save company up to $500 million a month. Theme parks and hotels have already been closed for almost five weeks.

How Medical ‘Chickenpox Parties’ Could Turn The Tide Of The Wuhan Virus: It is time to think outside the box and seriously consider a somewhat unconventional approach to COVID-19: controlled voluntary infection.  [Caution: 1) There is currently no proof that infection confers immunity.  2) There are currently insufficient tests to monitor this process.]

How the COVID-19 pandemic is sending American agriculture into chaos

Report reveals tax havens are getting UK PPE supplies

Nasal spray being tested as potential coronavirus treatment

AP: Publicly traded firms get $365M in small-business loans

Why Some People Get Sicker Than Others: COVID-19 is proving to be a disease of the immune system. This could, in theory, be controlled.

'They can't get away with this': doctor who took protest to No 10.  UK health workers’ deaths could be avoided with adequate PPE, says Meenal Viz

WATCH: this emotive Irish video shows how important it is to #stayhome

Bensalem mailing $300 check to homeowners

China puts a city of 10 million 'on lockdown' to curb a new coronavirus outbreak after a student returning from New York 'infected more than 70'

Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Warns US Barreling Toward Second 'Great Depression' Thanks to Trump-GOP Failed Covid-19 Response: "If you leave it to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell we will have a Great Depression. If we had the right policy structure in place we could avoid it easily."

Front-line COVID doctor: We want student loan forgiveness, not hazard pay.  Hazard pay looks less generous when you have $300,000 in medical school debt.

Facing furor, Ruth's Chris high-end steak chain returns $20M small-business loan: The restaurant chain has been under fire for accepting stimulus loans earmarked for struggling small businesses.

Making the Pandemic Worse: By punishing vulnerable people, Trump's policy of "maximum pressure" is undermining efforts to fight

The Food Workers Facing the Pandemic: With America in lockdown, the people running our food system are a lifeline for the rest of us.

Hemming and Hawing: The Lessons We Shouldn't Learn. We’re already creating two classes of people: those who consume and those who deliver.

'It's irresponsible and it's dangerous': Experts rip Trump's idea of injecting disinfectant to treat COVID-19.  "It’s a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves," one doctor said. Here are the facts about poisonous chemicals.

Lysol maker warns against internal use of disinfectants after Trump comments: A spokesperson for the cleaning product company said it had a responsibility to give accurate information to the public.

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week.  Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

Preliminary antibody testing shows coronavirus may be far more widespread than previously believed

Dad under coronavirus lockdown pulls infected tooth with pliers: 'It was hideous'

Can we hold on to the lesson of communal responsibility that the coronavirus pandemic is teaching?
The human impulse toward kindness is in full flower this dark spring. The question is whether these individualized acts of charity can be translated into a broader societal response.

Numbers are failing us: We’re used to quantifying everything, but now numbers are failing us.

Working from home is still working. Take your vacation.  Under more stress and working longer hours, many need a break more than ever.

Better testing and more transparency needed at Massachusetts nursing homes: Assigning blame is not the priority. Urgent action is.

The Pandemic’s Shameless Profiteers: While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.

Native American tribes have been hit hard by coronavirus. Now they're battling red tape to get help

Robert Reich: Coronavirus and the Height of Corporate Welfare

Economic Update: Virus Triggers Capitalist Crash

Going Viral: Fighting for Oxygen in Trump's America.  You go through a national crisis with the president you have, not the president you wish you had.

We’re All In This Together

Tough Times

Is Wall Street Killing Grandma?  As we scramble to locate hospital beds and life-saving equipment during this pandemic, remember that we are fighting two diseases.

Quibbling over what to call COVID-19 misses escalating and dangerous dynamics

The Coronavirus Crash Could Be Worse than the Republican Great Depression of 1930

Thank Farmers and Grocery Workers for Their Service: Our national security depends on those workers who feed us. They deserve a living wage and health care.

Health care is a human right

The Lure of Vertical Integration, or the Walmart model

The Best Cure for COVID-19 So Far is Prevention

The Mightiest Country’s Weaknesses are Exposed

Hospital Shortages: The Corporate Media’s Unsung Story

Ready or Not, Here Comes the Recession

Athlete Activists Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Using their fame to enlighten, raise awareness, and shame their bosses, some athletes have made a difference.

Parenting, Now

Bill Gates on how to fight future pandemics: The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start

How to build and deploy testing systems at unprecedented scale: Countries will have to do it to end their lockdowns safely

The South is likely to have America’s highest death rate from covid-19: It has unusually unhealthy residents and few ICU beds

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries: Official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities

Covid-19: Why is America’s death toll so high? | The Economist

Gov. Wolf issues emergency action plan for Chester due to pandemic

The Coronation

U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch

To get around stay-at-home orders, Spaniards have been walking some unusual 'pets'

Top Manhattan ER doc commits suicide, shaken by coronavirus onslaught

COVID-19 has put us down, but not out

Publicly traded Dallas hotel group says it’s keeping $126 million in small-business rescue loans: Other publicly traded companies, including AutoNation and Landry’s, have returned their loans.

Millions of farm animals culled as US food supply chain chokes up: US government vets said to be ready to assist with culls, or ‘depopulation’ of pigs, chickens and cattle because of coronavirus meat plant closures

Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) - Blood Types and Susceptibility - Update 10

Rt Covid-19: These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measure of how fast the virus is growing. It’s the average number of people who become infected by an infectious person. If Rt is above 1.0, the virus will spread quickly. When Rt is below 1.0, the virus will stop spreading.

How America built the best pandemic response system in history – and threw it away: The Trump administration destroyed an infrastructure, built over two decades, that may have been humanity’s most powerful weapon against new diseases.

Dozens of bodies found in U-Haul trucks outside NYC funeral home

Opening a Country With a Closed Mind

USDA inspector dies as coronavirus spreads in meat packing plants.

Dozens of bodies found in U-Haul trucks outside NYC funeral home

Chomsky: COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a “Failed State”

‘It’s intimidation’: Texas landlord locks out tenants, despite pandemic and eviction moratoriums

Governor Announces May 1 Statewide Reopening Of Limited Outdoor Recreational Activities To Help Pennsylvanians Maintain Positive Physical, Mental Health

PUC Encourages Awareness Of Telephone Discount Lifeline Program To Consumers At Risk Of Isolation During Challenging Times:

Tips For Pennsylvanians Receiving Paper Stimulus Checks

Central Bank names new advisory board members for 2020

Entire UK order of 250 Chinese ventilators ditched over danger to lives: Doctors found breathing kits were so badly made they feared they could kill patients

Coronavirus tests: how they work and what they show

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