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covid-19 is spreading bad in NY because AT LEAST 1.5 million people (commuters) from the tri-state area and the other surrounding states flow in and out of New York A DAY, 24/7. 1.5+ million people A DAY from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, NJ, PA, DC, etc, flow back-and-forth through New York 24/7. Cuomo had no chance. He fought hard to lock down New York and millions of people across the region ignored the warnings. Now that area is a catastrophic mess.

51 Republican Senators Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm

I hope people remember this if and when the Republicans send you a check. They are opting for the short term solution instead of the one that could help more people in the long run. I'm allowed to work from home and still draw my normal salary without issues, but still will get the same check as the waiter who gets paid minimum wage and can't take off when he's sick.

Democrats warn that one or two direct payments to Americans won’t be enough
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-response-democrats-argue-1000-checks-wont-be-enough.html

New York Gov. Cuomo orders 75% of non-essential workforce to stay home as cases surge to 4,152
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/new-york-gov-cuomo-orders-75percent-of-non-essential-workforce-to-stay-home-as-cases-surge-to-4152.html

An Immigrant Has Killed Himself In An ICE Family Detention Facility
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigrant-man-suicide-ice-detention

Trump’s new Mexico policy will slash US food supply
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/19/trumps-new-mexico-policy-will-slash-us-food-supply-during-coronavirus-crisis-farmers-warn/

Neo-Nazi gets 10% in Republican primary - even after state party warned voters
https://forward.com/fast-forward/441879/neo-nazi-republican-holocaust-denier-illinois-primary/

North Carolina’s Republican Sen. Richard Burr had key information about the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) three weeks ago. This information was not shared with the general public or his broader constituents, however, and was only supplied to wealthy donors at a posh “luncheon” in Washington, D.C. In a secret audio recording obtained by National Public Radio’s Washington Investigative Correspondent Tim Mak, Burr can be heard relaying information about the severity of the Coronavirus well before even the White House was coming clean about the potential pandemic and resulting panic. | There’s one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history. It’s probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic. | Contemporaneous statements from Burr—from three weeks ago—suggested nothing at all similar to his concern or frank assessment in line with the comments made by the Republican senator in that secret recording. “There will be, I’m sure, times that communities, probably some in North Carolina, have a transmission rate where they say, let’s close schools for two weeks, everybody stay home,” Burr continued—an optimistic timeline for a crisis believed likely to last for nearly two years, according to the latest information from the White House.
https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/gop-senator-kept-coronavirus-info-secret-for-weeks-but-shared-it-with-wealthy-donors/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818192535/burr-recording-sparks-questions-about-private-comments-on-covid-19

Scott Says FL Officials Need To Get People Off Beaches As DeSantis Refuses To Do So
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scott-says-fl-officials-need-to-get-people-off-beaches-as-desantis-refuses-to-do-so

Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden
https://www.axios.com/tulsi-gabbard-drops-out-2020-presidential-race-a77753c8-0d70-4513-be62-d94eb1a58997.html

Republicans Senators Erupt in Laughter After Suggestion to Call Corporate Bailouts "Freedom Payments" in Closed-Door Meeting With Mnuchin - "I wonder how many 'freedom payments' this senator has gotten for his campaign from the corporations they are about to bail out?"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/19/gop-senators-erupt-laughter-after-suggestion-call-corporate-bailouts-freedom

Never going to pass: Schumer, Murray, Brown, And Warren Unveil Bold, New Plan To Cancel Student Loan Payments For Duration Of Coronavirus Emergency And Provide Minimum $10K Payoff For All Federal Student Loan Borrowers
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-murray-brown-and-warren-unveil-bold-new-plan-to-cancel-student-loan-payments-for-duration-of-coronavirus-emergency-and-provide-minimum-10k-payoff-for-all-federal-student-loan-borrowers

The central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, reported no new infections for the first time
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-pmn/chinas-wuhan-reports-no-new-infections-for-first-time-imported-cases-surge

Good: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51944780

Woman who flew from U.S. to China for Coronavirus test faces criminal charges: A woman who flew from Massachusetts to Los Angeles — then to Beijing, where she tested positive — is under investigation on allegations of concealing her symptoms and putting fellow travelers at risk of infection.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-18/woman-who-flew-from-u-s-to-china-for-coronavirus-test-faces-criminal-charges

US drops case against Russian firm accused of 2016 election meddling — The US Justice Department abruptly dropped its criminal case Monday against the company controlled by a confident of Russian President Vladimir Putin that funded the campaign to meddle in the 2016 elections. | Just weeks before the trial was to begin, the Justice department announced it was withdrawing the eight-count indictment of Concord Management and Consulting, a company owned by close Putin ally Yevgeniy Prigozhin. Concord, which funds the St. Petersburg-based troll factory the Internet Research Agency, was part of an indictment against 13 Russian individuals and three companies -- one of the major outcomes of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 vote. The Internet Research Agency, Mueller charged, actively pumped disinformation, memes and fake news into social media through false accounts to influence US voters and tilt the election four years ago to help President Donald Trump. Like Mueller, US intelligence chiefs concluded that the Concord-run operation was one half of a sweeping campaign overseen by Putin -- the other half was hacking by Russian intelligence -- to help Trump and hurt his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/us-drops-case-against-russian-firm-accused-2016-election-meddling-doc-1py3dz1

Republican-controlled USDA fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic.  The Agriculture Department said Wednesday that it would appeal a judge’s ruling that it would be “arbitrary and capricious” to move forward during a global health crisis with food stamp changes that would force millions (not 700,000, millions) off the program. | Especially now, as a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential,” Howell wrote in her ruling. Ellen Vollinger, legal director for the advocacy group the Food Research & Action Center, said her organization opposes the changes at any time. But the idea of pressuring low-income workers to keep their hours up is particularly dangerous right now, she said. “You don’t want to have workers going out when they’re sick and trying to document the right number of hours just to keep their benefits,” she said. | Vollinger said that if the Agriculture Department really does intend to fight for the SNAP program changes, it might end up publicly clashing with Congress. The economic relief package recently approved by the House also suspends the government’s ability to remove SNAP benefits over the work requirement.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/usda-fights-to-purge-food-stamps-recipients-despite-pandemic

Italy charges more than 40,000 people with violating lockdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/italy-charges-more-than-40000-people-violating-lockdown-coronavirus

Dow futures drop 800 points, pointing to another day of declines on Wall Street
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/dow-futures-open-175-points-lower-amid-wall-street-equity-rout.html

Reoublican Sen. Ron Johnson: We Shouldn’t Shut Down Economy Just Cause Up to 3.4% of Population Could Die
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-ron-johnson-we-shouldnt-shut-down-economy-just-cause-up-to-34-percent-of-population-could-die

Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/minnesota-and-vermont-just-classified-grocery-clerks-as-emergency-workers/

Alaska congressman who called coronavirus the "beer virus" attended NRA fundraiser after skipping COVID-19 relief fund vote | Alaska's sole congressman skipped a vote on providing U.S citizens an emergency coronavirus relief package days after saying the seriousness of the pandemic is being "blown out of proportion." Rep. Don Young, 86, missed the House vote on whether to ensure two weeks of paid sick leave for workers, expand family leave for workers, and provide free testing for COVID-19 which took place in Washington, D.C. in the early hours of March 14. As noted by the Anchorage Daily News, later that day Young attended an NRA fundraising event in Mat-Su, Alaska, which he posted about on Facebook.
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-alaska-don-young-relief-vote-nra-1493163

Entire Georgia Senate told to self-quarantine over state senator's coronavirus case
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-georgia-senate-self-quarantine-advice-c0f6a3fb-16df-4c3e-a775-18055925f224.html
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/state-sen-brandon-beach-has-coronavirus-senators-asked-quarantine

New Zealand closes all borders
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-announces-total-new-zealand-border-closure.html

French police fine over 4000 people for violating coronavirus home confinement order
https://www.france24.com/en/20200318-france-coronavirus-lockdown-violation-attestation-epidemic-christophe-castaner-public-health

Once Bernie suspended digital ads on his facebook campaign page all the pro-Bernie shit on reddit's politics subforum disappeared

Coronavirus: Italian army called in to carry away corpses as city's crematorium is overwhelmed
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-army-called-in-to-carry-away-corpses-as-citys-crematorium-is-overwhelmed-11959994

Italian doctor dies of coronavirus after working without gloves due to shortage
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/18/italian-doctor-dies-of-coronavirus-after-working-without-gloves-due-to-shortage

Nursing home staff spread coronavirus to other facilities, CDC investigation finds
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-18/coronavirus-spread-nursing-homes

Taxpayers paid President Trump’s Doonbeg resort $15,144.94 for Secret Service lodging during Vice President Mike Pence’s September 2019 trip to Ireland, according to records obtained by CREW.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/secret-service-pence-doonbeg-resort-15k/

Chinese Authorities Admit Improper Response To Coronavirus Whistleblower
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/19/818295972/chinese-authorities-admit-improper-response-to-coronavirus-whistleblower

COVID-19 kills 1 Iranian every 10 minutes, About 50 Iranians are contracting Coronavirus every hour, says Health Ministry spokesperson
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/488389-health-official-iran-every-10-minutes-one-person-dies-coronavirus

German police raid neo-Nazi movement nationwide seizing firearms in 10 of Germany's 16 states, interior ministry says racism "even in times of crisis" would be combated
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51961069

"Trump is attacking Joe Biden. Bernie is attacking Joe Biden. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is attacking Coronavirus. And that’s the difference." - Kaivan Shroff on Twitter
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1240329641329598464?s=20

Spanish coronavirus death toll jumps 30 per cent - rising by 209 to 767 - in a day as number of cases rockets 25 per cent to 17,147
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8130415/Spanish-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-30-cent-rising-209-767-day.html

I did not see that Tulsi Endorsement coming... For someone who is anti-establishment, Anti-DNC, and pro Bernie in 2016; to jump to Biden, and not Bernie, is a shock.

We have released Todd Gurley.
https://twitter.com/RamsNFL/status/1240725770332278785

Saints’ HC Sean Payton tested positive for the coronavirus, he told ESPN on Thursday. Payton is the first person in the NFL world known to test positive for the virus.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1240734052157657088

Broncos just informed former Super-Bowl MVP Joe Flacco that he is being waived with a failed physical designation, per source. Flacco now joins a group of free-agent QBs looking for work. Three Super Bowl MVPs in headlines this week: Flacco waived, Foles traded, TB to TB.
http://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1240679664521220098

Again, such a rare circumstance that QB supply outweighs QB demand. Among those still available on the market ... Andy Dalton, Joe Flacco, Cam Newton, Jameis Winston
https://twitter.com/albertbreer/status/1240684589334446080?s=21

The deal after the deal: the Eagles and new CB Darius Slay reached agreement on a 3-year, $50 million extension that includes $30 million guaranteed, @RosenhausSports tells ESPN.

Fucking terrible, fucking ignorant idiots: The Big 3 plans to launch unprecedented 3-week quarantined tournament in April to aid fans enormous basketball appetite caused by coronavirus pandemic.
http://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1240721155813543936
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-big-3-plans-to-launch-quarantined-tournament-in-april-in-response-to-coronavirus-sports-hiatus-190821749.html

Not only are practice facilities closed to players beginning tomorrow, per today's memo, but they remain prohibited from using public health clubs, fitness centers, gyms, college facilities, or the like. In effect: the NBA's players can't work out anywhere.
https://twitter.com/TimBontemps/status/1240704687260794886

Nuggets do not plan to have any players tested for COVID-19 unless they exhibit symptoms, per state protocol. So far, none have.
https://twitter.com/Adam_Mares/status/1240718406912839680

Global Level 4 Health Advisory – Do Not Travel: "The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19." | The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.  In countries where commercial departure options remain available, U.S. citizens who live in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period.  U.S. citizens who live abroad should avoid all international travel.  Many countries are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and implementing travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines, closing borders, and prohibiting non-citizens from entry with little advance notice.  Airlines have cancelled many international flights and several cruise operators have suspended operations or cancelled trips.  If you choose to travel internationally, your travel plans may be severely disrupted, and you may be forced to remain outside of the United States for an indefinite timeframe.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/ea/travel-advisory-alert-global-level-4-health-advisory-issue.html

The coronavirus has a national security nexus in this Minnesota terrorism case, where a doctor accused of supporting ISIS changed his travel plans because Jordan closed its borders to incoming travel. The doctor made a new plan to travel to LA instead, feds say
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/pakistani-doctor-charged-attempting-provide-material-support-isis

Why is it a long game? Because one fairly likely outcome, per epidemiologists, is that we'll have to deal with multiple waves of COVID-19. Citing uncontextualized worst-case scenarios that don't come to fruition will make it harder for people to buy in when 2nd/3rd/etc waves hit.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1240759538858504194

Reminder: Soon after he offered public assurances that the gov was ready to battle coronavirus, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading btwn $582,029 & $1.56 mil of his holdings on Feb13 in 29 separate transactions
https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness

While I get why people like to cite those numbers to spark action⁠—our testing/surveillance is way behind in the US, the numbers COULD get VERY bad without social distancing⁠—this is also a long game and I worry about the effects of citing numbers like that without context.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1240758501372280838

This is what NYC needs by early April:
* 3m N95 masks
* 50m surgical masks
* 15k ventilators
* 25m each of:
   - surgical gowns
   - cover-alls
   - gloves
   - face masks
We make none of these things in NYC. We need the federal gov't to mobilize production immediately.
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1240753121850253312

Now, take those numbers and multiply for LA, Chicago, Phoenix, Houston, etc, etc, etc.

A friend who works at an Inova Alexandria outpatient clinic, directly involved in patient care, has had a bad cough/aches the past few days and his PCP (at Inova) still can't get him tested. Both unconscionable & an increasingly common story.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1240757454239141889

Nikki Haley resigns from Boeing's board in protest of the company asking for federal aid amid fears of mass revenue loss due to the coronavirus.She didn't quit when it was clear that Boeing's negligence got people killed. She didn't quit when it was clear that Boeing's negligence got people killed.
https://www.axios.com/nikki-haley-coronavirus-boeing-bailout-2d131726-beae-4637-9645-391cf31411c8.html

Just got off phone with Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Mass General. He is looking for anyone with a 3D printer to help make masks. He says there is a formula online. “I would hope companies across the country...would start making masks later this afternoon.” @NBC10Boston
https://twitter.com/PerryNBCBoston/status/1240690362441560066

MGH has 8 confirmed cases of COVID-19. 88 are under investigation. Slavin says we are early in curve, we should know more about trajectory of country in a week. MGH is less busy than usual. About 70% occupancy (typically in 90s). Slavin credits cancelling elective surgeries
https://twitter.com/PerryNBCBoston/status/1240692077328887808

If anyone could get tested then the count would be much higher but also the curve would be growing less steeply because cases would have shown up in the data sooner.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1240746706939060229

For the most part, we're counting (coronavirus tests x 7%) or something more so than we're counting coronavirus cases. This will be less true once testing becomes more adequate but it's gonna be true for at least a week or so and probably longer in some locations.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1240748199792574467

Something like "known or presumed coronavirus-related ICU admissions" would be a more reliable indicator of the actual rate of growth. I don't know to what extent that sort of data is available.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1240748652659908611

This is part of the admin's broader outreach effort to millennials/Gen Zers to educate younger audiences about #coronavirus & the importance of heeding social distancing guidelines. Dr. Fauci was on @PardonMyTake yesterday and @Surgeon_General was on the @bobbybonesshow last week: Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Anthony Fauci will be live on Facebook at 7 p.m. ET, 4 p.m. PT to talk coronavirus
https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1240757866048499712

Trump must have been watching Tucker Carlson on Fox last night. Today he says the FDA has approved the drug (chloroquine) and it will be available almost immediately.
https://twitter.com/l_e_whyte/status/1240704275086340096

American Airlines is grounding 55,000 flights in April and is parking 450 planes – about half of its fleet – in response to decreased demand and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241345821.html

The U.S. will keep processing visas for seasonal workers after earlier saying it would suspend routine visa services in most countries indefinitely in response to the coronavirus.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-keeps-processing-seasonal-worker-visas-after-warning-from-farmers-11584652889

Schumer said he hadn’t seen the bill yet but he’s been told “it provides a bailout for a number of industries.”
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1240754579786129408

Carnival is making its cruise ships available as floating hospitals for non-virus patients to help relieve stress on health care system
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/carnival-offers-cruise-ships-for-virus-response-trump-says

The Senate Republican "direct money bailout" gives wealthy people who are married and work and have children thousands of dollars in direct payments (poor people, unemployed people, homemakers, seniors, the disabled, do not qualify) an gives megabillion dollars bailouts to triple-billion dollars corporations (airlines, cargo air, hotels, hospitality, restaurant chains, disney, oil industry, et). These industries were already given a trillion-dollar tax cut last week. Republicans want small business owners to take out loans from banks to keep their employees paid while not working rather than giving directly to everybody, but the big corporations who've already received hefty tax cuts aren't required to do the same. And the "direct" bailout is strictly for the people working in the affected industries who are wealthy and still working and married and with children, the very class who DO NOT NEED THE BAILOUT, THEY HAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THE BANK AND OWN THEIR HOMES OUTRIGHT AND HAVE NO DEBT.

The Florida Dept of Health: Please follow CDC guidelines CDC guidelines: If possible, let Floridians work from home FL Health Dept employees: Let us work from home Dept of Health: No

The #RedSox announced today that LHP Chris Sale will undergo ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery (Tommy John) on his left elbow.
https://twitter.com/RedSox/status/1240745103146266630

A 4th member of a single New Jersey family died on Thursday from the coronavirus, a relative said. 3 other family members remain hospitalized, 2 of them in critical condition, and nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-family-coronavirus.html

#Hospital Administrators in #Tampa, #Florida & elsewhere around the #US are not following @HHSGov guidelines & are refusing to provide doctors the necessary Personal Protective Equipment (#PPE) for medical staff. #Coronavirus #COVID19 (1/
https://twitter.com/thegeopolitico/status/1240744458871767040

This is being discussed in multiple physician social media groups in the US. From one doctor in #Tampa: "We are all facing the same problem. Our administrators do not want to lose revenue. Think the whole thing is overblown. More concern about margins and revenue" #COVID19 (2/
https://twitter.com/thegeopolitico/status/1240744460876689422

"They won’t cancel elective cases. Won’t follow HHS/CMS guidelines. None of us will speak because we don’t want to lose our jobs, especially not during a recession." THIS NEEDS TO BE CALLED OUT. #Tampa #Coronavirus #COVID19
https://twitter.com/thegeopolitico/status/1240744462684499968

A Deadly Coronavirus Mix in Florida: An Aging Population and Lots of Young Visitors | In Florida, where a quarter of the population is older than 60, Gov. Ron DeSantis has started to control public gatherings. But testing has been slow. | A disease that is deadly to the elderly and easily spread by the young has left Florida especially vulnerable. Yet faced with the prospect of dealing a shattering blow to an $86 billion tourism industry, Gov. Ron DeSantis has moved more slowly than some other states to contain a pandemic that is spreading with alarming speed. Whole swaths of the state have yet to begin robust testing, according to State Department of Health data. And even as some of the beaches still swarmed with college revelers, the state refused to close them. | So far, 314 people have tested positive, many of them in South Florida.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/us/coronavirus-florida-desantis.html

Networks should stop airing LIVE and unedited these propagandistic, error-ridden, fact-challenged “briefings” by @realDonaldTrump. They increase anxiety and deliver MISinformation. Give us Anthony Fauci or @NYGovCuomo or @GavinNewsom instead please. @NBCNews @CBSNews @ABC
https://twitter.com/DeanLuk/status/1240754458574950402

Trump on Thursday was photographed reading from notes at the daily coronavirus task force press conference where the word "corona" was crossed out and replaced with "Chinese" to described COVID-19.
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1240719967848366082/QrfFqSek?format=jpg&name=600x314
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/photo-trump-remarks-shows-corona-crossed-out-replaced-chinese-virus-n1164111?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np

Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/trump-told-governors-to-buy-own-virus-supplies-then-outbid-them

‘We Lost To The Feds’ On Coronavirus Supply Bids, Gov. Charlie Baker told President Donald Trump that Massachusetts is trying to buy coronavirus supplies but is losing out to the federal government.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-supplies-ventilators-trump-baker-massaschusetts/

9% of Working Americans (14 Million) So Far Have Been Laid Off As Result of Coronavirus; 1 in 4 Workers Have Had Their Hours Reduced; 2% Have Been Fired; 20% Have Postponed a Business Trip; Shock Waves Just Now Beginning to Ripple Through Once-Roaring US Economy
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=23b10fd3-4f50-43a0-b722-64b5a9fc143d

The world's fastest supercomputer identified 77 chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Repurposing_Therapeutics_for_the_Wuhan_Coronavirus_nCov-2019_Supercomputer-Based_Docking_to_the_Viral_S_Protein_and_Human_ACE2_Interface/11871402/3

Three members of the 76ers organization have received positive tests for coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1240762673312251910

Three members of the 76ers organization have received positive tests for coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1240762673312251910

Sixers tested players, coaches, and specific basketball operations support staff, team says. The three positive tests came out of that grouping.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1240762995581607937

Bayer donates millions of tablets of chloroquine to help in COVID-19 fight
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation-malaria-med-chloroquine-to-help-covid-19-fight-report

GameStop's corporate office has instructed worldwide stores to not comply with law enforcement who try to force closure because of the COVID-19 quarantines. Stores are to be marked as "Essential Retails" and to stay open on lockdowns.
https://www.cbr.com/coronavirus-gamestop-defies-quarantine-claims-essential-retail/

Razer joins battle against coronavirus, as gaming hardware maker donates up to one million surgical masks
https://www.techradar.com/news/razer-joins-battle-against-coronavirus-as-gaming-hardware-maker-donates-up-to-one-million-surgical-masks

Two Lakers players have tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. The team may test the remaining players who did not take tests Wednesday morning.
http://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1240779385201967105

Amazing: “Drone walks dog for man on coronavirus lockdown in Cyprus”
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-drone-walks-dog-cyprus-lockdown-20200319-dvpxy46a7ncxza2kxijlu6ym6i-story.html

Right now, FEMA can't help people with unemployment or food assistance because pandemics aren't considered natural disasters. There's no good reason for this. I just introduced a bill to fix this so that FEMA can treat this pandemic like a disaster and help people now.
https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1240795044522659841

Chinese food is not racist. Neither is American food, Italian food, or Ethiopian food. In fact, they’re all delicious. But saying Chinese Virus as Asian Americans are beaten on the streets out of racist fear in the coronavirus pandemic is sickeningly racist. It’s not that hard.
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1240726058711711745

How bad is unemployment across country? Pennsylvania economic official told labor leaders today they’d gotten 180k new unemployment claims in past three days, per person w knowledge of call.
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1240804622685687809

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-loeffler-dumped-millions-in-stock-after-coronavirus-briefing

Los Angeles County announces near-lockdown, all residents urged to stay home except for essential needs.
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1240804634991747072

We need to see the stock trades of President Trump and his family in the month of February.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1240807466310434816