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ER doctor pounds 'criminal' Trump and GOP leaders for inciting fans to plan mass march against the COVID-19 quarantine

Appearing on MSNBC's "AM Joy," an emergency room doctor hammered Donald Trump for undercutting health officials who have been stating the country has a long way to go before coming out of quarantine and said the president's actions are "criminal" and will get people killed.

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Trump pastor's Easter message: Accepting Jesus is 'exactly' like getting paid for the coronavirus

The Texas pastor who President Donald Trump chose to watch on Easter said that accepting Jesus is like getting free money for the coronavirus.

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Adam Schiff drops the hammer on Trump's COVID-19 bumbling: 'It's very hard to congressionally mandate competence'

Appearing remotely on MSNBC's "AM Joy," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) served notice on Donald Trump that there will be a Congressional investigation into his administration's bumbling coronavirus response and then took a shot out the president's management abilities.

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GOP governor busts Trump for lying about states not needing supplies: 'The president was on the call'

Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday suggested that the president of the United States had not told the truth when he said that states have all the medical supplies that they need.

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Chicago health officials using antibody testing to determine if someone had the virus

CHICAGO — The city’s Department of Health has begun administering a limited number of antibody tests to determine whether an individual has contracted COVID-19, Health Commissioner Allison Arwady reported Saturday morning.The so-called serology tests use a blood sample to detect antibodies to the virus rather than the virus itself. Such tests, the first of which received emergency FDA approval earlier this month, are different than the nasal swab tests that have been used to determine whether an individual actively has COVID-19.The antibody tests, which determine whether an individual previous...

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With no US plan to return to normal, some states are creating their own

America doesn’t have a plan to return to normal. The federal government’s failure to produce one could leave millions of workers, students and families stuck inside even after hospitals and first responders have weathered the initial crisis.Reopening society, experts say, will require the regular testing of millions of people, a reliable and fast nationwide reporting network and an army of thousands of investigators tasked with tracking down those who may have been exposed to the virus. Experts have compared this to the effort to put a man on the moon and the Manhattan Project.The federal gove...

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Chris Wallace slams Trump's slow reaction to virus: 'How much did those lost weeks cost us?'

Fox News host Chris Wallace suggested on Sunday that the United States would be seeing fewer deaths from the coronavirus if President Donald Trump had taken the epidemic seriously in January and February.

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‘It is what it is’: Fauci carefully admits Trump ‘could have saved lives’ if he took the virus seriously

Appearing on CNN's "State of The Union" on Sunday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become the most trusted member of the White House COVID-19 task force, was grilled by host Jake Tapper over Donald Trump's decision to delay shutting down the country as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread.

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Ex-Wall Street exec drops bombshell prediction on damage Trump will unleash if he rushes businesses to reopen

Appearing on CNN early Sunday morning, a former Wall Street executive warned Donald Trump that, if he rushes the country to get back to normal before the doctors give the go-ahead, he could do damage that could take a decade to fix.

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Trump's coronavirus task force in chaos with the president being 'one of the biggest obstacles' to progress: WaPo

According to an extensive report by the Washington Post, the White House task force charged with stemming the deadly coronavirus pandemic is still struggling to get their arms around how to deal with the crisis and President Donald Trump is not helping matters.

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Anne Frank's diary more relevant than ever, 75 years on

A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger.

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Virus mutes Easter celebrations as US deaths top 20,000

Christians celebrated Easter Sunday under coronavirus lockdown in many countries with church pews empty and the pope on live stream, as the US death toll from the disease passed 20,000.

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US Supreme Court to hear appeal on abortion during virus crisis

Abortion rights advocates on Saturday called on the US Supreme Court to urgently intervene to force Texas to reinstate the right to abortion, which has been suspended in the state since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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