The Washington Post
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
– Apr 4, 2020, 6:00 AM
By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
Associated Press
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Michael Biesecker
– Apr 5, 2020, 5:24 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the…
The Washington Post
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Emma Brown, Beth Reinhard, Aaron Davis
– Apr 5, 2020, 8:05 AM
A widespread lack of access to testing in the early weeks of the U.S. outbreak means people with respiratory illnesses died without being counted, epidemiologists say. Even now, some people who die at home or in overburdened nursing homes are not…
The New York Times
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David Zweig
– Apr 5, 2020, 2:00 AM
Olivia and Raul De Freitas are currently on their honeymoon, at a five-star resort, in the Maldives, a nation composed of more than a thousand tiny, idyllic islands in the Indian Ocean, like a trail of smashed crystals scattered on a slab of blue…