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The Senate passes a $484 billion coronavirus relief plan that expands testing and provides aid to small businesses and hospitals. The House hopes to approve the legislation today. 1/20
"If 9/11 and 2008 wore out trust in the old political establishment, 2020 should kill off the idea that anti-politics is our salvation." 2/20
The director of the CDC says a second wave of the coronavirus would likely hit during flu season in the fall, putting "unimaginable strain" on the healthcare system. 3/20
In a form of oxygen deprivation called "silent hypoxia," people dying of COVID pneumonia don't realize they're having difficulty breathing until it's too late. At-home testing with a simple pulse oximeter could identify and treat the problem earlier. 4/20
Fear of ERs has resulted in a severe decline in people coming in for heart attacks and other potentially deadly conditions. 5/20
See also: Organ donations have decreased by a third and non-critical transplants are being delayed. 6/20
US health officials have revised the country's first known COVID-19 fatality to a death that occurred on Feb. 6—three weeks before the first reported death. 7/20
Mortality data from 11 countries shows at least 28,000 more people have died over the last month, likely from COVID-19. 8/20
"A single drive-in theater in Florida was the source of the entire domestic box office this past weekend." 9/20
Amid the crisis surrounding the coronavirus, the Upright Citizens Brigade has permanently closed its remaining spaces in New York. 10/20
"Some future person dressed in elk fur with a spear made from a Chrysler bumper will peer at those markings and take a picture with their phone." Paul Ford on creating things amid the impending doom of so much else. 11/20
A tale of two layoffs: a German and an American. Guess which one won't miss a paycheck. 12/20
Whole Foods monitors stores at risk of unionizing through factors such as diversity, unemployment, and employee sentiment. 13/20
Satellite data suggests China has been skimming rainy-season freshwater off the Mekong upstream of Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. 14/20
Amid a massive bleaching event, Australia geo-engineers brighter clouds in an effort to save the Great Barrier Reef. 15/20
The US is trying to deploy more unpredictably to keep potential foes on edge—hence pulling long-range bombers out of Guam. 16/20
Calls for US libraries to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters increased by almost a fifth last year. 17/20
Hiccups in online grocery shopping are resulting in quarantined people ordering far more food than they intended. 18/20
"In this unnatural state of isolation, these are the things that bind." How photographers are capturing this moment in our lives. 19/20
IKEA does its part to help people through quarantine: by publishing its recipe for Swedish meatballs. 20/20
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