Evening Edition: Wide swaths of the country are ill-prepared for a surge of virus patients
As the coronavirus hits, coal companies aim to cut the tax they pay to support black-lung miners; Unemployment claims soar, signaling worst jobless rate since Great Depression; Trump and top aides repeatedly use briefings to describe efforts that have not panned out; The lesson of revised death toll estimates shouldn't be that distancing was an overreaction; Five inmates have died of covid-19 in one federal prison; staff and inmates describe the fear inside the facility; Streets are empty, but Home Depot is packed; After the pandemic, how will the economy bounce back?; U.S. has expelled 10,000 migrants at border during coronavirus outbreak; Barr calls lockdown measures 'draconian' and suggests they should be revisited next month; Linda Tripp wanted to make history. Instead, it nearly destroyed her.
The pandemic has revealed a dearth of reliable data about the key parts of the nation's health-care system, leaving decision-makers operating in the dark. The Post assembled data to analyze the availability of the critical-care resources needed to treat patients who require extended hospitalization.
By Amy Brittain, Ted Mellnik, Dan Keating and Joe Fox ●Read more »
The nation's coal companies, citing the economic impact of the pandemic, want to roll back their payments to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. That would leave the federal government to pick up the tab for 25,000 ailing miners.
Last week's 6.6 million applications for unemployment benefits are on top of the nearly 10 million Americans who had already applied for unemployment the two previous weeks.
The Trump administration's pronouncements and pledges have turned out, again and again, to be out of sync with what doctors, nurses and stricken families are reporting.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Nick Miroff ●Read more »
There has been an increasing focus on the question of whether we went too far. But the revised estimate was a result of new information about distancing efforts.
More than 50 correctional officers, inmates and family members tell The Post they fear the U.S. Bureau of Prisons' mishandling of the pandemic in prisons across the country will lead to a massive death toll.
After the coronavirus pandemic passes, a new economic reality. What happens when you can't wash your hands in the midst of a public health crisis? And a look into Wuhan as the lockdown lifts.
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Emergency public health measures have led to a 56 percent drop in unlawful border crossings from Mexico, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection now has fewer than 100 people in custody.
America cast former White House secretary Linda Tripp as the villain in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. History will remember her, just not in the way she ever hoped or imagined.
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