Headlines for April 17, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#529JP)
- U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Surge to New Record High as 4,500+ People Die in 24 Hours
- New York COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 12,000 While Hospitalizations Continue to Fall
- CDC Investigating SD Pork Processing Plant, Single Biggest COVID-19 Hot Spot in U.S.
- Nurses Suspended in CA for Refusing to Treat COVID-19 Patients Without N95 Masks
- $349B Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses Exhausted
- USAA Will No Longer Seize Stimulus Checks; ProPublica Finds Landlords Violated Eviction Ban
- NY Gov. Cuomo Rules Out Relief for Undocumented Residents
- UnitedHealth Group Profits Surge as Coronavirus Spreads
- Report: COVID-19 Cases in U.S. Amazon Warehouses Will Likely Skyrocket
- China Revises COVID-19 Death Toll in Wuhan Upwards by 50% Since Outbreak First Emerged
- Brazil's Bolsonaro Abruptly Fires Health Minister for Urging Social Distancing
- Guatemalan Indigenous Communities Fear Country's Health System Unprepared to Respond to COVID-19
- Nigerian Security Forces Have Killed at Least 18 While Enforcing Social Distancing Rules
- Puerto Ricans Protest Gov. Vizquez Coronavirus "Propaganda," Demand More COVID-19 Testing on Island
- U.N. Warns of Pandemic's "Potentially Catastrophic" Toll on Children
- Lila Fenwick, First Black Woman to Graduate Harvard Law in '56, Dies of COVID-19
- Vice: Ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder Knew About Flint Water Crisis as Early as 2014 & Lied About It to Congress
- Alaska Says Surgical Abortions Could Be Banned During Coronavirus Pandemic