Headlines for March 30, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#51EQ3)
- Trump Extends Social Distancing, Says U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Could Reach 100,000
- States Mandate Quarantines, Set Up Checkpoints to Limit Cross-State COVID-19 Infections
- ER Doctor Who Blasted Lack of Worker & Patient Protections at WA Hospital Removed from Post
- Coronavirus Cases Mount in Prisons and Among Law Enforcement Workers
- 9-Month-Old Is First Known Infant to Die from the Coronavirus in U.S.
- Cigna and Humana to Waive Copays for Coronavirus Treatment
- CBS News Executive and Cancer Survivor Maria Mercader Dies from Coronavirus
- New York Scrambles to Build Hospitals, Imposes Fines for Violating Social Distancing Rules
- NYC Nurses Protest Lack of Critical Equipment
- New York Bars Hospitals from Banning Support People During Labor and Delivery
- CA Gov. Newsom Says State Received 170 Broken Ventilators from Nat'l Stockpile
- President Trump Signs $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package
- Millions of Undocumented Workers Left Out of Coronavirus Stimulus Plan; Dozens of Immigrants on Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center
- Staten Island Amazon Employees to Walk Out as Workers for Grocery Delivery App Instacart Go on Strike
- Death Toll Nearing 11,000 in Italy as Nations Hardest Hit by Coronavirus Pandemic Demand Aid from EU
- Popular Japanese Comedian Ken Shimura Dies of COVID-19
- Police in Philippines Reportedly Are Locking People Who Violate Nat'l Lockdown in Dog Cages
- First COVID-19 Death Reported in Syria as Libya Announces It'll Free 450 Prisoners to Stem Spread of Coronavirus
- Brazilian Govs. to Promote Social Distancing; Guatemalan Man Deported from U.S. Tests Positive for COVID-19
- Coronavirus Cases Mount in Africa as Governments Turn to Repressive Measures
- U.S. Pulls Out of Third Iraqi Base
- Civil Rights Icon Rev. Joseph E. Lowery Dies at 98