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The latest
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added
six symptoms to its covid-19 list, suggesting
health experts are learning more about the growing number of ways
physicians see the virus affecting patients. Issues that could appear
2-14 days after exposure to the virus are:
- Chills
- Repeated shaking with
chills
- Muscle pain
- Headache
- Sore throat
- New loss of taste or
smell
The true toll of the pandemic is coming more into focus. The
United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths in the early
weeks of the outbreak, nearly two times those that
were publicly attributed to covid-19 at the time, according to a
Washington Post analysis. Read
the investigation that paints a picture of unusually high mortality.
The White House will expand its reopening guidelines, with a
focus on schools and camps, child-care programs, certain workplaces,
houses of worship, restaurants and mass transit. This
comes as groups lobby to ease restrictions and as protests against
stay-at-home orders erupt at state capitals around the country. Read
details about the guidelines, which haven't yet been officially
released, and the sharp debates they have sparked in the Trump
administration.
Despite millions of Americans losing their jobs or being
furloughed during the outbreak, most still support
stay-at-home orders while the virus is spreading. The
Pew Research Center released a poll showing that Americans
are twice as worried about the country opening up too quickly as
opening too slowly.
Thousands of people are willing
to be infected as guinea pigs in the effort to develop a coronavirus
vaccine. Researchers normally
draw hard lines that prohibit knowingly infecting people. “But
in a pandemic, the overriding aim must be to avoid a potentially
catastrophic toll,” two
ethicists write in a Washington Post op-ed.
Experts are warning that the small business Paycheck Protection
Program could again run out of money in days, despite just being
refreshed by Congress last week. Lenders like
JPMorgan and Chase say they already have tens of thousands of
applicants lined up for the loans. Here's
what we know about where the money went in the first round of the
bailouts, and the flood of applications for the second.
More
important news
Pelosi says a ‘guaranteed income’ plan for Americans is
worth considering in the next big coronavirus bill.
A Virginia preacher, who posted his coronavirus doubts on
Facebook, went to Mardi Gras for street ministry. He
never made it home.
Fact Checker: Trump’s
claim the Postal Service loses money on every e-commerce package it
delivers.
OSHA releases guidance to keep meatpacking workers safe amid
surging cases and fears
about America's food supply.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, perhaps
the world's most famous covid-19 patient, is now back at work.
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Goldman Sachs
chief Asia economist Andrew Tilton discusses China’s
economic contraction and what its recovery may signal for
the rest of the world in this episode of The Daily
Check-In.
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Live updates
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Your questions, answered
“I still haven't gotten my stimulus check. Where is it?”
—Dozens of you, in the last few days
This answer comes with help from Michelle
Singletary, The Post's personal finance columnist, who has been
covering the payments (and lackthereof) for weeks.
Many
people are still waiting for their stimulus checks from the
package President Trump signed one month ago today. But over the
weekend, the Treasury Department announced it had made “significant
enhancements” to the Get
My Payment tool to fix several
glitches. So you should try that first (or again, if
you've been unsuccessful in the past).
If you're still waiting for your money, Michelle
reports some key dates to mark in the calendar:
- Social
Security, survivor and disability non-tax-filers will see payments in
their bank accounts by April 29.
- Supplemental
Security Income non-filers should begin seeing
payments in early May.
- Veterans
benefit recipients should also begin receiving their stimulus
payments by early May.
More important details:
If you have successfully entered your bank information on the
portal “any day until noon on Tuesday, your payment date will be
available beginning the following Saturday," the IRS website
says. If you miss the Tuesday deadline, you have to wait another week
to get a payment date. Or, if your payment has already been
processed, you’ll get a check that could take up to 14 days to
receive.
If you receive SSI or Veterans Affairs benefits and didn’t file a
tax return for 2018 or 2019, you have until May 5 to use the
non-filer tool on the IRS website to receive the $500 payment per
dependent child under 17. If you miss the deadline to register
dependent children, you will still get your $1,200 payment, but you
will have to wait until next year to get the additional $500 when you
file a 2020 tax return.
Read
Michelle's column for more information about the IRS portal and
when you can expect your payment, or join her live
Q&A on Thursday to ask your stimulus question.
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Today’s top reads
Find more stories, analysis and op-eds about the outbreak on
our coronavirus
page, including:
- Companies’ use of
thermal cameras to speed return to work sparks worries about
civil liberties.
- Should you let your
kid get that app? How to set boundaries during social
distancing.
- Trump’s WHO funding
freeze during coronavirus pandemic gives China an opening to
expand its influence.
By
Laura Meckler, Valerie Strauss and Moriah Balingit ● Read
more »
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Opinion ● By Andrea Ganna, Benjamin Neale and Mark
Daly ● Read
more »
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