Sunday News: “How the Virus Got Out”; “Italy’s death toll feeds anxiety of what lies ahead in Europe, U.S.”; “What the data is telling us about the coronavirus”; “Trump poses, while these governors actually lead”; “Helping hourly workers should be priority one”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 22.

• Italy’s death toll feeds anxiety of what lies ahead in Europe, U.S.
• In Europe, Coronavirus Crisis Keeps Getting Worse
• How the Virus Got Out (“The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why.”)
• Italy: PM warns of worst crisis since WW2 as coronavirus deaths leap by almost 800
• Coronavirus live news: Iran and Germany cases jump overnight; Russian military medics to help Italy
• Over 80 million Americans under virtual lockdown as China records new cases
• Holocaust Survivor Is First Coronavirus Death In Israel
• Coronavirus cases top 300,000 as countries warn citizens to stay home
• Italy, Pandemic’s New Epicenter, Has Lessons for the World
• Cases Double in a Week; Olympics Delay Considered: Virus Update
• Goodbye, Tokyo 2020. It’s time to start hoping for 2021.
• The Olympics must be canceled or postponed
• White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘Cover-Up’
• Governments and Companies Race to Make Masks Vital to Virus Fight
• How the Coronavirus Shattered Trump’s Serene Confidence
• DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
• DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic (Hell no.)
• The coronavirus recession is already here (“We’re sacrificing parts of our economy for the sake of public health.”)
• Can Trump cancel the November election? (“No.”)
• Lawmakers hammering out details of economic stimulus: ‘We’re getting closer’
• Donald Trump starts 2020 in the worst polling position since Harry Truman (“A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 52% to 43% in a general election matchup. — An average of all polls this month puts Biden’s advantage at a similar 7 points.”)
• U.S. Considers Special Enrollment Period for Affordable Care Act Due to Coronavirus Spread
• Short-term thinking plagues Trump’s coronavirus response
• How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe (“The death and economic damage sweeping the United States could have been avoided—if only we had started testing for the virus sooner.”)
• The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared. (“The shutdowns happened remarkably quickly, but the process of resuming our lives will be far more muddled.”)
• It’s Time to Protect the 2020 Election, Too
• Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon
• Trump poses, while these governors actually lead
• Thank God the Doctor Is In (“Peeking out our windows, we see America shriveling.”)
• The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings
• Sticking points force stimulus package talks to spill into Sunday
• Just About the Last Person to Trust With Additional Power Now Has a Lot More
• Democrats grow nervous over primary delays
• Democrats sound the alarm on Joe Biden’s young voter problem
• A complete ‘lockdown’ is hardly what the U.S. needs at this moment (“Government should not strangle the society it is trying to save.”)
• This wouldn’t have happened if Hillary Clinton had won
• CASEY: Cline says he voted on principle against coronavirus funding package (“… some of the most controversy-plagued and ridiculed Republicans in the House of Representatives joined Cline in voting against the bill.”)
• Video: Gov. Northam’s Saturday AM Briefing on the Coronavirus Situation
• Gov. Northam Issues Executive Order 52 to Allow for Quicker Increase in Bed Capacity at Hospitals, Nursing Homes (Also: AG Mark Herring issues advisory opinion on meetings by public bodies)
• Northam sticks with decision not to close bars, restaurants and other businesses
• Virginia health officials say they can test 1,000 people for COVID-19. Experts say that’s nowhere near enough.
• Doctors urge governor’s office to solve ‘desperate medical supply shortage’
• Public bodies can meet virtually to discuss urgent matters, Herring says
• As Virginia records its third coronavirus death, health care workers still need more supplies
• TIMELINE: A look at how coronavirus news developed and quickly escalated in Virginia
• Cecilia Aguilera: Virginia making strides to expand voting access
• Editorial: Helping hourly workers should be priority one (“As a region dependent on tourism — and the hourly hospitality and food service employees who staff the industry — Hampton Roads will need swift and immediate action to stave off catastrophe.”)
• Number of known Virginia coronavirus cases rises to 152; first positive test in Chesapeake confirmed (“That’s a 33% increase over the 114 COVID-19 cases that health commissioner Norm Oliver reported on Friday.”)
• In Sudden, Bizarre Turnaround, Far-Right State Sen. Amanda Chase (R) Goes From Conspiracy Theorizing About Coronavirus Being a “Bio Weapon” to Calling Out Her Own “Base” for Not “Taking This Seriously”(Chase now finding it “hard to get that toothpaste back in the tube”)
• Open Letter From Healthcare Providers to Gov. Northam: “We beg you to use your exceptional powers immediately -– literally TODAY -– to solve the desperate medical supply shortage that is thwarting our efforts to control this pandemic before it reaches the point of no return”
• Kobak and Atkins: Reforms needed at Virginia’s electric cooperatives (“It’s time for Virginia officials and legislators to protect rural Virginians by examining anti-democratic practices at the commonwealth’s electric co-ops, and ensuring that all Virginia rural electric co-ops have genuine transparency and fair board elections.”)
• So far, no shipyard worker, contractor or Navy sailor at the yard has fallen ill. (“So far, no shipyard worker, contractor or Navy sailor at the yard has fallen ill.”)
• Williamsburg retirement community resident tests positive for coronavirus
• Fleenor to move from prosecutor, politics to the bench
• Arlington County Rethinks FY2021 Budget Due To Coronavirus
• Outbreak sends many Fredericksburg area residents home to work
• Thousands of Richmond’s restaurant workers, hair stylists, baristas and hotel workers just lost their jobs. They don’t know what’s next.
• Fairfax County records first COVID-19 death
• Continued cool and dry today; rain tonight into tomorrow