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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) suggested during Sunday evening’s CNN debate that we must address the climate change “crisis” with the same urgency as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

A video posted to social media on Saturday shows a man flipping through an Italian newspaper to show the obituaries of Italians who have died from the coronavirus in just one city in northern Italy.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing a wave of criticism this week over his refusal to shut down New York City public schools in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Students at Harvard and MIT are fighting back against the recent decisions to shut down campus housing in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. At MIT, 50 students held a “sit-in” protest to demand that university officials reconsider their decision to send students home.

Prime Minister Boris Jonson is asking British manufacturers to switch their production lines to start mass-producing ventilators, as the nation faces a shortage of the critical machines in the event of a large-scale coronavirus outbreak.

The DOD has halted all domestic travel for troops, civilians, and their families assigned to bases and other facilities within the U.S.

CNN and other media outlets are accusing President Trump of lying when he said that Google is developing an app to help those who have potentially contracted the Wuhan Coronavirus get tested.

Mexican health officials confirmed 11 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) bringing the total to 26 since the virus first appeared in the country. With the exception of one case, all of the current cases in Mexico have been from individuals who returned from travel to the U.S., Europe, or Asia.

GOP Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) on Friday announced the pending closure of his Washington, DC, office over growing fears of the Chinese coronavirus.

Harvard Medical School published a guide this week that was designed to help students cope with anxiety they experience as a result of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Harvard’s primary suggestions are to practice yoga and meditate.

Tech giant Apple has reportedly opened its retail stores in China once again after shutting them down last month due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

Nearly 150 testing centers around the nation have canceled the March 14 administration of the SAT exam. The cancellations potentially impact thousands of students who were preparing to take the exam on Saturday.

Internet service provider AT&T has reportedly suspended all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans prepare to work from home or self-quarantine to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

A new report published by the New York Times detailed the chaotic turn that American campuses took in the past week as administrators told students to leave campus in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Some students from low-income families told reporters that they are unsure if they can afford a flight home.

Louisiana is postponing its presidential primary elections amid fears of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin confirmed on Friday.

Italian authorities warned that people showing signs of coronavirus and who refuse to self-quarantine could face murder charges if they fatally infect another person.

Populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini has criticised the leftist coalition government’s mass quarantine decree, saying it does not go far enough to protect Italians from coronavirus.

The coronavirus outbreak that has led to the quarantine of all of Italy has had a side effect of stopping the activity of migrant transport NGOs in the Mediterranean.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proclaimed on Thursday that the Trump administration, through what he claims is its purported “incompetence and recklessness,” has “threatened the lives of many many people in our country” and made the pitch for a single-payer system.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak at 1:00 p.m. on his proposal to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, but things were delayed when no fewer than seven staffers first had to mend the microphone.

Students at colleges around the country are demanding campus housing refunds after being told to leave their residence halls as a precautionary measure against the Wuhan coronavirus.

The CUNY and SUNY public college systems in New York state announced this week that they are shutting down their campuses for the remainder of the semester, affecting 700,000 students.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Thursday that it is moving Sunday’s Democrat debate from Phoenix, Arizona, to CNN’s studio in Washington, DC, amid growing coronavirus fears.

The Italian government has required the public to fill out paperwork in order to leave their own homes, as the country remains under lockdown.

Public universities in Florida were ordered on Wednesday by the state university system to shut down in response to the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Jimmy Fallon during a Wednesday appearance on The Tonight Show that the coronavirus pandemic is proving to Americans that the United States needs a single-payer health care system.

E-commerce platform Shopify is reportedly giving employees $1,000 each to build out their work-from-home setups after ordering its staff to work remotely due to the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Doctors working in Italy’s overwhelmed hospitals say they have been forced to ration services for older, sicker patients in order to prioritize younger patients who are more likely to be saved from the coronavirus.

Health officials in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon confirmed a case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This marks the second case of COVID-19 reported in a Mexican state bordering Texas. The confirmation comes on the same day that the World Health Organization officially reclassified the global coronavirus crisis outbreak as a pandemic.

Chinese officials are increasingly denying the coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China, in what some experts say is an attempt to lay the groundwork to blame the outbreak on the United States.

China’s “cover-up” of the coronavirus cost the world community two months of time to respond, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said.

YouTube, the video-sharing platform owned by Google, is just starting to relax a draconian policy of demonetizing videos related to the Wuhan coronavirus, which was today declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The clampdown will remain in place for most channels.

D.C. swamp-creature Berin Szóka sparked outrage on Monday when he tweeted that it would be “poetic justice” if President Trump died of the Wuhan Coronavirus. But who is Berin Szóka?

A Colorado teachers union has canceled its “Day of Action” protest at the state Capitol so that the group doesn’t “contribute in any way to the anxiety people are experiencing” based on fears of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Universities around the country announced this week that they are shutting down their campuses in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, including UCLA and Duke. Some universities have told students that they should not return to campus for the rest of the semester.

One of the world’s largest gaming and consumer electronics conventions, the E3 expo, has been canceled due to fear of the Wuhan coronavirus.