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23 Mar, 2020
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Stimulus, $1,200 checks hit snag; Sen. Rand Paul tests positive — coronavirus updates
A bipartisan deal on a ballooning stimulus package appeared to hit a snag Sunday, Rand Paul became the first senator to test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, and New York's mayor warned that the crisis "is going to get a lot worse" as the nation lurched through another day under the virus' siege.
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Family helps feed Helping Hands clientele

Editor's note: Let's be honest, we could all use a little good news. If you know of people doing good deeds during this coronavirus crisis, let us tell their story.

Trump singles out Pritzker on Twitter

President Donald Trump called out Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker among others over criticism of the White House's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
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‘Who lives and who dies’: Hospitals could face tough ethics choices

It's a scenario few health-care leaders want to contemplate much less discuss: What if the ranks of desperately ill patients overwhelm the nation's ability to care for them?

Coronavirus live updates: US has 26,000+ cases; Senate negotiates stimulus

A bipartisan deal appeared imminent Sunday on a ballooning stimulus package aimed at pumping life into a national economy staggered by coronavirus-driven shutdowns and quarantines.

 
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Pritzker to Trump: ‘Do your job’

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Springfield History: The children’s quarantine to halt polio

In July 1949, with a polio epidemic under way, Springfield officials ordered children under 16 years old into quarantine - confined, with few exceptions, to their own backyards.