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“Vice President Mike Pence went on a tour of the Mayo Clinic’s coronavirus testing labs Tuesday — and ignored the prestigious Minnesota hospital’s rules that all occupants wear masks.

“Mayo Clinic had informed @VP of the masking policy prior to his arrival today,” the clinic tweeted while Pence was still inside meeting with doctors and patients.

“The tweet was later deleted. Asked for comment, the clinic said only that it had “shared the masking policy with the VP’s office.”

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/pence-flouts-mayo-clinic-policy-touring-facility-without-mask-n1194556)

“Vice President Pence visited the Mayo Clinic on Tuesday and spoke with patients and staff while not wearing a face mask, an apparent violation of the medical center’s policy during the coronavirus pandemic and a decision that also appears to run contrary to the Trump administration’s recommendations for combating the outbreak.”

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-meets-with-mayo-clinic-patients-staff-while-not-wearing-face-mask/2020/04/28/57c4200c-897e-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html)

“The count represents nearly one-third of the world’s reported covid-19 cases and includes more than 57,000 deaths since February, though experts call those numbers an underestimation.”

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/28/coronavirus-latest-news/)

“Trump on Monday urged the nation’s governors to “seriously consider” reopening schools as part of his push to restart the economy, though many states have already recommended against resuming the school year.”

“43 states as well as Washington, DC, have ordered or recommended that schools don’t reopen this academic year.

“Other states have only recommended that local officials continue supporting students through distance learning models. Those states are California, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee.

“The Montana governor has given school districts the option to begin in-classroom learning as early as May 7.”

(https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/trump-governors-call/index.html)

“The government started taking applications Monday for a further $310 billion in emergency funds, and quickly ran into technical problems.”

“Minutes after a $310 billion aid program for small companies opened for business on Monday, the online portal for submitting applications crashed. And it kept crashing all day, much to the frustration of bankers around the country who were trying — and failing — to apply on behalf of desperate clients.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/business/sba-loan-system-crash.html)

“A narrowly divided US Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right to freely share the official law code of Georgia. The state claimed to own the copyright for the Official Code of Georgia Annotated and sued a nonprofit called Public.Resource.Org for publishing it online. Monday’s ruling is not only a victory for the open-government group, it’s an important precedent that will help secure the right to publish other legally significant public documents.”

(https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/supreme-court-rules-georgia-cant-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall/)

“The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that it expected the federal budget deficit to hit $3.7 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year, which would be its largest size as a share of the economy since World War II.”

“…the budget office said it expected the economy to shrink by 5.6 percent over the course of this year, ending 2020 with an unemployment rate of nearly 12 percent.”

“It projected growth of 2.8 percent in 2021 — which would be nowhere close to the sharp rebound that some Trump administration officials have said they expect — and a budget deficit of more than $2.1 trillion for the 2021 fiscal year.”

“By the close of the 2020 fiscal year, which ends in September, the budget office now expects the size of the national debt to exceed the annual output of the economy, with debt to gross domestic product at 101 percent.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/stock-market-live-coronavirus.html)

“Chills, muscle pain, sore throat and headache are among the ailments now considered potential indicators of the disease.”

“Previously it had listed just three symptoms: fever, cough and shortness of breath.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/health/coronavirus-symptoms-cdc.html)