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Week In The News: Coronavirus Crisis Upends Health Care, Politics And Daily Life

U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 18, 2020, in Washington, DC. Trump ordered the suspension of evictions and mortgage foreclosures for six weeks as part of the government effort to ease the economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Taking stock of an incredible week in a global pandemic. We’ll have the latest facts and figures, the science and politics, and how we’re all coping with the coronavirus crisis.

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Rick Berke, Co-founder and executive editor of STAT, a media company focused on health, medicine and science. ()

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