White House aides rattled after positive coronavirus tests and mixed messages on how to respond
The White House continued to scramble to deal with the fallout, as some senior members of the pandemic task force self-quarantined while others planned to continue to go to work.
In pandemic’s early days, U.S. turned down an offer to make N95 masks in America
On Jan. 22, weeks before the crisis sent the government scrambling for masks, Texas manufacturer Prestige Ameritech offered to restart four mothballed production lines. Federal officials did not take the company up on it.
As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal
The administration is effectively bowing to — and asking Americans to accept — a devastating proposition: that a steady, daily accumulation of lonely deaths is the grim cost of reopening the nation.
Alyce LaGasse, shown at her condo along the Willamette River, has a son in Utah and a daughter in Minneapolis. (Mason Trinca for The Post)
Erica Schulte King at her home in Minneapolis. (Jenn Ackerman for The Post)
Erica Schulte King holds a photo of her and her brother with their mom before she moved to Portland. (Jenn Ackerman for The Post)
Alyce LaGasse meets with her ukulele group over Zoom. (Mason Trinca for The Post)
Erica Schulte King holds the invitation to her brother's wedding, which was put on hold. (Jenn Ackerman for The Post)
The wait for a recovery, or a death, from 760 miles away
A mother in Portland, Ore., thought she was most at risk for covid-19. Instead, the virus struck her adult son in Utah — and all she could do was stand by for word.
Guide to the pandemic
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