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COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

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Caught in the epicenter of the coronavirus, Minneapolis man finally comes home

Caught in the epicenter of the coronavirus, Minneapolis man finally comes home

After a visit to his parents in Wuhan, China, unexpectedly turned upside down because of the novel coronavirus, Yulin Yin was cleared to leave quarantine in California and arrived in Minnesota Wednesday.
by Brandt Williams

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Coronavirus update: Diamond Princess passengers leave ship as expert slams quarantine

Coronavirus update: Diamond Princess passengers leave ship as expert slams quarantine

A total of 621 people from the cruise ship have now been confirmed to have COVID-19 — or about 20 percent of the 3,011 people who had been tested for the coronavirus disease as of Wednesday.
by Bill Chappell

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The wide-ranging ways in which COVID-19 is hurting global business

The wide-ranging ways in which COVID-19 is hurting global business

Some factories are beginning to reopen, but labor shortages continue. In a recent poll of U.S. companies by Shanghai's American Chamber of Commerce, 78 percent said they lack staff to resume full production.
by Emily Feng and Amy Cheng

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Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending

Fact-checking 'Contagion': In wake of coronavirus, the 2011 movie is trending

NPR asked epidemiologists and doctors to assess the science in the 2011 movie, in which the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow starts a global pandemic. Spoiler alert: The movie does a pretty good job.
by Fran Kritz

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U.S. to evacuate Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan

U.S. to evacuate Americans from quarantined cruise ship in Japan

The State Department informed U.S. citizens aboard the quarantined ship that it would send a charter plane to remove them. This comes as 67 more COVID-19 cases were identified on the ship.
by The Associated Press and Wynne Davis

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A change in how 1 Chinese province reports coronavirus adds thousands of cases

A change in how 1 Chinese province reports coronavirus adds thousands of cases

Hubei province has added "clinical cases" to the count — patients who exhibit all the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, but have either not been tested or tested negative.
by Scott Neuman and Emily Feng

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