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State eyes nursing homes for coronavirus treatment centers as Mass. reports more than 1,000 new cases

US deaths double over two days; Trump asks CDC to issue travel advisory for N.Y, N.J., and Conn.

Unprecedented crisis is met with extraordinary resolve: Mass. residents united in support of coronavirus restrictions
The survey reveals an extraordinary sense of shared purpose in the face of an unprecedented crisis, with Massachusetts residents nearly unanimous in their support for the severe restrictions that Governor Charlie Baker has imposed on life in the state.

Read the full results of the Suffolk/Globe poll about the coronavirus response

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

US coronavirus-related deaths double in two days, reaching 2,000

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

Officials emptying nursing homes across state to create COVID-19 recovery centers

Massachusetts public health officials are working with hospitals and nursing homes to empty out close to a dozen skilled nursing facilities across the state to set up recovery centers for COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.
The latest coronavirus numbers from MassachusettsIn state’s intense chase for protective equipment, coronavirus isn’t the only rival — the feds are, too

Live Updates
Trump says he has asked CDC to issue a ‘strong’ travel advisory for NY, CT and NJ; Sweden is outlier in coronavirus restrictions
Here are recent updates on what’s happening in New England, the United States, and around the world.

New York’s staggering coronavirus outbreak, in five charts

With not much of a playbook, here’s how local business leaders acted as the coronavirus crisis spread

Managing people has emerged as a paramount concern as the stresses from working from home and the fear of illness threaten to overwhelm everyone.
How much money could you receive from the coronavirus relief bill? It depends on how much you make

Opinion

MICHAEL A. COHEN

The lesson of the coronavirus pandemic? Competence matters

EDITORIAL

To defeat the coronavirus, America needs immigrants

Renée Loth

Old treatments for a novel coronavirus

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

‘The strong get stronger’: The coronavirus pandemic will exacerbate some of the most worrisome trends in American life — unless we take action

Why does it seem the rich and famous get tested for coronavirus while others don’t? It’s complicated
Power and prestige certainly help — witness the Boston Celtics enlisting a private company to conduct testing — but differing interpretations by health care providers of federal and state testing guidelines also play an outsized role.

Mass. public health commissioner tests positive for COVID-19

Cutbacks for some doctors and nurses as they battle on the front line

These financial cutbacks, coming in response to sudden shortfalls during the coronavirus outbreak, have triggered an outcry from doctors and nurses who are already working grueling shifts in demanding working conditions.

Dan Shaughnessy
1969 Holy Cross football team lost its season to a virus
Ninety of 97 Holy Cross players and coaches had contracted hepatitis A.

Interactives

The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country. Here’s how we got there

How overwhelmed could New England hospitals become? Explore maps of different scenarios

New York’s staggering coronavirus outbreak, in five charts

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The coronavirus tracker

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

These maps track the path of coronavirus

Dos and Don'ts

Do you need to stock up on bottled water? In a word, no.

Yes, you can still get a package delivered

With the coronavirus restrictions, can I travel by car?

Does your mail have to be quarantined?

In the midst of coronavirus, a rare moment of joy
In a time increasingly marked by isolation, a small ceremony in a Brookline park brings two together.

GameStop to employees: wrap your hands in plastic bags and go back to work
GameStop is allowing customers to make purchases from outside the door and is instructing employees to wrap a plastic bag around one hand, open the door a crack, and take the customer’s credit card, according to a manager at a local store.

Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84
Michael McKinnell teamed with his friend Gerhard Kallmann to enter an architecture competition for a new Boston City Hall in the 1960s, and their design resulted in one of Boston's most famous buildings.

More Recent headlines

2 inmates at Middlesex jail test positive for COVID-19

Two elderly women in Woburn die from COVID-19

One person shot, four people arrested in Dorchester

Coronavirus resources

How the Greater Boston biomedical community is tackling the coronavirus

Some good coronavirus news: genetic detectives are on the case

At senior living homes, a heightened readiness as coronavirus looms

Mass. insurers to cover full cost of coronavirus testing, treatment

Keeping your hands clean in the time of coronavirus

Access to this important coronavirus content is provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Sign up for our Cooking From Home newsletter

What do we cook during trying times? How do we think about food? For answers to these questions, along with plenty of delicious recipes, sign up for Cooking From Home, a two-week newsletter from food critic Devra First about cooking during coronavirus, starting this week.

Recommended Reads

For two epidemiologists, MGH becomes a makeshift wedding venue

Two epidemiologists on the frontlines of COVID-19 were married before a small group of disaster medicine colleagues, all wearing surgical masks and sitting six feet apart.

For online teachers (and students), school is a work in progress
What does remote education look like in Massachusetts? The picture varies by classroom, by age group, by school, and by community, as educators across the state try to resume teaching, or at least restore connections with their students, whose routines have been upended by coronavirus-related school closures.

The realities of coronavirus ‘super-spreading’
It’s a phenomenon seen at Boston’s Biogen meeting and elsewhere. What can we do about it?

Rhode Island

Rhode Island to New Yorkers: If you come here, stay indoors

At a time when life and work and routines are changing every day, Rhode Islanders awoke Saturday to this: The sight of National Guardsmen, in camouflage and surgical masks, tracking down and corralling dangerous interlopers: New Yorkers.

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

Love in the time of COVID-19 brings wedding-bell blues

Newton

Special Projects

Back to the battleground

What we learned from each of the battleground states we visited ahead of the 2020 election
Who will win in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin next year? The Globe’s D.C. bureau spent time reporting in these crucial battleground states. This is what they found.

Trump’s evangelical support mystifies his critics, but in Wisconsin, it looks stronger than ever
The president’s personal behavior and some of his core political beliefs, including his hostility toward refugees, seem at odds with the major tenets of Christianity. But Trump’s bond with evangelicals has proven to be remarkably resilient.

More from the Battleground project

Trump promised Wisconsin’s farmers his trade wars would pay off. They’re still waiting

A Pennsylvania roofer loved Bill Clinton and voted for Obama. Here’s how Trump lured him from the Democrats

Prayers in Vegas, slumped shoulders in N.H. — inside the final days of Warren’s campaign

Elizabeth Warren reflected on what was happening in a series of behind-the scenes interviews with the Globe in the final month of her campaign.
Education

The Great Divide

A new Globe initiative exploring the deep inequalities in our public education system, examining both the challenges and possible solutions to creating equal opportunity for all students.
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Seeing Red: A Globe Spotlight report on Boston’s crippling traffic

We endure some of the nation’s worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddeningly unreliable. It is a crisis — a very slow moving crisis — that puts our region’s economic prosperity at risk. Who is to blame? Can anything be done? The Globe Spotlight Team investigates.
At the edge of a warming world

On Cape Cod, climate change is already terrifyingly real

Come with us as we explore the Cape to better understand what climate change is doing here, what it means for the future of this beloved place, and what the cost of inaction might be.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Katherine Gergen Barnett

On the front line of the coronavirus and breaking the rules

JEFF JACOBY

A civil liberties pandemic

Boston Infectious Disease Specialists

Boston’s infectious disease specialists’ message to the public: Fighting coronavirus is a sprint — and a marathon

RENÉE GRAHAM

Coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. Neither should testing and treatment.

LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic

IDEAS | MATTIA FERRARESI

Lesson from Italy: As US coronavirus deaths climb, country should find way to honor the dead

VISUAL STORIES

Surf’s up in Narragansett: Riders are social distancing themselves on the waves

17 photos of the coronavirus’s effect around the world

Photos: Tom Brady’s 20-year career with the Patriots

Photos: Coronavirus concerns empty public spaces around the world

metro

Rhode Island to New Yorkers: If you come here, stay indoors
At a time when life and work and routines are changing every day, Rhode Islanders awoke Saturday to this: The sight of National Guardsmen, in camouflage and surgical masks, tracking down and corralling dangerous interlopers: New Yorkers.

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

On the same day that Rhode Island announced its first two deaths from the coronavirus, Governor Gina Raimondo unveiled a sweeping round of new restrictions, including a stay-at-home order and a ban on all gatherings of more than five people.

Sisters visit with their mother through a window

Sisters Charlene Follett, Elaine Simonelli, and Lynne Forgione visit their mother Jean Follett, 86, in the assisted living home where she resides.

‘I just don’t want her to wither away’: visiting Mom through an open window

No dining in restaurants, but what about takeout lines?

STAT

Coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here’s how to protect yourself

‘It’s been kind of rough’: Seattle ICU nurse shares her experience treating Covid-19 patients

WHO to launch multinational trial to jumpstart search for coronavirus drugs

Will immune therapies for the coronavirus be ready in time?

sports

Knicks owner, MSG chairman James Dolan has coronavirus

James Dolan, the executive chairman of Madison Square Garden Company and owner of the New York Knicks, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Sports Log

Cristiano Ronaldo, Juventus to forgo $100 million in wages in virus relief effort

The club said the money amounted to four months worth of wages, a third of players’ salaries.

Tiz the Law wins a very unusual Florida Derby at Gulfstream

red sox

Ron Roenicke considers himself a student and a teacher. His next subject? Managing the Red Sox

Politics

Trump suggests he can gag inspector general for stimulus bailout program

Business

Italy’s death toll tops 10,000 in a Europe divided by virus

Marijuana

Americans want medical marijuana dispensaries deemed ‘essential’ amid coronavirus outbreak, poll finds

magazine
Dispatches from the Edge

Apocalypse preppers and survivalists aren't that worried

Dispatches from the Edge

How religious leaders are keeping the faith during coronavirus

Miss Conduct

How to maintain personal connections in times of distance

Cooking

Recipes: Three comforting soups for an unsettling time

sports

1969 Holy Cross football team lost its season to a virus

BU’s Trevor Zegras signs three-year, entry level deal with with Anaheim Ducks

It’s time for the NHL and NBA to call it a season

metro

Rhode Island to New Yorkers: If you come here, stay indoors

Rhode Island records its first two deaths from the coronavirus; governor issues stay-at-home order

Sisters visit with their mother through a window

Nation

Unprecedented crisis is met with extraordinary resolve: Mass. residents united in support of coronavirus restrictions

‘Off the charts’: Virus hotspots grow in middle America

Police in several cities test positive for coronavirus, stirring fears of spread among first responders

World

4 passengers dead, 2 test positive for COVID-19 on cruise ship stranded off the coast of Panama

Spain in near-lockdown, on the verge of crisis

UK’s prime minister has the coronavirus

politics

‘Dreamers’ tell Supreme Court ending DACA during pandemic would be ‘catastrophic’

Mass. delegation calls on Trump administration to resume visa processing for international health care workers

John Kerry, President Trump unite in criticizing Representative Thomas Massie on Twitter over tactic on coronavirus bill

business

Italy’s death toll tops 10,000 in a Europe divided by virus

Trump says he’s considering quarantine on New York, New Jersey, parts of Conn.

Biden backs nationwide shutdown to slow coronavirus

lifestyle

When students have to evacuate Spain in two days, emotions run high

Time on your hands? Learn to juggle

For grown-ups, online classes to engage, soothe, or distract your mind

marijuana

Americans want medical marijuana dispensaries deemed ‘essential’ amid coronavirus outbreak, poll finds

Marijuana industry is stepping up to help with coronavirus response, Colorado senator says

Ohio AG rejects recreational pot issue lacking valid signers

opinion

Coronavirus pandemic should shift our focus to a more locally sourced food supply

Coronavirus should be a testing ground for telemedicine’s potential

Wanna bet?

food & dining

Caledonia Spirits shuts down its bar and store, makes hand sanitizer

Dishes you can make with what’s on hand

A certified sommelier will personally shop for you, and deliver to your door

travel

When students have to evacuate Spain in two days, emotions run high

Why a Northampton family is staying put in Spain

‘Skip-gen’ travel trend adds a new segment to the family vacation

Books

Hilary Mantel on re-reading

‘Too Much’ draws a direct line from Victorian to contemporary restraints on women

Speculation on the afterlife in ‘Heaven and Hell’

Movies

R. Crumb’s cartoon therapy; a cruel solution to overpopulation

Extra-sensory perception from a trio of boundary pushers

You’re bored. You’re stuck indoors. Here’s your guide to free streaming movies

Television

Rediscovering Ricky Gervais’s hilarious BBC comedy ‘Extras’

‘Will & Grace,’ the finale — take two

Like ‘Show Me a Hero’? Then show yourself these other excellent miniseries

music

The epic dread of Bob Dylan’s ‘Murder Most Foul’

From their homes to yours, sidelined Boston musicians are still putting on a show

Where to hear Boston Lyric Opera’s canceled ‘Norma’ production

Theater/Dance

John Douglas Thompson to star in Shakespeare on the Common’s ‘Tempest’

In Cameron Esposito’s memoir, Boston ‘plays a big role’

Boston Ballet announces dancer promotions for the 2020-2021 season

globe local

Get crafty with your holiday shopping at local fairs

Hardiest hikers, campers don’t come in from the cold

Should Massachusetts exempt police body camera footage from state public records law?

Obituaries

Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84

Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, dies at 81 of coronavirus complications

Amherst golf coach Tracy Mehr, who ’embraced each teachable moment,’ dies at 91