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Mass. reports 87 new coronavirus deaths; Baker says grocery workers will get priority for tests

Massachusetts reported 1,886 new cases Saturday, while Governor Baker announced grocery store workers will be prioritized for screening for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
More than 41 percent of state coronavirus deaths come from long-term care facilities

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U.S. now has the world?s deadliest coronavirus outbreak

Walsh, banks, agree to mortgage deferral plan for coronavirus crisis

Kennedy calls on Beacon Hill to pass vote-by-mail law

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

The Great Divide
Working in a time of unprecedented peril
As much of the city shelters in place, staying home is not an option for 20-year-old Manuel Coronado. He is the sole wage earner in his small Boston household comprising himself and his grandmother. But his job, which he loves, could put his grandmother at risk: Manuel serves meals in a local nursing home 25 to 35 hours per week.

For a grocery store employee, a hard life filled with work and happiness, suddenly gone due to coronavirus
Vitalina Williams escaped poverty in Guatemala by moving to Salem, getting a job at Market Basket, and getting married. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck. And suddenly, Vitalina was gone.

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When every call is a coronavirus call
Paramedic Ricky Cormio and EMT Emily Moran are working 24-hour shifts, three days a week during the pandemic. The Globe joined them for a day.

Photos: One day on the front lines of COVID-19

Opinion

Ideas | Jeff Howe

The only way this ends: herd immunity
EDITORIAL

More COVID-19 data from the state would save lives
Michael A. Cohen

Missing the human touch
RENÉE GRAHAM

Being a person of color isn?t a risk factor for coronavirus. Living in a racist country is
YVONNE ABRAHAM

Not quite everything is awful

This is going to be a column about nice things. Though it's a challenge, given the terrifying, enraging week we've had.
Despite its impact, pandemic ?has also brought out the best in us,? says Harvard president

Cities in the age of coronavirus, and after

Will the pandemic amount to a blip in the decades-long rebound of urban life, or mark the end of an era?

Massachusetts hospitals will get N95 mask decontamination for free

Battelle, which has set up a giant decontamination machine in Somerville, says the service will be offered at no charge to healthcare providers.
Boston?s major hospitals so far staying ahead of high demand for ICU beds

Justice Department opens civil rights investigation into coronavirus deaths at Holyoke Soldiers? Home
The Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department and Massachusetts US Attorney Andrew Lelling said Friday they have opened a civil rights investigation into the operation of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home.

In one of the holiest weeks of the year, hospital chaplains offer hope ? and improvisation
Chaplains are taking unprecedented steps as they face the coronavirus pandemic. And they are feeling vulnerable as they never have before.

Christopher L. Gasper
Tom Brady has been more candid since leaving the Patriots
Not only is Brady beginning a new chapter in his football career, he?s starting a new one in his public posture, as well.

An inside look at how well (or not) the predraft process is going

peter abraham | sunday baseball notes
Bert Thiel, one of two surviving Boston Braves, played four games and has a lifetime of memories
His time as a pitcher in the major leagues was brief, but there was so much more to it than that.

US women?s hockey captain Meghan Duggan credited with an assist as virtual physical education sub
Duggan is making workout videos to help keep the students at Willis E. Thorpe Elementary School in Danvers active at home while her teacher recovers from COVID-19.

Tara Sullivan: Her impact on the game, and her athletes, made Barbara Stevens a deserving Hall of Famer

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Teen dies in Friday night Northampton crash

Central Falls man charged in deaths of couple found in car on train tracks in Providence

The NHL needed players like Colby Cave. That makes his death even more tragic

Comfort Zone

The Easter Bunny takes a spin through Milford streets

?SNL? to air Saturday at usual time, but with a different look

?Walden, A Game? is now free for parents

Missing the nightlife? These Boston DJs bring the dance party to your living room

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Charts: 10 US counties with the most coronavirus cases (beyond N.Y. and N.J.)

The latest coronavirus numbers from Massachusetts

The coronavirus tracker

These maps track the path of coronavirus

On StatNews.com

It?s difficult to grasp the projected deaths from Covid-19. Here?s how they compare to other causes of death

Social distancing is controlling Covid-19; now scientists need to figure out which measures are most effective

Coronavirus resources

Kids and the coronavirus: what you need to know

The unemployed now eligible for new, expanded unemployment benefits. Here?s how to apply

Yes, you can still get a package delivered. Just wash your hands, expert says

A coronavirus-inspired window sing-along version of ?Sweet Caroline? springs up in Boston

I tried to go 24 hours without touching my face. I made it 18 minutes
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JENÉE OSTERHELDT

With coronavirus, racism is the underlying condition

Black and Latinx people are being infected and dying due to the coronavirus at higher rates around the United States, though disease is incapable of racism. Our country's preexisting infections of racial oppression and dehumanization have set us up for this.
Boston releases coronavirus data that point to stark racial disparities among those infected

Layoff tracker
A list of layoffs and furloughs in Massachusetts (so far) due to coronavirus
Explore the companies that have announced layoffs and furloughs in response to the coronavirus outbreak, and see how it affects their local employees.

The race to save lives
The Globe has enlisted three medical workers to tell their stories in their own words. Throughout the coming days, you?ll meet a top emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, a young critical care nurse at Tufts Medical Center, and a respiratory therapist at Newton Wellesley Hospital. All have opened up to Globe reporters about their patients and their experiences.

Rhode Island

Central Falls man charged in deaths of couple found in car on train tracks in Providence

The couple was found dead late Friday inside a vehicle left along train tracks near a desolate stretch of Harris Avenue in Providence.

Seven more deaths, 334 new cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island

Rhode Island has the highest rate of unemployment claims in the country
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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.

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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

Anna Wexler

The trouble with calling health care workers ?heroes?
LETTERS

Toll of these times captured in a family photo
REV. JONATHAN EDEN

On Good Friday, a pastor reflects on how the coronavirus has interrupted our rituals
Scot Lehigh

John Prine said profound things in simple ways
LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic
IDEAS | ALEX GREEN

Just like the coronavirus, the 1918 flu pandemic ravaged group living facilities

VISUAL STORIES

Globe staff photos of the month, March 2020

Life during the coronavirus pandemic

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

17 photos of the coronavirus?s effect around the world

metro

Announcing Good News amid a pandemic
Cardinal O?Malley: Death does not have the last word.

Social distancing is working, but when will things return to normal, and what will that look like?

Social distancing is working, but when will things return to normal, and what will that look like?

Central Falls man charged in deaths of couple found in car on train tracks in Providence

The couple was found dead late Friday inside a vehicle left along train tracks near a desolate stretch of Harris Avenue in Providence.
The Great Divide

Working in a time of unprecedented peril
YVONNE ABRAHAM

Not quite everything is awful

STAT

Stay up to date with STAT?s Covid-19 Tracker

An interview with the CDC director on coronavirus, masks, and an agency gone quiet

Americans are underestimating duration of coronavirus crisis, experts say

A nurse?s coronavirus routine: Recording videos she hopes her family will never need to watch

sports

Matt Porter

The NHL needed players like Colby Cave. That makes his death even more tragic

Cave, a former Bruin, had been placed in a medically induced coma on Tuesday after emergency surgery to remove a colloid cyst in his brain. He died Saturday morning at the age of 25.
peter abraham | sunday baseball notes

Bert Thiel, one of two surviving Boston Braves, played four games and has a lifetime of memories

His time as a pitcher in the major leagues was brief, but there was so much more to it than that.
Gary Washburn

Kevin Garnett reflects on Hall of Fame career
Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady has been more candid since leaving the Patriots

Politics

Torn over reopening economy, Trump says he faces ?biggest decision I?ve ever had to make?

Business

Cities in the age of coronavirus, and after

Marijuana

Mass. cannabis commission approves supply chain changes
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Perspective

What the US will be like after we conquer the coronavirus
Connections

A taste of my Italian family?s grace and humor in the time of coronavirus
Dispatches from the Edge

At risk populations: ?What helps is feeling like you?re not going it alone?

Dispatches from the Edge

My 46-hour hunt for toilet paper

sports

Her impact on the game, and her athletes, made Barbara Stevens a deserving Hall of Famer

Checking in with Bruins legend John Bucyk, going strong as he approaches 85

An inside look at how well (or not) the predraft process is going

metro

Announcing Good News amid a pandemic

Social distancing is working, but when will things return to normal, and what will that look like?

Central Falls man charged in deaths of couple found in car on train tracks in Providence

Nation

After coronavirus, survivors? symptoms include relief ? and guilt

Milkman returns: Virus spurs resurgence of US tradition

Massachusetts hospitals will get N95 mask decontamination for free

World

UK?s Johnson out of intensive care as condition improves

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care as condition improves

PM: Canada?s first wave of coronavirus cases won?t end until the summer

politics

Former president Obama urges mayors to ?speak the truth? as they battle coronavirus

Trump keeps talking. Some Republicans don?t like what they?re hearing

Senators block new coronavirus aid, Pelosi decries ?stunt?

business

Cities in the age of coronavirus, and after

U.S. states prepare test-and-trace programs to reopen their economies

Disney World is furloughing 43,000 more workers due to virus

lifestyle

?Walden, A Game? is now free for parents

Chapter 12: Breakfast for dinner

Chapter 11: We are all our own bartenders now

marijuana

Mass. cannabis commission approves supply chain changes

Girl who inspired Charlotte?s Web marijuana oil dies after treatment as likely coronavirus patient

Nerds maker confirms THC-laced product at Utah food bank was not made by their company

opinion

Getting tougher on Silicon Valley

The coronavirus has exposed decades of underinvestment in basic services

More COVID-19 data from the state would save lives

food & dining

Chapter 11: We are all our own bartenders now

Chapter 10: What?s your secret sauce?

Chapter 9: Granola is a scam

travel

Glamping near Acadia, dreaming of Antarctica

7 virtual trips for kids that entertain and inform

Shut in, and shut out from some outdoor spots

Books

Jerry Craft on graphic novels, raising readers

A brutal heartland

In ?A Luminous Republic,? a fable of dangerous children

Movies

In these strange times, a little praise for the dog walkers

?Trolls World Tour? is a seriously bad hair day

Netflix?s ?Tigertail?? Not to be confused with Netflix?s ?Tiger King?

Television

?SNL? to air Saturday at usual time, but with a different look

I usually like smart comedies, but I really need some silly right now. Any ideas?

In playing Shirley Chisholm, Uzo Aduba looked to another woman who could not be deterred

music

These musicians bring online concerts to the whole family

In our empty public spaces, listening to the Great Diminuendo

Making music or weathering misfortune, Billy Conway and Laurie Sargent are in this together

Theater/Dance

Stages going dark in the Berkshires

Wake up your flagging spirits with 'The Drowsy Chaperone?

Melinda Lopez?s 'Mala? to be shown on WGBH 2

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

Idelle Weber, who stretched the meaning of pop art, dies at 88

John Prine, poignant, comic chronicler of holes in the soul

Peter A. Brooke, dean of Boston?s venture capitalists, dies at 90