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Vice President Mike Pence, right, and President Donald Trump watch a video of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaking during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump plays Andrew Cuomo clip praising feds as ‘great partner’

As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 40,000, President Trump on Sunday played a video clip of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praising the federal government as a "great partner" in treating the coronavirus and ensuring his hard-hit state had enough capacity to handle a surge in hospital needs.

April 19, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are greeted by children waving flowers and flags during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Trump: China must have most COVID-19 deaths

President Trump on Friday insisted that China must have the most coronavirus deaths in the world given its size and the fact the pathogen sprung from one of its major cities at the end of last year.

April 17, 2020
Medical staff talks to a shopper in her car who volunteered at a pop-up community COVID-19 testing station at a supermarket carpark in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) **FILE**

Former CDC chief outlines a four-step path to boxing in coronavirus

Reopening the country will require a four-step system to test for the coronavirus, isolate infections, trace contacts of the sick and quarantine those contacts for 14 days to ensure they're not carriers, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

April 17, 2020
A medical worker, left, tests a person for the coronavirus from inside a booth, Thursday, April 16, 2020, at MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center, in Chelsea, Mass. The booth separates clinicians from patients, and protects front line providers. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Coronavirus hot spot flareups spread economic-shutdown debate

Some places are peaking before others, with the flare-up in South Dakota reviving the type of economic-shutdown debate that unfolded weeks ago in places like hard-hit New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo slowly "closed the valve" by shuttering businesses on a rolling basis through March.

April 16, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump: Sports to begin again without fans

President Trump said major sports leagues will phase in over the coming weeks or months, starting with games played behind closed doors as the U.S. figures out how to resume its pastimes safely in the age of the coronavirus.

April 16, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump defends WHO funding cut

President Trump continued his attack on the World Health Organization late Wednesday, saying their main fault was advising against travel bans amid the coronavirus pandemic.

April 15, 2020
A doctor holds up an antibody test kit at a drive-thru testing site in Hempstead, N.Y., Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The test, being administered by Somos Community Care, takes approximately 15 minutes and tests for the presence of antibodies in a person's blood, signifying that they may have some immunity to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Abbott Laboratories announces immunity test for COVID-19

An Illinois company that has played an outsized role in coronavirus testing said Wednesday it has created an antibody test and will ship nearly 1 million units to U.S. customers before the end of the week, adding its muscle to a piece of the response that is deemed critical but still a work in progress.

April 15, 2020
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with people that have recovered from COVID-19, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump meets with COVID-19 survivors, an overlooked group

President Trump met Tuesday with survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a Michigan lawmaker and an ex-NFL player who said a malaria drug promoted by the president saved them and an Arkansas patient who tested negative five days ago but is only feeling "85%" better.

April 14, 2020
President Donald Trump walks from the podium as a White House produced video plays during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump counters media coronavirus critics with clip reel

President Trump lashed out at critics of his coronavirus response Monday, complaining he's been "brutalized" in the media and using his perch from the White House briefing room to play a campaign-style tape of people praising his response.

April 13, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anthony Fauci: Donald Trump didn’t hold up coronavirus shutdowns

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday said President Trump never tried to block his recommendation to shut down society to thwart the coronavirus, hoping to downplay any rift with his boss after the president tweeted a posting that suggested the esteemed doctor ought to be fired.

April 13, 2020