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Tennessee AG cracks down on men who hoarded thousands of sanitizer bottles amid shopper scare.

As cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer fly off grocery store shelves in a rush of coronavirus panic shopping, two Tennessee men are being ordered to stop hoarding and reselling in-demand products online. 

Noah Colvin, of Hixson, Tennessee, took a 1,300-mile road trip in early March across Tennessee and Kentucky, racking up thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to resell online. 

Meanwhile, his brother Matt stayed at home, waiting for pallets of antibacterial wipes and even more sanitizer to be shipped, according to a New York Times article.

The two then sold sanitizer online at a steep markup — $8 to $70 a pop. But Amazon quickly removed their listings amid a larger effort to stop coronavirus-related price gouging.

'It's Totally Ad Hoc': Why America's Virus Response Looks Like a Patchwork.

David Norton, who helps to run a community center in this small Rhode Island city, is not a scientist. Neither were the board members who gathered for an emergency meeting last week, to decide whether the risk of contagion meant they should cancel their upcoming events.

They sat together — a nurse, a civil servant, a therapist, an insurance executive — and tried to decode the guidance given by state and federal authorities.

Rhode Island’s governor, Gina Raimondo, had urged community leaders to cancel gatherings larger than 250. On the other hand, Pawtucket’s public schools were still open. Then again, a private school nearby, the site of the state’s first coronavirus outbreak, had closed for two weeks.

Boston had canceled its St. Patrick’s Day parade, but Newport had not. Movie theaters and malls were open. But Disneyworld was closing. In the end, members threw up their hands and canceled most everything through the end of April.

Mnuchin says U.S. coronavirus aid bill cost should be significant, not huge.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday officials will have a better idea this week of the total cost of a coronavirus aid package, but predicted it will likely be "significant but not huge."

Mnuchin told "Fox News Sunday" he also planned to talk to lawmakers about critical aid to airlines, as well as the hotel and cruise ship industries.

"It's hard to model some of these things because you don't know how many workers are going to be home. I want to be careful about throwing out numbers," he said. "I think based upon the numbers that we're going to see, it's going to have costs that are significant, but not huge."

Why Washington state is at the center of the US coronavirus outbreak.

On Saturday, Alexandria, 22, was struggling to breathe, so she called 911 and was rushed to an isolation unit at a Seattle hospital.

She had had a fever for days and was tested for the flu and strep throat, and given a chest X-ray. But, she said, the doctors told her she would not be tested for coronavirus because she hadn’t traveled to China and was not in the at-risk age range.

After being discharged with a diagnosis of a viral infection, with no recommendations about home isolation, she was escorted out of the hospital, where she waited on the street for her partner to pick her up.

It took four days before another physician heard her symptoms, sent her in for coronavirus testing, and she was diagnosed positive.

Since January, when Washington reported the first case of coronavirus in the US, the state has been the central focus of the American outbreak, documenting the most cases and deaths associated with the infection in the country. Its position in what has now been declared by the World Health Organization as a pandemic can be attributed to everything from individual missed opportunities for diagnosis and state funding gaps to restrictive federal guidelines for testing.

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