COVID-19 Update: June 3, 2020: Under Siege

While the country's attention is focused on protests in the streets, there's plenty going on related to the coronavirus:

For example, the Department of Justice has asked Congress for legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally-protected rights during the coronavirus and other emergencies: tinyurl.com/ycwxlyr3.

Meanwhile:

The countries where the coronavirus is spreading most virulently just happens to be those with illiberal populist leaders: tinyurl.com/ya2hy6cg.

Major arts organizations, strapped for cash, are doing the unthinkable, dipping into their endowments: tinyurl.com/y7dluh8w.

A new CDC grading system for cruise ships should facilitate the repatriation of stranded crew members: tinyurl.com/y7rznbfr.

Scientists say group singing can spread the coronavirus. Too bad the CDC doesn't mention it: tinyurl.com/y9s8c2qb.

Around the country:

In Alabama:

Rural counties with substandard health care are badly hit by the pandemic: tinyurl.com/y9w2bw55.

In California:

Why aren't San Diego's virus numbers rising? tinyurl.com/y7lqaxbl.

In Florida:

Why the NBA wants to go to Disney World, for the duration of the pandemic: tinyurl.com/ybbqos2q.

IAAPA is moving ahead with a conference and trade show November 16 - 20: tinyurl.com/ya5j933f.

In New York:

How the Trump Administration bungled distribution of remdesivir, oversupplying some hospitals while leaving others in the lurch: tinyurl.com/y78vx4e.

And good luck if you need hydroxychloroquine for the purpose it was intended: tinyurl.com/y79ow29d.

In Texas:

Citizens who exhaust their unemployment will get another 13-week extension: tinyurl.com/ycwh74qu.

Dallas County reports record levels of new infections and deaths: tinyurl.com/y7yl9cew.

Around the world:

In Canada:

The country's production community is developing a custom insurance plan to get back to work. It involves getting the federal government to serve as a backstop for coronavirus insurance claims: tinyurl.com/y97ajlxu.

In Sweden:

The architect of the country's hands-off approach to the pandemic admits that it hasn't gone so well: tinyurl.com/ybjzglya.

In the UK:

Royal Shakespeare Company postpones its fall and winter productions, making room for earlier postponed productions: tinyurl.com/y9jpr7bu.

For your entertainment:

Aretha Franklin provides a bit of what we all need right now: tinyurl.com/ycgzo4k2.

That's all for today. Stay safe. -- DB.

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