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A fuel cell stack testing engineer tests ventilator oxygen at Bloom Energy in Sunnyvale, Calif. The company has switched over to refurbishing ventilators as an increasing number of patients experience respiratory issues as a result of Covid-19.
BETH LABERGE/POOL PHOTO VIA AP

With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for COVID-19

Social distancing signs are everywhere at the Four Seasons New York in Manhattan.

To save lives, social distancing must continue longer than we expect

Rain falls on people waiting in line to vote at Milwaukee Marshall High School in Milwaukee, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. (Lauren Justice/The New York Times)

'What’s happening in Wisconsin is a disgrace'

Brookline, MA - 04/08/20 - Customers lined up outside the Trader Joe's grocery store in Coolidge Corner, which limits the number of people inside. Brookline is considering opening up street space in Coolidge Corner to accommodate pedestrian demand amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Lane Turner/Globe Staff) Reporter: (Adam Vaccaro) Topic: (09streets)

Charlie Baker announces new rules to prevent grocery store crowding April 8, 2020 | 7:01 PM

Mass. releases guidance to hospitals on how to ration ventilators, ICU beds April 8, 2020 | 6:12 PM

Linda Tripp during an interview on Feb. 11, 1999.

Linda Tripp, whose tapes exposed Clinton scandal, dies at 70 April 8, 2020 | 5:53 PM

Bill O'Leary

Social distancing

They are deaf and blind, and social distancing has now taken their ability to touch April 8, 2020 | 5:32 PM

Maeve Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean, 41, and her son, 8-year-old Gideon, are presumed dead after going missing on the Chesapeake Bay Thursday.

Police: Body of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's grandson found April 8, 2020 | 4:34 PM

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment take bodies through a tent before loading them onto a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. (John Minchillo/AP)

Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows April 8, 2020 | 4:03 PM

Weeble at Wolf Hollow during a presentation, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007 in Ipswich, Mass. (Photo by Lisa Poole

cutline from Beth Daley for story running on 5/5/08
Officials have confirmed that a wild eastern gray wolf, related to the one pictured above, was found in Massachusetts. Its the first time a wild wolf was discovered in state since hunters drove them out in the mid-1800s.

No, all of the wolves at Wolf Hollow in Ipswich didn’t escape April 8, 2020 | 3:24 PM

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during a briefing on the state's response to COVID-19 in the Gardner Auditorium of the Massachusetts State House on March 30, 2020 in Boston, MA. (Sam Doran/Pool)

Watch: Charlie Baker's coronavirus update April 8, 2020 | 3:24 PM

Sen. Edward J. Markey speaks to the media to discuss the latest on the U.S. Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

COVID-19 & PRIVACY

Ed Markey 'deeply concerned' by White House's reported interest in coronavirus surveillance network April 8, 2020 | 3:07 PM

Five residents of an assisted living facility in Newton have died of complications linked to the novel coronavirus and dozens more have tested positive for the contagion, according to an email sent to residents' families Tuesday by the company that runs the facility.

SENIOR LIVING DURING COVID-19

Newton senior living facility is latest to be hit hard by virus, with 46 cases and 5 deaths April 8, 2020 | 2:13 PM

It appears Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off in November.

Biden vs. Trump: The general election is here, and transformed April 8, 2020 | 1:06 PM

Women wearing face masks visit roadside food stalls in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 8, 2020, as travel restrictions to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus were lifted in the city. - Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave COVID-19 coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan on April 8 as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

China ends Wuhan lockdown, but normal life is a distant dream April 8, 2020 | 12:48 PM

How delays and unheeded warnings hindered New York's virus fight April 8, 2020 | 12:36 PM

FILE -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks in Burlington, Vt., March 4, 2020. Sanders is still in the Democratic presidential race for now, trailing badly in the delegate contest with just one primary looming on the distorted political calender: Wisconsin. (Jacob Hannah/The New York Times)

Bernie Sanders ends 2020 presidential bid April 8, 2020 | 11:34 AM

Customers enter and exit the Walmart in Hazle Township, Pa. Saturday, April 4, 2020. (Sean McKeag/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

Ed Markey is pushing for federal grocery store guidelines April 8, 2020 | 10:51 AM

Boston-10/30/2009- At the annual Massachusetts State Police Awards Ceremony at the State House, Candace Ferry, 18, was honored to be standing with Troopers who would recieved the highest honors. She herself recieved the State Police Medal of Lifesaving. She was a DCR lifeguard at Revere Beach, when on July 3,2009, she performed CPR on an unresponsive woman with another lifeguard, Matthew Connor until State Police arrived and assisted until an ambulance arrived. The woman recovered.. Boston Globe staff photo by John Tlumacki (metro)

Police academy to close, offer accelerated online training April 8, 2020 | 10:30 AM

Shelves at the Target department store in Wadsworth, Ohio, were emptied of toilet paper and sanitizer a day after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine put in place a stay-at-home order. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Dustin Franz

Why there's a toilet paper shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic April 8, 2020 | 9:55 AM

A masked replica of the Statue of Liberty on the front porch of a Brooklyn home.

VIRUS FATALITIES

Officials see signs that death toll may not match direst projections April 8, 2020 | 9:16 AM

'Pharma Bro' wants out of prison to research coronavirus April 8, 2020 | 8:51 AM

Louisville attack

A doctor got angry that teen girls weren't practicing social distancing. Then he attacked them, police say. April 8, 2020 | 8:36 AM

DC fights to enforce distancing and braces for looming surge April 8, 2020 | 12:17 AM

On Twitter, almost 60 percent of false claims about coronavirus remain online - without a warning label April 7, 2020 | 8:14 PM

Congresswoman Lori Trahan and her daughter Grace, 9, during a children's town hall.

Kids' town hall

'We figured a lot of kids have questions': Congresswoman Lori Trahan, daughters host kids' town hall on coronavirus April 7, 2020 | 6:20 PM

Mark Makela

He spent 24 years in prison. He came out to a new kind of confinement. April 7, 2020 | 6:07 PM

Quincy, Ma-March 24, 2020-An over 60 year old shopper gets 6AM access to the Stop and Shop on Newport Ave.

Grocery shopping

Here are the top 10 items people bought at Stop & Shop during March April 7, 2020 | 5:51 PM

Stop and Shop one way sign

Stop & Shop is making aisles one-way only at all stores April 7, 2020 | 4:53 PM

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2019, file photo, acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly testifies during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee about about ongoing reports of substandard housing conditions in Washington, on Capitol Hill. Modly says the captain of the COVID-stricken aircraft carrier who was fired last week had betrayed his service and may have been “too naive or too stupid” to be commanding officer of the ship. Officials are confirming that Modly made the comments Sunday, April 5, 2020, to the ship's crew in Guam. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Acting Navy boss submits resignation amid coronavirus uproar April 7, 2020 | 4:30 PM

Boston-02/12/20 Attorney General Maura Healey held a news conference to discuss a lawsuit against JUUL electronic cigarettes as she was flanked by student anti-vaping activists. Images from JUUL ads hang above her. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

Read the letter Maura Healey wrote to the CEO of Boston Sports Clubs April 7, 2020 | 3:24 PM

COVID-19 test samples safe after multi-vehicle crash on Route 195, police say April 7, 2020 | 2:55 PM

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, Mass., stands during his arraignment in district court in Springfield, Mass.

NEW HAMPSHIRE CRASH

Lawyers list drugs in driver's system at time of New Hampshire motorcycle deaths April 7, 2020 | 2:47 PM