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Holyoke, MA - 3/31/20 - Cleaners enter the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke where several people have died due to coronavirus or COVID-19. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Reporter: Brian MacQuarrie

'We will get to the bottom of what happened and when and by who'

Patients wait in line for a Covid-19 test at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York.

Two new road maps lay out possible paths to end coronavirus lockdowns

$FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, a police officer walks across an empty Seventh Avenue in a sparsely populated Times Square due to COVID-19 concerns in New York. Los Angeles is half the size of New York City but has a disproportionately small fraction of the coronavirus cases and deaths as the nation's largest city. The same goes for California when compared with New York state as a whole, which is the current epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)$

Restrictions are slowing coronavirus infections, new data suggest

A patient being wheeled into Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York. The CDC director said on Tuesday that as many as 25 percent of people infected with the coronavirus may not show symptoms.

Infected but feeling fine: The unwitting coronavirus spreaders March 31, 2020 | 9:45 PM

‘Tiger King’

‘Tiger King’: What happened to Carole Baskin’s husband, Don Lewis? March 31, 2020 | 9:24 PM

Laura Gabaroni and her husband Juan Huergo take a selfie on board a tender after they were evacuated from the Zaandam, a Holland American cruise ship, near the Panama Canal.

Florida docking plan in the works for ill-fated cruise ships March 31, 2020 | 9:21 PM

Jabin Botsford

Media members skip Trump briefings because of little news, health risks March 31, 2020 | 8:30 PM

In this April 10, 2018, file photo, a U.S. Navy crewman monitors on the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in international waters off South China Sea.

U.S. warship captain seeks crew isolation as virus spreads March 31, 2020 | 7:48 PM

US President Donald Trump looks on during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on March 31, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus deaths

White House projects 100,000-240,000 U.S. deaths from the coronavirus March 31, 2020 | 6:21 PM

The Bourne Bridge to Cape Cod

A petition is calling for closing the bridges to Cape Cod. Only year-round residents and select personnel should be allowed, it says. March 31, 2020 | 5:53 PM

In this March 30, 2020 file photo, workers at Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work conditions in the company's warehouse in New York.

Amazon fires warehouse worker who staged walkout March 31, 2020 | 5:34 PM

Boston, MA., 12/31/2019, US Rep Jo Kennedy III, and Senator Markey before Democratic candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Old South Church on New Year's Eve.

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Mass. Democrats move to cancel the party's convention — and endorse Ed Markey March 31, 2020 | 5:29 PM

Boston City Hall Architect Michael McKinnell, at a 50th Anniversary Celebration at Boston City Hall in 2019.

Michael McKinnell

Michael McKinnell, who helped design Boston City Hall, dies of COVID-19 complications March 31, 2020 | 2:53 PM

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misfires on virus death rates, tests March 31, 2020 | 2:49 PM

An exterior view of New England Treatment Access in Brookline.

Marijuana businesses and advocates are pushing for 'essential' status in Mass. Here's why. March 31, 2020 | 1:54 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 March 31, 2020 | 1:51 PM

Andover

Andover priest accused of sexually abusing minor will resume duties March 31, 2020 | 1:31 PM

Online orders are loaded onto bikes at Whole Foods in Manhattan.

Workers protest at Instacart, Amazon and Whole Foods, seeking health protections and hazard pay March 31, 2020 | 1:25 PM

The USS Theodore Roosevelt is facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus.

Captain of U.S. warship pleads for help amid coronavirus spread on board March 31, 2020 | 1:21 PM

Mass. Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders looks at Gov. Charlie Baker while he 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)

Why Massachusetts hasn't gotten all the emergency supplies it requested March 31, 2020 | 1:12 PM

Maureen Shanahan-Frappier a RN uses sanitizer on her gloves.

'We recommend that the state impose a strict 'shelter in place' order' March 31, 2020 | 1:03 PM

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) departs after a vote on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington March 18.

Sanders argues he has ‘narrow path’ and says he wants to push his issues March 31, 2020 | 12:38 PM

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CNN's Chris Cuomo tests positive for COVID-19 March 31, 2020 | 12:26 PM

People arrive, some in masks, off a flight from Amsterdam into the arrivals area at terminal E at Logan Airport in East Boston, Massachusetts on March 13, 2020. - US President Donald Trump declared the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a national emergency on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

CDC considering whether to advise all to wear face coverings in public March 31, 2020 | 12:12 PM

Revere- 03/27/2020 A sih=gn in an upper floor window at the Jack Satter House in Revere which has the largest known outbreak of coronavirus for senior facilities in the state. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)

Jack Satter House

Revere senior housing complex reports 5 deaths among residents, 13 COVID-19 cases March 31, 2020 | 10:52 AM

Holyoke, MA--4/29/2015--The public elementary and secondary schools in Holyoke are going into receivership. Mayor Alex B. Morse (cq) comments on Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
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Reporter: Jeremy Fox

'This is a difficult day for our city, and it is almost certain that more difficult days will follow' March 31, 2020 | 9:57 AM

Fed steps in once again to try to smooth out lending markets March 31, 2020 | 9:48 AM

In this photo taken Sunday Dec. 1, 2013, Tomie dePaola poses with his artwork in his studio in New London, N.H. The beloved children's author and illustrator has died at the age of 85. DePaola delighted generations with tales of Strega Nona, the kindly and helpful old witch in Italy. His literary agent says dePaola died Monday from surgery complications after taking a bad fall last week. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

'Strega Nona' author Tomie dePaola of New Hampshire is dead at age 85 March 31, 2020 | 9:27 AM

Parents feel remote learning due to coronavirus leaves their disabled students behind March 31, 2020 | 9:20 AM

Maine plant set to begin producing COVID-19 tests March 31, 2020 | 9:15 AM

White House turns to statistical models for virus forecast March 31, 2020 | 6:56 AM

OPIOID CRISIS & COVID 19

‘We’re addressing one crisis at the expense of another’ March 31, 2020 | 5:00 AM

An elderly woman has her temperature checked at a checkpoint as authorities begin implementing lockdown measures earlier this month in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines.
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What explains COVID-19’s lethality for the elderly? March 30, 2020 | 10:26 PM