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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)

White House projects 100,000-240,000 U.S. deaths from the coronavirus

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

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)

Bracing for COVID-19 surge, Charlie Baker says obtaining crucial gear has been 'difficult'

Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey pledge to fight 'craven' move to 'disestablish' reservation March 30, 2020 | 3:03 PM

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump defends response to Massachusetts orders for more coronavirus gear March 30, 2020 | 12:20 PM

John Oliver blasts Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic March 30, 2020 | 11:11 AM

FILE - In this April 5, 2016, file photo, an excavator demolishes a building during an official groundbreaking Taunton, Mass., where the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was to build the First Light Resort & Casino. The project was halted shortly afterward when a group of residents sued, arguing the federal government couldn't take the land into trust for the tribe. A federal appeals court in Boston is hearing arguments Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in the ongoing dispute. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

'This is one of the most cruel and nonsensical acts I have seen since coming to Congress' March 29, 2020 | 1:11 PM

President Donald Trump announces that additional coronavirus tests have been deployed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on March 6.

The lost month: How a failure to test blinded the U.S. to COVID-19 March 28, 2020 | 3:49 PM

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus during a task force news conference at the White House in Washington March 27.

COVID-19 FALLOUT

Inside Trump's risky push to reopen the country amid the coronavirus crisis March 28, 2020 | 10:25 AM

Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to supporters at a debate watch party as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

John Kerry says Kentucky congressman has 'given new meaning' to the term Masshole March 27, 2020 | 2:47 PM

A ventilator is pictured during an instruction of doctors at the Universitaetsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg on March 25.

Equipment Shortages

Trump raises prospect of ordering GM, Ford to manufacture ventilators March 27, 2020 | 1:51 PM

Tom Brady has been friendly with Donald Trump for years.

What Tom Brady has to do with Trump’s coronavirus response March 26, 2020 | 7:54 PM

Boston, MA - 3/26/20 - Gov. Charlie Baker holds a press conference in the Gardner Auditorium at The State House on March 26, 2020. Baker and Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders addressed attempting to secure more pieces of personal protection equipment and mobile schooling concerns. (Blake Nissen/ For The Boston Globe)

' I can't tell you how frustrating it is': Charlie Baker vents about effort to secure medical supplies March 26, 2020 | 6:51 PM

Springfield, MA - 9/14/2019 - Rep. Joe Kennedy III speaks during a panel discussion after the 2019 Massachusetts Democratic Party convention at MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass. on Saturday, Sept. 14. (Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe) Topic: 15dems

Joe Kennedy calls for a national shelter-in-place order March 26, 2020 | 4:52 PM

Eric Ueland, White House legislative affairs director; incoming White House chief of staff, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.); and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the Capitol in Washington Tuesday.

CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS

Senate approves $2 trillion stimulus after bipartisan deal March 26, 2020 | 8:09 AM

US Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Lamar Alexander (R) (R-TN) are seen ahead of US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

'I am so happy I can barely speak': Donald Trump reacts to Mitt Romney's negative COVID-19 test March 25, 2020 | 1:30 PM

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic for president, speaks at a news conference in Wilmington, Del., on March 12. Biden, confronting questions over his lack of visibility during a crisis that has upended the presidential primary, pressed President Donald Trump on Monday to step up his response to the coronavirus.

Biden, struggling for visibility during crisis, faults Trump’s response to virus March 23, 2020 | 1:28 PM

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, and President Donald Trump listen as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House Saturday.

POLITICS & COVID-19

'I know, but what do you want me to do?': Fauci's strikingly honest review of Trump's coronavirus response March 23, 2020 | 9:59 AM

ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 21: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), stands with U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) as she addresses a group of protesters during a campaign event at Clark Atlanta University on November 21, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Warren spoke about workers' rights, fighting voter suppression and the accomplishments of Black women activists. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley urge Trump to reduce prison population amid coronavirus March 20, 2020 | 3:16 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump, second right, speaks as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), left, listen during a teleconference with governors at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on March 19.

Charlie Baker told Trump that Mass. tried to buy COVID-19 supplies and 'lost to the feds' March 20, 2020 | 2:59 PM

Trump defends calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese Virus’ March 18, 2020 | 9:30 PM

MANCHESTER, NH - FEBRUARY 11: Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld speaks with media at the Webster Elementary School during the presidential primary on February 11, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Bill Weld ends his primary challenge against Donald Trump March 18, 2020 | 6:28 PM

Vehicles enter the United States as a minivan drives to Canada in the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel in Detroit, Monday, March 16, 2020. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is closing his country's borders to anyone not a citizen, an American or a permanent resident amid the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

U.S.-Canada border

Trump: U.S., Canada to close border to nonessential travel March 18, 2020 | 10:24 AM

“We have it totally under control,” President Donald Trump said in January.

Trump now claims he always knew the coronavirus would be a pandemic March 18, 2020 | 9:52 AM

U.S. coronavirus plan anticipates 18-month pandemic and widespread shortages March 18, 2020 | 9:38 AM

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., gives final remarks during a hearing where former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Bill O'Leary/Pool Photo via AP)

Conn. man charged with threatening to kill Schiff said he had right to defend 'his president,' prosecutors say March 16, 2020 | 3:24 PM

Doctor says Trump tests negative for coronavirus March 14, 2020 | 7:35 PM

President Trump hosting President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, center left, last Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Three of Bolsonaro’s aides who accompanied him to that dinner later tested positive for the coronavirus.

On a Saturday night in Florida, a presidential party became a coronavirus hot zone March 14, 2020 | 6:40 PM

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside Vice President Mike Pence and the coronavirus task force in the briefing room in the White House in Washington March 14.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Trump says he’s been tested, extends travel ban to Britain and Ireland March 14, 2020 | 2:19 PM

Jared Kushner in recent days has assumed large portions of the portfolio managing the coronavirus crisis.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times

Seeking advice on the coronavirus, Jared Kushner enlists a doctor in the family March 13, 2020 | 11:00 PM

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, March 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump declares coronavirus pandemic a national emergency March 13, 2020 | 3:48 PM

Trump restricts travel from Europe to U.S. for 30 days March 11, 2020 | 9:13 PM

Former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld took a short tour of Boston Harbor after announcing his climate change plan Saturday morning.

Bill Weld says he will keep running to kneecap, if not defeat, Donald Trump March 4, 2020 | 6:00 PM