A woman adjusts her mask in Los Angeles, where the mayor already urged residents to wear face coverings in public. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin previously estimated that payments to qualifying Americans would go out by mid-April. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
A medical worker administers a test for a COVID-19 at a facility in Camden, N.J., on Wednesday. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Two days before Christine Rayburn was scheduled to have a cancerous tumor removed, the hospital cancelled the surgery, part of a wave of cancellations of "elective" surgeries during the coronavirus pandemic. But Rayburn's surgeon fought back, and got the surgery back on the schedule 10 days later. Poppi Photography hide caption
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Health care professionals prepare to screen people for the coronavirus at a testing site in Phoenix, Arizona. Christian Petersen/Getty Images hide caption
Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin speaks while President Trump listens during Thursday's briefing from the White House coronavirus task force. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A Pier 39 employee wears protective gear while cleaning a sidewalk in San Francisco, Calif., on March 16, the day the county announced a local shelter-in-place order. On March 19, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a shelter-in-place order for the entire state. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
A firefighter takes a moment to rest outside a temporary hospital in a conference center in Madrid, Spain, that was set up as an overflow area for COVID-19 patients. More than a million coronavirus cases are now reported worldwide, putting intense pressure on health and emergency workers. Sergio Perez/Reuters hide caption
Henry Paulson, who served as Treasury secretary during the 2008 financial crisis, says the current Treasury secretary and the Fed chair have "got their work cut out for them." Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Medical staff move bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday to a refrigerated truck. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Carnival cruise ship Zaandam sailing near Juneau, Alaska (file photo). VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption
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The Food and DrugAdministration announced Thursday that it was reducing the amount of time gay men have to wait before giving blood amid an unprecedented shortage in the U.S. blood supply. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
This year's SXSW festival was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now the films that were scheduled to be shown there have the option to be screened on Amazon. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The floor of the Fiserv Forum is seen during a January media walkthrough ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis. The convention has been pushed back a month, to mid-August. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was killed by militants in Pakistan in 2002. Getty Images hide caption
Shepherd (Michiel Huisman) and his flock in The Other Lamb. IFC Films hide caption
Phish surprised fans with a new album Sigma Oasis Thursday. Rene Huemer/Courtesy of the artist hide caption