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Good morning.

I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, March 24th. In today's news, President Trump wants to reopen

the economy as soon as possible, even as public health

officials object. A deal on a coronavirus stimulus package could be near. And huge

discrepancies across states are muddling the meaning of test results.

But first, the big idea.

Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of surviving without living,

a frighteningly effective strategy that makes them a potent threat in today's world. That's especially true

especially true of this new novel coronavirus

that has brought our world to a screeching halt.

It's little more than a packet of genetic material

surrounded by a spiky protein shell. It's little more than a packet of genetic material,

surrounded by a spiky protein shell,

1,000th the width of an eyelash.

And it leads such a zombie-like existence

that is barely considered a living organism.

But as soon as it gets into a human airway,

the virus hijacks our cells to create millions more versions of itself.

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