On this week's episode of the Under the Dome podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke work remotely to bring you the latest updates on Illinois' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Macoupin County Courthouse in Carlinville was closed for professional cleaning Thursday and Friday after a person who had been there April 30 and May 1 tested positive for coronavirus.
The U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April and the unemployment rate soared to 14.7% -- both record highs -- laying bare the starkest picture yet of the crippling gut punch delivered by the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. companies continued their massive sell-off of medical masks overseas throughout March, well after the coronavirus began infecting Americans and draining hospitals of critical supplies and even as White House officials raised red flags, a USA TODAY investigation found. America exported more protective masks - including disposable surgical masks and N95 respirator masks - this March than in any other month in the past decade.
When the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law in late March, more than $5 billion of the more than $2 trillion stimulus package was set aside as additional Community Development Block Grant funds.
