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California shelters in place; senators face accusations of insider trading; the US closes its land borders.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Cameron Peters.

• On Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order instructing New Yorkers to stay inside as much as possible. It’s not quite a "shelter in place" order — which Cuomo resisted earlier this week — but it’s close. [Twitter / Andrew Cuomo]
• The order allows for essential businesses to remain open, and healthy people younger than 70 can still leave their houses for exercise or groceries. Nonetheless, it represents an escalation over previous restrictions in place in the state. [NYT / Kwame Opam]
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom also extended a shelter-in-place order already in effect in parts of the state to be in force statewide on Thursday evening. The order is the most widespread restriction put in place in response to the coronavirus to date. [KQED / Peter Arcuni]
• As the US works to marshall an adequate response to the pandemic, major shortages are a recurring theme. Right now, face masks and testing kits, among other things, are in limited supply; as the outbreak continues to worsen, there are fears that a dearth of ventilators and hospital beds could become acute. [Washington Post / Carolyn Y. Johnson, Brady Dennis, Steven Mufson, and Tom Hamburger]
• Nonetheless, as Recode’s Sara Morrison writes, “While many predictions say we will run out of hospital beds and lifesaving equipment at some point, the future has yet to be written.” Flattening the curve by practicing social distancing can go a long way toward preventing critical shortages in the US health system. [Recode / Sara Morrison]
• The Senate continues to work toward an economic stimulus package expected to include more than $1 trillion in aid; the current GOP bill includes direct cash transfers of up to $2,400 for families. [Politico / Marianne LeVine and John Bresnahan]

• On Thursday, ProPublica reported that Republican Sen. Richard Burr sold up to $1.72 million in stocks shortly before the stock market — and the value of those holdings — plunged dramatically due to the coronavirus outbreak. [ProPublica / Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis]
• Burr, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was at the time receiving regular briefings on the magnitude of the threat posed by the outbreak; while he downplayed the danger in public, he seemingly acted to protect his financial interests in private. [Slate / Ben Mathis-Lilley]
• In late February, Burr also issued a dire warning about the coronavirus at a lunch for the Tar Heel Circle, a North Carolina group with membership fees of up to $10,000. He declined to make similar warnings public at the time. [NPR / Tim Mak]
• Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who was recently appointed to the Georgia seat vacated by Sen. Johnny Isakson’s retirement, may have acted similarly: On Thursday, it was reported that she sold off some stocks while also buying stock in a teleworking company; all the while, she was publicly downplaying the virus. [Daily Beast / Lachlan Markay, William Bredderman, and Sam Brodey]
• In total, at least five senators — Burr, Loeffler, Dianne Feinstein, James Inhofe, and Ron Johnson — made major stock sales shortly before the market tanked. A 2012 law prohibits senators from profiting off information that isn’t publicly available. [Roll Call / Chris Marquette]
• In 2012, Burr was just one of three senators to vote against that law; now he and Loeffler are facing calls to resign over what is, at the very least, the appearance of insider trading. [Washington Post / Timothy Bella]

• On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the US and Mexico had mutually agreed to close their border to all nonessential travel; trade will be exempted from the closure. [Vox / Alex Ward]
• The announcement follows a similar agreement between the US and Canada to end nonessential travel between the two countries in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus. [Washington Post / Katie Zezima and Rick Noack]
• As part of the closures, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said that Border Patrol would begin returning anyone attempting to cross either border “without delay.” [Twitter / Steven Portnoy]
• Closures at both borders will go into effect Saturday at midnight; while the president has expressed concern that large-scale immigration might exacerbate the spread of the virus, Canada and Mexico both have markedly fewer reported cases of Covid-19 than the US. [Politico / Sabrina Rodriguez]

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• Even the coronavirus is being filtered through the lens of partisan politics. [Atlantic / Ronald Brownstein]

• "Guilt-free beer and bourbon": How a world-class marathoner handles the pandemic. [NYT / Matthew Futterman]

• An adorable golden retriever puppy. Enjoy. [Twitter / Cameron Peters]

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