WORD COMES TO END, NBC HARDEST HIT: Andrea Mitchell Fears ‘Skyrocketing’ Approval for Trump Amid Pandemic.

PROGRESS: ‘Game-changer’: Britain days away from releasing millions of coronavirus finger prick tests.

THE ATLANTIC, NOT THE BABYLON BEE: “Stay Alive, Joe Biden; Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence.” As Jim Treacher notes, the Atlantic Begs Joe Biden Not to Die.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO DENY RELIEF BENEFITS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns She May Singlehandedly Delay Coronavirus Relief, Force In-Person Vote.

MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR PROHIBITS REUSABLE SHOPPING BAGS DURING CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY.

Earlier: Plastic bag bans dangerous during COVID-19 pandemic: “For that reason, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu issued an emergency order over the weekend prohibiting reusable shopping bags and requiring that stores use disposable plastic or paper bags instead.”

Or to put it another way: Left’s Pet Issues Like Mass Transit, Reusable Bags Prove Deadly During Coronavirus Crisis.

JOE BIDEN REPLACED BY ANDREW CUOMO? NOT SO FAR-FETCHED.

Although this could be a hurdle for Cuomo: Cuomo’s New York branded hand-sanitizer isn’t being made by inmates after all.

GOOD: Tesla’s Elon Musk Donated 1000 Ventilators to California Hospitals: Musk previously downplayed the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic but now appears to be on board.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 5 tips to keep you sane during the coronavirus crisis. #1 is “thank your grocery clerk.”

EXCELSIOR! First launch for Space Force planned in Florida on Thursday.

I’M GOING TO ORGANIZE ONE OF THESE FOR THE LAW SCHOOL SOON:

THANKS TO THIS, ONE OF MY DISTILLER FRIENDS — A FORMER STUDENT — IS GEARING UP TO PRODUCE 7000 GALLONS OF SANITIZER AND PROVIDE IT AT COST TO THE TEMA: Hand Sanitizer Tax Waiver Slips Into Coronavirus Relief Package. Under existing law he would have had to pay $100,000 in excise tax on it unless it was denatured with isopropyl alcohol, which is extremely hard to get at the moment.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The China Syndrome: Structuring the Post-Coronavirus World. “We once might have smugly laughed off China’s wet markets as a Third World aberration, a medieval leftover, somehow still lingering around as a quaint vestigial bit of Chinese culture in a rapidly developing country. What we’ve learned in recent months however is that those wet markets are an even more serious security risk than Osama bin Laden looking for American flying schools from his computer in a secret location somewhere in Afghanistan. The viral threat emanating from China’s sub-Western health practices has at least an outside chance of killing more American civilians than soldiers have died in all of our wars. That’s how serious the threat is.”

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MISSING THE GYM? How ‘Muscle Memory’ May Help Keep Us Fit. “Muscles may ‘remember’ in ways that will allow us to regain fitness once gyms reopen and we start working out again.”

MEANWHILE, IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS, WHICH HAS SO FAR GOTTEN OFF PRETTY LIGHTLY: Knox Co. reporting 20 confirmed coronavirus cases, six already listed as recovered. The vast bulk of the cases in Tennessee seem to be in the Nashville metropolitan area, followed by Memphis.

USNS MERCY HEADS TO LA, COMFORT HEADS TO NYC. “Neither ship is intended to treat individuals suffering from COVID-19. Instead, the vessels — each of which boasts 1,000 beds which were built to treat individuals wounded in war — are intended to relieve the pressure on extant hospitals in the two cities as they experience an influx of patients.”

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders Threatens to Hold Up Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Over GOP ‘Anti-Worker Objections.’

Remember in November that so many leading Democrats put the parochial interests of some of their smallest constituencies ahead of the interest of the nation.

JIM GERAGHTY: A Hard Look at the Remaining Hospital Capacity across America.

REVIEW: AUDI’S S8. 0-60 in 3.2 seconds in a big luxury sedan. Gotta love it. And 0.94 on the skidpad. In a big luxury sedan.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: 5 tips to keep you sane during the coronavirus crisis. #1 is “thank your grocery clerk.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Hunkered Down: Parenting in the Time of Coronavirus. “It was the eighth time we’d had to break up a fight between our boys, ages nine and 14, that my wife Melissa and I realized that maybe we weren’t providing them with enough structured activities during the Virus Insanity Shut-In Time (VISIT) — and it was only Day Three out of an expected four weeks. VISIT, like fish, can start to stink after three days.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Turning Back the Clock on Aging Cells: Researchers report that they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them to a youthful state.

A major cause of aging is thought to be the errors that accumulate in the epigenome, the system of proteins that packages the DNA and controls access to its genes. The Stanford team, led by Tapash Jay Sarkar, Dr. Thomas A. Rando and Vittorio Sebastiano, say their method, designed to reverse these errors and walk back the cells to their youthful state, does indeed restore the cells’ vigor and eliminate signs of aging.

In their report, published on Tuesday in Nature Communications, they described their technique as “a significant step toward the goal of reversing cellular aging” and could produce therapies “for aging and aging-related diseases.”

I need y’all to deliver these while I’m still around to benefit.

RIDING OUT THE STORM: Austin Now Under Heavy Manners.

TOOMEY DETAILS NEW CORONAVIRUS RELIEF PACKAGE: It’s still nearly $2 trillion, but the Pennsylvania GOPer says it provides much more in terms of loan leverage to aid small and big business, plus $1,200 checks for individuals, more for married families.