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The spread of the coronavirus has led to people all over the world scrambling to purchase protective face masks. As empty shelves and price gouging strain America's health-care system, industrial giant 3M is stepping up. The company said it's doubled production of its N95 respiratory face masks, and plans to double that again over the next 12 months.

Although Congress has eliminated all costs for coronavirus testing and improved access to care, it's the price of treatment that could become the bigger concern.

Erik Santos of Georgia is charged with conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs "by submitting fraudulent testing claims" for coronavius and genetic cancer screenings.

Executives across the company will also take pay cuts, according to an internal email obtained by CNBC.

There is "some preliminary data from non-randomized studies, observational studies, that indicate some drugs and some drug cocktails may have an impact," said Dr. Mike Ryan, a top WHO official.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding a press conference on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 60,000 people in the state as of Monday.

"I think we're going to have a good idea over the next three days because it's been used now in New York at my request," Trump says.

Johnson & Johnson announced it has a coronavirus vaccine candidate, noting that human testing on the medication will begin in September.

Workers at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse are walking out to demand that the company close the facility for sanitizing after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

Officials within Biden's organization have discussed bringing in a new group of regional fundraising advisors, including former aides to Sen. Kamala Harris' and Pete Buttigieg's campaigns.

"This is a day where you say, if I'm short I'm betting against science, not betting against the lackadaisical attitude of many people in the country," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday.

Much like all interaction in the age of COVID-19, home touring is moving online and going solo.

Sen. Ted Cruz said a group of nine senators recently ripped into the Saudi ambassador to the United States in a conference call over its oil price war with Russia.

Homebuyer demand was strengthening markedly just before COVID-19 began its spread across the U.S. Pending home sales, which measure signed contracts on existing homes, rose 2.4% in February compared with January. Sales were up a steep 9.4% annually, according to the National Association of Realtors. That is the highest pace in exactly three years.

"I think in some of the metro areas we were late in getting people to follow the 15-day guidelines," the White House coronavirus response coordinator said on "TODAY."

Johnson & Johnson said human testing of its experimental vaccine for the coronavirus will begin by September and it could be available for emergency use authorization in early 2021.

The central bank could go where it's never gone before, into the equity market where it would take a passive interest in the performance of stocks.

The $2 trillion federal stimulus package known as the CARES Act, signed into law by President Trump on Friday, takes unprecedented steps to provide a social safety net for the self-employed.

If you find yourself short on cash, you may be tempted to tap CDs, HSAs, brokerage, or retirement accounts. Experts say that these are the accounts you should look to first.

Yum Brands CEO David Gibbs will forgo the rest of his base salary in 2020 to fund one-time $1,000 bonuses to the company's nearly 1,200 restaurant general managers across KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill.