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Four U.S. senators sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday asking questions about the company's COVID-19 app and how it handles personal data.

The household survey, which asks individual residences how many people are working there, showed a stunning drop of 2,987,000 workers for the month.

CNBC studied the net change in employment by industry for March based on data from the Labor Department.

"New York is in crisis. Help New York," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.

Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to force 3M to produce desperately needed respirator masks in the fight against the coronavirus.

"Never in the history of the IMF have we witnessed the world economy come to a standstill," said Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, during a press conference on the pandemic.

The first SpaceX astronaut launch is moving forward despite coronavirus, as NASA leader Jim Bridenstine deemed it "mission essential."

For those running for the House of Representatives, coronavirus poses unique problems. Campaigning is a handshake, kiss-the-baby business.

Some 35% of all coronavirus tests administered in New York and New Jersey have been positive, indicating a serious outbreak in both states.

"We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic," WHO's top official says.

It was the first decline in payrolls since September 2010 and came close to the May 2009 financial crisis peak of 800,000.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading on Friday.

Stocks fell on Friday to end another volatile week of trading, pressured by a spike in coronavirus-related deaths in New York while investors digested a dismal U.S. jobs report.

Amazon, Anthem, Decker Truck Line and Home Depot posted the highest number of open job listings last week, according to CareerBuilder.

Ford's COVID-19 efforts are codenamed "Project Apollo." General Motors is executing "Project V" and "Project M." They come nearly 80 years after the companies responded to President Franklin Roosevelt's call to arms during World War II.

As the SBA prepares to start accepting applications for payroll relief loans on Friday, business owners are confused about the program's details.

"We still need to do the definitive studies to determine whether any intervention, not just this one, is truly safe and effective," Dr. Anthony Fauci says.

3M said earlier it was already working on getting more masks to the U.S. – prior to Trump's invocation of the Defense Production Act.

Pelosi called for a bill to expand provisions in the $2 trillion package Congress passed to limit the economic devastation from the coronavirus.

Cannes Lions was originally postponed to later in the year.