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Bolthouse Farms is taking precautions, like a 30-minute gap between shifts, to ensure that its workers can remain healthy.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday said the state will need an additional 50,000 hospital beds to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.

Extended coronavirus vaccines could hit many of the Vision Fund's largest investments, including Uber, Didi, Grab and WeWork, particularly hard as consumers stay home.

Trump also seemed to downplay the threat of the coronavirus, which on Monday topped 43,000 cases and more than 500 deaths in the U.S.

"The pandemic is accelerating," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo estimates that up to 80% of the state's more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus.

The Securities and Exchange Commission warned against trading on non-public information related to the coronavirus. It came after disclosures of stock sales by New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeff Sprecher, and his wife, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga.

It comes as legislators and workers have called out Amazon for failing to provide paid leave.

Apple's request was approved in a letter posted to the USTR website dated last Friday.

Volunteers from Amazon, Alphabet and other tech companies worked with public health experts to set up a COVID-19 monitoring website.

The federal government said Monday that there are 147 nursing homes across 27 states that have at least one resident with the coronavirus.

Facebook has introduced new paid-time off programs that will allow employees to take up to a month away from work to care for sick relatives in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

Mortgage bankers estimate that if a quarter of borrowers are granted loan forbearance for six months or longer, demands on servicers could exceed $75 billion and could climb well above $100 billion. That would easily bankrupt the mortgage finance system.

Members of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force hold a press briefing Monday at the White House as authorities on the local and state levels continue taking drastic measures to slow the spread of the disease.

Kudlow, Trump's top economic advisor, told CNBC on Feb. 25 that the Trump administration has kept the U.S. "pretty close to airtight" from the coronavirus.

Twitter said it expects a GAAP operating loss for the quarter.

In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the top court agreed with Comcast in upholding a high bar for bringing suits under the 1866 Civil Rights Act.

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

Rhode Island will move its 2020 primary to June 2 from the originally planned April 28 in response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced on Monday.

The Dow's steep drop on Monday pushed the 30-stock index below the level where it closed on Nov. 8, 2016, the day Trump won his election.