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"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.

"We need to lean in even more to get the messages around value and around how we can safely serve our customers," Domino's Pizza CEO Ritch Allison said.

The administration is now also calling on states to resume elective surgeries, which were largely suspended as health systems sought to boost capacity for an expected surge of Covid-19 patients, Pence announced.

U.S. airlines are posting their first losses in years, which are likely to accelerate in the coming months.

"We're looking for anything, because otherwise we don't have much other than high-quality critical care and good medicine," Dr. Craig Spencer told CNBC.

Members of the coronavirus task force are expected to hold a press briefing Thursday as additional economic relief legislation moves through the House.

Meatpacking plants responsible for 10% of all beef production and 25% of all pork production have closed, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

The number of hospitalizations and people in intensive care due to Covid-19 both dropped, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse owner, Ruth's Hospitality Group, announced Thursday that it is repaying the $20 million it received under the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Only a handful of releases that were intended for theaters have opted to depart a theatrical release entirely. The majority of Hollywood films have pushed to late 2020 or found a new home in 2021.

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Gilead shares fell after a report said antiviral drug remdesivir did not improve Covid-19 patients' condition or reduce the virus' presence in the bloodstream in a phase 3 clinical trial.

Mall and shopping center owners around the country are getting ready to come face to face with a major legal hurdle: Co-tenancy clauses.

"We have to win the trust of the staff and the guests as well," said Willie Degel, owner of Uncle Jack's Meat House in Duluth, Georgia.

The state's mortality rates remains persistently high at about 7.4%. The antibody testing indicates the actual death rate may be far lower.

"Someone is going to beat this thing," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday, suggesting a successful antiviral could be "more Tamiflu-like and less scary."

New York City's health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said the city still has to prioritize who gets tested.

The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying, according to results from a long-awaited clinical trial conducted in China, STAT News reports.

"I'm just not prepared to do this," Maxim Barbers owner Diane Fall told CNBC on Thursday, citing the onerous task of gathering the equipment and supplies needed to meet safety requirements.

"Would I do that? No. But I respect him and I will let him make his decision," Trump said. "But I told him, I totally disagree."