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Virus sends economies plunging; glimmer of hope on treatment

by Associated Press
| April 29, 2020 10:03 AM

The coronavirus is sending the U.S. economy into the biggest and fastest collapse since the Great Depression, with economic output reported shrinking at an alarming rate Wednesday and the number of Americans thrown out of work estimated at nearly 30 million.

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