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Coronavirus cost to businesses: 'It has all gone to hell'

A week ago, Mark Canlis’s restaurant in Seattle was offering a $135 tasting menu to a bustling dining room every night. 

6 things to know about your health coverage during the outbreak

You need to be prepared now in case you need care due to COVID-19.

The nation is shutting down. For Walmart, it's time to step up

With anxious shoppers hoarding everyday goods and non-essential stores shuttered, the coronavirus pandemic presents a never-before-seen crisis for American retailers. Walmart Inc. appears better prepared to deal with it than its peers.

What to do if you can't make your rent or mortgage payment

If you are struggling financially because of the coronavirus outbreak, experts advise reaching out to your mortgage lender or landlord and asking for leniency.

Homeless families seize vacant houses, citing virus concerns

The protesters say their push is all the more urgent because of the spread of the coronavirus.

America needed virus tests, and the government failed

Decisions that limited testing for the pathogen blinded the U.S. to the outbreak’s scale, impeding the nation’s ability to fight it through isolating the sick and their contacts. Here’s how it happened.

What it's like working at Walmart during a pandemic

Store workers at Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, are grappling with an unnerving challenge: keeping shelves stocked and giant supercenters operating smoothly while trying to stay safe from a frightening pandemic.

America's restaurants will need a miracle

If we fail to help them immediately, their crisis will be the entire economy’s crisis.

How your anxiety is costing you

Your anxiety could be diminishing your earning potential.

Soon there will be tons of TP, but some food items might be scarce

Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn't stockpile during coronavirus panic? Don't worry, it will soon overflow in grocery stores aisles, according to supply chain experts. But a few food items may start to dwindle.

A grocery worker on coronavirus shopping

For Chris, dwindling supplies and hostile customers are just the beginning of Covid-19 fears.

How much people are spending on emergency supplies

Americans are rushing to buy drugs and other items as they adjust to live during the pandemic.

Is the Federal Reserve out of ammo now?

With fiscal stimulus slow in coming, the central bank fires what could be its last shot.

It pays to be rich during a pandemic

How the wealthy, powerful, and connected are exploiting the loopholes in our health care system.

A cruel paradox: Beating virus means causing US recession

No one knows how long it will last or how much it will hurt. But the U.S. economy is either sliding into a recession for the first time since 2009 or is already in one.

Dow sinks 900 points to cap worst week since 2008

Stocks attempted to rally Friday but failed, concluding one of the most volatile weeks ever on Wall Street as traders grappled with mounting fears over the coronavirus’ economic blow.

Coronavirus stimulus checks: What you need to know

Hundreds wrote to NBC News with questions after a report about a Treasury Department proposal to send money directly to Americans.

Coronavirus could be changing grocery shopping forever

The outbreak of coronavirus is pushing Americans to buy their groceries online, a development that could have a lasting effect on the supermarket industry.