Coronavirus: The most important things to know for Wednesday, April 22

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, which was designed to provide forgivable loans to small businesses if they keep workers on the payroll during the economic shutdown caused by the pandemic. The program exhausted its original $349 billion last week.

The first large-scale study tracking the spread of the virus across the county found that 2.8% to 5.6% of adults had antibodies to the virus in their blood,, when the tests were conducted in early April. That equates to 221,000 to 442,000 adults, vastly more than the 8,000 cases reported by the county at the time.

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