Coronavirus fears send Dow tumbling — here's what to watch now (via @TradingNation) https://t.co/BLGBFp45RX

— CNBC (@CNBC) February 27, 2020

Ugly day unfolding in Asia trading – Nikkei opens down 3%.https://t.co/KCXwNfWlnK pic.twitter.com/IheySbkAQd

— Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) February 28, 2020

As federal health and science professionals try to give the public accurate information about coronavirus, the White House is directing them to clear statements with VP Pence's office first. https://t.co/Xpb3RX9VJP

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 27, 2020

.@MaddowBlog: Why VP Pence is an unfortunate choice to oversee coronavirus responsehttps://t.co/Otx5CHgdJN

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 27, 2020

Breaking via WaPo: Officials at HHS sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint. https://t.co/2sG1WWW1Gu

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2020

NEW: Lawmakers race to pass emergency coronavirus funding https://t.co/R2uoBdBWJH pic.twitter.com/e6RjzhkKJx

— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2020

"Trump reportedly trying to siphon $37 million from heating assistance for the poor to fund coronavirus response" / Get it from the Pentagon billions you yanked from the Pentagon budget, you asshat. Or stop playing golf for a month.

— Margo Howard (@Margoandhow) February 27, 2020

We face an emergency — and mainstream media is covering up Trump's alarming incoherence https://t.co/tyTMVFb9mK

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) February 27, 2020

Here's the truth. We never been less prepared for a pandemic than under Trump. He's cut funding, fired scientists, elemited doctors, and sabataged treatment programs. He doesn't believe in science, doesn't listen to experts, and lies about everything.https://t.co/O0pFjxYJaz

— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) February 27, 2020

Fantastic move by the CDC! “CDC will now allow clinicians or public health officials test individuals suspected of having #COVID19. The new guidelines appear to place more authority in the hands of local health practitioners.” Great start. https://t.co/lb541UJ6Wb

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 27, 2020

Coronavirus is the largest global crisis since 2008. Here's why.

More on the political impact of coronavirus: https://t.co/A5nh1qFHDM pic.twitter.com/bPvLYGJm9E

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 27, 2020

With no reported deaths in 96 cases and a slowing rate of infection, Singapore has become as a test of whether coronavirus can be contained or neutralized https://t.co/7Ss0Rp5cB8

— Bloomberg (@business) February 27, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is now spreading faster than the epidemic in China, where the virus first emerged, and that's stirring up public criticism against President Moon Jae-in https://t.co/WJHoo9hyhQ

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 27, 2020

"It changed from day to day — even hour to hour." An interview from the heart of Italy's coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/elwQK84E2r

— The Week (@TheWeek) February 27, 2020

The highest ranking woman in Iran's government has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, making her at least the sixth Iranian official who has been infected.  https://t.co/KISWhdDssb

— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) February 27, 2020

Coronavirus: The patient being treated in the North travelled from Italy through the Republic and into Northern Ireland, the Public Health Agency in Belfast confirmed https://t.co/esd3NUpkPH

— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) February 27, 2020

Stormont politicians visit Belfast’s first confirmed victim of Coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/tlHC2lb0hy

— Tim Brannigan (@tim_brannigan) February 27, 2020

Russian attack on Turkish soldiers in Idlib, if confirmed, is seismic in historical context: 1st time since WWI that Russia has killed Turkish troops -an opportunity for US+Turkey to undermine Putin+Assad, but also a strategic chance for US to sever coalescing Ankara-Moscow bonds

— Soner Cagaptay (@SonerCagaptay) February 27, 2020

Turkey threatening to shut down straits to Russia.. https://t.co/xg77zBswfY

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) February 27, 2020

.@washingtonpost Editorial Board on Turkey’s role in #Idlib: “The only defender of these desperate people is Turkey”. Assad is attacking millions of #Syrians at #Turkey's border, where our country is also providing vital humanitarian aid. https://t.co/4ecajk17mk

— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) February 27, 2020

What horror is this? India is building a network of detention camps to house those likely to be caught out in modis new citizenship push – a state now sadly heading in a similar sinister direction to China's.

Vg visual outline of what is going on here: https://t.co/7ipQjCShEY pic.twitter.com/lF1SIaVMwc

— james crabtree (@jamescrabtree) February 27, 2020

Several experts are convinced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment for corruption has pushed Israeli politics to their current state of paralysis. https://t.co/tvtB7oe0Ek

— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) February 28, 2020

ANALYSIS: Forget May’s attempts at economic mitigation, for Johnson sovereignty trumps all else in trade talks

Friction at border & hit to economy a price worth paying in return for British autonomy

But govt is unwilling to spell out poss cost to publichttps://t.co/1W8nM7wjSW

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) February 27, 2020

New: This is so mind-boggling I thought someone had added an extra digit by mistake. This is what post-Brexit "friction" looks like in practice: the equivalent of a whole town employed to fill in trade formshttps://t.co/IjRu9q2Bry

— George Parker (@GeorgeWParker) February 27, 2020

Boris Johnson guaranteeing farmers would get exactly same amount of payments if UK left EU. Gov’t now says post #Brexit subsidies to farmers in England will be drastically reduced by up to 25%

What will it take for country to wake up to this charlatan https://t.co/OzEXtZcs0X

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) February 27, 2020

I think the most painful revelation to me, a Polish girl in England, was to discover on the day the Brexit vote came in that I was never welcome, wanted or needed in this country. The feeling of betrayal by the people I trusted for years was more painful than you imagine.

— Lady Monika Wiśniewska🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@AuthorMonika) February 27, 2020