The United States became the country with the most coronavirus cases in the world this week, with more than 100,000 confirmed infections. Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed the largest rescue package in history, at more than $2 trillion, to provide relief checks to individuals, unemployment benefits, aid to hospitals and states, and help for small and large businesses affected by the shutdown of the U.S. economy.

Hospitals in New York City, New Orleans, Seattle and other metropolitan areas are filling up with patients amid concerns there is not enough personal protective equipment for healthcare workers or ventilators for seriously ill people.

Major League Baseball’s opening day came and went, as all professional and college sports remain shuttered at a time Americans could really use a distraction from all the worry and bad news. Bill Bramhall of the New York Daily News drew Mr. Met, the mascot for the New York Mets, looking out the window wistfully while wearing a facemask.

Cartoonists took aim at the president’s desire to reopen the country by Easter; at the implication (and explicit statement by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick) that older people most vulnerable to the virus should sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy; criticism of the aid package as loaded with “pork” for special interests; finger-pointing between China and the United States; struggles with home-schooling kids.

Cartoons were drawn by Bill Bramhall, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands, Joel Pett and Joey Weatherford of Tribune Content Agency; and A.F. Branco, Mike Luckovich and Michael Ramirez of Creators Syndicate.

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