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As of Wednesday, COVID-19 has infected more than 1,504,900 people around the world and killed at least 87,984 people.

Razer's co-founder and CEO, Min-Liang Tan, attributes the growth of his multimillion-dollar business to his gamer mentality.

"With the opening of Wuhan last night it's a whole new ballgame for the second largest economy in the world," the "Mad Money" host said

Initial optimism was dented this week after leading British scientists revealed that none of the tests they had tried so far were accurate enough to be of any use, NBC News reports.

"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.

Birx said the New York metropolitan area, which includes Northern New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, is still reporting roughly 11,000 new cases a day and that about 40% of all COVID-19 tests are positive.

"This is a moment where business has to be the greatest platform for change," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said after donating millions of pieces of personal protective equipment to New York.

Trump complained Wednesday that China contributes "a small fraction" of the amount of funding the U.S. sends to the WHO every year.

"Even when the lockdown ends you've got to be prepared for a new world that looks very different from the old one," the "Mad Money" host said.

President Donald Trump criticized the international agency's response to the outbreak, saying the WHO "really called, I would say, every aspect of it wrong."

Starbucks also withdrew its outlook for fiscal 2020.

"Our sellers are able to produce hundreds of thousands of masks per day," Etsy CEO Josh Silverman told CNBC.

The slowdown in new coronavirus cases, even as death tolls rise, raises hopes that aggressive mitigation efforts like social distancing and closures of schools and businesses are working.

The Oklahoma City guard said NBA players are aware of league discussions involving compensation after games were suspended last month due to the coronavirus.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will start to seize exports of personal protective equipment, according to a joint statement from CBP and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband Jeff Sprecher, CEO of the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, were criticized for selling millions of dollars in stock amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the coronavirus task force are expected to hold a press briefing Wednesday, in what has become a daily affair as the pandemic continues to claim lives.

Cuomo announced that 779 people in the state had died of the coronavirus – the highest daily death count yet.

Clorox shares soared in the first few months of 2020 as the new coronavirus spread throughout the U.S. The company had seen a spike in sales of its disinfecting wipes and other cleaning products, and investors felt it was a safe bet in an uncertain time.

In a given month, more than a million people have some kind of surgery. The elective procedures being postponed because of coronavirus aren't all optional. Cancer patients and organ recipients are being forced to wait.