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Top eight CNS stories for today including California Governor Gavin Newsom assembled a prominent cast of business leaders and advisers to reignite the state’s economy; Europe is expected to reach 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the coming days as a mood of uncertainty hangs over the continent; Florida strip clubs are struggling to survive the pandemic, and more.

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1.) As public health departments across the nation conduct testing for novel coronavirus, they’ve also begun testing individuals for antibodies — a move experts say could help officials determine how to redeploy the U.S. workforce and aid development of a vaccine.

A scientist presents an antibody test for coronavirus in a laboratory of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) at the InfectoGnostics research campus in Jena, Germany, Friday, April 3, 2020. An international team of researchers with the participation of the Jena Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) has developed a rapid antibody test for the new coronavirus. By means of a blood sample, the test shows within ten minutes whether a person is acutely infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (IgM antibody) or already immune to it (IgG antibody). The strip test is manufactured by the diagnostics company Senova in Weimar and is already on the market. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

2.) The Covid-19 pandemic has caused some states to postpone this year’s bar exam, others to cancel it, and complicated 2020 law school graduates’ efforts to start a career and pay off their student loans.

Regional

3.) Ramping up for a “pandemic-induced recession,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday he’s assembled a prominent cast of business leaders and advisers to reignite the state’s economy.

FILE - In this March 16, 2020 file photo, a police officer walks up the entry bridge at closed Santa Monica Pier as part of measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus in Santa Monica, Calif . If California Gov. Gavin Newsom's so-called roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions hinted at a return to a normal Californians could appreciate - a summer trip in the car - it quickly became apparent they wouldn't be leaving home soon. The governor's sobering message foreshadows a summer without baseball games under the lights, large outdoor concerts, rides at amusement parks or trips to the beach. In short: a summer bummer. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

4.) A drive down one of Tampa’s main thoroughfares on a recent night reveals the empty parking lots and darkened neon lights of the city’s most iconic strip clubs.

2001 Odyssey, a full nude strip club in Tampa, Fla. (Alex Pickett/Courthouse News)

5.) Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday announced a gradual reopening of the state’s economy, easing restrictions on businesses and medical procedures during the Covid-19 crisis.

Eric Manzanares walks past a closed tattoo shop amid concerns of COVID-19 spreading in the Deep Ellum section of Dallas, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

International

6.) Europe is expected to reach 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the coming days as a mood of uncertainty hangs over the continent.

People shop in a covered market in downtown Rome Friday, April 17, 2020. Covered markets were among the activities that were allowed to continue working open during the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

7.) The European Commission has released a set of guidelines for coronavirus tracking apps in the European Union but privacy watchdogs are still skeptical.

A smartphone belonging to Drew Grande, 40, of Cranston, R.I., shows notes he made for contact tracing Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Grande began keeping a log on his phone at the beginning of April, after he heard Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo urge residents to start out of concern about the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

8.) The archbishop of El Salvador’s forceful call to keep the nation under lockdown caused the Congress to back down on its effort to undermine the popular President Nayib Bukele’s quarantine measures.

A locked-down street in rural El Salvador, overseen by the Virgin Mary. (Miguel Patricio/Courthouse News.)

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