While most of the news reports are focused on the health and societal angles of coronavirus, every now and then, politics creeps in too. Here we discuss questions about who Sen. Richard Burr warned about the virus in February, how much he knew about its possible effects when he traded $1.7 million in stock and what that means for a state leader in the time of a pandemic.

Links to stories:

March 19: https://www.wral.com/burr-sold-stocks-before-pandemic-tanked-market/19020599/

March 20: https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/burr-calls-for-ethics-investigation-after-stock-sell-off/19021737/

March 30: https://www.wral.com/fbi-reaches-out-to-sen-burr-over-stock-sales-tied-to-virus/19035608/​