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A conversation on CNBC’s Squawk Box about the economic strain of Covid-19 devolved into a pointed exchange between Rick Santelli and Andrew Ross Sorkin about masks and restrictions on businesses. Santelli, a Chicago-based correspondent known for delivering on-air rants like his 2009 diatribe against President Barack…

CNBC’s Rick Santelli apologized on Friday for suggesting that “maybe we’d be better off” if everyone were infected with the coronavirus because it would shorten the impact on the economy. “It was just a stupid thing to say. It is not appropriate in this instance, and we are resilient, both in the United States and in…