New estimates by Harvard researchers suggest that the U.S. cannot safely reopen unless it conducts more than 3 times the number of coronavirus tests it's currently administering over the next month
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Dr. Fauci told me today that the coronavirus could kill anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, and infect millions more. Americans.
The president is tweeting about TV ratings for press conferences.
Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
Breaking: A child under the age of 18 has died of coronavirus in Los Angeles, public health officials announce, in what is believed to be the first child death from the virus in the US.
“A devastating reminder that COVID-19 infects people of all ages,” LA health official says.
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, Chief of the @USACEHQ, provides a 'simple' solution to the complicated problem of building temporary medical facilities to assist states with responding to #COVID19. This clip is from a press conference by Army senior leader on March 20, 2020.
This is the president of the United States speaking in the White House briefing room during a pandemic and shortage of medical supplies, right after the 500th American died from the virus.
Rand Paul - a doctor - going to the Senate gym while awaiting results of a COVID test is about 1000 times more irresponsible than the very irresponsible spring breakers everyone is dunking on
My Q: When will everyone who needs a coronavirus test be able to get a test?
Pres Trump: “No-one is talking about this except you, which doesn’t surprise me."
My Q: What about people w/ symptoms who cannot get a test?
Trump: "Yeah, well, OK. I’m not— I'm not hearing it."
In reading the terrific book “The Great Influenza,” the author traces the 1918 flu pandemic to the plains of Kansas, then spread to an army base. It killed 50-60 million people worldwide. For some reason it wasn’t called “the Kansas Flu.”