Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) expressed his and other senators’ concerns following the news that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tested positive for the coronavirus earlier Sunday. Continue reading “Romney Expresses Senators’ Concerns After Paul Tests Positive For Coronavirus”
Wolf Suggests Russia May Be Spreading National Quarantine Rumors
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf dismissed the notion of an impending national lockdown or quarantine in the U.S. during an interview on Fox News Sunday morning. Continue reading “Wolf Suggests Russia May Be Spreading National Quarantine Rumors”
Rand Paul Positive for COVID-19
Senator Rand Paul’s twitter account just announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in quarantine. The Twitter announcement says that he is currently asymptomatic. He appears to be the third members of Congress and the first Senator to test positive.
Rand Paul Is The First Senator To Test Positive For Coronavirus
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) office announced Sunday afternoon that he has tested positive for COVID-19, making him the first senator and the third known member of Congress to test positive for the coronavirus. Continue reading “Rand Paul Is The First Senator To Test Positive For Coronavirus”
Italian Doctors Urge Move from Patient-Centered Care
A new article authored by a group of physicians in Bergamo, Italy proposes a radical theory of the COVID-19 outbreak and how it must be addressed. (It is published in a new peer-reviewed journal from the New England Journal of Medicine. Article here; write up in StatNews here.) The authors write that “Western health care systems have been built around the concept of patient-centered care,” but that doctors must now move to “community-centered care.”
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Fauci On Differing With Trump: He’s Coming From A ‘Hope Layperson Standpoint’
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci acknowledged his differences with President Trump in response to the coronavirus outbreak, but stopped short of criticizing him during a Sunday morning interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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Mnuchin Says Recession Is A ‘Technical Question’ That’s ‘Not Terribly Relevant’
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin denied that the U.S. is currently in a recession amid the coronavirus outbreak during an interview on Fox News Sunday morning. Continue reading “Mnuchin Says Recession Is A ‘Technical Question’ That’s ‘Not Terribly Relevant’”
FEMA Admin Repeatedly Dodges Questions On Hospital Supply Shortages
FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor couldn’t give a clear-cut answer when asked about key supply shortages as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to overwhelm hospitals, during his Sunday morning TV appearances. Continue reading “FEMA Admin Repeatedly Dodges Questions On Hospital Supply Shortages”
Pence And Wife Test Negative For Coronavirus
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen tested negative for COVID-19, according to Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller in a Saturday night tweet. Continue reading “Pence And Wife Test Negative For Coronavirus”
Three Weeks On
“Demand testing. It’s what matters. Take it from people in an outbreak zone.” That was TPM Reader RS’s sign off on March 2nd, writing from his home a few hundred yards from the Kirkland, Washington nursing home that was the first epicenter of the crisis in the United States. You can see his whole note here.
This evening RS writes again, almost three weeks on …
I went back to read this message I sent you three weeks ago and I actually wept a bit.
To see what’s happening in NYC makes me so angry and sad for the people there. So sad that we begged to be listened to in Seattle but no one listened.