WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper says more than 4,000 National Guard reservists have been deployed in 31 states to help battle the coronavirus.
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De Blasio Says Fed Govt ‘Not Responding’ To Supply Requests As Coronavirus Cases Skyrocket
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio put the federal government on blast Friday morning for failing to respond to the ballooning number of COVID-19 cases in his city.
California Gov. Orders All Residents To Stay Home Immediately Except For ‘Essential Needs’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a “stay at home” order late Thursday night in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, effective immediately throughout the entire state.
The Outbreak in New York and the Thunder Under the Waves
It now seems very clear that New York state has the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the country and it’s epicenter is in New York City. Out of self-interest I had hoped this was an artifact of aggressive testing. It is now clear that is not the case. The United States now has 11,723 confirmed COVID-19 cases. More than a third of those — 4,152 — are in New York State. Sixty percent of those cases — 2,469 — are in New York City. If you include cases that are in the city’s suburbs the number pushes up toward 4,000.
Let’s dig into these numbers to get a sense of how this relates to the rest of the country, how much these big numbers are driven by aggressive testing and how much lower tallies in other parts of the United States are driven by the absence of testing.
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Trump Campaign, RNC Switch To Virtual Fundraising Events Due To Coronavirus
President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee have suspended in-person fundraising events, opting instead to fundraise through a digital platform in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading “Trump Campaign, RNC Switch To Virtual Fundraising Events Due To Coronavirus”
The Government’s Top HR Officer Resigned Abruptly Amid Pressure From WH
The 20-year Capitol Hill veteran is gone. The 20-somethings remain.
That’s the story this week out of the government’s H.R. department, the Office of Personnel Management.
Italy Now Ahead of China
It is a brutal, merciless race. But Italy has now surpassed China in its death toll from COVID-19. To date, Italy is now over 3,400 fatalities. China’s current number is 3,245. China still has double the number of confirmed cases. But the growth in China is minimal while it rushes ahead in Italy.
How COVID-19 Has Policy Makers, Experts And Reporters Scrambling
The chaos of the coronavirus is scrambling all levels of health-care policymaking and analysis right now. It’s been just a few weeks since we started putting significant — and now total — attention on how medical providers, states and the federal government are responding to the crisis. Every day, the channels of information we’re working through are getting more convoluted and confusing.
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Burr Dumped Up To $1.6 Million Of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness
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Trump Replaced ‘Corona’ With ‘Chinese’ In His Briefing Notes On COVID-19
President Donald Trump had a physical reminder to refer to COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, as “the Chinese virus” in his notes for his press conference on Thursday.
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