President Donald Trump on Friday was noncommittal when asked about a legislative package making its way through Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quite a Moment
President says testing delays not his fault.
Trump: "No I don't take responsibility at all." pic.twitter.com/iT3Fj2JT6T
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 13, 2020
Trump Finally Declares National Emergency Over Coronavirus Outbreak
President Donald Trump officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a national emergency on Friday afternoon after weeks of downplaying the disease.
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FDA Gives More Testing Sign-Off
New York state and city officials have been pressing the FDA for days to sign off both on new tests but also automated testing. They seem to have finally gotten the authorization today. They’ve also gotten the sign-off to have the state approve testing additional capacity within the state. I know I’m focusing a lot on New York. It’s a location of major spread. But I’m also doing so because the issues are relevant to and often paralleled by the same things happening in states around the country.
Pelosi Announces COVID-19 Package While Talks With Trump Admin Continue
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that the House would be voting Friday on a package of proposals to address the coronavirus outbreak — a package that she had spent the last day and a half negotiating with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
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WATCH LIVE: Trump Gives Press Conference On Coronavirus At 3 PM EST
President Donald Trump will give a press conference at 3 p.m. EST on the administration’s latest response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Louisiana Delays Presidential Primary By Two Months Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced Friday that the state’s presidential primary will be delayed two months as the country braces for the coronavirus outbreak to intensify.
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Report: Fox Producer Admits Networks’ Pro-Trump Coronavirus Coverage Is ‘Really Irresponsible’
Several hosts at Fox News and Fox Business have been working hard to help President Donald Trump spin his administration’s failure to properly deal with the COVID-19 pandemic as a conspiracy perpetrated by Trump’s enemies–and at least one network producer apparently is worried about the consequences.
This Should Focus Our Attention on the Vulnerable (News From Italy)
We’re getting our first breakdown of mortality figures from the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. They should focus our attention on protecting and isolating the vulnerable. Helen Branswell, a reporter for StatNews who has been a critical source of information through this crisis, is sharing information from a teleconference briefing hosted by JAMA. It’s with a top clinician in Lombardy. One slide gives a breakdown of the epidemic by age.
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‘Daily Existential Dread’
TPM Reader OM offers the perspective of being immuno-compromised and living with the threat of COVID-19:
COVID-19 has hit at a very strange time for me. …
I had a liver transplant on Jan. 22.
One hell of a time to become immuno-compromised.