From The Lancet: In scenarios in which the reproduction number was 2·5, 15% of transmission occurred before symptom onset, and there was a short delay to isolation, at least 80% of infected contacts needed...
Tucker: “People you trust — people you probably voted for — have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem,” Carlson told his audience. “Though these people have good intentions as they...
First, the House Dems are at no payroll tax cut. Second, here is a reasonable summation of where a fair number of the Senate Republicans are at, if you want some money to help...
From Yahoo News: Despite vows to drastically expand coronavirus testing, federal and state public health authorities have tested only 4,987 people for the coronavirus as of Tuesday morning, according to the Centers for Disease...
From KHN: Stat: $125M Effort To Find Coronavirus Drugs Started By Gates Foundation, Wellcome, And Mastercard The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with the charitable group Wellcome and Mastercard, announced Tuesday that they...
From the NYT: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, is widely respected for his ability to explain science without talking down to his audience — and lately, for managing to...
From WTOP: The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking all personnel based at its headquarters to work from home due to an employee who may have coronavirus, according to an SEC spokesperson, becoming the first federal agency to...
From Arab News: DUBAI: Iran has temporarily freed about 70,000 prisoners to combat the spread of the coronavirus in jails, the head of the judiciary said on Monday, as officials reported hundreds of new...
From The HIll: Older Americans, especially those with underlying health conditions, should stockpile supplies and avoid unnecessary travel, a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday. Most Americans...
It's actually very important we continue to refer to COVID19 as the Wuhan Virus The Chinese government is working overtime to blame the CIA and anyone else for their failings. The name should indicate...
From The Washingtonian: Politico, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, and Mother Jones have asked reporters who covered CPAC to self-quarantine and work remotely due to concerns that they may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus....
From The Daily Caller: Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz both announced Monday afternoon that they would be self-quarantining themselves after learning that they interacted with a coronavirus-infected person in...
From CBS News: The Federal Reserve is delaying processing dollars that have been repatriated from Asia. The Louvre Museum in Paris isn’t accepting cash from visitors. And Iran has urged its citizens to stop...
From CNBC: Italy will expand the lockdown of the Lombardy region to the entire country, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Monday as Italy’s case count surged, making it the country with the most COVID-19 cases outside...
Coronavirus Update: Number Of Cases Continues To Climb Across Tri-State; New Jersey’s 1st Patient Speaks Out
From the Washington Examiner: A firestorm erupted over the weekend in western media and politics over how to deal with China’s role in the outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19. Many have taken to...
From Bloomberg News: (Bloomberg) — The new coronavirus causes little more than a cough if it stays in the nose and throat, which it does for the majority of people unlucky enough to be...
The head of port authority for NY/NJ who runs NY/NJ airports tested positive the Governor announced. — Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 9, 2020
NEW from @Kasie: Members of Congress are becoming increasingly anxious about coronavirus, and there is growing pressure on leadership to take steps to protect lawmakers — even potentially recessing for a period of weeks...
From The Seattle Times: Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering...
From Business Insider: In a statement, an Uber spokesperson said the company will be compensating drivers and delivery people for up to 14 days who are either diagnosed with COVID-19 or are placed in...
6'8 Las Vegas Aces star Liz Cambage said she thinks she contracted the #CoronaVirus while playing in China last December. Cambage believes she survived the virus before the world knew what it was. She...
ALSO OF NOTE: Congress as a whole could be more susceptible to dangerous symptoms of the coronavirus. Sixty-six senators are over the age of 60 — fully two-thirds of the body, with more than...
Mudde in The Guardian: The most remarkable aspect of Super Tuesday is that Biden won in states that he had spent little money in and had few campaign staff. Against the millions of dollars...
From The American Prospect: What drove that consolidation is no mystery. It wasn’t a sudden enthusiasm for Biden. It was a deep fear of Sanders becoming the presidential nominee and dividing and dragging down...
“ACU chairman Matt Schlapp told the Washington Post on Saturday he did interact with the infected at the event. The precise chronology could not be learned, but Schlapp did shake Trump’s hand on the...
From Politico: The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Washington, D.C., according to Mayor Muriel Bowser.
From Reuters: Democrats are about twice as likely as Republicans to say the coronavirus poses an imminent threat to the United States, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted this week. And more Democrats than...
Here is my key question: If the social credit, uber-face recognition totalitarian state of China can’t quarantine this (as evidenced by its global spread and the fact that the 60 million person quarantine inside...
Really? From FOX: The Super Tuesday evening post, now deleted, said: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have...
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Klein: Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential candidacy ultimately failed because voters saw right through her. Warren’s career, as I have detailed, has been built on a series of cons dating back to her time as an academic...
From Politico: “Let’s take a deep breath and spend a little time on that. We don’t have to decide right this minute,” Warren said. Pressed on whether an endorsement was coming, Warren said “not...
From the National Review: ‘If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure...
From the USA Today Editorial Board: For the Senate’s Democratic leader to stand on the front steps of the Supreme Court and furiously shout words that sound very much like a threat against two high court justices is unseemly...
From The Atlantic: When Joe Biden climbed to the stage in California to celebrate his Super Tuesday comeback in the Democratic primary, three things happened in a matter of minutes. He basked in the...
From the National Review: So, let me get this straight. After a year of campaigning, discussion, and debate among the Democrats, as of early February, the party had decided Joe Biden was the favorite...
From the Daily Mail: Mike Pence admitted Thursday that the administration will not be able to follow meet its promise to deliver one million coronavirus testing kits by the end of the week. ‘We don’t have enough...
MIT Technology Review: Few health institutions around the world are as renowned as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Which makes it all the more baffling that the CDC could have fumbled...
From The Week: Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC on Thursday that the company has lost several hundred million dollars in a week’s time thanks to a decline in bookings amid increasing fears over COVID-19....
From Business Insider via Yahoo News: New modeling from The Australian National University looks at seven scenarios of how the outbreak might affect the world’s wealth, ranging from low severity to high severity. In the...
From the New York Daily News: “A city schoolteacher has self-quarantined after coming down with coronavirus-like symptoms, city officials confirmed Wednesday. The teacher recently traveled to Italy…”
From the New York Daily News: “Wife, son, and daughter of Westchester coronavirus patient test positive for the illness, along with a neighbor who drove him to the hospital…”
From the WSJ: “Seattle-area companies and schools began implementing contingency plans Thursday to help contain the new coronavirus in the hard-hit region, where the number of confirmed cases jumped to 70 from 39 a...
From Newsweek: The National Emerson College Poll of 1,128 registered voters between January 21 and January 23 found that 53 percent of Sanders supporters said “yes” when asked if they would support the Democratic nominee...
Savor this meltdown. pic.twitter.com/r6ArfZIN25 — David Reaboi (@davereaboi) March 4, 2020
Sanders predicting the Biden-Sanders delegate count will be neck-and-neck once the California ballots are counted, from The Hill: “I haven’t seen the latest delegate count, but my guess is that after California is thrown...
Turque in USA Today: …if the supposed Sanders-Warren agenda is really what they care about, now is the time to get behind the viable candidate, and that’s not Warren. If her base truly supports...
Wilkinson in Bloomberg: Sanders, whose attacks on the Democratic Party are always his most heartfelt, may sabotage that effort. But the brightest star in the American left, who also happens to be one of...
From Reuters: After a not-so-Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg is out of the presidential nomination contest. But the power of his $60 billion fortune is staying in.
From Morning Consult: 48% of Democratic primary voters backing Michael Bloomberg said Joe Biden is their second choice for president, compared with 25% who said Bernie Sanders and 15% who said Elizabeth Warren. Polling...
The Week: Why Anybody-But-Bernie may have resulted in Biden winning the nomination, but not the general election: Biden also has particular risks that are not easily quantifiable but still obvious. He has run a...
From The Hill: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the 2020 race on Wednesday after a disappointing performance on Super Tuesday despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars in advertisements. “Three months...
From Fast Company: Texting has exploded in political campaigns, with over a billion texts expected to be sent during this election cycle. But how effective are they?
From CNBC: World health officials said Tuesday the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” WHO Director-General Tedros...
Warren slams Biden as a Washington insider who won’t change.
From Politico: A defiant Mike Bloomberg beat back criticism of himself and his campaign Monday in a Fox News town hall, arguing that he is, indeed, a Democrat and has no reason to follow...
In a testy exchange with @CeciliaVega and other reporters, Michael Bloomberg says Joe Biden is "taking votes away" from him, vows he's "in it to win it," and demands reporters ask Biden whether he...
This may be part of the Wuhan virus funding package now being considered by Congress.
CBS News: Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on Sunday would not predict how many Americans would contract coronavirus, but said the U.S., which currently has the capability to test 75,000 people...
Can we all take a deep breath? @Mike_Pence did not meet or come into contact at all with this student. https://t.co/uLzvnVcoS4 — Katie Miller (@VPPressSec) March 3, 2020
From CBS: Twitter is asking its entire workforce of 5,000 people to work from home, part of its effort to keep employees safe and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The company said working from...
CBS Miami: On Wednesday, February 26, afraid of being trapped in Italy, she flew home, stopping over in Madrid, before boarding an Iberian Airlines flight to Miami. She landed at Miami International Airport around...
From Politico: First, the results today will tell us what the two main coalitions really look like. The first four small states offered clues, but the total number of voters in the 14 Super...
Burmila in The Nation: Many writers, such as Shuja Haider in The Outline, have made the argument that to deny the nomination to Sanders in this hypothetical would be unfair and undemocratic. Other writers, like Julia Azari...
From FiveThirtyEight: “Bernie Sanders, who leads in name recognition at 91.7 percent, was the first-place fundraiser in terms of money raised from individual donors in the fourth quarter. (This total excludes money raised from other sources, like transfers from...
Brownstein in the Atlantic: So far, neither Sanders nor Biden has proved himself particularly well-suited—especially in stylistic terms—for the white-collar white voters common at events for Buttigieg, Warren, and Klobuchar. Sanders’s best showing among...
From The Intercept: FOR FOUR YEARS, Democratic officials have insisted that Donald Trump is an unprecedented threat to the republic, a fascist and racist dictator whose removal from power is the paramount, if not the only, political...
From the NY Post: “The ex-director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the deadly coronavirus may be ‘impossible’ to contain — and that kids may be secret carriers...
And so it turns out that Trump’s tariffs on China, which forced American business leaders to start looking for a new manufacturing partner, may have laid the groundwork for American companies to leave China...
From the WSJ: Apple’s reliance on China has long frustrated staff—and more recently unnerved investors. The coronavirus represents Apple’s third major setback there in as many years, including the fallout from tensions with the...
According to the Wuhan virus map managed by John Hopkins CSSE, the total infected worldwide is 89,253 and the total worldwide dead is 3,048. This means a mortality rate of 3,048/89,253 x 100 =...
Business Insider via Yahoo News: New York confirmed its first case of novel coronavirus on Sunday evening. “The patient, a woman in her late 30s, contracted the virus while traveling abroad in Iran, and...
ScienceMag: Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely? The World Health Organization...
From Bloomberg News: There may be “hundreds or low thousands” of coronavirus cases in the U.S. that haven’t been reported yet and “community spread” is underway in at least two and possibly four states,...
From Bloomberg, via Yahoo: In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that...
Washington Post via MSN: Major companies are beginning to cancel conferences and travel plans within the United States due to the coronavirus, which analysts warn will have cascading impacts on the country’s hotels, airlines...
LA Times via MSN: “We’ve only had a handful of labs that can test with it. The rest have been on pause,” said Scott Becker, the executive director of the Association of Public Health...