From CNBC: The Trump administration is banning Chinese passenger airlines from flying to the U.S. starting later this month, a move that comes as Beijing prohibits U.S. airlines to resume flights there. The order,...

Boris Johnson will allow Hong Kong citizens to settle in the U.K., for those who want to avoid the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian rule.

From MSN: In the last week, the economic woes stemming from the coronavirus pandemic were further exacerbated when a number of small businesses throughout the nation sustained damages due to the nationwide protests fueled by the...

From The Washington Times: Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a Great Police Captain from St. Louis, who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night. We honor our...

From CNBC: Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend the funeral next week of George Floyd, the black man who died at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, a lawyer for Floyd’s...

From The New York Post: Rep. Max Rose, New York Democrat, said the mayhem in New York City Monday evening showed that Mayor Bill de Blasio has lost control of the situation “once and...

From The New York Times: Navy fighter pilots reported close encounters with unidentified aerial vehicles, including several dangerously close, in eight incidents between June 27, 2013, and Feb. 13, 2019, according to documents recently...

From Scientific American: Horgan: One admirer of your book UFOs describes you as an “agnostic” on whether UFOs are actually piloted by aliens. When I met you at Esalen, you struck me as a believer, not an...

From Detroit Free Press.

Turner in Forbes: Instead, lockdowns have become an end in themselves, where officials and the media focused on those who may sit on a beach, open a gym, or go without a facemask in nursery school. Officials...

From The Hill: To stop COVID-19 dead in its tracks, many governors, mayors and superintendents are threatening to keep schools closed this fall, failing to consider the greater harm that comes from refusing to...

From KaiserHealthNews: You may find yourself in a high-priced health plan you can no longer afford because of a temporary pay cut, unable to get the medical care you might have planned and budgeted...

From The Daily Caller: A black firefighter who invested his life savings into opening up a sports bar in Minneapolis was reduced to tears after looters destroyed his life’s work. Korboi Balla originally planned...

From EdinburghLive, UK: The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday. “In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo,...

From The Hill: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling the attack on the labor group’s Washington, D.C. headquarters during a night of protests over the death of George Floyd on Sunday evening “senseless” and “disgraceful.” The building, on...

….good practice.” As you saw last night, they were very cool & very professional. Never let it get out of hand. Thank you! On the bad side, the D.C. Mayor, @MurielBowser, who is always...

While he hides behind his fence afraid/alone, I stand w/ people peacefully exercising their First Amendment Right after the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & hundreds of years of institutional racism There are no vicious dogs...

From The Washington Examiner: PITTSBURGH — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said a federal investigation is underway into the Brighton Rehab and Wellness Center in Beaver County as he was in western...

We have liftoff. History is made as @NASA_Astronauts launch from @NASAKennedy for the first time in nine years on the @SpaceX Crew Dragon: pic.twitter.com/alX1t1JBAt — NASA (@NASA) May 30, 2020

From the NY Post.

Van Jones on the Lynching of Floyd.  

Jimmy Kimmel on the Floyd killing in Minnesota.

From the Daily Signal: For roughly a minute, Floyd shouts that he can’t breathe and that the officer is hurting him. Then, Floyd is suddenly silent. His body goes limp. He clearly has lost...

And it does not bode well for President Trump and the GOP, from the NYT: Writing in 1997 in “The Fourth Turning,” Mr. Howe and Mr. Strauss warned that after the 2020 crisis, the...

From The Wall Street Journal: Armed with positive antibody tests for Covid-19 and a history of related symptoms, some Americans think they had the disease as early as fall 2019. Last November, New Jersey...

From Cell.com.

From Éiriú Eolas: Could nearly half the population not already infected with SARS-CoV-2 be immune to it from having already contracted other forms of coronavirus in recent years? That is one implication of a...

From Bloomberg Opinion: (Bloomberg Opinion) — Relatively early in the Covid-19 pandemic, in March, I made the case against closing schools and later warned that doing so, even though it may be necessary, will cause many...

From Reuters: COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sending children back to schools and day care centres in Denmark, the first country in Europe to do so, did not lead to an increase in coronavirus infections, according...

From Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance: One farm in Tennessee distributed Covid-19 tests to all of its workers after an employee came down with the virus. It turned out that every single one of its...

Wall Street is nervous about what Trump will say or do next on CHINA! See, USA Today, here.

So, there is that.

From The National Review.

From the Associated Press: Only about half of Americans say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, a number that’s surprisingly low considering the effort going...

From the Washington Inquirer: The COVID-19 virus death rate is highest among residents of long-term care facilities. Using extrapolated data, the report from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity concludes that 43% of deaths from...

When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers

The Strategic Flaw that Maven Can’t Fix: Job-based health care suffers from a collective action problem. Employers offer insurance to their workers as part of their compensation packages. Firms want to attract good employees,...

Via The Week: Before she became a senator and a top contender for former Vice President Joe Biden’s vice presidential spot, Klobuchar spent eight years as the Hennepin County attorney, in charge of prosecution...

From FOX NEWS: It was “egregious, appalling and tragic,” McEnany continued. “He wants justice to be served.” She said that the video prompted Trump to “pick up the phone” while aboard Air Force One...

See raw video footage here.  

From RealClearPolitics by Frank Miele: The unravelling of the Obama administration’s Russia Hoax sped up exponentially in the last two weeks, as the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn collapsed and the acting director...

From The Hill: A Republican candidate seeking to challenge Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dropped out of the congressional GOP primary race late Monday. “I am very grateful to the constituents in NY-14 and citizens from across...

From USA Today.

From Forbes by Avik Roy: Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A single statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate:...

From The Hill: Second, the Crossfire Hurricane case was opened as a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) investigation. A FARA investigation involves a criminal violation of law — in this case, a negligent or intentional failure...

CBS NEWS: Prosecutor tapped to investigate unmasking.

From MarketWatch: According to the Social Security Administration (SSA), Americans aged 65 and over: Get 33% of all income from Social Security 50% of married couples and 70% of unmarried persons rely on Social Security for...

That killing of that man by that police officer kneeling on his neck while the man was handcuffed, is beyond outrageous. Great call by the Minnesota Police Chief to call in the FBI for...

From JPMorganChase:

First-quarter U.S. economic growth is down 5%.

Just the News: The Census Bureau is offering a new portrait of the far-reaching economic toll of the coronavirus shutdown: more than half of American households with children have lost income since the pandemic...

From Fierce Healthcare: Launching a public option on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) exchanges could lower premiums but isn’t likely to make a significant dent in the number of people without insurance, a new study shows. Researchers...

From RealClearHealth: Would more government control of heath care have protected us better against the Coronavirus? A recent poll showed that Americans disagree by nearly two to one. 38% of Americans believe that a socialized health...

Nancy Pelosi on the coronavirus: “this is an opportunity, every crisis is”https://t.co/SEKTlwmhWQ pic.twitter.com/rs6HAlh877 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 27, 2020

From CNBC: Continuing claims, or those who have been collecting for at least two weeks, numbered 21.05 million, a clearer picture of how many workers are still sidelined. That number dropped sharply, falling 3.86...

From LifeHacker: “The new ruling is an attempt to address some of the limitations of the FSA,” said Craig Keohan, chief revenue officer at HSA provider HealthSavings. “In many ways, the changes highlight the restrictions...

From USA Today’s Editorial Board: NASA, which once saw private space companies as a threat to its bureaucracy, began looking at them as better than relying on Russia. It began contracting out robotic servicing missions, and ultimately...

It’s a party!

From Brian Blase in the New York Post: Congress has provided hospitals with nearly $200 billion of our hard-earned tax dollars to help them weather the coronavirus pandemic. House Democrats just passed a bill...

New @FREOPP: Updated report on #COVID19 nursing home fatalities with the latest data as of Friday. https://t.co/ylZ5EqAzWY Nursing homes & assisted living facilities now represent 42% of all deaths from the coronavirus—up from 40%...

From the New York Times: LOS ANGELES — Locked down in their homes, the four former California governors clicked into a Zoom call and one after another described how they dealt with the crises...

Editorial from the New York Post: Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes history on Wednesday — going where no private enterprise has gone before with the first nongovernment launch of humans into orbit. The Crew Dragon capsule...

Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available. @SteveHiltonx @FoxNews — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020

From Quaint: Shi Zhengli, a virologist renowned for her work on coronavirus in bats, said in an interview on Chinese state television that viruses being discovered now are “just the tip of the iceberg”...

From Axios: By the numbers: A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows Biden leading Trump by 22 points among female voters 65+, while Trump leads Biden by 11 points among older men. That’s what gets...

From Just the News: New estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that COVID-19 may have an infection fatality rate as low as 0.26%, a number that is double the seasonal flu...

From STAT: In the public imagination, vaccines are often seen effectively as cure-alls, like inoculations against measles. Rather than those vaccines, however, the Covid-19 vaccines in development may be more like those that protect...

From The Hill: Since 2009, almost 1,300 new DPC practices have developed as many employers, unions and even health plans now rely on DPC doctors to provide better care for their employees. DPC arrangements...

From the Wall Street Journal: Black residents make up 32% of the state’s population but 55% of its deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The numbers are similar in New York, Chicago,...

From Medical Press: New research from Emory University indicates that nearly all people hospitalized with COVID-19 develop virus-neutralizing antibodies within six days of testing positive. The findings will be key in helping researchers understand...

From Nature: Monkeys were protected from the new coronavirus after receiving a DNA vaccine against the virus. Seeking a strategy to stave off SARS-CoV-2 infection, Dan Barouch at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts,...

From Politico: But more than a dozen black and Latino strategists and activists warned in interviews that selecting Klobuchar would not help Biden excite black voters — and might have the opposite effect. Klobuchar...

From Hinderaker in Powerline.

See Washington Examiner story, here.

From the Detroit News.  

From The Hill, here.

From Plan Sponsor: Under the new Revenue Procedure 2020-32, for the calendar year 2021, a “high-deductible health plan” is defined as “a health plan with an annual deductible that is not less than $1,400...

From The Hill.

This post is from an old friend who is in the medical research community: “Flattening the curve didn’t mean stop the infection but spread it out so that the system could handle it. I...

Fascinating interview of Charlie Cook.

From the NY Post:

From CNBC: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the next coronavirus bill would not extend beefed-up unemployment insurance enacted as the pandemic ravaged the U.S. economy, according to a source familiar with his remarks. The Kentucky Republican made...

By Yinon Weiss: That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest medical and economic blunders of all time. The collective failure of every Western nation, except one,...

For economist Robert Higgs, Covid-19 is just the latest emergency justifying expanded government power.

From Bloomberg.

From FOX NEWS: Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., introduced a resolution condemning “anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19,” including use of the phrase “Wuhan Virus.” The former presidential candidate introduced the bill on behalf of a...

It’s not airborne. It’s spread via touch: The virus that causes COVID-19 is spreading very easily and sustainably between people. Information from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic suggests that this virus is spreading more efficiently...

By Lowry in the National Review: A couple of months ago, the media, almost as one, decided that Governor Ron DeSantis was a public menace who was going to get Floridians killed with his lax...

From The Federalist: The Center for Disease Control’s most recent report shows 12 pediatric COVID deaths total, compared to 174 pediatric flu deaths this season. In the 2018-2019 flu season there were 400 pediatric...

By Daniel Horowitz: I would argue that the risk of healthy people dying of COVID-19, as compared to the flu, is even more favorable than this data suggests, because nearly all of the deaths...

From USA Today: WASHINGTON – The campaign arms for Democrats, from the presidential contest and congressional races to state legislatures and gubernatorial elections, have centered their focus on a single issue they expect will lead...

See the employer_organization COVID-19 letter, here.

Via CNN.

Pennsylvania School Board member, from PENNLIVE: A Facebook post by a Selinsgrove Area School Board member that warns anyone coming within 6 feet of her or her family without a mask could be shot...

In Shelby County, more people are dying from drug overdoses than COVID-19 https://t.co/1qz0WbvXhy — Commercial Appeal (@memphisnews) May 19, 2020