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A few loose ends remain but this whole virus thing is about to be wrapped up, with all the states reopening to some degree, so far no virus rebound evident and a vaccine candidate or two coming along fine. Once that vaccine is nailed down and a few hundred million doses administered, back to revving […]
There were clues Monday that the White House Corona Virus Task Force still exists, a sighting of two of its members and the disclosure by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that he will attend Task Force meetings this week. Otherwise there was no sign of the NIH’s Tony Fauci nor of the Task Force response coordinator […]
When Jack Nicholson ad-libbed, “You can’t handle the truth” in that 1992 movie it became one of those phrases that assumed a life of its own, used long after in contexts far removed from the original plot. The Nicholson character’s truth proved to be irrelevant, part of a strident defence that did not prevent his […]
There is a basic problem in news coverage of the pandemic, the fact that the virus culture wars are much more interesting than the fight against the virus itself. When President Trump calls an answer from NIH’s Tony Fauci “unacceptable” as he did Wednesday, the president’s fans are cheering how he shows the know-it-alls – […]
The testimonies of Dr Tony Fauci, Robert Redfield, Stephan Hahn and Brett Giroir Tuesday seemed to many, perhaps even a lot of investors and traders, like something new when in fact there was not only nothing new, but what was there was way too late. The testimonies, if anything, just demonstrated again it’s not the […]
It has been a little more than two weeks since there has been a US Corona Virus Task Force briefing and Monday’s substitute, a presidential briefing, was intended to illustrate vast progress made in making virus testing widely available. The Rose Garden even had added to the background two large banners, proclaiming ‘America Leads the […]
We all know the big things in our lives that are changing because of the new consciousness of health risks and the sense of shared responsibility we feel for those around us, particularly the seniors, but there are less obvious and more subtle threats we have to deal with these days – like war with […]
In the US, the virus continued painting a clear picture Wednesday of death on the march, killing more in the latest day than ever before, while all the elements that could make up a different picture, of success against the disease, remains a muddled mess. A status report with two weeks to go before the […]
Virus infection cases kept multiplying in the US Thursday, death tolls kept going up, more governors and mayors ignored President Trump’s dream of packed churches on Easter and the US kept mostly ignoring the kind of contact tracing that slowed the virus to a crawl elsewhere. By one count, the US number of infection cases […]
The coronavirus, heedless of the new battle of narratives, is steadily spreading mostly unseen Tuesday in and beyond the “hotspots” as US cases topped 50,000, more than half of them around New York City. Fearful that infected New Yorkers fleeing the city will seed other virus hotspots elsewhere, the two most senior government experts in […]
