September 19: U.S. death toll passes 200,000 Six months after most of the country implemented COVID-19 lockdown measures, NBC News reported that the United States surpassed the 200,000 mark . This came at the heels of Bob Woodward's book coming out, in which the journalist wrote that Trump had been concerned about the coronavirus in early February , but downplayed it to the American public and did not have a national response until March. The book was based on several interviews conducted between Woodward and Trump, and while his staff say that the president downplayed the virus in order to not incite unnecessary panic, some researchers believe that fewer people would have died if the country started social distancing and quarantining just a week earlier . … [Read more...] about From Wuhan to the White House: A Timeline of COVID-19’s Spread
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Citizenship data is latest rollback of Donald Trump census efforts
A spokeswoman for one of the plaintiffs, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the group needed to assess where the Census Bureau was in the process before dismissing the Maryland lawsuit. Jeffrey Wice, a Democratic redistricting expert, hailed the revocations of the Trump administration's census directives. … [Read more...] about Citizenship data is latest rollback of Donald Trump census efforts
Light at the end of the tunnel? Dr. Fauci says one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be approved in TWO WEEKS – as COVID hospitalizations fall 10% in 24 states and new cases decline in 44 states
The CDC warned Americans not to get one dose from Pfizer and the other from Moderna except in 'exceptional situations.' Pictured: Jackie Barry, a resident of The Open Hearth mens shelter, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Hartford, Connecticut, January 22 … [Read more...] about Light at the end of the tunnel? Dr. Fauci says one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be approved in TWO WEEKS – as COVID hospitalizations fall 10% in 24 states and new cases decline in 44 states
Ohio Republican congressman Steve Stivers says $1,400 stimulus checks should ONLY go to people who get the COVID-19 vaccine – but slow rollout means less than 6% of Americans have been able to get a shot
'Last time the impeachment trial took six weeks in the Senate. And it doesn't take six weeks to go through the evidence. It takes six weeks because under the Senate rules everybody wants to talk and everybody gets to talk and so it will likely take at least four weeks,' he said. … [Read more...] about Ohio Republican congressman Steve Stivers says $1,400 stimulus checks should ONLY go to people who get the COVID-19 vaccine – but slow rollout means less than 6% of Americans have been able to get a shot
Signs of hope? Nearly 3,900 Americans die of COVID-19 but hospitalizations and positive cases are down as Johnson & Johnson board member predicts company’s new coronavirus vaccine will help Biden reach his goal of inoculating 100 million by April
The HIV researcher, with no 'on the ground' experience running a public health agency, is inheriting an unprecedented pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans in less than a year, a CDC that has fumbled at nearly every turn of its response and a disastrous vaccine rollout. … [Read more...] about Signs of hope? Nearly 3,900 Americans die of COVID-19 but hospitalizations and positive cases are down as Johnson & Johnson board member predicts company’s new coronavirus vaccine will help Biden reach his goal of inoculating 100 million by April
