Although House Democrats are planning legislation to establish a nonpartisan commission intended to study the federal response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in the meantime House committees have begun their own investigations into the government's response to the crisis. And that includes the House Intelligence Committee.

ABC News host George Stephanopoulos announced that he is apparently an asymptomatic victim of COVID-19, having tested positive after his wife became a victim beforehand.

Gov Andrew Cuomo (D), who has been delivering grim news daily from the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic to the nation via his televised coronavirus briefings, clearly was pleased to present something hopeful for a change.

Unfortunately, not only has Trump continued to impart inaccurate information from the presidential podium, he's used the sessions to go off-topic, bloviating about various grievances and other matters. It's not gone unnoticed.

While some are anticipating having to administer this year's November elections in some alternate way, Dr Anthony Fauci holds out hope that Americans will be able to go out to their regular polling places come Election Day.

While Donald Trump and others eagerly look toward reopening a US economy currently shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as May 1, others are sounding an alarm that that date might still be too soon given the risks to public health.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus will eventually touch all Americans, which means that testing people for the virus should become much more of a priority, according to a longtime Democratic lawmaker.

Donald Trump continues to focus on pushing an controversial anti-malaria drug for use as a treatment against COVID-19 because he listens to an "echo chamber" of Fox News program hosts on the matter, over the advice of true experts like top immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci, according to a White House correspondent for The Washington Post.

There is actually not one, but three, distinct strains of the novel coronavirus and those infected by one then should be immune to all, according to a physician who has contributed to several news outlets.

While much of the attention toward the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Empire State has been in New York City, it's also spread throughout the Big Apple's suburban communities, according to Gov Andrew Cuomo.