Donald Trump, pockets of protesters around the country, and others are clamoring for the United States to be "reopened" from the severe lockdown conditions it's been under to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, but that won't happen until individual testing for the virus ramps up dramatically.

Since Donald Trump has left the roadmap for moving forward with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the eventual lifting of the extreme lockdown and social distancing measures to the individual states, New York Gov Andrew Cuomo said his immediate concern is to stabilize the finances of the states.

Public health professionals and government officials continue to tell Americans that the road back from the strict lockdown conditions and social distancing measures which have become a fact of life for most Americans in the fight to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, will rely on getting massive testing, tracking and contact-tracing programs up and running.

Although infections from the novel coronavirus appear to have perhaps turned a corner in hardest-hit New York, Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) put some sober perspective on that, while also continuing to look forward to when the Empire State might once again open it's doors.

Bernie Sanders may no longer be running for president himself, but the senator from Vermont plans to stay very involved in the campaign, almost like a "progressive coach" of sorts for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Donald Trump has promised to cut US funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) over a supposedly lax response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, but the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has praised his agency's ongoing relationship with the WHO.

Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, the outgoing Obama administration left the National Strategic Stockpile fully stocked and ready to supply the nation in the face of the public health crisis like a pandemic.

Add the City of Brotherly Love to the states and locales looking for aid to help weather the economic storm brewing as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Donald Trump and others who want a quick reopening of a US economy shuttered as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak will probably be very disappointed. That's according to a variety of public health professionals and others who foresee a longer road ahead to bring the country--and the world--back to normal.

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.