Although the presidential race has been in something like suspended animation these past few weeks as the nation and the world grapples with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams snapped it back to life--if only briefly--by publicly announcing that she would be pleased to be Joe Biden's running mate.

COVID-19 patients who have to go on a ventilator only have a 20 percent of ever coming off of it again, according to New York Gov Andrew Cuomo (D), who is leading the largest mobilization against the disease in the United States.

The fact that Donald Trump has proven untrustworthy and unreliable at the head of the daily White House coronavirus briefings has resulted in only a very modest bump at best in public opinion polling during this crisis, according to a former US senator.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the famed immunologist who is advising Donald Trump on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic--and has increasingly become the public face in the crisis--is starting to offer Americans a glimmer of hope even as the deadly virus continues to spread.

Donald Trump's backpedaling on his desire to reopen the country in time for Easter came after campaign advisers for his re-election campaign told him that the public would hold him primarily responsible for the resulting increase in American deaths, according to a Washington Post reporter.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) is speculating that handshakes might no longer be acceptable after the coronavirus outbreak is over.

While Donald Trump contemplates ultimate US fatalities in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of life from the virus in New York is "already staggering," according to Gov Andrew Cuomo (D).

TV commentators on competing networks are urging television executives to decide to stop broadcasting Donald Trump's full coronavirus briefings to the nation, because Trump is not necessarily truthful and he often treats them more like a form of entertainment.

It's "too early to tell" whether those patients who have been sickened by the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease and have recovered from them have developed an immunity from being re-infected by the illness, according to an epidemiologist from the World Health Organization (WHO).

As New York City struggles with being the epicenter of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, so is it's police department, with more than 700 of its officers having contracted the virus, according to former police commissioner Bill Bratton.