Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden defended Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer (D), who has been the subject of fierce conservative protests against the state stay-at-home and lockdown orders she's issued in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

North Carolina Gov Roy Cooper (D) is expressing worry about the speed at which his neighbor to the southwest is reopening their economy in the face of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

The choice such politicians as Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) is forcing countless American workers to make is this: Go to work and risk infection--and perhaps death--or stay at home and potentially starve. It's up to Democrats to fight back.

The United States has not distinguished itself so far with its leadership in the international community with its response to the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus, according to Sen Mitt Romney (R-Utah). However, the nation could well redeem itself in the coming phases of the pandemic, particularly as it relates to the development of medications and vaccines to combat the virus, he added.

A testing system closed to only those who have physician referrals--which themselves are based on showing symptoms--will never be adequate and up to the task to safely begin loosening up those lockdown and social distancing measures. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti gets it, opening up a new wider testing program in LA County.

While Donald Trump has sharply criticized the World Health Organization's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the organization was actually ringing the early alarm on the global emergency, according to the chief of the WHO.

Despite the progress Trump claimed, it's still not enough to start loosening the extreme lockdown conditions in place to slow the spread of the virus, but have also shuttered much of the US economy for weeks, according to the former federal official who oversaw the US response to the Ebola in late 2014 into early 2015.

One of the lesser-seen, but potentially disastrous, effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic is a potential breakdown of the US food supply.

While the fierce blowback from remarks he made last week about taking household disinfectants internally has caused Donald Trump to put an end to the daily briefings he led at the White House, it's causing some new and unwanted scrutiny for one of the nation's top officials leading the federal response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Worry and criticism continues to reverberate over Donald Trump's comments from late last week in which he seemed to suggest that Americans could inject themselves with--or otherwise consume--household disinfectant products as an intervention against COVID-19.