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.

Appearing together on a video link, Bernie Sanders officially endorsed Joe Biden for president Monday by telling his former rival, "We need you in the White House."

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 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.

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.

Former Florida Republican congressman and host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough excoriated Donald Trump's leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic on-air during his program.

Despite Donald Trump's bluster and dictates on when he says that he wants the US economy to get restarted, that timing is strictly up to the course of the virus which has much of the nation--and the world--shuttered away in avoidance of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Austan Goolsbee, who served as a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama.

While Donald Trump has continued to tell Americans that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine should be a recognized medication against COVID-19, one of his Republican allies said such decision making should be left to trained medical professionals.

A prominent conservative commentator on television has voiced her concerns that Donald Trump will use the coronavirus pandemic as a means for an authoritarian power grab.