The $500 billion contained in the $2 trillion economic stimulus package Congress recently approved which is to be managed by the Treasury Department will require effective oversight, according to a former Democratic congresswoman.

Donald Trump continues to push a treatment for COVID-19 on the American people which even Trump's own top immunologist has put the brakes on. In fact, Trump has taken to advocating for the use of the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine while preventing Dr Anthony Fauci to speak about it from the briefing room apparently for fear of being contradicted.

The dismissal of an American Naval aircraft carrier captain for trying to get the word out about the spread of the novel coronavirus among his crew, reeks of the politics of pleasing Donald Trump, according to some analysts.

US political leaders, health professionals and others are all increasingly calling for a blanket national stay-at-home order to try to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

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.

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.

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.

The novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread at an alarming rate in the state of Louisiana, with more than 3,500 confirmed cases and 151 deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The state has the fastest growth of new cases in the world, with a growth trajectory similar to that in Italy and Spain. And the lone Democrat in the Bayou State's congressional delegation blames Trump for needless deaths.

A Democratic senator and former presidential candidate castigated Donald Trump for too often blaming the nation's governors who are trying to manage through the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump does not have the authority to try to postpone the 2020 presidental election because of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, former vice president Joe Biden told viewers of comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late night TV show.