Public Health Expert: If CDC Director Can’t Lead Agency Amid COVID, He Should ‘Step Aside’
The federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been hobbled by the Trump administration's decision to sideline the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from an active role, according to a public health expert.
Senator on Evidence Coronavirus Came from a Lab in China: I Want To See It
While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insists that there is evidence to support the discredited theory that the novel coronavirus actually originated in a biolab in Wuhan, China, a key senator is demanding to see that evidence.
Gov Cuomo: ‘Reopening More Difficult than the Closedown’
While he conceded that remaining shutdown will become untenable, New York Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) said that the process of reopening more difficult than that of the closedown.
Biden on Blacks Disproportionately Dying of COVID-19: ‘Institutional Racism at the Root of this Injustice’
Institutional racism is at the root of why African Americans are many more times more likely to catch, and die from, COVID-19, according to Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
How His Sexual Assault Denial Interview Could Well Help Biden More Broadly
Joe Biden seems to have done himself a world of good Friday related to the sexual assault allegations against him. But the MSNBC Q&A may carry him even further.
Romney Calls out U.S. Handling of Coronavirus: ‘Not a Great Moment in American Leadership’
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.
Stacey Abrams on Tara Reade: Biden Is ‘Telling the Truth and This Did Not Happen’
A prominent woman Democratic politician has weighed in on the sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and she said that she believes Biden's denials.
Although Trump Says the U.S. Is Performing More Than 200,000 Tests a Day, Fmr. US Ebola Official Says It’s ‘Not Near Enough’ To Consider Reopening
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.
OK City Mayor: My Gut Says May 1 Is Too Early to Reopen
Not everyone in Red State America is matching in step with a quick reopening of their economies in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Whitmer: Reopen Demonstrations ‘Force Us to Stay’ in Shutdown Posture Longer
The protests against the state stay-at-home orders which have been springing up across the United States over the last couple of weeks will have the perverse effect of forcing governors to maintain the lockdown conditions in place even longer, according to Gov Gretchen Whitmer, who's state of Michigan has been the site of such protests.
