Новости за 30.03.2020

“One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” Labor rights advocates on Monday urged the public to show support and solidarity with Amazon employees who walked off the job at a Staten Island warehouse following what the workers said was an unacceptable response by the […]

On Monday, CBS News reported that several governors of rural states complained to President Donald Trump on a conference call that their states were facing serious shortages of protective gear and testing material that were getting ignored. Trump’s response was reportedly to deny that there was even a problem. “I haven’t heard about testing in […]

A New Jersey couple has been charged with five counts of child endangerment – one for each of their children – after police answered a call and found “a gathering of approximately 40-50 people, including children, on the front lawn and in the street in front of the residence.” The Daily Beast reports the couple, […]

Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it had selected a lead candidate vaccine for the new coronavirus that would move to human trials by September and could be ready for emergency use by early next year. The pharmaceutical company has signed an agreement with the US government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to invest […]

Despite coronavirus stay at home orders, some New Yorkers ventured out to greet the USNS Comfort on Monday. “Crowds of gawkers ignored New York’s social-distance regulations and packed the west side of Manhattan on Monday to watch a US Navy hospital ship arrive to give badly needed coronavirus aid,” the NY Post reports. “The throngs […]

As the worsening coronavirus pandemic raises questions of why President Donald Trump failed to act more quickly, some Republicans, like Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), have adopted a new talking point: that the president was distracted from public health issues because he had to defend himself in the impeachment proceedings. On Monday, Norm Eisen, a former […]

As lockdowns continue to be implemented across the country in response to the growing coronavirus outbreak, President Trump and some of his most vocal supporters are seeing the containment measures as more damaging than the pandemic, lamenting the effect on the U.S. economy. A common theme emerging from Trump’s evangelical base, such as Christian pastor […]

Coronavirus trutherism is the latest byproduct of the COVID-19 outbreak. Conservative conspiracy theorists have posted strategically angled photos and videos to prove the coronavirus crisis is fake. Some are even taking photos of hospitals in areas of the country where the crisis hasn’t even surfaced yet to prove that there isn’t a problem. Sara Carter, […]

A recent work visit to Germany, where I grew up, stretched from one week to three. Those weeks coincided with the spread of the coronavirus in Germany as well as across Europe. What I saw while there is that Germany’s population is in a state of shock and still can’t quite grasp how this sudden […]

On Monday, writing for the Washington Post, media critic Erik Wemple laid out the case for why Sean Hannity must be fired by Fox News. As Wemple noted, the network has just terminated Fox Business pundit Trish Regan, just after her “Coronavirus Impeachment Hoax” stunt — but Hannity has done far worse than that, repeatedly, […]

No sooner did Donald Trump sign the $2-trillion coronavirus aid bill last Friday than he immediately made clear that he intends to break the new law to insist on his own powers, not those dictated by Congress, in seeing how money gets spent. One of the main blocking points to the bill as originally outlined […]

French health authorities reported 418 new deaths from coronavirus on Monday, taking the total to 3,024 or an increase of 16 percent, making France the fourth country to cross the 3,000 fatalities threshold after China, Italy, and Spain The daily government tally only accounts for those dying in hospital but authorities say they will very […]

Coronavirus is reshaping our world in nearly every conceivable way — from shutting down borders to making handshaking verboten — and we need to be prepared for more changes coming down the pike. With enough foresight, we might be able to mitigate the damage of some of the costlier developments before they arise. That’s why […]

The Department of Justice on Monday turned over an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation to a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton of the District of Columbia has pledge to conduct an independent review of the redactions after he questioned the impartiality of Attorney General William Barr. […]

Britain’s Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle are to take a break from their royal Instagram account, they announced Monday as they prepare for life outside the royal inner circle. “While you may not see us here, the work continues… We look forward to reconnecting with you soon. You’ve been great!” the couple wrote on […]

From the very beginning of the coronavirus crisis, things were bungled. In an extensive fact-check, the Washington Post walked through the timeline from the early days of the Chinese outbreak to President Donald Trump’s efforts in the United States today. The first case of COVID-19 surfaced in China in mid-November 2019 when doctors still believed […]

Right-wing publication The Federalist last week drew condemnation from medical experts when it published an editorial written by an unlicensed dermatologist that encouraged people to deliberately expose themselves to coronavirus as a way to bring about the pandemic’s end more quickly. Conservative writer Robert Tracinski, who worked as a writer at The Federalist for five […]

As the city of Philadelphia braces for a surged in COVID-19-related patients, it’s been looking for sites to care for the coming influx. City officials are trying to get the shuttered Hahnemann University Hospital, whose 496-bed capacity would be immensely helpful, to reopen to help with the fight. But according to WHYY, negotiations with the building’s […]

Researchers in the US and China reported Monday they have developed an artificial intelligence tool that is able to accurately predict which newly infected patients with the novel coronavirus go on to develop severe lung disease. Once deployed, the algorithm could assist doctors in making choices about where to prioritize care in resource-stretched health care […]

Fox News insiders are concerned that the network could face “potential legal action” from viewers over its misleading coverage of the new coronavirus, according to Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman, though experts say a “viable claim” against the network is unlikely. Sherman, the author of the Fox News exposé “The Loudest Voice in the Room” who frequently covers […]

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and son of the late Moral Majority activist the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., has been drawing a great deal of criticism for reopening the campus following spring break despite the coronavirus pandemic. And a development reported by the New York Times’ Elizabeth Williamson explains why there has been so much […]

A Florida megachurch pastor was arrested on Monday after repeatedly flouting warnings by local officials not to hold services during the coronavirus pandemic. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister announced the arrest warrant Monday issued against Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who led crowded services Sunday at his at The River at Tampa Bay Church, reported WTVT-TV. “Last […]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) refused to take President Donald Trump’s bait in his recent attacks against himself and other governors. In a call with Fox News, Trump alleged that the only reason Cuomo’s poll numbers are high is that he is making them high. Cuomo took Trump’s comment as a compliment because he acknowledged Cuomo’s […]

Many Republicans are reportedly “unsettled” by President Donald Trump’s decision to boast about his TV ratings during a time when thousands of Americans are dying after being infected with COVID-19. According to Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, however, these Republicans are too scared of the president to make their uncomfortable feelings publicly known. During an […]

Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced this Monday that he would be signing an executive order urging Floridians in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe Counties to stay home through “mid-May,” according to the Miami Herald. “This codifies a set of rules regarding ‘Safer at Home’ in Southeast Florida,” he said. “It gets all four counties […]