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Navy Hospital Ship Reaches New York. But It’s Not Made to Contain Coronavirus.
Navy officials insist that they are doing everything short of
Saran-wrapping the ship to try to keep it virus-free.
A fast test is needed before these beds are usable.
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March 30th US Covid Data, Doubling Rate Slows
Our anonymous benefactor has added a doubling rate chart and you can see
the doubling rate has slowed. However that’s based on one day and I
wouldn’t get too excited till we get more data in. Also there are States
which are still not in isolation, so I’m not sanguine. That said, it’s
still good […]
Noise in the data is to be expected.
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On Politics: Trump Backs Off a Promise
Social distancing will continue, and all eyes are on New York: This is your
morning tip sheet.
Nothing new perhaps. There are more details
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/coronavirus-vaccine-when-will-it-be-ready
Several months is my guess.
4
Inside G.M.’s Race to Build Ventilators, Before Trump’s Attack
The automaker and its partner, Ventec, had spent more than a week figuring
out how to make thousands of the lifesaving devices when the White House
said G.M. was “wasting time.”
Trump wastes everyones time.
5
Trump Won the Internet. Democrats Are Scrambling to Take It Back.
In the era of big data, memes and disinformation, the Democrats are trying
to regain their digital edge as the president and his loyalists dictate the
terms of debate.
I hope this is noise.
Democrats seem most interested in replacing Donald Trump.
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Trump Extends Social Distancing Guidelines Through End of April
The president, facing grim figures from his health advisers, starkly
reversed an earlier upbeat assessment that the country could relax the
guidelines by Easter.
False hope is a cruelty inflicted by Donald Trump.
7
Trump Said He Was the President of Manufacturing. Then Disaster Struck.
For a leader who has embraced the language of a wartime president, it is as
if the Pentagon asked for missiles and bombers but wouldn’t say how many or
where they should be delivered.
It is hard to be president of manufacturing while closing the factories.
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How Coronavirus Has Transformed Elections Across the U.S.
Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local
candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional
politician.
Excited crowds are out when there is an infectious plague.
9
How Asian-American Leaders Are Grappling With Xenophobia Amid Coronavirus
As Asian-Americans face racist attacks and President Trump has tied the
virus to China, community and political leaders have tried to comfort
constituents. But even they admit to feeling unnerved.
Donald Trump is a sadist. Repressed but he misses few opportunities.
10
Liberty University Brings Back Its Students, and Coronavirus Fears, Too
The decision by the school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen
his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then
students started getting sick.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
By county tells the tale.
11
Facebook, Google and Twitter Struggle to Handle November’s Election
After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are
careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
Change the business model.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2020
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2020 by Tony Wikrent
Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party Progressive Caucus
The Pandemic The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming
[Wired, via The Big Picture 3-24-20] Flatten the Curve By slowing it down
or flattening it, we’re not going to decrease the total […]
Possibly correct.
13
Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of
emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is
mobilizing to undermine the president.
Trump should learn or button his lip.
He is shooting himself in the foot.
14
The Race for Virus Money Is On. Lobbyists Are Standing By.
Companies see the outbreak as a chance to cash in, do some good, or both.
Among the early winners: the Washington influence industry.
Lobbyists always have their hands out.
15
The U.S.’s Slow Start to Coronavirus Testing: A Timeline
Technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and failures of leadership impeded
early screening in the United States, allowing the pandemic to spread.
The details are helpful.
16
The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19
Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheila Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the
United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in
leadership let it spread undetected for weeks.
early is better.
17
Cuomo Postpones New York’s Primary Election to June 23 Because of Coronavirus
New York became the latest state to move its primary in an attempt to limit
the risk of spreading the virus.
New York will probably be voting by mail.
18
Trump to Issue Travel Advisory for N.Y. Region, Backing Off Quarantine Threat
The suggestion of a quarantine, which would have been a drastic exercise of
power, drew swift condemnation and surprised top officials in the area.
He did that.
19
Tom Coburn, the ‘Dr. No’ of Congress, Is Dead at 72
His prolific use of a bill-blocking measure earned him his nickname, but he
also won grudging respect on Capitol Hill as a political maverick.
I will not miss his voice.
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Coronavirus May Add Billions to the Nation’s Health Care Bill
Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year, a new
analysis warns, as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of
billions of dollars in additional costs of treating coronavirus patients.
The hospital managers will try.
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