Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not

Dr. Trump’s traveling medicine show snake oil “miracle cure” is being put to the test in control studies, and so far, the results are showing that the “miracle cure” can kill you. The Washington Post reports, Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says: A … Read more

The Trump Depression: the road not taken to economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic (Updated)

The U.S. economic response to the coronavirus pandemic has been entirely ass-backwards and is doomed to cause greater economic pain in coming months. It relied on antiquated state unemployment insurance systems that Republican states have specifically designed to be hard to use to dissuade the unemployed from filing for benefits to which they are entitled, … Read more

In new ad, Biden blasts Trump for poor initial reaction to the Coronavirus

Citing a recent study/model from Columbia University that indicated that 36,000 people may have been saved had the Trump Administration acted a week earlier in instituting social distancing and stay at home guidelines/recommendations to the country, the Biden Campaign released a virtual ad, blasting the Trump Administrations contention that it acted early and well to … Read more

SCOTUS delays production of Mueller grand jury documents to Congress

In a recent historical analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court, Dianne Post posted on this blog, The Destruction of the Supreme Court. Her conclusion: Today’s Supreme Court is no longer a trusted, independent part of the Constitutional checks and balances established by the founders.  It no longer protects people’s rights under the Constitution.  Because of … Read more

More straight talk from infectious disease experts on the coronavirus pandemic

Update to Straight talk from an infectious disease expert on the coronavirus pandemic (updated): Michael T. Osterholm is Regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and coauthor of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs” (2017). “I have the reputation as ‘Bad News Mike,’” … Read more