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): For decades, Osterholm has been in the business of telling people what they don’t necessarily want to hear: Pandemics are inevitable; outbreaks … Read more
It is now certain that owing to a lack of the kind of early interventions used in successful responses to the Coronavirus pandemic in places such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea, we in America have missed the window for effective containment of the epidemic in this country. We are now on a track … Read more
EJ Montini of AZ Central noted in his most recent column that Mr. Trump has resorted to calling the Coronavirus “The Chinese Virus” in retaliation for operatives from China spreading a false conspiracy theory that the American military called the virus. When asked about this at the daily Coronavirus briefing this morning where it was … Read more
Above Photo: Unemployment line in the Great Depression. This would not be allowed today under the CDC guidelines for the coronavirus pandemic (not allowed to congregate in restaurants, six feet of spacing for social distancing). We are living in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse goes. In an unprecedented move in modern history, the … Read more
The Republicans in the Arizona State House did something today that on the surface makes sense. They suspended House rules to allow remote off-site voting from non-Capitol locations. That makes sense considering that, during this Coronavirus Crisis, no more than 10 people should be together in a social gathering. Democrats would support this move if … Read more