Editor’s Note: This post has been subsequently updated: Republicans are using the Coronavirus crisis to kill the U.S. Postal Service (April 10, 2020) Trump administration opposes US. Postal Service aid – ‘let it die’ (April 12, 2020) Republicans have been trying to kill the U.S. Postal Service for decades. Now the coronavirus pandemic has given … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Monday he predicts there will be another coronavirus outbreak in the fall, “In fact, I would anticipate that that would actually happen because of the degree of transmissibility.” Fauci predicts another coronavirus outbreak in fall with ‘very different’ outcome. A study published … Read more
Quick Take updates to earlier posts: The Washington Post reports, Protective gear in national stockpile is nearly depleted, DHS officials say: The government’s emergency stockpile of respirator masks, gloves and other medical supplies is running low and is nearly exhausted due to the coronavirus outbreak, leaving the Trump administration and the states to compete for … Read more
Last week, faced with intense criticism for the federal government’s failure to deliver needed ventilators to the states, President Trump finally issued an order invoking the Defense Production Act to force General Motors to manufacture ventilators after negotiations had broken down. Trump seeks to ramp up production of medical equipment after harsh criticism of his … Read more
The University of Washington has created an interactive website for projection models for hospital bed use, need for intensive care bed use, need for ventilator use, and deaths due to COVID-19 for all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. See, covid19.healthdata.org/projections. The website includes this caveat, “In locations without social distancing measures currently in … Read more