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
The right-wing propaganda mill is apoplectic (aren’t they always?) over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Sunday: “We should be taking every precaution. What the President, his denial at the beginning was deadly,” Pelosi said. “I don’t know what the scientists said to him, when did this President … Read more
The top-line headline from Donald Trump’s Sunday corona virus task force press briefing was that he’s dropping his insane desire to “reopen the country” by Easter, after doctors Anthony Fauci and Debrah Birx convinced him of the recklessness of this action, and Trump instead extended social distancing measures until April 30. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director … Read more
On Friday, Mad King Donald ranted at the corona virus task force press conference he once again hijacked about how governors “should be appreciative” of the federal government, by which of course he means him, like Louis XIV of France: “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”). Trump Again Bashes Governors Of Washington And Michigan Over Coronavirus: … Read more
Above: h/t The Daily Beast, Trump to New York: You’ve Been Mean to Me, Drop Dead. New York is now the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, and its hospitals are being overwhelmed. Medical providers do not have enough basic supplies, e.g., gloves, gowns, masks and respirators. As supplies grow scarce in New York City, … Read more