A group of rural Minnesota lawmakers want the governor to reconsider his one-size-fits-all approach to addressing the coronavirus pandemic.
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Day: April 18, 2020
Commentary: America Needs a Manhattan Project to Create a Coronavirus Vaccine
There are only two ways human action can get the SARS-CoV-2 virus permanently behind us and return to normal life: we either develop a knock-out therapy that kills the virus dead in people who have contracted it, like powerful antibiotics do with bacterial infections, or we need to develop herd immunity. Without one of those, we are left hoping that the virus simply burns itself out and disappears. That would be foolish. But a knockout drug—a cure—is highly unlikely. There is no such drug for the seasonal flu or for the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold. So while effective therapies should be a part of the strategy to combat the ill effects of this virus, and sensible precautions like masks can prevent its spread, the only way to permanently defeat it is through herd immunity.
Read MoreTrump Announces Guidelines for ‘Phased and Deliberate Approach’ Allowing Governors to Reopen States
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a plan to allow states to begin reopening their economies in a phased approach.
Read MoreAnalysis: Crucial Facts About Covid-19
Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some vital facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue.
Read MoreLIVE NOW: Steve Bannon Presents Part Two of Descent into Hell: Life of the Chinese under the CCP
You can watch a LIVE STREAM of Part Two of Steve Bannon’s “Descent into Hell: Life of the Chinese under the CCP” here beginning at 9 a.m Central Time on Saturday. The Tennessee Star is the only Tennessee media outlet presenting this special two hour program. You can watch the recorded second hour here now:
Read MoreCommentary: Infrastructure Next
Almost everyone, Republicans and Democrats alike, agrees that the United States needs a massive infusion of infrastructure development—especially now to boost the debilitating coronavirus effect on the economy.
Read MoreCommentary: The Spanish Flu Aftermath Suggests There’s Hope for America
The coronavirus may be abating. The curve for new cases in New York City has flattened, officials are reporting fewer cases across the country, and the number of deaths from the virus has slackened.
Read MoreReport: COVID-19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir Have Done ‘Very Well’ in Preliminary Study
COVID-19 patients treated with the drug remdesivir recovered quickly from severe illness in a study conducted at the University of Chicago, according to the medical website STAT News.
Read MoreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Said America Is a ‘Brutal, Barbarian Society’
According to democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Covid-19 pandemic is proving that the United States “is a brutal, barbarian society for the vast majority of working-class Americans.” As evidence of this, she claims that “40% of us couldn’t even afford a $400 emergency” before this crisis, and Covid-19 “is more than a $400 emergency.”
Read MoreReps. Tim Ryan and Ro Khanna Propose Additional Stimulus Checks for Americans
Reps. Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) and Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) introduced a bill Tuesday that would provide additional payments to Americans who are struggling during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
This week an estimated 80 million Americans started to receive $1,200 stimulus checks from the federal government to help amid these difficult times.
Read MoreTrump Tweets Support for Hundreds of Minnesotans Who Gathered Friday to Protest Gov. Walz
President Donald Trump expressed his support Friday for the hundreds of Minnesotans who gathered outside the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul to protest Gov. Tim Walz.
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