Emily Landon, the chief infectious disease epidemiologist at University of Chicago Medicine, took the lectern after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), who on Friday afternoon announced that the state would undergo a shelter-in-place order for 2½ weeks starting Saturday evening. “The healthy and optimistic among us will doom the vulnerable,” Landon said. She acknowledged that restrictions like…
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South Korea & America
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand https://t.co/r49Z9SzZF5 pic.twitter.com/8FCkQkHiHQ — Reuters (@Reuters) March 18, 2020…
Coronavirus, Republicans, Trump
Why Did President Trump Lie About the COVID-19 Crisis?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Republicans for the Rule of Law asks a simple question: Why Did President Trump Lie About the COVID-19 Crisis?. The first responsibility of government is, as the Constitution says, “to provide for the common defense.” President Trump has now rightly compared the coronavirus pandemic to a war. But he was still minimizing the threat as…
Congress, Coronavirus, Legislation, Public Health, Sen. Ron Johnson, WISGOP
The WISGOP Follows a Fool, and Fails Wisconsin
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No state delegation in America has been less receptive to a federal coronavirus relief package than the WISGOP delegation to Washington. Allison Stevens reports Congress clears 2nd major coronavirus package; 3rd in the works: A second major coronavirus package cleared the U.S. Senate Wednesday and is now headed to President Donald Trump for his signature.…
Coronavirus, Economics, Economy, Free Markets, Public Health
Public Policy Responses to the Coronavirus: ‘You have to address the health side’
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Economist Austan Goolsbee offers three scenes, in his words, for addressing the coronavirus pandemic. All three, in the order he presents them, are sound. Most economic schools of thought – and all sound ones across the continuum – would consider something like his suggestions in response to a pandemic. One obvious note – or at…
Coronavirus, Meals, Poverty, Public Health, School District
Assistance Takes Time
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
So one hears that an effort toward assistance for children’s breakfast & lunch meals received a lower initial response than some expected. Perhaps, but responses take time – especially in a community where large numbers of children live in poor families that almost certainly do not have conventional broadband access. Initial responses are not indicative…
Boosterism, Coronavirus, Mendacity, Public Health
Grim Reality Forces Fox News to Abandon Its Ignorant Boosterism
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Coronavirus, Public Health
On The Daily: An Italian Doctor & Medical Professor Describes the Scene Near Milan
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
https://nyti.ms/2QjWAZN Linked above, an episode of The Daily, a podcast of the New York Times — Italy has become the epicenter of the pandemic’s European migration, with nearly 30,000 infections anToday, we speak to one Italian doctor triaging patients north of Milan about the road that may lie ahead. Guest: Dr. Fabiano Di Marco, a…
Charity, Coronavirus, Local Government, School District
Whitewater’s Residents Judge Wisely
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There has been some uncertainty in Whitewater about how cautious one should be in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As it turns out, Whitewater’s residents have had the right view of this, recognizing as they have the need for distance between people to limit the spread of disease. One reads, in an email from the…
Coronavirus, Federal Government, Health, Trump
Trump: 2016 to 2020
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Trump in 2016: “I alone can fix it.” Trump in 2020: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Here's the clip. On the lack of testing #Covid_19 and the "failure" of the response, @realDonaldTrump: "No, I don't take responsibility at all." #COVID pic.twitter.com/rpTh5DcILr — Kyle Morse (@Kyle_A_Morse) March 13, 2020