Coronavirus fatality predictions have become frequent talking points – even though they presented an inflated picture. We are living in a news climate where the scarier the factoid, the more credibility it can claim.
Debra J. Saunders
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Debra J. Saunders joined the Review Journal as White House correspondent in December 2016, after 24 years writing a usually conservative opinion-page column for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, which may or may not prepare her for covering the Trump White House. She is syndicated with Creators Syndicate.
President Donald Trump said his administration will use “expanded” testing capabilities to advise high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk communities whether to increase, maintain or relax their social distancing guidelines.
President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force is scheduled to conduct a briefing hours after Trump held a conference call with leaders of nonprofit organizations.
After tweeting in the morning that Washington “cannot let the cure be worse than” the disease, President Donald Trump said he expected measures to contain the disease will last for weeks, not months.
There are two Americas — those of us who can shelter in place and and edgier America for whom isolation is an excessive hardship.
President Donald Trump praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for telling residents to stay home and deal with the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering sending checks directly to workers affected by measures designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus, in addition to relief for major travel companies.
President Trump asked Americans to follow new guidelines to fight the COVID-19 outbreak for the next 15 days and suggested the U.S. may be dealing with the virus until “July or August.”
Being poor can also be hazardous to your health.
President Donald Trump said at a briefing on Monday that the White House is considering a payroll tax cut to help workers deal with the economic impacts of the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting Saturday.
When Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said two Supreme Court justices would “pay a price” if they ruled contrary to his preference in an abortion case, he wasn’t just running at the mouth.
With an additional 1 million tests being shipped out by Monday, Trump administration officials believe that approximately 850,000 individuals could be tested in short order.
President Donald Trump signed the $8.3 billion coronavirus emergency spending bill Friday morning, before traveling to Tennessee to survey tornado damage.
To go or not to go. For Las Vegas, that is the question. The Trump administration’s response has been to stay away from telling convention sponsors that the show must go on. Or not.