Trump: Critics want a slower reopening of the economy to hurt my reelection chances President Trump, in an interview that aired Thursday morning with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, said he believes his critics want a slower reopening of the economy not due to the coronavirus threat, but to hurt him politically in the November election.
Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), went before Congress Thursday and said the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. will only get worse without a proper plan and blamed the Trump administration for not taking his warnings seriously.
Meanwhile, U.S. equity markets slid Thursday after initial jobless claims showed nearly 3 million more Americans lost work last week. Initial jobless claims for the week ending May 9 totaled 2.98 million, according to the Labor Department. While lower than the previous week's total of 3.84 million, the new filings brought the total number of Americans who have lost work during eight weeks of coronavirus stay-at-home measures to 36.5 million, the highest since the Great Depression.
Democrats' $3 trillion proposal for another coronavirus relief bill includes measures that would allow state-legal marijuana businesses to access financial services — a provision that has been ridiculed by some on the right but hailed by those in the marijuana industry as welcome relief for their "essential" businesses.
Two patients at a Louisiana mental hospital filed suit against the state Wednesday, claiming their rights are being violated by not being released from the “quickly deteriorating” facility amid the coronavirus pandemic.
And in Japan, doctors have started treating patients severely sickened by the novel coronavirus with remdesivir, the drug Dr. Anthony Fauci said has had “modest” success in shortening recovery time for patients in the U.S.
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And there were several other developments: Dr. Anthony Fauci was quick to counter comments made by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., about children's immunity to coronavirus at a Tuesday Senate hearing after Paul made the case for children returning to school in the fall. Fauci stressed that while children typically fare better than adults or the elderly, researchers are still learning about potentially negative effects of COVID-19 on kids. Tyson Foods announced this week that the company will be temporarily cutting prices on select beef products amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Several bars across Wisconsin were flooded with patrons just hours after the state Supreme Court struck down an extension of Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order that had been in effect since mid-March to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The New York police sergeants union described city health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot as a "b----" in response to revelations that she told an NYPD official she didn’t give “two rats’ a--es” about cops getting safety masks, European Union leaders reportedly have recommended the use of artificial intelligence to monitor social distancing rules at busy hubs like airports, resorts and popular attractions. This artificial intelligence, which would include robots, may be deployed to disinfect public spaces and run smart booking systems, one report said. |
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