https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1245725837745434634
Andrew Cuomo ✔@NYGovCuomo

I will be giving my daily #Coronavirus briefing at 11:30AM. Stay tuned.

10:52 AM - Apr 2, 2020

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article241675311.html

BY CHARLES DUNCAN

APRIL 01, 2020 11:09 PM, UPDATED 40 MINUTES AGO

More than 5,000 people in the United States have died in the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 215,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in the United States.

The U.S. has more confirmed cases than any other country in the world. Globally, more than 935,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19, Johns Hopkins reports.

President Donald Trump this week extended federal safety guidelines asking people not to gather in groups and isolate as much as possible through at least April 30.

Many states have told restaurants, bars and other businesses to close, and some have ordered people to shelter in place in hopes of putting the brakes on the spread of the virus.

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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article241703806.html

BY MADDIE CAPRON
APRIL 01, 2020 11:05 PM, UPDATED 17 MINUTES AGO

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says up to 1 in 4 people infected with coronavirus will show no symptoms. Data from Iceland, however, show that number could be double.

CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with NPR this week that many people who become infected with coronavirus can remain asymptomatic.

“That may be as many as 25%,” he said in the interview. “That’s important, because now you have individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute to transmission, and we have learned that in fact they do contribute to transmission.”

Redfield said with so many people not showing symptoms, there can be “significant asymptomatic transmission,” according to NPR.

People who do show symptoms, however, often are spreading the virus up to 48 hours before those symptoms appear, he said.

“This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country, because we have asymptomatic transmitters and we have individuals who are transmitting 48 hours before they become symptomatic,” Redfield said.

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Stephen Colbert ✔@StephenAtHome

March 1st vs. April 1st





8:03 PM - Apr 1, 2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-tell-ex-nfl-star-to-stop-saying-his-weed-can-cure-coronavirus

Former NFL offensive tackle Kyle Turley said his Neuro XPF cannabis could “crush corona.” The FDA and FTC have some concerns.

Lachlan Markay
Reporter

Published Apr. 01, 2020 2:11PM ET

The federal government is warning a former National Football League player to stop advertising his medicinal cannabis products as treatments for the novel coronavirus.

The Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to that effect on Tuesday to the Las Vegas headquarters of Neuro XPF, which is owned by former NFL offensive tackle Kyle Turley. Turley insists that CBD, a popular cannabis derivative, can cure the coronavirus.

In fact, Neuro XPF had an entire page of its website, headlined “CRUSH CORONA,” devoted to those claims. “Your best defense against the COVID-19 blitz starts with a strong immune system,” the page claimed, and “a growing body of scientific evidence shows that CBD can help keep your immune system at the top of its game.”

“We want everyone to take CBD and take advantage of its potential to help prepare your body to fight a coronavirus infection,” Neuro XPF said. “So, we’re making all of our products more affordable.”

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https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1245399952500629504
Manu Raju ✔@mkraju

Pelosi to @andersoncooper on Trump/McConnell suggesting impeachment distracted from initial coronavirus response. “That’s an admission by perhaps the president and majority leader cannot handle the job.”

1:17 PM - Apr 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1245364790861668353
Andrew Cuomo ✔@NYGovCuomo

I will be giving my daily #Coronavirus briefing at 12:00PM. Stay tuned.

10:57 AM - Apr 1, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-the-pandemic-subsides-the-us-must-learn-from-its-mistakes/2020/03/31/99a37368-7387-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

By David Ignatius
Columnist

March 31, 2020 at 6:43 p.m. EDT

When America has recovered from the coronavirus crisis and people are back to work, Rep. Adam B. Schiff thinks Congress should consider a 9/11-style independent commission to examine why the nation was so unprepared for the pandemic.

Schiff, a California Democrat, told me in an interview Monday that his staff has already started working on a discussion draft modeled after the 9/11 Commission, and that he would be talking about the possibility with others in Congress. And he said the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, has begun reviewing the committee’s intelligence materials on the pandemic.

“We will need to delay the work of the commission until the crisis has abated to ensure that it does not interfere with the agencies that are leading the response,” Schiff explained in an email. “But that should not prevent us from beginning to identify where we got it wrong and how we can be prepared for the next pandemic.”

A review of the Trump administration’s performance would find many negatives but also some pluses. President Trump’s public statements appeared to minimize the virus and its impact until recently. But the National Security Council staff, led by deputy Matthew Pottinger, a Chinese-speaking former Wall Street Journal correspondent in Beijing, was aggressive. The first interagency meeting on the Wuhan outbreak took place Jan. 14, and the first NSC deputies committee meeting on Jan. 27, according to a senior administration official.

What accounts for the failure to translate this concern into action? One explosive issue in any inquiry would be whether Trump discounted intelligence warnings because of concerns about the impact of the virus on his reelection campaign. Indeed, the question implicates a broader set of concerns among Schiff and other critics about what they see as the politicization of intelligence, in particular Trump’s firing in February of Joseph Maguire and Andrew P. Hallman, the acting director of national intelligence and his deputy, respectively, and then the replacement of the top two officials at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

Career officials fear that Richard Grenell, the acting DNI, is trying to shape intelligence that might challenge or embarrass Trump. “Grenell is a professional press spokesman,” said one senior retired intelligence officer, referring to Grenell’s stint as U.S. press spokesman at the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration. “Over the next six months, Trump wants someone [as DNI] who has his back.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/poll-trump-coronavirus-bounce-fizzles-158406

Fewer voters are pleased with the way the Trump administration has handled the Covid-19 outbreak.

By STEVEN SHEPARD

04/01/2020 04:30 AM EDT

More voters say the Trump administration isn’t doing enough to combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

The survey, conducted immediately before President Donald Trump announced a 30-day extension of his physical and social distancing guidelines “to slow the spread” of Covid-19, shows 47 percent of voters feel the administration isn’t doing enough in response to the outbreak, greater than the 40 percent who feel the administration is doing the right amount.

Two weeks ago, 43 percent said the administration wasn’t doing enough in the days following the initial measures deployed to reduce the impacts of the virus, while 39 percent said it was doing the right amount.

While the new poll was conducted before the extension of the household isolation recommendations, it comes as other polls suggest the positive marks Trump earned for his early response to the crisis are turning more negative.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/opinion/coronavirus-fox-news.html

The network spent too long spraying its viewers with false information about the coronavirus pandemic.

By Kara Swisher
Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.

March 31, 2020

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And, more to the point, when all is said and done, my Mom will listen to her children over Fox News. One of us — my brother — is an actual doctor and knows what he is talking about. And the other is a persistent annoyance — that would be me.

I’m a huge pest, in fact. “I’m going to block your number, if you don’t stop,” my mother said to me over the phone several weeks ago from Florida, after I had texted her the umpteenth chart about the spread of coronavirus across the country. All of these graphs had scary lines that went up and to the right. And all of them flashed big honking red lights: Go home and stay there until all clear.

She ignored my texts, so I had switched to calling her to make sure she had accurate information in those critical weeks at the end of February and the beginning of March. She is in the over-80 group that is most at risk of dying from infection. I worry a lot.

But she was not concerned — and it was clear why. Her primary source of news is Fox. In those days she was telling me that the Covid-19 threat was overblown by the mainstream news media (note, her daughter is in the media). She told me that it wasn’t going to be that big a deal. She told me that it was just like the flu.

And, she added, it was more likely that the Democrats were using the virus to score political points. And, did I know, by the way, that Joe Biden was addled?

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