By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 6, 2020 Some early assumptions about Covid-19 no longer add up—and that could be good news for the future progress of the virus. There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity is closer than we think. Chinese authorities say they first...

By: John Stonestreet & Maria Baer – breakpoint.org – July 7, 2020 Pastoring is always a difficult job. I can’t think of another job, in fact, in which someone is hired to do one thing (typically, lead and disciple God’s people) but evaluated on a completely different thing (namely, growing the audience and the budget). Pastoring during coronavirus seems even more unenviable. Zoom...

By: Texas Public Policy – texaspolicy.com HELP US SPREAD THE FACTS – SHARE! To provide necessary context for reporting on COVID-19, TPPF has created The Snapshot in our Daily Cannon. Here are the facts you need to fully understand COVID reporting: Texas is 1st for most COVID recoveries in the U.S. Texas has the lowest COVID fatality rate of the most affected states....

By: Victor Davis Hanson – amgreatness.com –  July 5, 2020 Viral confusion Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the...

By: Timothy P. Carney – washingtonexaminer.com – July 01, 2020 It can seem like we’re experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus, but there’s a lot of conflicting data. Case counts are rising, but some of that is due to testing. Importantly, deaths are not rising. And then some of the charts you see play games with the x-axis. So, what’s really going...

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – June 25, 2020 Nearly 25 million Americans may have contracted the coronavirus, a figure 10 times higher than the number of confirmed cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. In a briefing with reporters Thursday, CDC Director Robert Redfield said surveys of blood samples taken from around the country suggest that...

By: Andrew Kerr – dailycaller.com – June 25, 2020 Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced a temporary pause on the state’s economic reopening Thursday amid a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. “As we experience an increase in both positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, we are focused on strategies that slow the spread of this virus while also allowing Texans...

By Robert T. Garrett – dallasnews.com – June 23, 2020 Gov. Greg Abbott sternly warned Texans of “rampant” spread of coronavirus that took the state to a new high Tuesday of more than 5,000 new cases in a single day. Saying Texans should stay home unless they have a good reason to venture out, Abbott late Tuesday afternoon gave local officials more...

By: Ben Guarino,  Chelsea Janes & Ariana Eunjung Cha – washingtonpost.com – June 13, 2020 Four months of discord about the coronavirus epidemic have transformed the cloth mask into a potent political symbol, touted by Democrats as a key part of communal responsibility, labeled by some GOP leaders as a sign of government overreach and as a scarlet letter pinned on the weak. But as...

By: Mike Pence – WSJ.com – June 16, 2020 In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the alarm bells over a “second wave” of coronavirus infections. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months...