By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds – usatoday.com – May 6, 2020 The novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, also known as COVID-19, is still spreading around the world. Even now, there are many things we don’t know: How fatal will it turn out to be when all the numbers are crunched? Did it escape from a Chinese lab? Can we make a vaccine?...

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – May 6, 2020 The vast majority of Americans are completely unaware of how much models that predict the future of the economy and the climate – and now disease – dominate our lives. There’s no escaping their reach. Those models drive many of our public policy debates and much of the major legislation passed...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – May 5, 2020 The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many — including world leaders; most scientists, especially health officials, doctors and epidemiologists; those who work in major news media; opinion writers in those media; and the hundreds of millions, if not...

By: Brett Samuels – thehill.com – May 4, 2020 The Trump administration is projecting that the United States could see up to 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, a person familiar with internal documents confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Data and modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the federal...

By:  – dailycaller.com – May 4, 2020 Text for this article is not available at this time. To see this article and subscribe to others like it, click read more. Source: Sweden Is Reaping The Benefits After Defying Conventional Coronavirus Wisdom | The Daily Caller

By: Scott Slayton – ChristianHeadlines.com – April 27, 2020 Christian author and teacher Josh McDowell recently shared his concerns that the COVID-19 lockdowns are going to fan the flames on two major issues already facing American culture: pornography addiction and loneliness. According to CBN News, McDowell expounds on these issues in a document on his website called “What Comes Next?” McDowell, author of...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 1, 2020 Many states are starting to lift their shutdown orders, but some governors are still insisting they need more testing to do so. The Trump Administration on Monday responded by laying out all of the country’s testing capacity. But no amount of testing by itself will stop the virus from spreading. States...

By: Ed Yong – theatlantic.com – April 29, 2020 On March 27, as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House press-briefing room and was asked what he’d say about the pandemic to a child. Amid a meandering answer, Trump remarked, “You can call it a germ, you can call it a...

By: Emily Crane – dailymail.com –  April 29, 2020 There could be up to 22 emerging coronavirus hotspots in small cities and rural counties across eight US states that are lifting lockdown restrictions, data researchers have found. An analysis conducted by data firm Dataminr used artificial intelligence to examine social media posts related to coronavirus and predicts the smaller areas where...

As we enter the month of May, several states are reopening their economies after lockdowns inspired by COVID-19. At a press briefing on April 23, Vice President Mike Pence said 16 states had “formal reopening plans.” A New York Times tracker shows that nine other states are partially reopening their economies, and 22 states remain in lockdown. In the past...