By: Madeline Osburn – thefederalist.com – March 25, 2020 As U.S. state and local officials halt the economy and quarantine their communities over the Wuhan virus crisis, one would hope our leaders were making such major decisions based on well-sourced data and statistical analysis. That is not the case. A scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county...

By: Justin McCarthy – news.gallup.com – March 25, 2020 Americans are generally positive in their evaluations of how each of nine leaders and institutions has handled the response to the coronavirus situation. Eight of the nine receive majority positive ratings — led by U.S. hospitals, at 88% approval. Only the news media gets a more negative than positive review. Approval Ratings...

By: Veronique de Rugy – townhall.com – March 26, 2020 t’s easy to feel depressed and scared these days. News about the impact and death toll of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, is constant. Government responses have been chaotic, ranging from near-indifference to suddenly shutting down the economy, with politicians offering to pay for everything. Yet we shouldn’t lose sight of...

By: Bronson Stocking – townhall.com – March 26, 2020 uring the coronavirus taskforce briefing on Thursday, Dr. Deborah Birx rebuked much of the media’s panic reporting about the number of estimated deaths related to the coronavirus and the state of America’s medical supplies. Despite clamorous reports about a shortage of medical supplies in New York, Dr. Birx said her colleagues in...

By: Johns Hopkins – coronavirus.jhu.edu/map – updated March 27, 2020 Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19. To see this interactive map, click read more. Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

By: C. Douglas Golden – westernjournal.com – March 24, 2020 A glimmer of hope in the midst of a pandemic that has ground the world to a halt: A new study from Harvard University and University of Hong Kong finds that COVID-19 might have a lower fatality rate than originally suggested. According to the study published in Nature Medicine last week, only 1.4...

By: Tony Perkins – frc.org – March 25, 2020 Some people won’t know the name Li Wenliang. Nor will they have a chance to thank him. He died in China on February 7th of the plague he warned was coming. The Wuhan ophthalmologist was just 34 when his heart stopped, a husband and father — with another baby on the...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 25, 2020 Congress rarely does anything that isn’t messy, so let’s stipulate that a $2 trillion bill written on the fly in a week will be loaded with waste and a lifetime supply of unintended consequences. Americans will pay for this for decades. The consolation is that the Senate bill that was moving...

By: Eric Mack – newsmax.com – March 24, 2020 The United States coronavirus death count jumped more than 222 in 24 hours to total 780 fatalities among almost 55,000 confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. Among the 54,812 cases nationwide, as testing has ramped up, there are at least 26,348 confirmed cases in New York state alone, the epicenter...

By: Matthew Continetti – freebeacon.com – March 20, 2020 A few months after September 11, 2001, David Brooks went back and looked at coverage of Pearl Harbor for an article in the Weekly Standard (“After Pearl Harbor,” December 10, 2001). What he saw intrigued him. A sense of unity and patriotism followed both surprise attacks. But media after Pearl Harbor had none...