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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 government is expecting the number of cases and deaths associated with the pandemic to continue mounting, even as President Trump and other officials push for states to lift restrictions meant to slow the spread of the virus in favor of reopening businesses. The New York Times, which was the...

A California city official said COVID-19 should be allowed to run its course, killing elderly and homeless residents to “fix what is a significant burden on our society.” Now his public position could be a pandemic-era casualty, and he’s calling that a violation of his rights. Ken Turnage, a member of the city planning commission in Antioch, said in a now-deleted April 23 Facebook post that coronavirus lockdowns should be lifted to “let nature take its course.” “We would have significant loss of life, we would lose many elderly, that would reduce burdens in our defunct Social Security System, health...

Footage shows the desperate scenes in Italy as hospitals are full with patients amid the corona virus outbreak which has killed 4 825 people in the country so far. Hospitals in the region of Lombardy are some of the best in the world, yet they have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of patients needing intensive care due to the pandemic. At the time of writing, Lombardy has 25 515 infected and 3 095 deaths, a terrifying death rate of 12%. So far 4 235 have been discharged from hospital, while 8 258 people are in hospital. The footage shows...

Over the last number of days, I have spoken with a great many people in and out of government. Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, young, and old, including doctors and nurses. To a person, they are scared and want control of their lives back. Their daily routines, their livelihoods, their life savings, their futures, the welfare of their children, and their mental health are not being negatively affected or even destroyed by the effects of the coronavirus, but rather by the decisions of a handful of elected officials. At what point do “We the People” have a say in our own...

Many people are convinced that China’s lockdown worked, prevented infection and that we should immediately follow suit. I disagree. An article in The Lancet, a medical periodical, studied the early phase of China’s epidemic, and concluded that the virus had spread to all corners of China before they even started the lockdown in the Wuhan area. So by inference, they had positive cases that began probably in early December 2019, probably even in November. The so called lockdown started on January 23-24th, when they realized they had several atypical pneumonias in their hospitals in Wuhan, linked to the COVID-19 virus....