The public health system has been overwhelmed in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. With morgues unable to pick up bodies, some have been forced to leave the bodies of their deceased relatives to decompose in their own homes. A bus driver from Guayaquil – Ecuador’s most populous city – was told by his landlady that there was

Good news on a national basis, but this offer may be void where numbers are looking more prohibitive. “We are nearing the peak now,” CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield told Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today, as the country progresses through its planned 45 day effort to “flatten the curve.” Redfield warns that the only way to

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump and his three oldest children cannot move to arbitration in a lawsuit alleging that they, and the Trump Corporation, illegally profited from endorsing a multilevel marketing company on The Apprentice. The multilevel marketing company is ACN Inc. An unidentified woman is suing for the release of unaired

There is precious little in the way of good news or humor coming out of the global pandemic, but our colleague Kira Davis at RedState has a story that may bring a smile to your face. She’s interviewed Gregg Bouslog, the owner of On-Target Indoor Shooting Range in Laguna Niguel, California. His operation is also

The coronavirus we’ve all been talking about for weeks has been officially labeled severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The reason for the 2 is that there is already a SARS-CoV-1. Like the current virus, SARS-CoV-1 spread from Chinese horseshoe bats and is believed to have infected a type of cat called a civet

May all of our readers have a happy and blessed Easter celebration today, especially in this time of crisis. We would also like to wish our Jewish readers a belated Passover greeting, as this year both events take place close to each other as they did the year before. We are struggling through separation and

You know you’ve been in quarantine too long when you find yourself nodding along throughout a five-minute Bill Maher monologue. No, I kid. I made some of the same points he makes in the clip below a few days ago. It can’t be stressed enough that the pandemic is a product not of happenstance but

Tomorrow is Easter, a day when church attendance is typically near the highest volume we see throughout the year. But in Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear wants to flatten that particular curve to a number as close to zero as possible. With that in mind, law enforcement will be stepping in. There’s no talk of arresting

While monitoring the latest on Fox News this morning, I heard an interesting interview with Sunday show anchor Chris Wallace. I was surprised to hear him admit that if public opinion holds as it is now with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and when the economic recovery begins that he doesn’t see Biden beating

Yesterday the NY Times’ editorial board announced a new project titled “The America We Need.” The general thrust of the first piece in this two-month long series was summed up in this line, “What America needs is a just and activist government.” More specifically, that meant adopting most of the platform that Bernie Sanders has

And here we thought they ran for office to actually lead. In an interview with Politico, Nancy Pelosi warned Donald Trump against reopening businesses too soon, even though the federal government has no real authority to shut them down in the first place. Pelosi also announced that she won’t be re-opening the House any time soon

How much stock should we put in the political acumen of a guy who endorsed Michael Bennet three weeks before this year’s Iowa caucus? The “glass half full” view for Democrats is that Biden has led in nearly every head-to-head poll with Trump since mid-February, occasionally by double digits. The “glass half empty” view for

The Swedish experiment continues to be one of the most interesting things happening in the world right now. Pretty much every other country in the world, including Sweden’s neighbors Denmark and Norway, have adopted similar types of government-ordered social distancing. But in Sweden, the country is merely asking people to be sensible and hoping that’s

We received an unexpected surprise via email this week from USAA, the company we use for a variety of insurance and financial services. Unprompted by us, they indicated that we would be receiving a significantly increased rebate on our automobile insurance. When you don’t have an accident all year, they generally send you a small

A group of Republican senators sent a letter in opposition to the appointment of China to a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel yesterday. This move is just the latest example of the fecklessness of the United Nations. Last week, Jiang Duan, minister at the Chinese Mission in Geneva was appointed to the U.N.

Just how far can state governments go in limiting liberty in an emergency? Far enough to make Texas’ order limiting health-care options to essentials constitutional, the Fifth Circuit ruled last night, reinstating the order that blocks almost all abortions in the state. Texas arguably had a legitimate and urgent state interest in rationing surgical supplies

In the midst of all of the cautious suggestions of “good news” in New York City as the pandemic appears to have reached a plateau, other places are only now starting to ramp up toward critical levels where their health care services are being overwhelmed. One such hotspot is in Massachusetts, where Boston Medical Center’s

There’s a new chief of staff in the White House and changes in personnel are being made. Case in point – Stephanie Grisham is going back to the East Wing of the White House as First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff and spokesperson. She’ll no longer be working for the First Couple simultaneously. Less

First-ballot Hall-of-Fame PR clusterfark. He overreacted to an officer going outside the chain of command in an extraordinary situation by firing him summarily, then overreacted again by giving a pissy speech to the crew that idolized that officer, then overreacted again by not immediately apologizing until his boss pressured him into doing so. To make

Is this the beginning of an apology tour? Joe Biden recently revealed that he picked up the phone and rang up Bernie Sanders to offer a heartfelt apology. But for what? It turns out that after Biden recently announced he was vetting potential vice presidential candidates, he had a moment of self-reflection. That was kind

Given how rhetorically invested Trump and Fox News are in hydroxychloroquine as a possible miracle drug, this is like going on the Golf Channel to declare that golf sucks. Fox anchor: Can you tell me your thoughts on the drug that is used normally to treat malaria. Dr. Haseltine: It’s sad to me that people

The European Union’s member states have already begun to grasp the latter argument. It’s time for the US and especially its media class to understand it too, argues Nadia Schadlow in The Atlantic, as well as the malign intent of China on the world stage. Rather than focus on the true villain of the coronavirus

While Wisconsin’s spring election is still on track to more-or-less conclude with in-person voting tomorrow and an additional 6 days of late-arriving absentee ballots, there may be another major plot twist or two today. First, it turns out that the special session on Governor Tony Evers’ attempt to rig…er…delay the election that was a gavel-in-gavel-out

The coronavirus outbreak may be the worse pandemic the world has faced since 1918. The Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, appeared on a couple of Sunday morning shows to deliver a stern, stark message – this week is our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment. “This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week

We don’t want to read too much into a two- or three-day trend, as Cuomo himself notes in the clip, but New York’s daily death toll may be leveling off at 600 or so per day. The IHME projections had the daily death toll increasing for another five days, reaching a peak of 855 on

Back when we were debating the details of the coronavirus relief bill as it sailed through Congress (where as many as three people may have actually read the entire thing), one brief sticking point came with the generous nature of the federal enhancement of unemployment benefits. I wrote at the time that “a safety net

Last week I wrote about a NY Times video offering a front row seat to the coronavirus crisis as it was impacting one New York hospital. Things have become dramatically worse in New York since then. This week a local news station in Florida interviewed a New York paramedic for a segment about what it

Four hyper-partisan Democrat senators are demanding an investigation into the revised description of the Strategic National Stockpile. A firestorm was set off after Thursday’s coronavirus task force’s White House briefing with reporters when Trump senior adviser (and son-in-law) Jared Kushner used the word “our” when describing the stockpile. Kushner was made available by the White

This is pure guesswork, not a leak of a secret official document or something similarly authoritative. They’re passing along informed Internet chatter about the number of urns that may be flowing into Wuhan right now, a topic about which I’ve written previously. Increased activity at crematoriums is a sure sign of local catastrophe, as New

Mexico’s Grupo Modelo will temporarily suspend operations on brewing Corona beer and other brands exported to 180 countries on Sunday. This decision comes on the heels of the Mexican government declaring its business as “non-essential” in the fight against the coronavirus. The company planned for this and was already in the process of slowing production