Politico’s Leah Nylen and Mohanan Ravindranath explain the teaming up between tech giants Apple and Google against COVID-19. they write: Apple and Google announced Friday that they are teaming up on a major effort to help health officials trace coronavirus exposure risks, in a rare alliance between two huge rivals whose software dominates the market […]
Bill Gates. Why the World Needs More Billionaires
When asked recently what good his fortune could do in the Age of Coronavirus, Bill Gates replied, “Governments will eventually come up with lots of money, but they don’t know where to direct it. They can’t move as quickly.” At the moment, there are a number of promising vaccine constructs to fight coronavirus, and the […]
Will America Reawaken as a Cry Baby or a Roaring Giant?
Beijing, at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, hid the origins, nature, and transmissibility of the virus. Then it lied about its supposedly brilliant control of the epidemic. Victor Davis Hanson in NRO wonders if America will now recalibrate its relationship with China to ensure that, when the next pandemic hits, America will not be […]
Dr. Fauci Signals the Possibility of Far Fewer COVID-19 Fatalities
In an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show, Dr. Anthony Fauci signaled that American deaths from COVID-19 might be fewer than the 100,000 to 200,000 earlier projected.
Bill Gates: No Magic Wand to Put the Economy Back on Track
reporter Mark DeCambre details Bill Gates’ views on getting the economy up and running again. He writes: ‘No one should think the government can wave a wand an all of sudden the economy is anything like it was before this happened.’ — Bill Gates In a March 31 op-ed in the Washington Post, the tech luminary advised […]
Despite its Failure, the Left Finds a Way to Blame Trump
Rabbi Dov Fischer writes at The American Spectator: It is Trump’s fault. It all is Trump’s fault. It always all is Trump’s fault. An energy policy that saw us buying oil from Arab Muslim dictators who butcher even their own people, even as Obama did his most to prevent us from exploring and extracting our […]
Here’s the Best Estimate Yet of How Deadly COVID-19 Really Is
The Lancet, Infectious Diseases has published a study led by a team from Imperial College London, outlining the best estimate yet for how deadly COVID-19 could be. The researchers found a case fatality ratio of 1.38%. That compares to about 0.0962% for the common flu. Their findings are: Background In the face of rapidly changing […]
The Oddly Overlooked Logic Behind the Toilet Paper Crisis
Do Americans really believe that our politicians are going to provide thoughtful well-considered answers to how we get our economy back on track? For example, notes James Freeman in the WSJ, the Senate minority leader went from arguing that “the President is such a threat to the republic that he must be removed from office […]
Surgeon General and CDC Director Say Death Toll Might Not Be so High
Doina Chiacu and Susan Heavey report for Reuters: Two senior U.S. health officials have said they now believe the coronavirus outbreak may kill fewer Americans than some recent projections, pointing to tentative signs that the death toll was starting to level off in New York and other hot spots. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on […]
Are Ventilators a Bridge to Nowhere?
Does it help putting people who have coronavirus on ventilators versus letting them struggle on? Strictly speaking, claims Matt Strauss, no one knows whether those who survive their time on a ventilator may have survived anyway. Conversely, Dr. Strauss, a critical care physician, notes that also unknown is whether some would-be survivor died because he […]
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