#coronavirus

The assumption seems to be that they are being handed over to FEMA for distribution to other parts of the country. As explained by Admiral Polowczyk on Thursday at the White House briefing) or whether they are being distributed to other parts of the country on a preferential basis. We simply don’t know. 

According to a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, state and local governments have been stopped and had their PPE seized by the Federal government:

Several mainstream newspapers have claimed to have evidence that the protests against "lockdown" during coronavirus or the Covid-19 crisis. Some have even called them "AstroTurf" as opposed to "grassroots" protests, meaning that they were organized or funded by groups which have a different goal and a lot of money, rather than by activists interested in their purported goal of ending lockdown.

BBC News:

During Thursday's White House coronavirus task force briefing, an official presented the results of US government research that indicated coronavirus appeared to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight and heat.

The study also showed bleach could kill the virus in saliva or respiratory fluids within five minutes and isopropyl alcohol could kill it even more quickly.

Peter Hitchens has said that there is no evidence that stay-at-home orders - or "lockdown" policy - will save lives. Could it be true that there is no evidence that a "lockdown" will help to save a single life? Is there evidence that a lockdown will help to flatten the curve of infection?

Ben Shapiro has argued that Trump should not be blamed for not taking coronavirus seriously until early March, because major Democrats also did not.

But generalized "Trump didn't take this seriously enough!" stuff is ignoring the timeline, wherein every major Democrat didn't take it very seriously until early March either.

There has been disagreement about whether the anit-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine should be used to treat the coronavirus /COVID-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 and has been one of the lead members of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force, appears to be quite skeptical of its efficacy. Others, including some within the Trump Administration itself, argue that there is enough evidence and that many doctors support its use against COVID-19.