Instead, the president is expected to sign within days a more limited designation to allow the federal government to cover small business loans, paychecks for hourly workers and delay tax bills, the White House said Wednesday. An emergency declaration would go significantly beyond that move, bringing in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and freeing up funding and resources for states struggling to contain the rapidly spreading virus.
— Read on www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/11/trump-emergency-declaration-coronavirus-message-125902
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Trump calls emergency meeting with top US health officials at the White House Wednesday
“This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President Pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the White House. We don’t know the details, just that it’s extremely urgent,” Maloney said before opening a hearing on the country’s preparedness and response to the coronavirus outbreak that has swept across the nation.
Speakers include Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, CDC Director Robert Redfield, and Terry Rauch, director of the defense medical research and development program for the National Institute of Health.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/trump-calls-emergency-meeting-with-top-us-health-officials-at-the-white-house-wednesday.html
Pence: Major health insurers have agreed to waive copays for coronavirus tests
Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that a group of major health insurance companies have agreed not to charge patients copays when they get tested for coronavirus.
— Read on thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486816-pence-major-health-insurers-have-agreed-to-waive-copays-for-coronavirus
Fed expected to continue cutting interest rates, beginning as soon as later this month
The Federal Reserve is not done cutting interest rates. That’s the view from Wall Street. Economists for leading financial firms expect the U.S. central bank…
— Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-expected-to-continue-cutting-interest-rates-beginning-as-soon-as-later-this-month-2020-03-05
Feds to immigration courts: remove coronavirus info posters
The Executive Office for Immigration Review told all judges and staff members in an email that all coronavirus posters, had to be removed. Then, the Department of Justice took back its directive.
— Read on www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241046076.html
[2018] Western Media Shorthand on Venezuela Conveys and Conceals So Much
Western media have developed a sort of journalistic shorthand for whitewashing gross imperial hypocrisy about Venezuela.
— Read on fair.org/home/western-media-shorthand-on-venezuela-conveys-and-conceals-so-much/
US army officials provide update on coronavirus vaccine efforts
Army Brig. Gen. Michael J. Talley, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command and Fort Detrick, Md.; Army Col. Wendy Sammons-Jackson director of USAMRDC’s Military Infectious Disease Research Program; Dr.
— Read on www.haberler.com/us-army-officials-provide-update-on-coronavirus-12985793-haberi/
Army researchers work on coronavirus vaccines as DOD leaders ready a plan to battle an outbreak at Pentagon
As of Thursday, two more military dependents in South Korea have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, rising the number of confirmed cases affiliated with U.S. Forces Korea to six, including one service member.
— Read on www.stripes.com/news/us/army-researchers-work-on-coronavirus-vaccines-as-dod-leaders-ready-a-plan-to-battle-an-outbreak-at-pentagon-1.621463
Two AIPAC conference attendees test positive for coronavirus
Two AIPAC conference attendees test positive for coronavirus – POLITICO
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/aipac-conference-coronavirus-123158
Yikes!
Scientists fault gov’t and private industry response for U.S. coronavirus spread
Two top scientists—the chief of occupational medicine at the University of Illinois and the Dean of the Baylor University’s School of Tropical Medicine—are faulting the federal government’s and private industry’s response for the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in the U.S.
And the top union for registered nurses, National Nurses United, found in a nationwide survey of 6,500 nurses, and counting, that only 44% report their hospitals and nursing homes have trained them in how to recognize and cope with the coronavirus, and only 29% have plans to isolate coronavirus sufferers.
The remarks, from Dr. Peter Orris of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor University, came as the U.S. death toll from coronavirus rose to 14, and as data shows workers and older patients at nursing homes are particularly at risk of becoming ill and—for the elderly—dying.
— Read on www.peoplesworld.org/article/scientists-fault-govt-and-private-industry-response-for-u-s-coronavirus-spread/
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