by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise (e.g, COVID-19), for Saturday, March 28.
- Italy surpasses China in total infections
- Global Cases Exceed 600,000; Japan Plans Stimulus: Virus Update
- Coronavirus Live Updates: $2 Trillion Aid Bill Is Now Law as U.S. Cases Pass 100,000 (“President Trump said the government would buy thousands of ventilators, but it seemed doubtful they could be produced in time to help overwhelmed hospitals. The virus’s death toll has surged in Spain and Italy.”)
- New York may be weeks away from reaching a peak in coronavirus cases. Now other states are preparing for a surge
- Trump signs $2 trillion bill to blunt virus fallout (“Agencies are rushing to implement the law, which authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to send $1,200 payments to millions of Americans and creates programs to disburse close to $1 trillion in business loans and guarantees.”)
- We Have Lost It All’: The Shock Felt by Millions of Unemployed Americans (“One day there was a job. The next day it was gone.”)
- Trump Chooses Disaster as His Re-Election Strategy (“It’s a massive bet that political polarization is a more powerful force than the virus’s body count.”)
- “Prepare, Prepare, Prepare”: Why Didn’t the World Listen to the Coronavirus Cassandras? (“People (Larry Brilliant, Bill and Melinda Gates, the World Health Organization) have been shouting about the current pandemic—“Disease X”—near constantly for a couple of decades. But talk and action are different planets.”)
- Inside the White House’s Coronapocalypse
- Trump Suggests He Can Gag Inspector General for Stimulus Bailout Program
- Why Some Americans Entitled to a Coronavirus Relief Check Won’t Get One
- Trump chips away at Congress’ role in coronavirus relief oversight
- The tragedy is that we knew this was coming
- Here’s what the press should be asking: How will we know when it’s safe to come out? (“Public health experts have a plan for ending this crisis. Trump doesn’t — and he must be measured by that standard”)
- Trump takes immediate step to try to curb new inspector general’s autonomy, as battle over stimulus oversight begins
- Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus (“For months, the president has downplayed the severity of the pandemic, overstated the impact of his policies and potential treatments, blamed others and tried to rewrite the history of his response.”)
- Trump, rejecting blame, warns governors to be ‘appreciative’
- Trump seeks to ramp up production of medical equipment after harsh criticism
- Trump ties coronavirus decisions to personal grievances
- Trump Says He’s Doing a Hell of a Job Getting Medical Supplies. Reality Says Otherwise.
- Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
- Under Intense Criticism, Trump Says Government Will Buy More Ventilators
- Why ‘choosing’ between the elderly and the economy is a phony, barbaric choice
- Fact check: Trump makes another round of misstatements during coronavirus briefing
- Covid-19 has cut emissions. If we don’t pay attention, its cure will speed them up.
- No, Trump is not going to suddenly become FDR
- Some U.S. Cities Could Have Coronavirus Outbreaks Worse Than Wuhan’s
- The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life (“The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions”)
- Fox News Poll: Biden leads Trump, wins high marks for female VP pledge
- Joe Biden to Trump: ‘Do your job. Stop personalizing everything’
- The Pandemic Reveals How Undemocratic America Has Become (“Unelected bureaucrats are making enormously consequential decisions.”)
- Biden defends Michigan governor after Trump criticism
- Biden mounts behind-the-scenes mission to win over wary progressives (“His aides are moving deliberately to address his biggest liability: An enthusiasm deficit among the liberal base, especially young voters.”)
- Biden: Governors should issue lockdowns ‘for the time being’
- Deborah Birx praised Trump as attentive to scientific literature and details. Nope. (“The White House coronavirus task force coordinator’s latest TV interview raises questions about her credibility.”)
- Trump made us No. 1 — in the spread of a deadly disease (“The results of his ignorance and incompetence concerning the covid-19 outbreak continue to mount.”)
- Thomas Massie is a monster Republicans created (“Massie is the epitome of the anti-government culture they have nurtured and encouraged. He embodies the drain-the-swamp political philosophy they have embraced.”)
- Just how ‘relevant’ are 3 million unemployment claims? (“Mnuchin’s words might come back to haunt the Trump administration.”)
- Four factors will determine Trump’s fate (“The political impact of the coronavirus is unknowable. But the buck does stop with him.”)
- Rush Limbaugh: Health experts are part of the “Deep State” and shouldn’t be trusted (“After dismissing COVID-19 as ‘the common cold,’ Limbaugh says that, ‘We didn’t elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don’t know'”)
- 5 takeaways from Joe Biden’s CNN town hall on the coronavirus response
- Audio: CNU Professor Rachel Bitecofer on Trump’s CoronaCrisis Approval Numbers, the Democratic Nomination Contest, Who Biden Should Pick for VP, the 2020 Election, etc.
- Video: Virginia’s U.S. Representatives Speak on the CARES Act Leading Up to Historic House Vote [UPDATE: CARES Act Passes]
- Sen. Warner: Implementing stimulus bill will be a ‘challenge’
- Virginia’s Senators, Representatives Urge Trump Admin. to Approve Va. National Guard Funding Request Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
- New Virginia Data (3/27) on COVID-19 Finds +144 Cases (to 604), +18 Hospitalizations (to 83), +1 Death (to 14) From Yesterday
- Video: Gov. Ralph Northam’s Friday (3/27) Virginia COVID-19 Briefing
- Northam calls on Trump to address supply shortage, open federal coronavirus testing site
- ‘We’re all out there bidding literally against each other’: Northam says country needs ‘national solution’ for shortage of masks, gloves, other equipment
- Schapiro: Northam bill review goes virtual because of virus
- Editorial: Why isn’t the nation’s only doctor-governor a media star right now? (“By nature, he is somewhat reserved, cautious and understated. That’s not a knock. Those may be excellent traits for a doctor; Northam has what we’d call ‘a good bedside manner.'” Also, “Northam hasn’t sought national attention” and he’s “not particularly political”)
- ‘We’re talking semantics here’: Northam defends not issuing stay-at-home order for Virginians
- AG Mark Herring Urges Trump Administration to Suspend Efforts to Rewrite Policy on Title IX
- With Coronavirus-Related Food Insecurity Growing, Fairfax County’s 25-Member Virginia General Assembly Delegation Encourages Everyone to Help
- Va., Md. governors warn that hospitals soon may be overwhelmed by surge in coronavirus cases
- To salvage the semester, college professors make a rapid pivot to teaching online (“‘It’s not perfect, but we do the best we can,’ a University of Virginia professor told students.”)
- Harvard Global Health Institute Projection Shows Virginia Needs More Hospital Bed Capacity
- Two more deaths at Canterbury Rehab, but not yet confirmed as COVID-19
- VCU Converts Residence Hall Into Hospital for Non-COVID-19 Patients
- Liberty University to offer $1,000 credit to students who leave dorms by Saturday because of coronavirus
- Federal reviews delay Mountain Valley Pipeline yet again
- School divisions work to feed children during the crisis
- D.C.-area forecast: Cool and rather dreary today, then briefly much warmer tomorrow
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