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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, May 3.
- Why Does the Virus Devastate Some Places and Spare Others? (“Experts are trying to figure out the seemingly capricious impact of the coronavirus. The answers could have profound implications for how countries respond and for knowing when it’s safe to go out again.”)
- Global Backlash Builds Against China Over Coronavirus (“As calls for inquiries and reparations spread, Beijing has responded aggressively, mixing threats with aid and adding to a growing mistrust of China.”)
- Russia now has second-highest rate of Covid-19 spread as other countries ease restrictions (“Mayor warns 1 in 50 Moscow residents could have Covid-19, while Somalia and Bali deal with outbreaks and Singapore and Spain lift lockdowns”)
- What happens if a coronavirus vaccine is never developed? It has happened before
- Spain Deaths Slow; Russia Has Most Cases in a Day: Virus Update
- Trump says he’s glad to see Kim Jong-un “well” after dictator reappears in North Korean media (Lovely.)
- Oil’s Recovery Could Take Decades, Not Years (Hopefully, it will never recover. Get rid of it and replace it with energy efficiency, solar, wind, etc.)
- North and South Korea Exchange Gunfire Across Demilitarized Zone
- Unimaginable U.S. Jobs Report Takes Center Stage: Eco Week Ahead
- Fears Mount About Inflation Returning With a Vengeance (“Policy makers are more worried about deflation for now”)
- The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO
- White House signals eagerness to get past coronavirus crisis
- Anti-Vaccination Activists Are Growing Force at Virus Protests (“Public health experts fear that their messaging could further harm the country’s response to the pandemic.”)
- Trump Received Intelligence Briefings On Coronavirus Twice In January
- Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known
- There’s a more accurate way to compare coronavirus deaths to the flu (“If we measure flu mortality the same way we count covid-19 deaths, the picture becomes very stark…Using an apples-to-apples comparison, we can say that the coronavirus and the disease it causes, covid-19, have already killed eight times as many people as the flu. By the time we get data for the entire season, the difference appears likely to be at least tenfold, or a full order of magnitude.”)
- 34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America
- Pandemic brings Trump’s war on science to the boil – but who will win? (“Three years of hostility to evidence-based policy have led to a crisis in which the president’s ill-informed, self-serving ‘hunches’ have deadly consequences”)
- Most States Don’t Meet Coronavirus Testing Threshold: AP
- Is America’s “One Nation Indivisible” Being Killed Off by the Coronavirus?
- The path to reopening is clear. Our national strategy is not.
- What the Coronavirus Models Can’t See (“The IMHE model, in particular, has come under increasing criticism…under conditions that you might have thought — in theory — would bring the caseload close to zero in this amount of time, national deaths and caseloads have merely flattened out. Perhaps, depending on how you process the data, they’ve moved somewhat, but not dramatically, downward.”)
- One Death Is a Tragedy. 60,000 Deaths Are a Great Success.
- Trump’s national security adviser out of sight in coronavirus response
- The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?
- Trump’s wealthy friends look to cash in during coronavirus crisis (“Watchdog groups say Trump’s close ties with donors and backers deserve scrutiny as trillions in federal funds are handed out”)
- ‘Murder Hornets’ in the U.S.: The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet (“Sightings of the Asian giant hornet have prompted fears that the vicious insect could establish itself in the United States and devastate bee populations.” Ee gads.)
- The Coronavirus Is Becoming a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists (“White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit.”)
- New York’s Cuomo warns against ‘blindly’ reopening states
- Trump campaign divided over how to attack Biden amid worries over troubling poll numbers
- Obama Alumni Say No Biden Allegations Found During Vetting
- Reade: ‘I didn’t use sexual harassment’ in Biden complaint (The ever-changing story changes yet again.)
- Biden accuser Tara Reade ‘not sure’ what complaint she claims was filed with Senate says
- The Supreme Court Confronts Trump’s Challenge to the Separation of Powers (This won’t end well.)
- She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next? (“Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and ‘collective rage.'”)
- Former President Bush urges unity to overcome the coronavirus
- Trump’s purge of inspectors general continues. It’s an assault on good governance.
- Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop. (“When the medical examiners’ list was available, it showed more deaths than the state’s count.”)
- Dominion Energy plan: Electric bills could rise 3% a year over the next decade to pay for net-zero carbon emissions
- At 60.0%, Virginia Ranks 12th-Best in Nation on Census Response Rate; Here Are How Virginia Counties, Cities Rank
- Kilgore: Advancing telehealth in the Commonwealth
- Saturday (5/2) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +830 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 17,731), +103 Hospitalizations (to 2,519), +35 Deaths (to 616) From Yesterday
- Sen. Amanda Chase, Far-Right Candidate for Virginia Governor in 2021, Goes to War with Her Supporters Over Control of a Grassroots, Pro-Chase Facebook Page
- Comparing the Value of Virginia Lawmakers’ Securities Portfolios to Their Progressive Voting Scores
- Governor Northam Announces Virginia to Receive Three Critical Care Decontamination Systems
- Virginia to get PPE decontamination systems that can sterilize 80,000 masks a day
- Gordon C. Morse: A familiar name takes aim at higher office
- Editorial: A victory for public information (“Ruling in a lawsuit filed under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act confirms that corrections officials concealed information from the public.”)
- Opinion/Editorial: UVa shows both sides of flatten-the-curve problem
- Opinion/Commentary: Virginia’s incarcerated children at risk during COVID-19
- Roanoke Democrats select White-Boyd, Volosin and Jeffrey as council nominees
- 7 die as COVID-19 outbreak hits Roanoke nursing home
- Empty city: Richmond is a lonelier place since the arrival of the coronavirus. This is what it looks like.
- Fredericksburg-area hospitals resuming elective procedures Monday
- Need is great at Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank and other local pantries
- Still warm but some showers possible today; chance of strong storms tonight
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