U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome Adams said “This is going
to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be
localized. It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America
to understand that” (USA Today).
From Tim Carney on those who
still compare this to the flu: If you’re still unconvinced, or know someone
you’d like to convince, this one fact ought to make things clear: In New York
state, more people were admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus last week
than have ever been admitted in a single week with the flu — by a factor of
five (Washington Examiner).
Dr. Scott Gottlieb
writes “Aggressive
surveillance and screening can help warn of new infection clusters that could
turn into outbreaks, but that won’t be enough. A vaccine could beat the virus,
but there won’t be one this year. The best near-term hope: an effective
therapeutic drug. That would be transformative, and it’s plausible as soon as
this summer. But the process will have to move faster” (WSJ).
AP is fact checking Trump on
hydroxychloroquine, insisting “He’s making unverified claims about a drug that
can have serious side effects and may not work” (AP).
Former Deputy National Security
Adviser Nadia Schadlow explains “…many respectable people in the United States are
letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on
in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis
reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in
which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the
irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that
international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and
preferences of states” (The Atlantic).
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