Warp Speed’s focus on vaccines may have shortchanged antibody treatments
Monoclonal antibodies are a potential treatment that could combat Covid outbreaks before and after a safe and effective vaccine is widely available.
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Azar says HHS reviewing $300M pandemic ad campaign amid scrutiny
Trump’s health secretary also refused to address whether the president ordered a slowdown in coronavirus testing.
What we know — and don’t know — about Trump’s coronavirus treatment
The president’s age and weight puts him at higher risk of complications.
He Committed 36 Murders Over Three Decades. This Is How He Got Away With It.
The stories we choose to tell can have outsize consequences on the entire criminal justice system.
Trump campaign looks to small victories on trade to win the farmer vote
His campaign is targeting swing state voters by highlighting specific trade deal wins.
Trump is fuzzy on tax policy as Biden goes all in
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
2020 is the Year Trump Was Worried About
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
Trump stokes a new threat to Wall Street: Election chaos
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
Election Season Upended: Trump’s COVID Diagnosis Could Reshape Race, Debates & SCOTUS Fight
President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, throwing the final month of an already unprecedented election season into disarray. What will this latest news mean for the debates and the Supreme Court? And what will happen if President Trump is unable to lead the country? We speak to journalist John Nichols about the line of succession, campaigning in the critical swing state of Wisconsin, and more.
Trump, Still Infectious, Is Back At The White House — Without A Mask
The president went barefaced despite his physician saying he was still contagious.
Trump returns to deflated White House ravaged by coronavirus
Not that there were ever adults in the room. But over a weekend that saw Donald Trump airlifted to a hospital as positive coronavirus tests ripped through the West Wing and GOP circles alike, White House staffers were left with chief of staff Mark Meadows to look to for guidance. It didn’t go well, according to multiple reports, even by Trump-era standards. And that’s saying something.
Nothing but bad news for Trump in new poll of his COVID-19 record
The United States has learned how much to trust Donald Trump: Just 12% of people in a new CNN poll say they trust almost all of what the White House is saying about Trump’s health. By contrast, 69% said they trust little of what they’re hearing from the White House.
Monday Night Owls. ‘Politicians in robes’: How Republicans maneuvered the Supreme Court rightward
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
In the midst of crisis, the happenings of the immediate moment all too easily overwhelm our ability to keep the overall picture in mind. When multiple crises unfold simultaneously, it becomes even easier to lose track of how we have arrived at our predicaments of the moment.
‘Epidemiologists Just Want To Vomit’: Twitter Critics Sick About Trump Removing His Mask
Observers fear for the health and lives of Trump’s household staff, security detail, aides and officials as the maskless, COVID-contagious president comes home.
In attempt to hide COVID-19 spread, Trump team won’t be doing contact tracing of Rose Garden guests
Well, it’s what we expected. The New York Times reports that the Trump team “has decided not to trace the contacts of guests and staff members” at the superspreading White House Rose Garden celebration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, the apparent source of infection for at least three Republican senators and numerous other people.
Mississippi officials say AT&T took $283,000,000 to provide broadband and pocketed the money
One of the things that the FCC and FTC have not done effectively over the last few decades is hold telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon accountable for their tax-subsidized infrastructure obligations. In fact, the FCC under Trump’s choice and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, have done everything possible to protect big telecommunications from being held responsible for their fraudulent behaviors.
Trump, Infected With COVID-19, Takes Mask Off To Enter White House Full Of Staffers
The president returned after a three-day hospital stay, tweeting that he was “feeling really good!
GOP: Trump Is So Tough For Not Dying Of COVID After Getting World-Class Medical Care
He is also a superspreader, so there’s that.
Pregnancy Loss Photos Like the Ones Chrissy Teigen Posted Are More Common Than You Think
Two photographers explain how they document a stillbirth or miscarriage—and praise the model for sharing her images.
The Atlantic Daily: The Truth About the Trump Cluster
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTYPutting aside the mechanics of who infected whom: The outbreak of COVID-19 at the White House is Trump’s doing.Call it the Trump cluster.
The People Trump Came Home To
Updated on October 5, 2020 at 7:04 p.m. ET.On any given morning, the White House is a blur of activity. A chef may be whipping up breakfast for the first couple in the second-floor kitchen. A valet might be shining the president’s shoes, while the head butler lingers in the West Sitting Hall, awaiting any urgent presidential requests. Housekeepers, maybe a dozen of them, could be deployed throughout the building, vacuuming, polishing, and dusting.
Do I Get a Say in How My Sugar Baby Markets Her Sex Work Online?
I want her to stay discreet in her profiles, but she says it doesn’t matter.
Trump Leaves Hospital As Questions Mount Over COVID-19 Condition
White House physician Sean Conley refused to discuss details of the president’s coronavirus infection and said he “may not entirely be out of the woods yet.
Help! My Brother Keeps “Borrowing” My Stuff and Then Selling It on eBay.
And he complained to our mom when I confronted him about it.
Emily in Paris Is an Irresistible Fantasy
Late in Netflix’s Emily in Paris, the new comedy series from Sex and the City’s creator, Darren Star, Emily (Lily Collins), the titular American expat, tries to give herself a reality check about her new home. “It’s just Paris,” she says. “It’s not some alternate universe where rules don’t apply.”Oh, but Emily does live in an alternate universe, one built by Star for his first Millennial protagonist.
CDC says coronavirus is airborne, but weakens language from earlier warning
The updated guidance comes just days after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Now Comes the Reckoning
“Truth will come to light,” Launcelot Gobbo tells his father in The Merchant of Venice. “At the length truth will out.”For Donald Trump, this past week is when, for all except his most beguiled and gullible supporters, the truth willed itself out. At the start of the week, the ground on which the president’s most fanatical followers stood started to crumble; by the end of the week, it had completely collapsed.
A Sexting Scandal Puts a Politician in the Hot Seat
The whole point of Cal Cunningham was that he was supposed to be boring. The North Carolina Democrat is not the most dynamic campaigner, but polls have consistently given him a lead over the Republican incumbent, Thom Tillis, in the race for U.S. Senate.Now that lead is up in the air. On Thursday, a report revealed texts between Cunningham, a married father of two, and a Democratic strategist. The texts are less racy than, say, joggy; true to form for Cunningham, they’re rather dull.
“Black Women’s Lives Matter”: Breonna Taylor’s Family Demands a Special Prosecutor to Reopen Case
Breonna Taylor’s family is calling on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to appoint a new special prosecutor to reopen the case after they say newly released grand jury tapes confirm the state Attorney General Daniel Cameron “did not serve as an unbiased prosecutor in this case and intentionally did not present charges to the grand jury that would have pursued justice for Ms. Taylor.