The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it is expanding its investigation into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous nursing home policy.
In May, Cuomo enacted a policy that forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients, essentially turning his state’s long-term care facilities into COVID-19 breeding grounds.
An investigation by the Associated...
(Headline USA) Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals could unleash a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. health care system, an effort that, if successful, could paralyze hospital information systems.
In a joint alert Wednesday, the FBI and two federal agencies said they had credible information of “an increased...
(Julie Havlak, Carolina Journal) Johnnie Carswell won’t be a tool for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s shutdowns.
He had words for Dr. Mandy Cohen, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, too.
Cohen last week wrote 36 counties asking officials “to consider additional local actions to improve compliance.” Suggestions included shuttering...
(Headline USA) "Surging" COVID-19 cases in Chicago prompted Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place.
However, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she isn’t sure Pritzker’s new restrictions are targeting the right people and worries...
Do rallies by President Donald Trump decrease the number of coronavirus cases?
According to a recent analysis by the far-left Center for American Progress, they might.
At the very least, the data suggest little to no correlation between the two events.
The propagandist group, founded by Hillary Clinton flunky John Podesta, analyzed...
A group of Ohio landlords, joined by the National Association of Home Builders, filed a lawsuit Friday to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ban on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleges that the...
(Headline USA) Health policy specialists questioned White House officials' claim that federal rules on essential workers allow Vice President Mike Pence to continue to campaign and not quarantine himself after potentially being exposed to the coronavirus.
Pence tested negative on Sunday and decided to keep traveling after consulting White House medical personnel, his...
(Headline USA) U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the first drug to treat COVID-19: remdesivir, an antiviral medicine given to hospitalized patients through an IV.
The drug, which California-based Gilead Sciences Inc. is calling Veklury, cut the time to recovery by five days---from 15 days to 10 on average---in a large...
(Headline USA) Just in time for Election Day, Michigan's Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claimed Wednesday that her state has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than ever.
She noted a sharp increase since the state Supreme Court rebuffed her sweeping lockdown orders earlier this month, declaring the authoritarian measures unconstitutional.
The...
(Headline USA) California won't allow any distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the nation’s most populous state until it is reviewed by the state’s own panel of experts, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Vaccinations for the pandemic “will move at the speed of trust,” said Newsom, a Democrat, and the state...
(Headline USA) Twitter censored a post Sunday from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Scott Atlas, who joined the White House in August as a science adviser, had tweeted "Masks work? NO," and said widespread use...
(Headline USA) After months of enduring attacks from left-wing critics who claimed he had misled the public with an overly rosy picture of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump put his money where his mouth is.
Trump has advocated vociferously for schools to reopen, citing statistics that show little risk of...