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In 2018, more than 67,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. The year before, more than 70,000 died. That’s more than the entire population of the towns most of us grew up in. And those totals are far lower than the real number according to people who study the question. … [Read more...] about FNC’s Carlson on U.S. Coronavirus Response: ‘There Has to Be a More Balanced Course Than the One We’re on Now’

“Well, no, you moron,” he continued. “We had the lowest level of African-American and Hispanic unemployment ever recorded until a global pandemic that originated in Wuhan came and ended up causing absolute chaos and catastrophe. But yet, the media — we should be coming together to root for America, to root for defeating this pandemic, to root for jobs coming back. And I think too many partisan Democrats want to just use this catastrophe to attack Trump rather than come together and fight for our country.” … [Read more...] about Ted Cruz: Mainstream Media Are ‘Rooting for This Pandemic to Be Worse and Worse’

In a brief preview of an interview which aired Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner, stressed the importance of not delaying or postponing the “constitutionally-required November election” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. … [Read more...] about Biden: ‘We Cannot Delay or Postpone’ November Election

“[W]e have some reporting suggesting that there is a stockholding connected to the president that has an investment in a maker of this drug,” Haberman told CNN. “It’s certainly important to note given everything we’re seeing, given his excitement about it. I do think, John, just based on other reporting we have, that his interest in this is primarily about the fact that it has been suggested to him by people who he knows, including Larry Ellison at Oracle, Dr. Oz on television suggested this, and the president has gotten more interested in what TV doctors have to say than some of the people in his own administration. But mostly, John, I think he’s looking for a quick fix out of this. And I really do believe that that is his main focus. I have no way of knowing if that’s the only one. But I do think that’s the main one.” … [Read more...] about NYT’s Haberman: Trump ‘More Interested in What TV Doctors Have to Say’ Than His Own Administration

She added, “These additional deaths many of them are unnecessary. They are deaths of incompetence. They are deaths of science denial. They are deaths of inequality. So it is important for us to acknowledge how unnecessary the level of crisis that we are at right now that is due to the incompetence of this administration, that is due to the lack of responsiveness of this administration.” … [Read more...] about Ocasio-Cortez: People Are ‘Dying Unnecessarily’ Because of Trump’s Incompetence