Just a few weeks ago I was surprised to see a headline indicating American confidence had increased over the past few years. The following chart from a January Gallup poll gives a glimpse into that confidence: How quickly things change. As a friend recently told me, when everything looks good and optimism is up, that’s…
Vice President Mike Pence will be visiting Washington State to meet with Governor (and former 2020 Presidential Candidate) Jay Inslee to discuss the Coronavirus response. President Donald Trump has appointed Vice President Pence to head the response efforts, and Washington is where the first U.S. Coronavirus case and death took place. At the time of…
“For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.”, reads a post retweeted by Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca (CO-D) with a “#solidarity Yaaaas!” #solidarity Yaaaas!! 🤣🤣🤣✊🏾👌🏾 https://t.co/PhgyQ0WmP0 — Candi CdeBaca 😘✊🏾❤️🔥🌹 (@CandiCdeBacaD9) February 28, 2020 While CdeBaca’s retweet remains, the original post has now been removed from Twitter as…
Much has been made in the media about the Surgeon General’s recent Twitter exhortation, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general [sic] public from catching Coronavirus.” But what is usually left out is the rest of his tweet, “…but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick…
3/3/20 updated to reflect increased fatalities in Washington state. What we know about Coronavirus makes the things we don’t know unsettling. This has opened up a range of theories surrounding the pandemic. This article will use what we do know to connect a few dots. Some more controversial than others. I am, by no stretch…
Most people have heard the commotion surrounding the Hong Kong protests, but as they were heating up, Wuhan was just getting started. In June of 2019, the Chinese government decided they wanted to place numerous incinerators in a civilian area, causing outrage throughout the already polluted municipality. Why Were They Protesting? The main incinerator was…
Andrew Kerr U.S. stocks plunged Monday morning over fears of a possible global coronavirus pandemic. The Dow Jones dropped 997 points, or 3.4%, when markets opened Monday, CNN reported. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also fell 3.2% and 4.3%, respectively. The Monday morning plunge puts the Dow on pace for its biggest one-day drop since mid-August, when…
When the Wuhan coronavirus first made news in December, like most Americans I didn’t think much of it. The problem was half a world away. Few people were afflicted, and only a small fraction of them had died. We’ll probably hear the last of it when winter gives way to spring, I figured. It hasn’t…
In the spring of 2014, when awareness of Ebola was just beginning to dawn, a case of infection appeared in the town of Harbel, Liberia. The biggest employer in the area is Firestone. The company immediately set up a quarantine area of its hospital for the infected woman, who soon died. They distributed hazmat suits…
Haitao Guo, University of Pittsburgh; Guangxiang “George” Luo, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Shou-Jiang Gao, University of Pittsburgh Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter. The…