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Newt Gingrich on controlling coronavirus: ‘The earlier you can do universal testing, the better off you are’ (FOX News)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “The Daily Briefing” Tuesday that the leadership of President Trump and expertise of immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci have put the United States on a much better course in the fight against the coronavirus than Italy, where Gingrich and his wife have been staying for the past month.
“We have come a long way from where we were back in January when the ‘Centers for Disease Control & Bureaucracy’ just plain failed,” Gingrich told host Dana Perino. “They lost at least three weeks with the wrong tests and the wrong capabilities. So we’re getting there. We are now bringing them online at an amazing speed.” [Read More]
At Tuesday’s White House coronavirus press conference, task force member Dr. Deborah Birx said that while some countries are reporting coronavirus fatality numbers differently, in the U.S. you are counted as a victim of the pandemic if you die while testing positive for the virus, even if something else causes your death. [Read More]
Bob Ehrlich: Coronavirus Offering Students a New Opportunity To Learn (Western Journal)
Millions of America’s best and brightest students have returned home only midway through their spring semester.
Their coursework will continue, of course, as online education assumes center stage for the foreseeable future. Only those of us of a certain age recall how “distance learning” was once such a curiosity. [Read More]
Trump: Mail-in voting ‘corrupt,’ should be severely restricted (The Washington Times)
President Trump on Tuesday defended his voting by mail in Florida’s election last month but said the practice is too often subject to fraud and should be severely restricted.
“I think mail-in voting is horrible, it’s corrupt,” Mr. Trump said at a White House press briefing on the coronavirus. [Read More]
Linda Tripp, who exposed Clinton-Lewinsky affair, dies (Washington Examiner)
Linda Tripp, the woman who exposed President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky more than two decades ago, has died.
Tripp’s daughter said Tuesday in a Facebook post that her mother was near death.
“My mommy is leaving this earth. I don’t know myself if I can survive this heartache. Please pray for a painless process for the strongest woman I will ever know in my entire lifetime,” Allison Tripp Foley wrote, according to the New York Post. [Read More]
Acting Navy secretary is out after bungled firing of USS Theodore Roosevelt’s captain (USA TODAY)
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned after mishandling the firing of the captain of the COVID-19-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday.
Esper accepted Modly’s resignation letter Tuesday morning and said it was voluntary on Modly’s part. [Read More]
Trump Was Right, Cuomo Was Wrong About Ventilator Needs (The Federalist)
President Donald Trump was pilloried by the media for questioning whether New York would actually need 30,000 additional ventilators or 40,000 ventilators total as claimed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in late March. New models from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation show that New York already reached its peak projected ventilator usage on April 8, with a projected need of 5,008. The actual use may have been even lower. [Read More]
