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Pompeo calls for international inspections of Chinese labs that study viruses (Washington Examiner)
China should grant international inspectors access to labs where scientists study viruses similar to the one that caused the coronavirus pandemic, in order to prevent the “accidental release” of such contagions, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“We have to make sure that the Chinese government is handling those materials in an appropriate way, not only in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but elsewhere,” Pompeo told reporters at the State Department. [Read More]
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Closing processing plants would create ripple effects (Norfolk Daily News)
With meat processing plants closing around the country because of the rapid spread of the coronavirus, some livestock producers are facing sleepless nights.
Many producers, for example, have it timed so that almost as soon as a pen of hogs is ready for market, new feeder pigs are ready to take their place.
With meat processing plants in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Worthington, Minnesota, closed recently because of COVID-19 outbreaks, the overall processing capabilities of the region are greatly diminished. [Read More]
Detroit Dems to Censure State Lawmaker Who Thanked Trump for Touting Chloroquine (National Review)
A Detroit, Mich., branch of the Democratic Party plans to censure state representative Karen Whitsett (D., Detroit) after she met with President Trump earlier this month and praised him for recommending the anti-viral drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.
Whitsett contracted coronavirus in March and has since recovered. The freshman lawmaker credited hydroxychloroquine, a medication touted by Trump and other U.S. officials as a possible therapeutic for coronavirus, with saving her life. [Read More]
I Might Lose My Job. Do You Care? (Townhall)
I received a Facebook message from a listener (we’ll call Ann) to my radio show. She wanted to confess. For the past six weeks, she’s been home, quarantined from her work like millions of other Americans. With no commute, she stopped listening to me and all of talk radio. Instead, she’s taking in a daily diet of nothing but cable news. Ann wanted to confess she was kind of enjoying this lockdown. She was getting a paycheck, and so was her husband. Anyone not staying home is just selfish, she thought to herself. [Read More]
