Americans have taken part in mass protests after President Donald Trump urged supporters to ‘liberate’ states from governors’ stringent coronavirus lockdowns. Demonstrators rallied in the streets waving huge USA flags and called for the country to reopen despite the pandemic ripping through the country. Thousands raced to the Florida coastline after Governor Ron DeSantis gave the … Read more
President Trump made himself the star of the ‘lockdown rebellion’ on Friday by tweeting ‘LIBERATE Minnesota’ and then adding Michigan and Virginia to the list of states that should be freed. The tweets came one day after the president’s coronavirus taskforce rolled out guidelines that would give governors broad power to decide when states’ economies … Read more
President Trump made himself the star of the ‘lockdown rebellion’ on Friday by tweeting ‘LIBERATE Minnesota’ and then adding Michigan and Virginia to the list of states that should be freed. The tweets came one day after the president’s coronavirus taskforce rolled out guidelines that would give governors broad power to decide when states’ economies … Read more
PROPOSED STATE OR REGIONAL ‘GATING’ CRITERIA These are the tests which have to be passed in a state or collection of states to allow them to move from lockdown to phase one SYMPTOMS Downward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses (ILI) reported within a 14-day period AND Downward trajectory of covid-like syndromic cases reported within a 14-day period … Read more
PROPOSED STATE OR REGIONAL ‘GATING’ CRITERIA These are the tests which have to be passed in a state or collection of states to allow them to move from lockdown to phase one SYMPTOMS Downward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses (ILI) reported within a 14-day period AND Downward trajectory of covid-like syndromic cases reported within a 14-day period … Read more
Donald Trump claims U.S. has ‘passed the peak’ of coronavirus cases and doubles down on claim that governors are ‘chomping at the bit’ to reopen the economy BEFORE May 1 President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has ‘passed the peak’ of coronavirus cases He said he would be talking to the country’s governors Thursday … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump claims U.S. has ‘passed the peak’ of coronavirus cases and doubles down on claim that governors are ‘chomping at the bit’ to reopen the economy BEFORE May 1 President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has ‘passed the peak’ of coronavirus cases He said he would be talking to the country’s … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned his push for ‘total authority’ to reopen the country and said he would leave the decision in the hands of the individual governors of each state. ‘I will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly. And I will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state … Read more
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday gathered the Democratic governors of five neighboring states to form a coronavirus ‘council’ to tackle how to reopen the country in a direct insult to President Trump who earlier tweeted that it was his decision and his alone. Cuomo was joined on a televised conference call by the governors of … Read more
Trump pushes back against national shutdown order and leaves the decision up to each state’s governors, despite projections THOUSANDS could die from coronavirus President Trump is letting governors of individual states decide whether to issue shelter-in-place orders Only states can decide whether to quarantine their residents The federal government can only issue quarantines for foreigners … Read more