By Robert Gearty | Fox News There’s a reason why some people believe government officials are exaggerating the number of COVID-19 fatalities. One problem is the hodgepodge way states tally those numbers, Fox News has found. Some states count presumed coronavirus deaths along with confirmed cases under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance issued last month. Other states don’t count […]
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Reopening Updates: All 50 States and the District of Columbia
By Zachary Stieber Reopenings are taking place across the United States as most governors ease harsh restrictions put into place to try to slow the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The new virus, which originated in China, causes the potentially deadly disease COVID-19. Here’s the situation with each state and the District of […]
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Coronavirus reopening – Democrats resist, Americans persist. Here’s why
By Liz Peek | Fox News Can you feel it? Can you feel the pace quickening? More cars on the road, more people in the stores, more ads crowding your inbox? Activity is picking up, even in my state of New York, where we’re still under lockdown. It’s palpable; Americans everywhere are going back to work. Democrats don’t like that one little bit. The worse […]
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Coronavirus lockdowns: Unrest growing in few remaining states that won’t give firm reopening date
By Greg Norman | Fox News Unrest is growing Friday in the American states that have become the last holdouts in terms of announcing dates when their economies will start reopening during the coronavirus outbreak. As the virus continues its deadly and unpredictable spread across the U.S., the economic losses are piling up as well, with more than 33 million Americans seeking jobless aid since the closures began. The overwhelming majority of states have […]
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Democrats Gamble Everything on Dislike of Trump and Promotion of Lockdown
By Conrad Black The Democrats are staking everything on their ability to turn the presidential election into the question: “Do you like Trump?” Their gamble, (and only play at this point) is that an adequate majority will reply negatively, and the Democratic nominee as the only alternative, will win. Like film versions of World War II Allied […]
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Government gone too far? States rebuked for coronavirus lockdown measures
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News The Justice Department has sided with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a $2,500 fine for violating lockdown restrictions by holding a service on Palm Sunday – marking the latest incident where federal lawyers or local courts have challenged a state’s stay-at-home mandates […]
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Fox News town hall: Trump predicts coronavirus vaccine by year’s end, vows ‘plague’ will pass
By Gregg Re | Fox News As some states loosen lockdown restrictions in a bid to set the nation’s battered economy on the road to recovery, President Trump endorsed a state-by-state approach while predicting at a Fox News virtual town hall on Sunday that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by December. “I think we’ll have a vaccine by the end […]
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Coronavirus lockdowns — ensure safety but don’t infringe on our civil liberties
By Rep. Ted Budd | Fox News Imagine a world where you could be arrested for playing T-ball in an empty park with your 6-year-old daughter. Would you feel like you were living in a place that cherishes individual freedom, or would you feel like you were a victim of an oppressive nanny state? Chances are the latter. This […]
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Big Tech is using coronavirus to increase its power – and the US is becoming more like China
By Tucker Carlson Monday night on this show, we played you a clip from a nearly hour-long video produced by two physicians in California, Dr. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi. Likely, many of you had already seen it. That video has had more than 5 million views on YouTube. In their presentation, the two doctors presented […]
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DeSantis fires back at coronavirus critics, says Florida didn’t have issues other states did
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boasted on Tuesday that the numbers of coronavirus cases in his state are far below what was expected, as some states with more restrictive shutdown orders have been hit harder. Speaking to reporters alongside President Trump at the White House, DeSantis pushed back against criticism that he waited too long to […]
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Barr tells federal prosecutors to ‘be on the lookout’ for overly restrictive coronavirus shutdown orders
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Attorney General Bill Barr has instructed federal prosecutors to “be on the lookout” for overly restrictive state and local shutdown orders that may infringe on people’s constitutional rights. In a memo issued Monday, Barr recognized that while some restrictions are necessary and proper for combating the coronavirus pandemic, others could go too far. “If a […]
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Buildings closed by coronavirus face another risk: Legionnaires’ disease
By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Commercial buildings shuttered for weeks to stem the spread of the coronavirus could fuel another grisly lung infection: Legionnaires’ disease. Public health experts are urging landlords across the globe to carefully re-open buildings to prevent outbreaks of the severe, sometimes lethal, form of pneumonia. The sudden and sweeping closures […]
