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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that government-mandated travel restrictions on his state would be a “federal act of war.” He also said he is willing to sue Rhode Island for implementing a policy requiring visitors from New York to self-quarantine for 14 days in order to slow the spread of coronavirus.

If you want to maintain job security at the Washington Post, you must adhere to the Orange Man Bad narrative- whether you are a conservative, or a "conservative" such as columnist Kathleen Parker. On Tuesday, Parker stuck to that policy by writing yet another column based on the Orange Man Bad narrative concerning the response to coronavirus "Let Andrew Cuomo speak for America, not Trump." Unfortunately for Parker, her attempt to boost Cuomo backfired on her in a most embarrassing way just a short time later. But before we get to her self-inflicted pie on the face, let's take a...

Cuomo trying to explain the stockpile of ventilators in NY

Now you tell us. As the nation begins to debate when to bring back some economic normalcy, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wondered aloud yesterday whether it should have stopped in the first place. Locking the healthy with the exposed carriers may have backfired by accelerating the spread of the coronavirus, at least in hot spots like New York City.“If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy,” Cuomo told reporters, “I don’t know that you would say ‘Quarantine everyone.’” So what would Cuomo do the next time around, and what does he plan to...

"Believe it or Not" (1981). With LYRICS. The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC. The Greatest American Hero Lyrics Look at what's happened to me I can't believe it myself Suddenly I'm up on top of the world It should have been somebody else Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air I never thought I could feel so free Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer Who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me

ew York City’s health commissioner, ostensibly responsible for advising New Yorkers on best health practices, is coming under fire for the role she may have played in the city becoming America’s biggest Coronavirus cluster. Last month, Oxiris Barbot, the city’s health commissioner, said that riding public transit and going out into public, — including attending the Chinese Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, would help defeat anti-Asian prejudices. “The risk to New Yorkers for Coronavirus is low, and our preparedness as a city is very high,” Barbot said February 2nd. “There is no reason not to take the subway, not...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Thousand of Federal Government (delivered) Ventilators found in New York storage. N.Y. must distribute NOW! 11:50 AM · Mar 27, 2020

When my daughter and I helped coordinate Salem Radio Network talk shows broadcasting from CPAC 2020, we had no idea we’d be in the vanguard of “self-quarantining” which now has most of America in its grip. But a week or so after CPAC, as news broke that one—one—out of the 17,000 attendees had tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) placed himself in quarantine for 14 days after a brief encounter with the person, and…well, you know the rest. Happily, both of us were (and remain) asymptomatic, but “sheltering at home” did produce unexpected benefits: My...

"""New York tells nursing homes they'll need to take coronavirus patients discharged from hospitals, report says""" New York told nursing-home operators that they will be required to accept patients infected with the new coronavirus who are discharged from hospitals but may be still convalescing, amid more cases in the state that are straining the health-care system. The decision will draw pushback from some nursing-home officials, who have warned that such moves endanger residents who aren’t infected by the virus, because discharged patients may still be contagious. A group representing doctors who work in nursing homes, known as AMDA, the Society...

After a shocking turnaround in his campaign — he was nearly left for dead after his crushing defeat in New Hampshire, only to become the presumptive nominee after Super Tuesday — Joe Biden was ready to pivot to a general election campaign against President Trump. But then the coronavirus hit the United States, and the ex-veep’s campaign has struggled mightily to deal with the political fallout. Trump has utterly eclipsed his would-be rival. And when Biden has been heard from, he has looked frankly pathetic. After disappearing for more than a week after his primary victories in Missouri, Michigan and...

The push in the U.S. pandemic epicenter follows the president’s declaration that he ‘feels good’ about compounds with unproven efficacy, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. New York is moving at unprecedented speed and scale in a human experiment to distribute tens of thousands of doses of anti-malarial drugs to seriously ill patients, spurred by political leaders including President Trump to try a treatment that is not proved to be effective against the coronavirus. With no proven treatment for the coronavirus, and infections in New York topping 30,000, health experts say the Food and Drug Administration has moved with uncommon speed to authorize...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sharply criticized the $2.2 trillion U.S. emergency relief bill, saying it fails to adequately address the needs of local governments to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking on March 26, Cuomo said the economic toll of the CCP virus outbreak will be dramatic in New York and castigated federal officials for what he called a failure to address lost revenue in the relief package. “I’m disappointed,” Cuomo said during the televised news conference. “I find it irresponsible. I find it reckless. Emotion is a luxury. And we don’t have the luxury at this time of...

Guest post by Cassandra Fairbanks at Big League Politics: A former Secret Service agent assigned to the Vice President Joe Biden residence claims that the Service often had to protect female agents from him. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the agent asserted that, “We had to cancel the VP Christmas get together at the Vice President’s house because Biden would grope all of our wives and girlfriend’s asses.” The annual party was for agents and Navy personnel who were tasked with protecting the Biden family. “He would mess with every single woman or teen. It was horrible,” the agent...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that quarantining everyone together in New York City is probably not the best pubic health strategy in the fight against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. “What we did was we closed everything down. That was our public health strategy. Just close everything,” Cuomo recalled. He admitted during his daily press conference that he might have done things differently. “If you rethought that, or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don’t know that you would say, ‘quarantine everyone,'” he said. “I don’t even know that was the best public health...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Thursday said the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed by the Senate late Wednesday did not meet the needs of the Empire State, calling the bill "irresponsible" and "reckless." The $5 billion included in the bill for the state hardest hit by coronavirus is “earmarked only for COVID virus expenses, which means it does absolutely nothing for us in terms of lost revenue for this state,” Cuomo said during his daily coronavirus press briefing. He said he lost revenues are “the bigger problem.” “The congressional action in my opinion simply failed to address...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo into the national spotlight — and turned him into a heartthrob. Women say they are gushing over the way the 62-year-old Democratic leader is handling the crisis. “It’s nice to know that someone is governing, that someone is keeping track of the hospital beds and the ventilators and the masks, and keeping the pressure on the federal government,” one woman wrote for Vogue. She says the governor had an obnoxious tone and made an offhand #MeToo joke that didn’t sit well with her. But the pandemic brought out the governor’s...

The city is already locked down, with residents asked to remain at home as much as possible per one of Andrew Cuomo’s orders a week ago.What Tom Bossert has in mind is a lock-in. No one in or out, except suppliers. Wall the city off until the spread of infection there is under control, whenever that is. Otherwise we’re risking the same problem that the Chinese had in Wuhan, moving too slowly to restrict the outflow of people and allowing them to seed outbreaks elsewhere. There are nearly 31,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York State as of...

Officials over the weekend put businesses on notice, warning that price gouging on cleaning and sanitizing products would not be tolerated Published 3 hours ago • Updated 43 mins ago A hardware store in Manhattan was fined for hiking prices on products like hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes, cleaning products popular in recent weeks to prevent or ward off the spread COVID-19. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have both issued warnings to businesses in recent days that price gouging would be severely fined. According to de Blasio's office, stores found to be...

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Stringent density control measures may be working to contain the coronavirus in New York state, the epicentre of Covid-19 outbreak in the US, as the rate of hospitalisation shows early signs of abating, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. New York, which has 19 million residents and nearly 31,000 infections, now accounts for 56 per cent of the confirmed cases in the country and more than 7 per cent of world’s total. Cuomo had ordered all but essential businesses to shutter by Sunday evening and residents to limit their outdoor activities and practice social distancing, effectively putting the state on...