Trump Spent Years Disparaging the Administrative State. Then Coronavirus Hit

https://time.com/5817899/trump-administrative-state-coronavirus/

The efficiency of a small government has always been a dream in some corners of the Republican Party. As the anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist famously put it in a 2001, ‘I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’

Bill Barr Accuses Media of 'Jihad' to Discredit Hydroxychloroquine After Trump Touts Drug as COVID-19 Treatment

https://www.newsweek.com/bill-barr-hydroxychloroquine-fox-news-ingraham-1497021

Attorney General William Barr has condemned the media for what he says are partisan attacks on President Donald Trump for touting the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible weapon against the novel coronavirus.

 

Nationwide lockdown eased, Bnei Brak restrictions relaxed amid cautious optimism

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nationwide-lockdown-eased-bnei-brak-restrictions-relaxed-amid-cautious-optimism/

Partial lockdown remains in place, with people only allowed to leave home for work or other essentials; Health Ministry tells Israelis to continue keeping social distancing rules

 

Trump Says Widespread Coronavirus Testing 'Would Never Happen' and Isn't Needed To Reopen Country

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-widespread-coronavirus-testing-would-never-happen-isnt-needed-reopen-country-1497210

President Donald Trump on Thursday said a widespread COVID-19 testing program to assess whether workers can safely return to their workplaces is "never going to happen" in the United States.

What Went Wrong in the Wisconsin Election, and What We Can Learn From It Before November

https://time.com/5818773/wisconsin-coronavirus-elections/

Watching it unfold, it was impossible not to wonder: Is this what we’re all in for in November? Both national parties treated the Wisconsin situation as a test case for their arguments about how voting should take place during the coronavirus pandemic — and how that might benefit them as they look ahead to this fall’s high-stakes presidential election. The factors that created the mess—bitter partisanship, a dysfunctional and poorly funded patchwork of different election systems and the win-at-all-costs ethos of Trumpism, all overlaid with an unprecedented public-health emergency of unknown duration—are all national in scope. “Wisconsin’s in-person vote, held in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, is unconscionable, and portends major problems for the November election should the pandemic recur in the fall,” says Adam Hilton, a political scientist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.

 

‘Silent spreaders’: Almost a third of infected kids under 9 are asymptomatic

https://www.timesofisrael.com/silent-spreaders-almost-a-third-of-infected-kids-under-9-are-asymptomatic/

In Israel, highest number of cases seen in the 20-29 age group; overwhelming number of seriously ill are over 60

United Hatzalah chief Eli Beer regains consciousness

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278525

Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah, is now alert and communicating.

Report: Even Trump’s Allies Are Fed Up with His Press Briefings

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-allies-criticize-coronavirus-press-briefings

One day after the right-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board came out against Trump’s briefings, which they write “are now all about the President,” the Times reported that a number of GOP allies and advisers of the president would really prefer that he stepped back from the free-wheeling pressers. Republicans in the White House and Congress are “worried” about the briefings and “believe the briefings are hurting the president more than helping him,” describing the president’s daily diatribes “as a kind of original sin from which all of his missteps flow.” Trump “sometimes drowns out his own message,” Senator Lindsey Graham told the Times. (“Any suggestion that President Trump is struggling on tone or message is completely false. During these difficult times, Americans are receiving comfort, hope and resources from their president, as well as their local officials, and Americans are responding in unprecedented ways,” White House spokesman Judd Deere rebutted in a statement to the Times.)

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Can You Be Re-Infected After Recovering From Coronavirus? Here's What We Know About COVID-19 Immunity

https://time.com/5810454/coronavirus-immunity-reinfection/

Troubling headlines have been cropping up across Asia: Some patients in China, Japan and South Korea who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and seemingly recovered have been readmitted to the hospital after testing positive for the virus again.