coronavirus

As of today, the American death toll from COVID-19 stands at more than 69,000, according to Johns Hopkins.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

The latest news on coronavirus has been mixed.

What a letdown.

For social and economic reasons, the lockdown simply cannot last much longer. As the country begins to reopen, there will be several major unanswered questions, perhaps the biggest of which is, "Will there be a second wave of COVID-19?"

Like democracy, everybody wants to be on the side of science.

When I saw the headline about a flight packed with terrified passengers I didn't even need to read much further to find out which airline was the culprit.

The world got a taste, albeit, a premature taste, of some bad news this afternoon.

I'm continually struck by what our species is capable of.

Gilead Science is the Tom Brady of the antiviral research world. No other company even comes close.