Breaking News: The FDA plans to authorize emergency use of the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir for coronavirus treatment. Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed cautious optimism about early trial results.https://t.co/ERJySqWQIm pic.twitter.com/fQEcNNyjhp

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 29, 2020

Clinical trial of remdesivir may be a turning point in coronavirus fight https://t.co/6tMxdLDM51

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 29, 2020

In response to a question, Pres says he's going to Arizona next week for an industry event. Also plans a stop in Ohio. Plus, he hopes to resume big political rallies before the election. "This is going away," he says of Coronavirus, "and we'll be doing a lot of things." pic.twitter.com/zivPnSq0kE

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 29, 2020

61,000 people dead so far. 1850+ today.

All he cares about is spewing delusional nonsense how the virus is magically going away imminently. Not one syllable about the pain and suffering of the families of the dead. An empty shell, a sociopath incapable of even faking empathy. https://t.co/6UwI03QVZo

— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost, Noble Committee Vice Chair (@SpiroAgnewGhost) April 29, 2020

Trump seems to be downplaying the need to ramp up testing, even as his administration is trying to increase testing: "I don't know that all of that is even necessary.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 29, 2020

Health precautions take a back seat as White House pivots to the economy https://t.co/3kZrqxk5zW

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 29, 2020

Trump administration launches "Operation Warp Speed" to accelerate vaccine development https://t.co/gQArR1pr59 pic.twitter.com/sa7OXGILuH

— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2020

Trump: "Hopefully in the not too distant future we'll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can't imagine a rally where you have every 4th seat full, every six seats are empty for every one you have full. That wouldn't look too good."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020

Tide goes in. Tide goes out. You can't explain that. https://t.co/fRWaiZKEUZ

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 29, 2020

Does the federal government really need to support states that didn’t help to elect the mango god king? I mean they didn’t even vote for him. https://t.co/1XvksdZCGk

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 29, 2020

For the life of me, I can't figure out why Trump keeps throwing out potential death tolls that have been or will rather predictably be reached in a few days.

Today, it's "65 or 70 or 60 or whatever the final # will be." And "So if we lose 65,000 people…"

We're at 60 already.

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 29, 2020

Jared Kushner called 1m infections, 60k dead, a shuttered economy, 25m+ unemployed, and 3-6% drop in GDP for now with much larger likely to come "a great success story."

If our leaders refuse to see where we're failing, they can't help us get better.

— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) April 29, 2020

Covid Scams is going to be a good book. https://t.co/MGyhucbC4g

— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) April 29, 2020

The Trump administration's arguments on Tuesday went into some dark and unexpected places. https://t.co/9U4Fgg0CTy

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 29, 2020

Trump was shown internal polls that had him losing to Biden — so dire that he berated campaign manager Brad Parscale and threatened to sue him (though it's not clear how serious the litigious president was). Quite a scoop by @jdawsey1 –> https://t.co/6S36zSBXmN

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 29, 2020

Only the best people in that well-oiled machine. https://t.co/Tk4rAMkq6y

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) April 29, 2020

Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn't want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he can, he's refusing to do that job, and lashing out at those who ask him to do it.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 29, 2020

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said in her state, it will be considered a “voluntary quit” if an employee refuses to return to work once businesses reopen, thereby losing access to unemployment benefits.

A similar situation will soon play out in Texas. https://t.co/qGmapbLBzi

— scott immordino (@ScottImmordino) April 28, 2020

"He's not dismissing this as something unimportant. He recognizes that it's an important business… But Dr. Fauci, as usual, is saying something very reasonable and credible."

Longtime sportscaster Bob Costas responds to Dr. Fauci saying "we're not ready" for sports to return. pic.twitter.com/jFdkVItly2

— CNN (@CNN) April 29, 2020

If the White House Gift Shop is going to produce $100 COVID-19 coins, Trump can sure as hell utilize the Defense Production Act to manufacture the gloves, gowns, and masks our medical workers desperately need. https://t.co/Wr6Y1uwG0i

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) April 29, 2020

The White House Gift Shop is not actually affiliated w/ the White House or the government.

It was founded by the USG, but now it’s run by a guy named Anthony Giannini, who is also CEO of Strategic Systems Corporation, which develops “supercomputers for neural network mapping.” https://t.co/vmBAuuNMXe

— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 29, 2020

Third highest death toll in the world but too many Boris fanboys/ girls out there in media saying it’s wrong to complain or criticise… https://t.co/SuZuS50PTU

— Matthew Wright (@Matthew_Wright) April 29, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson just welcomed a son. But how many total children he has remains a mystery https://t.co/wMUex5c9Du pic.twitter.com/gyPaIeWOgM

— Forbes (@Forbes) April 29, 2020

give me strength pic.twitter.com/zsA0dw3302

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) April 29, 2020

“Good news at last for Britain”

Over 26,000 people are dead pic.twitter.com/S2Afo7lRSu

— Pointless Letters (@pointlesslettrs) April 29, 2020

"When a top QC finds himself up against a rather out-of-his-depth country conveyancing solicitor." PMQs via John Crace https://t.co/dmwkDhTzIB

— Bimpe Archer 🇳🇵 (@BimpeIN) April 29, 2020

Schrödinger’s Tories:

“We’re the party of business”
“F*ck business!”

“We’re the party of compromise”
“Remoaners! Saboteurs! Traitors!”

“We’re the party of family values”
“Aww, Boris knocked up another mistress. Super.”

“We’re the party of government”
“Boris is on holiday”

— James Dart (@JamesDart) April 29, 2020

Wetherspoons says it is planning to reopen its pubs "in or around" June https://t.co/KOGmRntgbQ

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 29, 2020

A very British crime: Pub customers hid in cupboards during raid https://t.co/NnvYUILgA3

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 29, 2020

and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear 🎶 pic.twitter.com/ILvgaUFwWO

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) April 29, 2020

He’s really annoyed at this video for the love of god do not RT it or share it widely https://t.co/Tryu4lqJDB

— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) April 29, 2020

🚨 The framework for a Premier League return has been cleared by Boris Johnson’s office, including crucial plans for widespread testing of players.

The Government has encouraged the Premier League to move to more concrete proposals, writes @MaddockMirror https://t.co/6nuTVvTeCE

— Anfield Watch (@AnfieldWatch) April 29, 2020

Spanish health official Verónica Casado, herself a family doctor, was unable to hold back tears as she read out the names of health care workers who have died from COVID-19. https://t.co/cSH8TggpDb pic.twitter.com/A75PHb6ckP

— ABC News (@ABC) April 27, 2020

Korea now seems to think the so-called "re-infections" it found are actually just false positives. A lot of smart epidemiologists thought this was likely the case all along, so not a huge surprise, but passing this along for people who freaked out earlier.https://t.co/C3iIjxDr7S

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 29, 2020

A wake up call from Germany for those arguing to ease lock down measures https://t.co/m74Mcbzd1L

— Planet Belfast – Stay indoors ffs 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@Planet_Belfast) April 29, 2020

Thread:
There’s been some ‘excitement’ over the data used in my Irish Times article published last Wednesday. The article argued that N Ireland had a higher rate of Covid-19 mortality than the Republic and this was the outcome of different public health policy choices. /1 pic.twitter.com/QU8nXnhK69

— Mike Tomlinson (@MikeTQUB) April 29, 2020

Managing expectations on Covid exit is the new challenge https://t.co/hZY3OL2weH via @IrishTimesBiz

— Colin Wrafter (@wrafter_colin) April 29, 2020

So sorry to see the news of death of legendary Irrfan Khan.. 53 years old, so much potential.. pic.twitter.com/cXNlXY2dk9

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 29, 2020

The U.S. plans to give $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay. https://t.co/m7eXllGvBN

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 28, 2020

I’m in a half dozen small business groups on Facebook and all of the posts are just articles like this plus stories from people who are on the verge of being wiped out because they were rejected for a loan https://t.co/PaiWVM32Yd

— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) April 28, 2020

The President's Las Vegas hotel is now taking reservations for mid May. We have to wonder if his push to reopen the economy, which may endanger Americans, is influenced by his desire to help his own businesses and his bottom line.https://t.co/FoPczIQgav

— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) April 28, 2020

President Trump suggested that state and local bailout money from the federal government could hinge on whether the immigration policies of the individual governments seeking relief align with Trump administration priorities https://t.co/DBsggpCbQP

— POLITICO (@politico) April 28, 2020

80% of small businesses that applied for PPP coronavirus loans have received ZERO relief from the Trump administration.

Meanwhile, Trump donors and large corporations are raking in money. pic.twitter.com/zycWIZDhQu

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) April 28, 2020

President Trump plans to sign an executive order to keep meat processing plants open. But unions say more needs to be done to protect workers.https://t.co/IwuQBjKhVt

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2020

Trump and Kushner's obsession with post-impeachment score settling set the WH coronavirus response back 6 weeks. My VF feature is out today:https://t.co/oRSLTi9Vq8

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) April 28, 2020

"Republicans were making a risky political calculation when they overlooked Trump’s obvious character flaws, supported his presidency, and failed to remove him for clearly impeachable behavior. They won—but it was a Pyrrhic victory." – @mattklewishttps://t.co/28m13jQui0

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 28, 2020

Trump’s blue collar base is going to get shafted by this.

From a family member who has lost only source of income: “Payroll tax cut??? Yeah, that will give people more money in their paycheck. What paychecks?”

“Real America here and we need fucking money, period.” https://t.co/G7cGxgLtwb

— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) April 28, 2020

We rent, and our lease is not up for renewal yet, but neighbor just got his renewal paperwork and the landlord is increasing the rent by the maximum allowed amount in NYC despite Covid-19. So that's how this is gonna go, I guess. We can deal with it but a lot of people can't.

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) April 28, 2020

Been saying it for weeks, yep. https://t.co/1rvv0CEirD

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 28, 2020

No more excuses. We need to be testing millions of Americans per day to safely scale back social distancing.

Where are the tests? https://t.co/FzIP37Lzyt

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) April 28, 2020

Project Air Bridge is Jared Kushner’s secretive public-private partnership for COVID-19 supplies – but it’s failing. States can’t get equipment & nobody's explaining how the project works. @SenBlumenthal & I want answers from the participating suppliers. https://t.co/qkfX3MPIa6

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 27, 2020

Vice President Mike Pence flouted the Mayo Clinic’s policy that asks all visitors to wear face masks while touring the facility on Tuesday.

He appeared to be the only person not wearing one while meeting staff and patients.https://t.co/hNWfS4p6O7 pic.twitter.com/6q0TqXtsw7

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2020

Mayo Clinic statement to CNN on Pence visit: "Mayo shared the masking policy with the VP’s office."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 28, 2020

Precisely.

When a MEDICAL CENTER tells you about their mask policy but you don’t wear a mask:

1. You’re saying rules don’t apply to you.

2. You’re showing that you don’t give a damn about other people.

3. You’re misinforming the public.

3. You’re probably kowtowing to DJT. https://t.co/fw2R9EJNKi

— Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) April 28, 2020

Agree. Clearly mask wearing is a sign of disloyalty to Trump within the White House. This combined with Trump's various comments.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 28, 2020

Mike Pence just doesn't want to wear the mask that Trump gave him pic.twitter.com/Ykkxoadfri

— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) April 28, 2020

Care home deaths set to overtake hospitals#tomorrowspaperstoday@MsHelicat pic.twitter.com/zDdFMzdY93

— The Times Pictures (@TimesPictures) April 28, 2020

The holy scientists have cast Johnson's horoscope for tomorrow lunchtime. Sadly, the omens aren't looking too good. Fnar fnar. https://t.co/JRc10zhSCl

— Mandoline Word-Smith (@Mandoline_Blue) April 28, 2020

Long read worth reading …. Coronavirus UK: How Boris Johnson's Government Let Virus Get Away – Bloomberg https://t.co/dOL4P8thHj

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) April 28, 2020

“Every second you’re having the lockdown debate is a second you’re not having the debate that starts “how in the name of our necrotic self-respect are we on course to be the worst-hit country in Europe when we had so much warning?”
By Marina Hyde#COVID19 https://t.co/kkIdlIeSdY

— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) April 28, 2020

To be honest, Matthew, you should be ashamed that this was necessary. https://t.co/6adTb7oQGf

— Dave Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 (@WelshGasDoc) April 28, 2020

On March 19th the Government downgraded the classification of #COVID19 removing its status as a "High Consequence Infectious Disease"

This removed legal requirement for frontline health workers to be supplied with sufficient protective equipment in fight against #coronavirus

— Charlie Rome 🔶️ (@charliejrome) April 28, 2020

“We’re not angels, we’re not heroes, we are human beings… who simply want to go and do the job we’re paid to do and be protected to do it”

Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses @credland_nicki says she finds “rhetoric about heroism… unhelpful”. #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/1x6q4c3NLd

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 28, 2020

The Guardian view on children in the pandemic: hidden victims | Editorial https://t.co/OpaebeuxxH

— Faith Gordon (@Dr_FaithG) April 28, 2020

Nurses create see-through masks so deaf father can read lips during birth of newborn daughter https://t.co/Os8eK7E8f8

— The Independent (@Independent) April 28, 2020

Read about how our local artist @tomartist32 has done something pretty amazing @oxinaboxnew https://t.co/whQrXQDMjc

— White Hart of Wytham (@WhiteHartWytham) April 28, 2020

Putin extends Russia's lockdown for two weeks, prepares to ease in mid-May https://t.co/wyVzg2Joi0 pic.twitter.com/FCMQrfzDzn

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 28, 2020

China's massive banks are facing a $42 billion dividend trap https://t.co/W8DPVqxCWB

— Bloomberg Next China (@next_china) April 28, 2020

Fitch cuts Italy’s credit rating to one notch above junk https://t.co/zHmV4YN7E9

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 28, 2020

UK start-ups have raised $825 million during virus lockdown, but less deals are being made https://t.co/S93cuJhLh2

— CNBC (@CNBC) April 28, 2020

The Modi government has given $3B to USA,$16B to Russia, $117M to #Israel & $2.1B given to #Turkey, all for arms. All of this happened after the arrival of #COVID19 in India.

The doctors need PPEs to protect themselves, a virus isnt killed with missiles. https://t.co/87vx4oTpfr

— Md Salim (@salimdotcomrade) April 28, 2020

Iranian scientist in US jail contracts coronavirus after pleading for release https://t.co/BOaI74DFxN

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 28, 2020

Trump and Pompeo are hostile to international cooperation in the best of times — and all the more so now, when they feel the need to scapegoat others (China, the World Health Organization) for the administration’s own failures.

In @PostOpinions: https://t.co/fbDzH9Zk6D

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) April 28, 2020

Investors are betting, in part, that the coronavirus crisis will accelerate the already growing power of America’s corporate giantshttps://t.co/hnYgXakfDf

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2020

Yet another piece about Sweden and #COVID19 — with pictures and interviews from wealthy central Stockholm — where the authors fail to write a single word about how the virus has disproportionately affected poorer immigrant communities in Stockholm. https://t.co/PyTK1nGTjO

— Christian Christensen (@ChrChristensen) April 28, 2020

Academy makes streamed films eligible for Oscars amid pandemic https://t.co/qdvbS2J1Px pic.twitter.com/eJ3FIvTB9D

— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2020

Can’t stop thinking about this correction in today‘s Sun. pic.twitter.com/J9tsRqXYTh

— Nathan Ruiz (@NathanSRuiz) April 28, 2020

Washington Post: Trump received more than a dozen classified briefings that warned about the coronavirus back in January and February, but Trump claimed on Feb. 26 that the number of cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."https://t.co/OUgidPPG6v

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 27, 2020

There is no safer place to hide anything from Donald Trump than in a book. https://t.co/eBcq1YRUjs

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) April 27, 2020

The buck stops with "somebody a long time ago" https://t.co/R84nJHO1OQ

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 27, 2020

Trump begins his April 27 #TrumpPressConference with some reading difficulties pic.twitter.com/V1AnjAh9NK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 27, 2020

It really is such an insult to the public, among his many offenses against the public, that he simply does not bother to even remotely familiarize himself with the text before he heads out there.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020

No new information about testing or administration recommendations on easing shelter-in-place orders, as Trump hands over the microphone to business leaders. https://t.co/ESIWE7SahC

— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) April 27, 2020

I Don't care what any of these CEO's say…our public health experts still say our testing is a disaster and an embarrassment. they have goals for June but are reopening the country now…total madness

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 27, 2020

Do not be fooled by the big numbers. They are not, relatively, big enough.

We need maybe 5 million or more tests per day for it to be safe to go back out: https://t.co/QpFLxGlaTw

And per capita, the USA is proudly in 41st place in testing, globally https://t.co/tSRBnzZ3sf

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 27, 2020

Trump: The governors are as "thrilled as they can be" given that there's "so much unnecessary death."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 27, 2020

Good news if true, but Trump has a bad habit of making vaporware announcements so…. https://t.co/1KiiN2dfGu

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 27, 2020

"We want to re-open and the testing is not going to be a problem at all," Trump says as experts across the country say that's not true.

— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) April 27, 2020

I guess it must have been OAN’s day off, because it was Breitbart‘s turn to throw him a “how do we punish China“ question pic.twitter.com/2WZcExuQyT

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020

Unjumble this mixed word salad…

"These people who sacrificed for a reason of incompetence or something other than incompetence what happened at a point where they could have protected the whole world…"

Several commas, periods, and words died in there, somewhere. pic.twitter.com/WnUmglsqwp

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 27, 2020

OAN now asking about Flynn and whether he will be back in the administration. Trump: “it was a disgrace, he’s a wonderful man, and also what happened to the president should never be allowed to happen again“

even with Flynn, had to make it about himself right at the last moment

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020

When Trump says we had the greatest economy ever (not true, of course) and then says, "I built it," every single businessperson in the U.S. who worked incredibly hard to build their own business, large or small, should be outraged & offended. He's taking credit 4 your hard work

— Richard Stengel (@stengel) April 27, 2020

Trump–I should be reelected unless more than 2 million people die. and we've got such good ventilators.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 27, 2020

I think he held this press conference purely because he was pissed about being told to shut up over the weekend, and because his staff told him not to do it, so he went ahead and did it anyway.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020

Tennessee Restaurants Reopen As State Sees Biggest 1-Day Jump In COVID-19 Cases https://t.co/7qozZcBwJZ

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 27, 2020

JUST IN: Pres. Trump told governors during a Monday phone call that they should "seriously consider" reopening their schools, according to a recording obtained by @ABC News. https://t.co/QCfQhXQPbU

— ABC News (@ABC) April 27, 2020

As Trump puts partisan spin on federal aid for states, Republicans and Democrats warn of coming financial calamity @ToluseO https://t.co/NFp2V7DjY3

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) April 27, 2020

Trump deletes tweets after ridicule at rant over 'Noble' prize and 'hambergers' https://t.co/87CpA002KH

— The Independent (@Independent) April 27, 2020

when the bleach drip hits pic.twitter.com/FQowQCtIct

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 27, 2020

Barr directs prosecutors to look for state and local stay-home orders that go too far @PeteWilliamsNBC https://t.co/l8sQ2kUU1s via @nbcnews

— Susan Kroll (@suekroll) April 27, 2020

McConnell puts down another marker: Next COVID-19 bill MUST have liability protections for business owners who reopen amid the pandemic. https://t.co/heqZBV4n2l

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) April 27, 2020

Americans are receiving letters signed by Pres. Trump explaining stimulus checks—and touting the government's coronavirus response.

Some experts say the move is "clearly connected to his reelection." https://t.co/EhRky9BEAM pic.twitter.com/qMeTy9X5iO

— ABC News (@ABC) April 27, 2020

The Supreme Court appears to be moving toward a new jurisprudence in which questions on which the Court cannot rend a helpful judgement to President are non-justiciable.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2020

Brutal and not surprising. https://t.co/nbVY4PXJb0

— Caitlin Kelly (@CaitlinKellyNYC) April 27, 2020

UK failed to stockpile crucial PPE, @BBCPanoroma investigation finds https://t.co/iL9Z54aYgr

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 27, 2020

Guardian front page, 28 April 2020: No 10 in talks to allay public fears over end to lockdown pic.twitter.com/SOVkJ3uvqj

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 27, 2020

Has Ireland made a better job of responding to coronavirus than the UK? https://t.co/j00aJb47ND pic.twitter.com/h1bivcSdOj

— ITV News (@itvnews) April 27, 2020

ANALYSIS: PM back to one hell of an in-tray. Managing the disease will be tough, so too will be managing political consensus & public mood. The PM looks towards months of hard choices & potentially unpopular measures. Heavy is the head who wears the crown https://t.co/u0INoLu0CR

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) April 27, 2020

Good article from John Crace as usual, there’s no easy road for the Eton Mess from now on. https://t.co/5cR2WpaMi6

— Ian collins (@Iancoll94354676) April 27, 2020

Ed Balls

— Ed Balls (@edballs) April 28, 2011

.@realDonaldTrump says he knows how #KimJongUn is but won't say what he knows, adding he just wishes him well. Also repeats that if he hadn't been elected the U.S. would have been war with North Korea by now (a claim not supported by facts). Kim has not been seen for 2 weeks

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 27, 2020

Trump says he has "a very good idea" of what's going on with Kim Jong Un, but won't disclose it. "I hope he's fine, I do know how he's doing relatively speaking, you'll probably be hearing about it in the not too distant future".

— Simon Marks (@SimonMarksFSN) April 27, 2020

WHO director-general says coronavirus pandemic "far from over" https://t.co/Mfqmxu856s pic.twitter.com/9sFU4KX5lE

— The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2020

This is wonderful news. And a badly needed cause for a bit of optimism — the Oxford vaccine worked on monkeys and thousands of people will be vaccinated to test for efficacy & safety with the hopes of it being ready in September. https://t.co/yoDkACzRLr

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 27, 2020

Coronavirus: Spray that 'protects surfaces from COVID-19 for 90 days' to go on sale in Hong Kong | World News | Sky News https://t.co/tzDWtD5XfX

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 27, 2020

1/2
V.interesting German article on risk of a second wave.
The hypothesis is that for now we've largely had concentrated outbreaks in urban areas. As the virus spreads (even with R<1) it reaches new communities and the risk is they flare up simultaneously https://t.co/VMUMIWWq0I

— Andrew Lewin (@Alewin7) April 27, 2020

"I think this is an issue not only for economists or bankers or government officials. This is really an issue for everyone." https://t.co/qWYQ9ZZeDi

— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) April 27, 2020

“Debates about China are stalking horses for debates about what is wrong with America… American intellectuals have gone from believing in the end of history to believing that history will bury us.” Provocative, smart, sweeping new essay by @dandrezner: https://t.co/W5hlARJC4g

— Cardiff Garcia (@CardiffGarcia) April 27, 2020

This was a lovely piece done in 2015 by @kathysheridanIT about the Herremas, Tiede and Elisabeth, who died within a week of each other. They were married for 72 years. https://t.co/T0WHIWKRJJ

— Ronan McGreevy (@RMcGreevy1301) April 27, 2020

Oh, #Florida! Man puts out welcome mat at his house that says COME BACK WITH A WARRANT so cops do just that. https://t.co/kQJf3BDwiv via @cabridges

— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) April 27, 2020

dammit https://t.co/5oOMXjUO2w

— Extremely Socially Distant Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) April 27, 2020

34 years ago, today, Chernobyl’s number 4 reactor exploded. The Soviets worried more about protecting political myths than protecting lives. The pandemic is Trump’s Chernobyl. He still views it as a PR crisis. He cares about saving his image, not lives. https://t.co/6rDLbhBs7i

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 26, 2020

As the US approaches 1,000,000 coronavirus cases:

* more than 5x the number of any other country
* 9th most per capita of any country
* 1 in 3 cases worldwide

Trump has no plan, and refuses to bring in competent experts to help. He sits alone watching cable tv and tweeting.

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 26, 2020

To be clear about what’s coming —

If state economies open and things don’t take a turn for the worse, Trump will take all the credit.

If things get worse, Trump will blame the governors and “not be accountable for anything.” #Leadership

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 26, 2020

.@AliVelshi: "Protesting restrictions in our cities and states doesn't get us a vaccine, it doesn't get us an antibody test, and it doesn't save any lives of the sick, or the elderly, or the immunocompromised. It is a distraction."https://t.co/cgLZfPZfGx

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 26, 2020

Republican strategy memo advises GOP campaigns to blame China for coronavirus https://t.co/NTuYcDeIeS

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2020

If you're hazy about what the WHO did wrong and why Trump is hyping it up, this interview with @JeremyKonyndyk is a very informative https://t.co/MOCFvv3T4Y

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) April 26, 2020

Bill Gates blasts Trump’s blame game on China as a distraction. pic.twitter.com/fjjcXRGtvq

— Chen Weihua (@chenweihua) April 26, 2020

Birx: "It bothers me" Trump comments on injecting disinfectant "still in the news cycle" https://t.co/d9PY7AfJL4 pic.twitter.com/nUIfWGyYzF

— The Hill (@thehill) April 26, 2020

Perspective: The origins of Donald Trump’s search for a covid-19 miracle https://t.co/phjLimhsn2

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2020

I love when White House aides earnestly lay out some new strategy and then their boss fires off 14 tweets demanding that the media return his Congressional Metal of Honor https://t.co/eaUQON4XMz

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) April 26, 2020

As deranged and nuts as Trump was in 2016, I think if most people from 2016 jumped forward and saw today's Trump tweets they'd be like, damn, he lost his mind.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2020

In a rambling Twitter outburst, Trump complained that he gets no credit for working long hours on the coronavirus crisis.

He called on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters to be stripped of their “Noble” prizes for critical reporting about him.https://t.co/fIr8d1G0Ko

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 26, 2020

Based on the research I did for this, my hunch is that one of two things set off Trump’s Twitter meltdown this afternoon: 1) Soneone in his administration is about to be engulfed in scandal; or 2) He just got shown some truly crappy poll numbers. https://t.co/YVZNPFshbT

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 26, 2020

On this day in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump pledged he would not use Twitter if elected president. https://t.co/46AjJqehjp

— Max Burns (@themaxburns) April 26, 2020

Too busy being briefed by Sean Hannity?https://t.co/rAicExbG93

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 26, 2020

As Trump rants about reporters who correctly laid out Russian effort – as Senate Intel & Mueller reports made clear -he ignores OTHER (Noble/Nobel/actually Pulitzer) awarded to @Fahrenthold for exposing the Trump family fraud in its "charitable" foundation. Guess he's confessing. pic.twitter.com/s0NgyG9xJQ

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 26, 2020

I am here for this civil war. All predicted and predictable. He will turn on everyone. Now he turns on Fox News and will court OANN. It's Orange Julius Caesar. Never forget Trump was enabled by the entire right wing ecosystem. He did all this damage with Republican support. https://t.co/lo4eITb80f

— Wajahat "Social Distance Yourself" Ali (@WajahatAli) April 26, 2020

Given Trump’s ridiculous/misspelled tweets about Nobel Prizes, worth recalling he himself is so annoyed about not getting a Nobel (Obama got it!) that he even obsessed over a Yezidi genocide victim’s Nobel rather than show any compassion while meeting her: https://t.co/Hhln3HbeUt

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 26, 2020

We now go live to the media covering the return of Boris Johnson. pic.twitter.com/TioUs7uuuY

— Sketchaganda (@sketchaganda) April 26, 2020

the PM is facing one of the most acutely difficult decisions in our lifetimes, it’s lucky he’s returning to such a calm, unfebrile, nonpartisan debate

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) April 26, 2020

A changed man? https://t.co/tLcmF4ErZu

— Andrew Rawnsley (@andrewrawnsley) April 26, 2020

Quit reading that @andrewrawnsley piece at "brush with death" in the headline. Until that (and the @FT's similar "near-death experience") is stood up by reporting, it should be considered hearsay and spin.

— Clay Harris 🇪🇺 (@mudlarklives) April 26, 2020

How democracy dies: a state broadcaster, whose income is secured by the criminal law, utterly dominant, nakedly cheerleading for the Government. https://t.co/Cf263keSAS

— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) April 26, 2020

Editor's Letter: Journalists are being caught in the coronavirus culture wars https://t.co/i0IGph4xue

— The Independent (@Independent) April 27, 2020

I had to be revived after collapsing breathless with laughter. The Spaffing Priapic Lazarus clown has been in the HOC for exactly 20 days since he was elected. Did the job description say "Part-time PM needed."? https://t.co/UbvHIBqogf

— Mike Harding #lightacandlefotheEU (@HardingMike) April 26, 2020

The key areas to look at in easing the UK coronavirus lockdown https://t.co/5ybM3lG3ut

— Greg Jenner: 'DEAD FAMOUS OUT MARCH 19TH!' (@greg_jenner) April 26, 2020

pic.twitter.com/kOrpBb8yNe

— Will Austin (@WillAustin1964) April 26, 2020

South Korean official says Kim Jong Un is 'alive and well' amid long public absence and rumors that he died or was in grave condition https://t.co/CcblMprMGC

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) April 26, 2020

.@SueMiTerry: Odds are the N Korean regime will stagger along no matter what happens w/Kim but you never know. Few predicted the collapse of E Germany. Winter could be coming sooner than anyone expected in N Korea’s game of thrones. We had better be ready.https://t.co/3L3P6wrDP8

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) April 26, 2020

'China would like to see North Korea more docile' – Professor Robert Kelly imagines a scenario where North Korea has to find a new leader amid speculation on Kim Jong Un's health.

Read more here: https://t.co/gwRqj3yWcW pic.twitter.com/OeY0wMaFtN

— SkyNews (@SkyNews) April 26, 2020

Nobody’s seen Kim Jong Un but nobody’s seen Dennis Rodman either so I have an entirely different theory. I’m sure that was them in Costco the other day.

— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) April 26, 2020

Headline winner for the weekend: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un rumored to be dead, brain dead or just fine https://t.co/9NVNwFGe5H via @nypost

— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) April 26, 2020

"the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen" https://t.co/slW8Bo50kP

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) April 26, 2020

Turkey might make a good replacement for China as an industrial trade partner for the US. Deserves study. | Turkey to sell ventilator parts & other medical equipment to US for its Ford's ventilator project following Erdogan-Trump phone call last Sunday https://t.co/z0SnzPX9Zq

— Mike (@Doranimated) April 26, 2020

Goodness. Italy’s plan for reducing lockdown includes Serie A teams back at training by May 18 and games beginning by June 2, all being well. @acmilan

— Tony Gallagher (@tgeducation) April 26, 2020

Coronavirus Australia update latest: WA residents wake up to loosened restrictions as 1 million download tracing app – live news https://t.co/0ST11DZZ9e

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 26, 2020

1) Trump pulled out of six-nation nuclear deal with Iran (he said it was the worst deal ever – though he says that about everything)
2) Now he wants back in https://t.co/cGydUjz5Ki

— West Wing Reports (edited by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) April 26, 2020

@SteveMcGookin File this one under "how you present yourself on social media and how you'll look in a police mugshot are two different things". https://t.co/7c9FjiaCqZ

— Clay Harris 🇪🇺 (@mudlarklives) April 26, 2020

North Korea's Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation, according to media outlets in China and Japan. https://t.co/29y9kPtSoj

— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) April 25, 2020

Can we confirm Kim Jong Un’s death from a source other than TMZ first please

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 25, 2020

Chinese and Japanese media both reported Kim Jong Un has undergone a stent procedure and suffered cardiovascular issues.

He hasn’t been seen in days, missed big national anniversary, and now his train is parked outside compound.

Plenty of rumors but no confirmations…

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) April 25, 2020

For what it’s worth, North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun reports Sunday that Kim Jong-un has sent thanks to the workers of Samjiyŏn for building projects there. And would they lie to us? [sarcasm punctuation desperately needed here]https://t.co/4VZHGPZh05

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) April 25, 2020

#breaking Satellite images show what is likely North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's train at his compound in Wonsan. This doesn't prove or disprove anything about his health. But for context, Kim usually prefers to fly to Wonsan. A train is a far more formal/solemn way to travel. pic.twitter.com/5w9iJwqh9J

— Will Ripley (@willripleyCNN) April 25, 2020

As health rumors persist, Kim Jong Un's private train seen at North Korean leader's holiday compound https://t.co/GdGbgCweNR

— TIME (@TIME) April 25, 2020

CIA: Look matey, I know a dead dictator when I see one, and I'm lookin' at one right now

DPRK: He's resting. Shagged out after a long speech to the army

CIA: Fine, I'll wake him up. 'Ello, Comrade! I've got a lovely hunk of kimchee for you

DPRK: *kicks gurney* There, he moved https://t.co/jzyOWkKtzC

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 25, 2020

If not Kim Jong Un, then who? Meet the heirs to North Korea’s throne https://t.co/jcbJYrvVPS

— Bloomberg (@business) April 25, 2020

Can a woman become dictator of North Korea before there’s a woman President of the United States?

Stay tuned.

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 25, 2020

Kim Jong Un in 'vegetative state,' Japanese media report says #KIMJONGUNDEAD pic.twitter.com/wuc8VoXq7N

— matt (@ohnoitmatt) April 25, 2020

Who knew that Everything Trump Touches Dies was quite so literal, eh @TheRickWilson ? pic.twitter.com/qiJBsVtNBb

— Will Tooke (@willtooketv) April 25, 2020

I never said the pandemic was a Hoax! Who would say such a thing? I said that the Do Nothing Democrats, together with their Mainstream Media partners, are the Hoax. They have been called out & embarrassed on this, even admitting they were wrong, but continue to spread the lie!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2020

Trump commencement speech bringing 1,000 cadets back to West Point campus https://t.co/akye8G9cLQ pic.twitter.com/OYABYgWrPI

— The Hill (@thehill) April 25, 2020

Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him via @NYTimes https://t.co/obo8sNCe93

— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) April 25, 2020

Trump says briefings 'not worth the effort' amid fallout from disinfectant comments https://t.co/Ytzub8FBEA

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 25, 2020

This video from Republicans for the Rule of Law has clocked more than a million views since we released it less than 24 hours ago. I'm re-posting it here in case you missed it, or if you might want to retweet or forward it. Or just to watch again and be, again, horrified by it. pic.twitter.com/DTLqxQbHjB

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 25, 2020

FEMA Diverted Masks From Veterans Hospitals, VA Official Says https://t.co/T0kypz16Mh pic.twitter.com/tO0ZfmIKOP

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 25, 2020

We need a president who is a cross between F.D.R., Justice Brandeis and Jonas Salk. We got a president who is a cross between Dr. Phil, Dr. Strangelove and Dr. Seuss. https://t.co/Ge0Eh7k7el

— Dave (@davewiner) April 25, 2020

On the first day of restaurants outdoor patios being reopened in Colleyville, Texas "so long as physical distancing is maintained between tables," a waiter wearing a face mask takes orders from diners eating on the outdoor patio at Rio Mambo Tex Mex. pic.twitter.com/VYP7QQS4ao

— Tom Fox (@TomFoxPhoto) April 25, 2020

Which American counties are likely to see the highest covid-19 death rates? https://t.co/4ovSgE7zP6

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 25, 2020

Trump and Putin issue rare joint declaration on anniversary of meeting of American and Soviet troops at the River Elbe 75 years ago, spawning debate among some in the administration https://t.co/xIYXNdx4sX

— Thomas Grove (@tggrove) April 25, 2020

This is another puzzling example of Putin's hold over Trump.

The Soviet troops to meet US forces at the Elbe on April 25, 1945, were elements of the Soviet *First Ukrainian Front.*

Why isn't Trump commemorating this 75th anniversary with Ukrainian president Zelensky?

— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 25, 2020

Boris Johnson back to work on Monday to halt growing criticism of leadership vacuum https://t.co/n0ol8lJawh

— The Independent (@Independent) April 25, 2020

Fact checkers find rumours Boris Johnson didn't actually have COVID-19 are false https://t.co/JYpamueTAd

— ABC News (@abcnews) April 25, 2020

It's not just that most of the UK press act as campaigning wings for the Tories.

David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, George Osborne all hired their spin doctors from senior BBC staff. Stratton is ITV via the BBC. A revolving door between public broadcasting and the Tories https://t.co/vseb0wbL6g

— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 25, 2020

Until 13 March, UK policy was that travellers arriving from Wuhan, Italy, Iran should self isolate. Govt cancelled that policy at around the same time as they stopped community testing & tracing. Have asked Govt many times to explain that decision & publish the science behind it https://t.co/AsVWUJSFS4

— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) April 25, 2020

>A 600 page report in 2019 about a "highly transmissible & highly virulent pandemic" signed off by Sir Patrick Vallance
>Potential to cause 65k+ deaths & a cost of £2.35tn

But our govt ⁦⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ was too pre-occupied with Brexit to heed!🤬
https://t.co/gocWiOyXzH

— Mavi Lopez-Martine🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@MartineMavi) April 25, 2020

an admission of abject failure, unlikability and desperation: He is LOSING because he cannot stay out of the limelight. The perfect punishment for a narcissist

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 24, 2020

No surprise that Trump is planning to scale back briefing appearances. The more people watch them, the more they view him negatively – even 16% of Rs say so. A quarter of Rs want him to leave it to the experts. Politically, it’s bewildering it’s taken him so long to realize this. pic.twitter.com/9sq5vyqPdQ

— Ian Sams (@IanSams) April 24, 2020

Was predictable that sooner or later, Trump would run his White House news briefing some completely off the rails that even he would realize it had become self-destructive. We appear to have arrived at that point.

— David Lauter (@DavidLauter) April 24, 2020

I think this was part of it. It'll make a hell of a "Sir" story:

"Sir, as your White House Staff, we are begging, you, with tears in our eyes, to please just for one day, for maybe the first day of your life, just shut up and get off that stage." https://t.co/47iNMFrHBU

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 24, 2020

Oh good. Because what America needs now is more sarcasm https://t.co/YIb8zQaYCF

— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) April 24, 2020

This really does feel like something only the most outrageous parody websites would suggest as a possible future in 2016. https://t.co/rTVQ2Mu4lK

— Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) April 24, 2020

Here's a mashup of Trump claiming today he was just asking "a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room" when he mused about disinfectant injections as a possible coronavirus miracle cure, followed by the original clip showing beyond a doubt that he was not doing that. pic.twitter.com/wby4ucd59Q

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020

Trump: "You know the way it was asked. I was looking at you."

Reporter: "No you weren't sir. I wasn't there yesterday."

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 24, 2020

But I thought he was being sarcastic … and was taken out of context?… https://t.co/lGOrQcc2Nh

— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) April 24, 2020

The Surgeon General of the United States, whose salary is paid by all the nation’s taxpayers, and who tells us to eat our vegetables and not to use tobacco, can’t bring himself to say:

Don’t inject or ingest bleach or other disinfectants. https://t.co/iZgO4JKYA3

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 24, 2020

Speaker Pelosi on President Trump's disinfectant remark: "It was consistent with all of his other statements, which had no relationship to science, fact, evidence, data or appropriate way to proceed."https://t.co/HB7AZtJ8T9

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 24, 2020

"Fox & Friends" did not go along with President Trump's idea of looking at disinfectant as a Covid-19 remedy https://t.co/INRXW3ppve

— NYT Media (@nytmedia) April 24, 2020

Ok fox settles it again https://t.co/FAHLmVBwrx

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 24, 2020

Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week https://t.co/DHoRPyqPZV

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) April 24, 2020

must say I was not expecting to find a homicide confession from the man’s wife twenty paragraphs into this story https://t.co/BjGrkeiJOz

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 24, 2020

White House staff just came into the briefing room and informed the print pooler that they want them to swap seats w CNN. That would move CNN to the back row from the front. @whca made these seat assignments not staff

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) April 24, 2020

Very good friend of mine (ex Sec in Clinton admin) just texted this. I hope ⁦@CNN⁩ et al will ignore the warning. 🚩 pic.twitter.com/mT4umlVq2o

— Dr Gina van Raphael (@AliaGvR) April 24, 2020

@realDonaldTrump so rattled by yesterday he doesn't take questions. Looks like someone finally got to him on the damage he was doing

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 24, 2020

hahahahaha the sonofabitch bailed early rather than answer questions about drinking bleach

— Extremely Socially Distant Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) April 24, 2020

REPORTER: A congressional subcommittee says that a lot of the coronavirus tests on the market haven't been approved for accuracy, and could be junk tests. Is that true?

FDA COMMISSIONER HAHN: "We provided flexibility … they have to tell us that they validated their tests." pic.twitter.com/W2pQ7GauCb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2020

The FDA warns against the use of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, that have been touted by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus https://t.co/TJNytr77XQ pic.twitter.com/JlxZf4BvAq

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 24, 2020

WATCH: @stephgosk reports on why the U.S. is lagging in coronavirus testing and how it will impact the nation's ability to reopen safely. https://t.co/oKlPPNqCUe

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 24, 2020

News – Senate GOP campaign arm has sent a detailed 57-page memo authored by a top party strategist advising candidates to address the coronavirus by aggressively attacking China https://t.co/X5mRFT8DE2

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) April 24, 2020

America's covid-19 death toll is higher than anywhere else in the world. Why? https://t.co/sCQXV0XlKm pic.twitter.com/G6g2alxw7z

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 24, 2020

The thing about not being able to empathize with the loss of one human life is that it makes you able to congratulate yourself for 100,000 deaths. https://t.co/gLlPu1JW8n

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 24, 2020

Classy guy, Esper. https://t.co/d9QkNRH1kY

— Simon Marks (@SimonMarksFSN) April 24, 2020

So when he had that phone call with Xi and suddenly stopped calling it the ‘China virus’ that wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart and because he realized his racism, but maybe because of this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽? Say it ain’t so Donald, say it ain’t so… https://t.co/vxNTSaCGEf

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 24, 2020

I’m requesting the bipartisan Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis investigate whether Donald Trump owing millions to the Bank of China influenced his decision to facilitate the transportation of 17.8 tons of donated #PPE & medical supplies from U.S. to China in Feb 2020 https://t.co/gxKh3Pywlx pic.twitter.com/31Vu0KydT9

— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) April 24, 2020

This may turn out to be the biggest scandal of the crisis: pic.twitter.com/18dZeOTDbh

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 24, 2020

If Cummings and other SpAds have been participating in SAGE meetings as peers, rather than observing, it *is* a big deal. People in NI were told flatly to trust disembodied Whitehall science that seemed indifferent to our geography but knew best. Worrying.https://t.co/NHaUcStrjr

— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) April 24, 2020

No10 says Dominic Cummings and Ben Warner are not "on" SAGE or members of SAGE. Oh

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) April 24, 2020

Exclusive:

Treasury has drawn up plans to ‘get Britain back to work’

Businesses told to put up signs telling workers to stay 2 metres apart & instruct staff to go home if they develop symptoms

Companies may also have to close ‘communal spaces’ such as canteens https://t.co/3DTbAkUWLK

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) April 24, 2020

The number of Covid-19 deaths in care homes was estimated by Care England to have reached 7,500 a week ago https://t.co/SUZstcXD11

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 24, 2020

Pressured by China, E.U. Softens Report on Covid-19 Disinformation https://t.co/RcjyLfk8GJ

— Lawrence Freedman (@LawDavF) April 24, 2020

Singapore Contained the Coronavirus for Months. Now It Has One of the Worst Outbreaks in Asia. https://t.co/m5s6NG7hVR

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 24, 2020

Some conspiracy theorists have adopted the notion that the 5G frequency spectrum somehow transmits and spreads the coronavirus, as if in a wireless miasma. https://t.co/ZTy2IRWsJe

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 24, 2020

Turkey's carried out an impressive 830,000 tests. Its 2600 reported deaths a fraction of many EU countries. Yet a Turkish doctor tells us deaths could be more than 2.5 times official figure. That he believes Turkey had cases 3 weeks before admitting it. @Channel4News in 10 mins.

— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) April 24, 2020

The success of social media platforms in limiting harmful content about COVID-19 may inspire a false hope that the new standards can or should be applied to political news. @sekreps & @BrendanNyhan explain why the two cases should not be treated the same:https://t.co/kqqJSYu8Yz

— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) April 24, 2020

This will end well. Oil tankers are famously catastrophe-free… https://t.co/vxidOrtcDi

— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) April 24, 2020

Trump begins the April 23 #TrumpPressBriefing by claiming that he's spoken with unnamed "numerous" world leaders over the past two days and "they are saying we are leading the way" in the coronavirus response. (The US has the most cases and the most deaths.) pic.twitter.com/Emnyk8XelX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 23, 2020

Every time Pence acknowledges the dead Americans, even by rote, it highlights Trump’s failure to do so.

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 23, 2020

The day after the US recorded it signle biggest number of deaths, the President and Vice President suggest there is "promising signs of progress"

— Alan Fisher (@AlanFisher) April 23, 2020

This is the most off-the-rails Five O’Clock Follies ever.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 23, 2020

The president seems really rather agitated and insane even for him

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 23, 2020

I do believe that Trump just suggested that people get injected with bleach. The only way I would do that is if this continues for several more hours.

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 23, 2020

It is incomprehensible to me that a moron like this holds the highest office in the land and that there exist people stupid enough to think this is ok. I can't believe that in 2020 I have to caution anyone listening to the president that injecting disinfectant could kill you. https://t.co/O3fBrEPPWo

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 23, 2020

Are we being set up to conclude that the virus will go away in summer?

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 23, 2020

a national nightmare just day after day after day https://t.co/4AQ3dXctZk

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 23, 2020

"The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs" — Trump seems to suggests that injecting disinfectant inside people could be a treatment for the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/amis9Rphsm

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 23, 2020

“Supposing we hit the body with tremendous, ultra-violet or just very powerful light? Supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin, or some other way?” pic.twitter.com/6cCILilQiV

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 23, 2020

More Trump on his ideas for treatment: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning … it would be interesting to check that.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 23, 2020

Jonestown was always the destination, but it was reached earlier than expected. https://t.co/XD0U9ZOMeO

— Clay Harris 🇪🇺 (@mudlarklives) April 23, 2020

Trump #Imbleachment

— Dave Perrino @🏡 (@DavePerrino) April 23, 2020

Not only are we one year or more away from a vaccine, but there are also concerns about U.S.'s ability to mass produce it. https://t.co/DOjfFGDjfX https://t.co/5Whxn1ppQH

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) April 23, 2020

Trump, when asked by @weijia about the below comment from Dr. Fauci: "I don't agree with him if he said that." https://t.co/ELkotH1rw0

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) April 23, 2020

Trump again accuses Doctors and Nurses of stealing masks and selling them on the black market.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 23, 2020

“The Trump captivity of the GOP has reached its sad, inevitable destination: a failed presidency defended by a cowed party.” https://t.co/9JbSWQfcOP

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 23, 2020

This is a national tragedy:

More than 5,700 veterans cared for by VA have been infected. Nearly 380 have died

1,900 VA healthcare workers have been infected. 20 have died

Another 3,600 VA healthcare workers are quarantined and unable to work https://t.co/Dec8mww64f

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) April 23, 2020

JUST IN: The number of veterans who have died at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, Massachusetts, rises to 68. https://t.co/lxaHBFUQBB pic.twitter.com/BKuTBxDV5g

— ABC News (@ABC) April 23, 2020

NEW: McConnell sparks bipartisan backlash with state bankruptcy remarks https://t.co/6YnLQwnVSR pic.twitter.com/VH4KwOLwDM

— The Hill (@thehill) April 23, 2020

Cuomo: Let’s talk about fairness, Mitch

NYS puts $116 billion more into the federal pot than we take out.

Kentucky TAKES $148 billion more from the federal pot than they put in.

But we don't deserve help now because the 15,000 people who died here were predominately democrats?

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) April 23, 2020

McConnell just bought $21 million of ads in NC because he’s scared shitless that @CalforNC might flip the seat that costs Mitch his majority.

Cal is great, check out his @PodSaveAmerica interview here: https://t.co/ExL9D6ZpbE

And donate here!

https://t.co/8UjnplwUQU

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 23, 2020

The Wisconsin GOP treasurer asked rally attendees to “please leave Confederate flags and/or AR15s, AK47s, or any other long guns at home” when coming to the rally Friday in Madison to “try to control the optics.”https://t.co/OX79VY6S6I pic.twitter.com/MtuWXFGREy

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) April 23, 2020

NEW: Georgia governor faces growing pressure to reverse course on decision to open businesses, but shows no signs of reversal https://t.co/62yLuwL1gh pic.twitter.com/wRlR3ikc3R

— The Hill (@thehill) April 23, 2020

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— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) April 23, 2020

It should come as no surprise that parts of the country that previously scoffed at social isolation guidelines are now being hit – and hit increasingly hard – by #coronavirus https://t.co/WrXfHo4prz

— West Wing Reports (edited by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) April 23, 2020

As the British government comes under mounting criticism for its response to the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his aides have defended themselves by saying they are “guided by the science.”

The trouble is, nobody knows what the science is.https://t.co/Xl1PHy3CeC

— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) April 23, 2020

Excellent news: Boris Johnson tells friends he will return to work on Monday https://t.co/VgiirNQBXU

— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) April 23, 2020

Friday's Express: “Mass testing to get Britain ‘back on her feet’” #TomorrowsPapersToday #BBCPapers (via @hendopolis) pic.twitter.com/68J3Yp0QVi

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 23, 2020

“For the economy’s sake, for businesses' sake, for jobs' sake, we have to accept a little bit of risk”

Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown told @EmmaBarnett he thinks the government are being too cautious with lockdown measures

📻 @BBCSounds – https://t.co/4SnxX44AQs pic.twitter.com/CWQUnCeYMs

— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) April 23, 2020

"If Dame Vera Lynn’s generation could endure that child-killer, diptheria, then we can handle Covid" writes @allisonpearson#coronavirus #covid19 https://t.co/m0kpMrmdk1

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 21, 2020

Donald Trump has asked the UK Government to bail out his golf courses in Scotlandhttps://t.co/kNHzfaBwsr

— The National (@ScotNational) April 23, 2020

Surely Britannia Unchained will just tell Trumpski to fuck off? https://t.co/V3HW0H2sxa

— Elinor Elliot (@ElliotElinor) April 23, 2020

Sky did a poll.

"How much do you trust the following on #Coronavirus"

1) NHS
2) Chris Whitty
3) Boris Johnson
4) Patrick Vallance

Keir Starmer in negative, but look at the state of journalists and newspapers.

Seems about right. ARE YOU LISTENING JOURNALISTS!#PressBriefing pic.twitter.com/Qei9E8oC1N

— News Addict 🇬🇧 (@addicted2newz) April 23, 2020

Posters appear on the streets of London thanking Boris Johnson, for having largest Coronavirus death toll in Europe

Now, where have we seen that tactic before? pic.twitter.com/JLL1oC8C2B

— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) April 23, 2020

My Nan’s best friend lives at the end of the garden, so they open their adjoining gate (best friend goals), take a chair and sit and talk to each other either side wearing their masks. It was today I found out that this is the mask my Nan has been wearing. pic.twitter.com/MLR2PZSuqE

— Miss S (@teachinginge) April 23, 2020

China donates additional $30 million to World Health Organization after Trump halts US funding https://t.co/AUjWlzXQ2k pic.twitter.com/4TED6eAgwo

— The Hill (@thehill) April 23, 2020

France becomes the latest country to ban firms registered in offshore tax havens from its government coronavirus bailout.
It is an opportunity to make a dent in tax avoidance.
When is the UK going to do the decent thing @BorisJohnson ?https://t.co/TO8txlGcme

— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) April 23, 2020

The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist

Angela Merkel is a Scientist
Donald Trump is a brain-dead Space Cadethttps://t.co/zVf5WnpkEN pic.twitter.com/QZeq55vEGM

— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) April 23, 2020

Rome to take full control of Alitalia in June: minister https://t.co/fP5cRQojAt pic.twitter.com/7irs2OnLlf

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 23, 2020

A Japanese airline flew a plane from Shanghai to Tokyo, filling seats with coronavirus supplies instead of passengers, buckling in boxes of masks, protective clothing and other medical goods. https://t.co/UtVPfXdpW9 pic.twitter.com/SlkeJvtMl8

— ABC News (@ABC) April 23, 2020

Dubai opens restaurants and cafes, resumes public transportation https://t.co/sMK4u95G6k pic.twitter.com/tMTWFw0kV5

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 23, 2020

Drone footage of Paris without traffic or people right now. It looks beautiful, honestly.

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— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) April 23, 2020

Spain cancels famed Tomatina tomato fight festival for 2020, amid coronavirus crisis. https://t.co/AVLBNhE4wr pic.twitter.com/Dfk4VQb7nc

— ABC News (@ABC) April 23, 2020

This coronavirus update has covered planting a tree, the Thunderbirds, the fourth of July, his wall, world leaders praising him and opening national parks without a target date or explanation to mark Earth day. Is there another briefing happening on the virus someplace else?

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 22, 2020

It’s not like Trump desperately needs to win Pennsylvania and Michigan. Oh wait. https://t.co/SvuX7PdYEw

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 22, 2020

trumps attention span is too limited to understand we are still in the midst of the current pandemic https://t.co/OD3jUMBafC

— darth™ (@darth) April 22, 2020

Trump alternating here between giving Birx the sideeye and furrowing his brow as he tries to understand the words coming out of her mouth.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020

Trump on #coronavirus in fall/winter 2020:

"It will be coming back in smaller doses which we can contain." We will have "embers of corona."

"We will not go through what we went through for the last two months."
"It may not come back at all."

— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 22, 2020

Dr. Trump has now said multiple times that 'there is a very good chance covid doesn't come back' in the fall.

This is not, as far as I can tell, the view of actual scientists studying this disease.

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 22, 2020

Trump clearly doesn't want anyone talking about the very real possibility that there could be a second wave.

— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) April 22, 2020

Trump just marched CDC director Redfield out to claim he was misquoted by the WaPo. But in fact, Redfield just confirmed the entire story — below — said he was quoted 100 percent accurately.https://t.co/GNnDSxWUE3

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) April 22, 2020

Redfield says he was “accurately quoted” in Washington Post. Trump fussing over headline in story.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 22, 2020

Every time he has asked about this, Redfield is changing the subject to saying that he just wants to make sure people will get their flu shots. This whole thing is very Soviet right now.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020

.@weijia just asked an important Q. Why did the @CDCDirector tweet The Washington Post article if he had a problem with the headline?

Neither Redfield nor Pres Trump answered her & instead Trump said, "You were not called."

Here's Redfield tweeting out @bylenasun's story. pic.twitter.com/Jo4vDJ7Vfo

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 22, 2020

Fauci: "I am convinced" we will have coronavirus in the fall. "What happens with that" will depend on how we contain it when it occurs; in the fall, we will be "much, much better prepared" compared to what happened this winter.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020

“Telehealth, I’ve been reading about it for years”

No, he hasn’t, and almost anything that involves him saying “I’ve been reading” is not likely to be true

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 22, 2020

I believe he just compared a picture of himself at a rally on the mall to a picture of Dr. King at the March on Washington and everything is awful.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 22, 2020

Trump: "Some people" are very "big" on testing, but also, "some people are much less big than I am, and they're professionals." (?) (Experts generally emphasize that testing is critical.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 22, 2020

oh boy https://t.co/tUX36N6Ig8

— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 22, 2020

One of the nation's top health officials says he was removed from his job for refusing to endorse the Trump administration's promotion of chloroquine as a miracle cure for covid. https://t.co/zVEzVinvB0

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) April 22, 2020

I have never seen that smoking gun before in my life, Trump says. https://t.co/7C9U6cV2RG

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 22, 2020

After weeks of unrelenting coverage hyping hydroxychloroquine as a potential game-changing treatment for the coronavirus, Fox News has all but stopped mentioning the antimalarial drug on its airwaves. So has President Trump. https://t.co/0ForVDIyIX

— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2020

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— John (@DotDotDot_John) April 22, 2020

Inside the conservative network backing the anti-quarantine protests – The Washington Post https://t.co/fc9bsGteLq

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 22, 2020

JUST IN: McConnell says governors should begin reopening states https://t.co/PgWqFnDoiJ pic.twitter.com/QO2YlqckRx

— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2020

Mitch McConnell to states: Drop dead.https://t.co/Y9AFcXd9nU

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) April 22, 2020

President Trump on Georgia: "The spas and the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors, I love 'em — but they can wait a little bit longer. Just a little bit." pic.twitter.com/cKMl1kDm2a

— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2020

Trump is correct that Georgia hasn’t met the federal re-opening guidelines. https://t.co/UFi0lRVBPh

— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 22, 2020

It appears the mayor of Las Vegas got hold of all the drink tickets before quarantine. pic.twitter.com/EaxTRQnAuE

— Cousin Sal (@TheCousinSal) April 22, 2020

Las Vegas' mayor repeatedly called for local businesses to reopen while refusing to provide social distancing guidelines. "For a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job." https://t.co/W5xW9S4xMa

— CNN (@CNN) April 22, 2020

Brutal statement from Culinary Union on Goodman interview:

"In Las Vegas, we’ve had 11 Culinary Union members die because of COVID-19. The Mayor’s statements are outrageous considering essential frontline workers have been dealing with the consequences of this crisis firsthand." pic.twitter.com/wYliBP86ZE

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) April 22, 2020

Great name for a metal band though. https://t.co/zaF1xWnTRz

— Mark Worgan (@worgztheowl) April 22, 2020

My latest from @WIRED— when approaching anti-quarantine protests, the most important thing to remember is that none of us are outside the story. We drive & energize the story based on how we respond. We have so much to lose; so we have to be so careful https://t.co/SODqULYsKZ

— Whitney Phillips (@wphillips49) April 22, 2020

A @Reuters special report: HHS chief Alex Azar tapped ex-professional Labradoodle breeder to coordinate the coronavirus response https://t.co/i6fU90uRgY pic.twitter.com/ka4ft86FWl

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 22, 2020

Here’s the piece. I stand by every word. https://t.co/6rDLbhjQII

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 22, 2020

Coronavirus calamity in U.S. nursing homes; A @wsj Wall Street Journal survey of state data reveals more than 10,000 Covid-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities. Industry is struggling to access the testing to detect outbreaks. https://t.co/iwiT5kNFGz

— JamesVGrimaldi (@JamesVGrimaldi) April 22, 2020

.@realDonaldTrump says he gave an order to the Navy yesterday to “shoot Iran’s boats out of the water’ if they get too close to US Navy ships

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 22, 2020

November is an option. https://t.co/p6eQMnYHwm

— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) April 22, 2020

The blue line is the number of people the govt says has died. The red line is the number who’ve actually died. New @ft analysis of ONS data finds 41,000 dead. More than double govt’s 17,337. https://t.co/rBxIMbJcki pic.twitter.com/wbjosYFJVx

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 22, 2020

This, from the head of life events at @ONS is entirely accurate – all the data is official. No one is claiming stuff is being hidden. It's just that we know the up to date data is incomplete, so it's an attempt to fill in the gaps https://t.co/INcjKUsEMz

— Chris Giles (@ChrisGiles_) April 22, 2020

UK will need social distancing until at least end of year, says Whitty https://t.co/2Jt4jACoLR

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 22, 2020

Asked by Keir Starmer at PMQs if the UK had been "slow" to act, Dominic Raab namechecked Whitty and Vallance as he insisted the UK had been "guided by the science"

At tonight's presser, Whitty repeatedly stressed that decisions were for ministershttps://t.co/0CiBdXCqHV

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) April 22, 2020

He does not say this lightly.. Once again, turns out logistics is what makes the world and military go round.. albeit less sexy than talking about drones, AI, social media and warfare https://t.co/MS4dryJZ8x

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 22, 2020

Hancock's department 'warned No 10' not to publicise PPE shipment https://t.co/XLTbR2fxTD

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 22, 2020

That would be an executive matter.

And its a mad idea anyway https://t.co/yjDmzNg6zm

— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) April 22, 2020

Exclusive: analysis by @guardian of Covid-19 data reveals that BME ppl are *dying at a higher rate* with #COVIDー19 compared to their white peers. @RunnymedeTrust tells Guardian that racial inequalities now has to be recognised as a risk factor in covid-19 https://t.co/CnRqxWQ3aL

— Dr Zubaida Haque (@Zubhaque) April 22, 2020

So, me, London mayor @sadiqkhan, my old school mate @rizwanahmed, @sayeedawarsi, @tezilyas, @nazshahbfd, @konnie_huq, and a bunch of other British Muslims made a video urging everyone to stay at home this Ramadan.

Please watch, share and then let's get #RamadanAtHome trending! pic.twitter.com/TohcLGkL7q

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 22, 2020

Fifty years after the first Earth Day, it’s not just seabirds any more. It’s us. https://t.co/hNZSSZvzzF

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 22, 2020

My guess is that the biggest risk in poor countries is not the direct impact of the virus (partly because populations are young) but the secondary effects. Polio and vitamin A campaigns are being suspended. Schools are out. Incomes have collapsed. Food is running out.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 22, 2020

President Trump said Tuesday he will halt immigration to the U.S. for 60 days, a freeze that will block green card recipients from moving to the country but allow temporary workers to arrivepic.twitter.com/268tuH76M1

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 21, 2020

Serious question: How many people were going to immigrate to the United States in the next 60 days anyway? Anyone have any idea what the expected immigration numbers looked like during a period of hemoraging jobs in a pandemic? https://t.co/1tzJb7gmRd

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 21, 2020

"Lawyers at the Department of Justice were still studying whether the president had the legal authority to unilaterally suspend the issuance of green cards" – I will save them the trouble. NO

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 21, 2020

Immigrants are on the front lines of the coronavirus response, putting their lives at risk to make sure our communities are fed, healthy, and safe. The Trump administration needs to stop using this pandemic as cover to implement their xenophobic agenda.https://t.co/3inInEIyMJ

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 21, 2020

Trump threw that immigration order out there so that it would be a shiny thing that reporters would chase instead of other questions. And almost every reporter in that room is falling for it.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

Basically, the OAN question. “Mr. president isn’t what you’re doing just super popular and what everyone wants you to do?“

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

.@chucktodd discusses how President Trump’s re-election prospects might be influencing government responses to COVID-19.

"To give you a sense of where his head is at, last night he used the virus to tweet that he is suspending all immigration."https://t.co/Ehy9jG30VU

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 21, 2020

MEMO TO PRESIDENT from your CDC Director: The next wave this Fall may be worse. America must be prepared for the next wave, and it is likely to come at the worst possible time. Please prepare now. https://t.co/nWxEJwS4Px

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 21, 2020

CDC chief says there could be second, possibly worse coronavirus outbreak this winterhttps://t.co/UAQYKQt5tA

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 21, 2020

Breaking news on CNN: pic.twitter.com/rzv8lqP1N2

— CNNBreakingNewsBot (@ATTENTION_CNN) April 21, 2020

Birx, asked whether coronavirus could be worse in the fall, something Redfield is worried about: “I don’t know it will be worse.”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 21, 2020

Someone please ask Birx if she objects to Trump saying it's ok to open up without meeting the first criteria. Please

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Trump just now: "You know, not everybody wants to do such significant testing. Testing is good in some cases, and in some cases it's not."

NBC News: Experts say coronavirus testing must double or triple before the U.S. can safely reopen.https://t.co/YuA1HsQL1p

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 21, 2020

Some recent polling:
Pew: 66% concerned about reopening too fast, 32% concerned about too slow
NBC/WSJ: 58% concerned too fast, 32% too slow
Yahoo/YouGov: 71% concerned too fast, 29% too slow

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 21, 2020

AP: A malaria drug widely touted by Trump for treating the coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. https://t.co/4pFQjSXrIs

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) April 21, 2020

The President pushed a drug for weeks and now he's saying he's not aware of his own FDA recommending against it and his own VA study showing how dangerous it is.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Researchers question the accuracy of coronavirus test capable of producing results in less than 15 minutes https://t.co/uYBoglwPpo pic.twitter.com/86kKLJdbcM

— The Hill (@thehill) April 21, 2020

Ugly infighting in high academic research circles in California over coronavirus https://t.co/ljZCDZdWUx

— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) April 21, 2020

Breaking-
President Trump just said #HarvardUniversity is gonna pay back money they got in the PPP.

He says he’s gonna make them pay it back. #WBZ

— Kate Merrill (@KateMerrill) April 21, 2020

Good move by this reporter basically to push Trump out of the way and ask Birx if people need to have tattoo parlors be open.

Birx gently says that this is a data driven question and that the people of Atlanta should understand if the data doesn’t support what they want to do.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

Birx recommends tattoo parlors and hair and nail salons do “creative social distancing.” Right, a six foot long needle. A six foot long scissors. I threw up a little in my mouth.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 21, 2020

White House press corps needs to tell Trump specifically what the public-health experts say he needs to do, and then demand to know why he’s not doing it. I've got a cheat sheet. https://t.co/QpFLxGlaTw via @froomkin

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) April 21, 2020

The Times Can't Stop Pretending Trump Is a Normal President https://t.co/85u1dtboBz

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 21, 2020

When the https://t.co/DtaaH34Eu4. of Texas says there are things "more important than living", like "saving this country for my children and my grandchildren," he means "preventing Republican defeats at the ballot box at all costs, including letting people die."

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 21, 2020

This pandemic has just laid bare America’s worst flaws. Its weaponized ignorance. The myth of rugged individualism. The constant, intentional undermining of science and education. Its restless, ceaseless racism, classism, and unending, inhuman greed. Our putrid, coopted politics.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 21, 2020

Because if he did anything less it would almost be disappointing by now…https://t.co/rcYSi01RBK

— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) April 21, 2020

Trump has frequently claimed that there is nothing that blocks him from running his business as president, infamously stating "The president can't have conflicts of interest."

Turns out, the best way to get him to distance himself from his company is to ask about paying workers. https://t.co/H1vIoEgGME

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 21, 2020

well you did have Russian help according to a bipartisan Senate report.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 21, 2020

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump agree ‘coordinated’ response to coronavirus

🤔 What sort of response, or lack of, do they have in mind?https://t.co/BuhCpqen8S

— Random Bits 🔶 #FBPE #Rejoin (@Rand0mB1tsUK) April 21, 2020

Sir Keir Starmer really gave it to Boris Johnson today.

Slack, that is.

Not only did he say the response was “a bit slow” but he finds it “troubling”.

Tomorrow we’re hoping he will say he is “concerned”. And Thursday he will peak when he says it’s all “a bit worrying”.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) April 21, 2020

It would be kind of amazing if Starmer just read out emails from the public tomorrow at PMQs https://t.co/fpaW4APrc2

— lukemcgee (@lukemcgee) April 21, 2020

You couldn’t make it up. PPE shipped from UK to Europe whilst NHS staff told to re-use items.

“UK firms said "no choice" but to keep selling lifesaving gear abroad because their offers of help had been repeatedly ignored by the British Govt.”#NHSMillionhttps://t.co/GJHbuOeLTG

— Dr Lauren Gavaghan (@DancingTheMind) April 21, 2020

Whether or not the EU procurement scheme would or would not have made a difference is not the point. The point is that our Government is not being frank with us (to put it mildly).

— Jessica Simor QC (@JMPSimor) April 21, 2020

“Turns out quite literally everything I said earlier was completely wrong” pic.twitter.com/CSQSNVvN71

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) April 21, 2020

“Why are we not following the same guidance as the rest of the international community?”

Labour’s @DrRosena Allin-Khan says “if we were able to have tests, if we were able to be sure of actually who had the virus… we could have go ton top of this much sooner”
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/t4gBgCMauY

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 21, 2020

It’s going to be unbearable to see this liar playing up to his fawning press and dim witted dupes after his miraculous recovery. This is well worth a read, he’s hijacked the NHS for personal gain. https://t.co/tc7K3z00qC

— Ian collins (@Iancoll94354676) April 21, 2020

Breaking: @ONS announces 18,516 deaths of ALL causes in week ending Apr 10. Biggest total in that week in modern history. And biggest of any week since 2000.
These are the most comprehensive measures of UK mortality and, for this time of year, they are off the scale pic.twitter.com/2ftAGkVlxT

— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) April 21, 2020

The UK confirmed its 1st #COVID19 death 12 days after Italy & entered lockdown 14 days after Italy. I graphed a 7-day rolling avg of hospital deaths in each since the day of the 1st death. Pretty similar, eh? This is why Italy today's a reasonable guide to the UK in a fortnight. pic.twitter.com/dp1U6QHk7M

— Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch) April 21, 2020

Leo Varadkar hopes he can announce easing of restrictions next month https://t.co/xrOoFI6W52 via @IrishTimesPol

— Irish Times Politics (@IrishTimesPol) April 21, 2020

The European Council on Thursday is a moment of truth, unlike most events that are billed as moments of truth. It will tell the world definitively whether European countries want to act together or separately when most it at stake. My take: 1/n https://t.co/W3w6mV26Xc

— Martin Sandbu (@MESandbu) April 21, 2020

Coronavirus: World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic – UN https://t.co/Jlx38OIyuP

— Darren Vaughan (@vaughanclan) April 21, 2020

"The use of names such as ‘swine flu’ and ‘Middle East Respiratory Syndrome’ has had *unintended* [lol] negative impacts by stigmatizing certain communities or economic sectors.” https://t.co/KaN0ksJwOt

— alya_kh (@Alya_kh) April 21, 2020

The US oil industry is facing a doomsday scenario.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused oil demand to drop so rapidly that the world is running out of room to store barrels. At the same time, Russia and Saudi Arabia flooded the world with excess supply. https://t.co/Dw5qEWo3dB

— CNN (@CNN) April 20, 2020

Tomorrow's front page: the US oil price goes negative for the first time ever pic.twitter.com/6rjvZvpcJM

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) April 20, 2020

Can't get a delivery slot though. https://t.co/QMUTQ8BAak

— Doc Joshi (@MediJoshi) April 20, 2020

Traders hightail it out of U.S. oil contract as prices reach negative $40 https://t.co/HKonBmG3s5 pic.twitter.com/yijMr5X4p5

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020

JUST IN: The US will add 75 million barrels of oil to its strategic reserve

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) April 20, 2020

Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members are considering cutting their oil output now to reverse price crash, rather than wait until pact with U.S. and Russia to lower production is set to begin in May https://t.co/S6CREEnv9A

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 20, 2020

Remarkable . . . 'Oil prices dip below zero as producers forced to pay to dispose of excess' https://t.co/zY60m73xFx

— David Labanyi (@dlabanyi) April 20, 2020

U.S. oil futures for June delivery are showing why negative prices are still an exception rather than the norm in the global crude market https://t.co/ac35CUj2N6

— Bloomberg (@business) April 20, 2020

Many traders are betting that the coronavirus pandemic will run its course and that later this year demand for oil will jump https://t.co/e73Ryg0WDc

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 20, 2020

Once I figure out what exactly crude oil is and what you’re supposed to do with it, it’s over for you bitches.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 20, 2020

The look on Trump’s face when the guy who didn’t know the price of oil asks another question about oil is priceless. pic.twitter.com/aZrLEUvLyb

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 20, 2020

The president has told governors it's their responsibility to get tests. So that's what @GovLarryHogan and Maryland's first lady did — they secured 500,000 tests from South Korea. https://t.co/nMjdrf1nYm

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) April 20, 2020

Spoiler alert: this story does not say we’re actually in good shape. https://t.co/0qTr4pgeAb

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) April 20, 2020

1/ Pressure to close the Houston Rodeo intensified after @sxsw was canceled.

Rodeo and government leaders insisted their event was different.

But our reporting shows they knew coronavirus could spread at the rodeo and proceeded anyway.

w/ @propublica https://t.co/KJcRx42gfX

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 20, 2020

This is insane. This doesn't even meet the White House "gating" criteria, and those are too lax to begin with!

Recall that the gating criteria call for 2 weeks of sustained decline in cases, and declining positive tests. https://t.co/xWJ26eGpct

— Jeremy TEST/TRACE/ISOLATE Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) April 20, 2020

New satellite images of Georgia. pic.twitter.com/f22EkcOMVF

— Jarrett Bellini (@JarrettBellini) April 20, 2020

Here we go. Just a few minutes after Georgia's announcement. Southeast moving first to reopen… https://t.co/oeC8ytTyKj

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 20, 2020

Here's when all 50 states plan to reopen after coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/KDQFAXhKrp pic.twitter.com/0NBmZJnX8K

— The Hill (@thehill) April 20, 2020

Fauci warns protesters about dangers of ending lockdowns prematurely: 'It's going to backfire' https://t.co/mhw9wTTwoV

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) April 20, 2020

Asked if companies that reopen and have employees get sick will face liability, Trump says he'll give us a legal answer when "we look it up." Asked if they haven't discussed this yet, Trump says, "Nobody's discussed it, no, but we will. Now."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

WATCH: Video shows nurse facing down Colorado protester against stay-at-home order.@stephgosk reports on the protests happening across America now on @NBCNightlyNews. https://t.co/1azUkvE9qm

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) April 20, 2020

The scene in Harrisburg, Pa.

Video via @miguelmarquez

pic.twitter.com/c6RbL80QJE

— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 20, 2020

Come on, media. "Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine" was organized by the Dorr brothers, gun extremists who are making money by creating gun groups across the country. The Facebook page links to their gun group. Google them. https://t.co/ix9xbqWOHC

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 20, 2020

Cripes, even the Taliban gets it, which puts them ahead of a fair number of Americans right now when it comes to believing in science. https://t.co/u1qK917EOR

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 20, 2020

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— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

UK coronavirus deaths rise by 449 to 16,509 https://t.co/VQvUtPvIiv pic.twitter.com/bc9u5G3lZs

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020

Very sorry to hear this. First A&E consultant to die of cornonavirus. https://t.co/RJizVBzVyl

— Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) April 20, 2020

The Scottish government has called for a two-year extension to the Brexit transition period due to the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/MFR04uefWG

— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) April 20, 2020

The Irish Times view on Britain’s crisis response: A desperate game of catch-up https://t.co/FjOWauRVnQ via @IrishTimesOpEd

— Irish Times Opinion (@IrishTimesOpEd) April 20, 2020

We need out of this insane asylum. Stat. https://t.co/drCcJ3hSvY

— Pastor “Nows not the time” Jimberoo 😷 (@PastorJimberoo1) April 19, 2020

MPs investigate commercial property purchases by councils https://t.co/N0cXNnbOkX

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 20, 2020

European citizens in UK at risk of losing out on jobless benefit

"Fears that 1.3m holders of ‘pre-settled status’ could be refused universal credit amid virus lay-offs" write @RKWinvisibleman & @jimbrunsden in the @FT following our letter to the Govt.https://t.co/xHbyu0SAkq

— the3million (@the3million) April 20, 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nothing has been ‘hidden’ from any member state in regard to the coronavirus pandemic and warned that without ‘national unity and global solidarity, the worst is yet ahead of us’ https://t.co/2LUOLFTaQW https://t.co/nMTpWdmEdu

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020

Re-upping this, because it seems like a big deal. This study doesn't have the kind of methodological problems with sampling or self-selection other studies do: it offers a relatively comprehensive picture of the whole town of VO. And not one child tested positive for the virus. https://t.co/i9octp9yGY

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) April 20, 2020

South Australia has had only 4 deaths from 1.6m population https://t.co/G2LkQZaY3h

— Tony Tassell (@TonyTassell) April 20, 2020

Billionaires’ compound with its own coronavirus testing center stokes anger on the French Rivierahttps://t.co/MEiNXsgH81

— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) April 20, 2020

► VIDEO: Thailand is seeing the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades as tourism drops due to coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/2NUPmqKUmZ pic.twitter.com/Mxeahpsh0J

— Irish Times Video (@irishtimesvideo) April 20, 2020

We’re a children’s infectious disease ward & a very kind person made us these shields for work.🙌 pic.twitter.com/OuxexmDSGX

— Kelly (@Kal_Leigh) April 20, 2020