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 Winer (@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 "A man is not a plan" 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

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

@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

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

— L O L G O P (@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

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

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

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

pic.twitter.com/fGyIVZZOOc

— 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 Report (@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

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

— Lee Harris (@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

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

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

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 🌺 (@HeidiReports) 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 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

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

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 (@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

"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 "A man is not a plan" 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

— UnaffiliatedCNNBreakingNewsBot (@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

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 (@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

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 KC (@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 Khemakhem | علياء خماخم (@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

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

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 Johnson (@bennyjohnson) 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 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

pic.twitter.com/jBMJnwR5jv

— 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 – Think Without Borders (@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

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

Just tuned in and they are replaying an old briefing where the @POTUS is talking about China and trade and the wTO and NAFTA, not the virus that has claimed 41,379 American lives.
Must be a mistake.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 19, 2020

This particular news conference is like a never-ending trip with a very talkative Uber driver.

— Niall Stanage (@NiallStanage) April 19, 2020

This is like a drunk grandpa giving a meandering speech at a wedding and not wanting to give up the mic.

— James B. Webb (@BrainRage) April 19, 2020

Iran, China, Japan, Canada, and Mexico will own America if Biden wins. The Five O’Clock Follies are underway.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 19, 2020

There is no news involved with this. He is just scared and trying to reverse the narratives that are all converging on him. He is giving conflicting statements even within the same few minutes. Fox will know which pieces to use.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 19, 2020

The ear extends itself across the room to distill something timely or even interesting in Pence's easy-listening monologue.

— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) April 19, 2020

Pres continues to insist that "testing is a local thing" as part of Coronavirus detection. "We'll get it done," he says of testing, saying it'll be done at a level "that the biggest tester in the world will be very happy soon." pic.twitter.com/SLOlWuM1Zf

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 19, 2020

He’s working very hard to shift blame over to the governors. “Testing is a local thing.“ just a few minutes ago, he blamed the governors for relying on testing in their own states. This is confusing to normal people, but it’s exactly the right message for his base.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 19, 2020

THREAD. With the protests against stay-at-home orders mushrooming across the U.S., journalists and pundits are making comparisons to the Tea Party protests of 2009-2010. It's worth revisiting what many historians concluded about the Tea Party.

— Dr. Steve Campbell (@Historian_Steve) April 19, 2020

"We have a higher power that takes care of us."

Higher powers don't give a shit about the rest of us, apparently. https://t.co/nbJP2nKZcL

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 19, 2020

Thoughts and prayers 🙄 https://t.co/2i8pf0WXKF

— Planet Belfast 🇪🇺 (@Planet_Belfast) April 19, 2020

A religion based on grifting. https://t.co/t782RySYWa

— Clay Harris 🇪🇺💉💉💉💉💉😷 (@mudlarklives) April 19, 2020

"The lesson Mr. Trump apparently learned from his Senate acquittal is that he could once again get away with putting his personal and political interests over the safety of the American people when confronted with an even more dire crisis." – Barry Berkehttps://t.co/1zY8tjbRO6

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 19, 2020

“They shut some of my hotels down, too."
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO OWN HOTELS, BIFF.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 19, 2020

Trump touts possible coronavirus therapies but conspicuous by its absence is any mention of hydroxychloroquine, a potentially fatal drug he relentlessly hyped for weeks up until a few days ago pic.twitter.com/iKmyUc5gPF

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 19, 2020

Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history” https://t.co/OWD53ARvGW pic.twitter.com/k4J5CiPIG8

— Barry Ritholtz (@Ritholtz) April 19, 2020

“I’m walking into a house, and I’m seeing 3 or 4 family members who are all sick … I have to now assess everybody to see who is the sickest.”

Joshua Rodriguez, a FDNY rescue paramedic, describes what calls are like during the COVID-19 pandemic.https://t.co/iHMMgOU3Sj

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 19, 2020

Brooklyn Hospital Center’s chief operating officer describes the extraordinary measures being taken to handle the number of deaths from coronavirus. In New York City, more than 13,000 have lost their lives to the pandemic. https://t.co/cz8w50XlJX pic.twitter.com/bcBF5d04zq

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 19, 2020

15 pages of obituaries in The Boston Globe today. pic.twitter.com/DdcWiy2hvx

— Nancy Palmer (@npalmerrothman) April 19, 2020

My home state really is trying its best to die.

‘Very, Very Scary’: Officials Dumbfounded as Florida Beaches Reopen, 3 Days After Death Spike https://t.co/PTUklL7mtp via @thedailybeast

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 19, 2020

These photos show the staggering food bank lines across America https://t.co/SCTGtuhxH7

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 19, 2020

"The economy might not last even the next three weeks, let alone the much longer lockdown deemed necessary by some epidemiologists" | @JeremyWarnerUKhttps://t.co/93hAF9pK2g

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 19, 2020

Not something any of tomorrow’s other newspapers feel like saying. https://t.co/9CEngCihHB

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 19, 2020

“596 dead, see p4”. There’s a front page for future historians. https://t.co/JJYUhmMoMH

— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) April 19, 2020

The sheer detail in this. Unprecedented. The UK media is treating this crisis as a political story whereas it is far larger. The daily conference is not a great advert for my former profession. https://t.co/Siw2HK4UCg

— David Yelland (@davidyelland) April 19, 2020

Convinced that Big Dom Cummings is behind that Dept of Health blog that reads like an angsty teenage break up text. You can’t change my mind.

— Patch Thompson (@Patch_Thompson) April 19, 2020

Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears

Failings in February may have cost thousands of liveshttps://t.co/90fMvq20O5

— Times Politics (@timespolitics) April 18, 2020

Ha! If the UK is really 'an international exemplar in preparedness' as Jenny Harries claims, then I am Miss Fucking World. https://t.co/n04jIBI5Zo

— Mandoline 🕯️ (@Mandoline_Blue) April 19, 2020

I've mentioned that coronavirus will cause supply shocks as well as a demand shock … https://t.co/qH5jy1DTiI

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 19, 2020

WOW. I. HAVE. NO. WORDS. 😭

Sweden's Princess Sofia has announced she's reducing her Royal duties so she can volunteer at local hospital. She has already completed intensive training to prepare for it. In her new role, she'll be disinfecting, cleaning, & working in the kitchen. pic.twitter.com/f3iIZ0vq1G

— The Hummingbird 🐦 (@SaysHummingbird) April 19, 2020

Arise Saint Jacinda, a leader for our troubled times- New Zealand’s prime minister offers four important lessons in leadership https://t.co/efn777Id2a pic.twitter.com/piEmo8dxYw

— Jamie Smyth (@JamieSmythF) April 19, 2020

In Tokyo, under a state of emergency, people still seem seduced by magical thinking, believing that what is happening elsewhere cannot happen here. I wrote what it feels like https://t.co/k8pEiRj1S9

— Motoko Rich (@motokorich) April 19, 2020

The world came together, convening an emergency meeting in China to conquer a mysterious outbreak. Even scientists from hostile nations were welcomed. Everyone worked together.
No, not #COVID19 in 2021.
It was 1911.
It was plague.https://t.co/FuBaeHaxiV

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 19, 2020

BREAKING: Canadian police say at least 10 people are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting rampage in Nova Scotia. Find updates here: https://t.co/WbwWQe7CtO

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 19, 2020

Thank you for you service. Const. Heidi Stevenson. pic.twitter.com/YZAJS47Gay

— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) April 19, 2020

It will be two years of "fits and starts" in opening the country back up from the coronavirus, per Don McNeil.

"If too many people get infected at once, new lockdowns will become inevitable." https://t.co/mpHwYqpVE3

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) April 18, 2020

The president is, again, saying stuff.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 18, 2020

He usually tries to stick to the text for a little longer than this. He went off script instantly. He’s really not bothering very much with whatever they put in front of him today.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 18, 2020

Trump just alluded to the possibility that the virus was released deliberately. You know, just as aside.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 18, 2020

The US has the most coronavirus deaths in the world, but Trump begins the April 18 #TrumpPressConf by claiming America "has produced better health outcomes than any other country, with the possible exception of Germany." pic.twitter.com/puRZgsvIeh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020

Trump begins at the briefing by touting "very positive trends, for winning." He says we are mourning the loss of life, and "you can't mourn it any stronger than we're mourning it." He bashes "fake news."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 18, 2020

Coronavirus hit mostly blue states first. It made Trump’s base even more gullible, combative & vulnerable. Propaganda is flowing & he will cannibalize them to re-open early. It’s a good bet his supporters will now die at 2 to 1 ratio over ppl who follow safety & social distancing

— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) April 18, 2020

New estimates by Harvard researchers suggest that the U.S. cannot safely reopen unless it conducts more than 3 times the number of coronavirus tests it's currently administering over the next monthhttps://t.co/qhca6R2A2p

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2020

Here is the conclusion of one of the most unhinged and bizarre rants I have ever heard Trump go on. Keep in mind this is a press briefing about a pandemic that is killing over 1,000 Americans each day right now. pic.twitter.com/3PGe9MsOQb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020

“If I wasn’t elected, you would be at war with North Korea…” and now the lies about no ammunition or ventilators, but the cupboard is at least dry so nothing will spoil.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 18, 2020

This is a really whiny, needy briefing. It has no purpose other than for him to plead his case and tell everyone to stop being mean to him.
Totally in angry rally mode. And I think people should watch it to remind themselves that their president is completely unhinged.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 18, 2020

"Unfortunately, some partisan voices are trying to politicize the issue of testing, which they shouldn't be doing. Because I inherited broken junk" — Trump absurdly tries to blame Obama for his administration's failures developing a test for a virus that didn't exist until 2019 pic.twitter.com/Qnh9oEtugu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 18, 2020

Nobody really mentions the way Trump repeats the same five thoughts over and over and over and over and over and over

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 5, 2020

Via @jmart and me, the Trump campaign and Republican allies want to focus attention on China as a malign actor in the coronavirus spread. One uncertain factor? The president's own praise for Xi, including in last two months > https://t.co/JaPaF6lAhB

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 18, 2020

Take "at the coronavirus briefing" out of this sentence and it applies to every day since the inauguration, and even before. https://t.co/DP39NuKk8Q

— John Cassidy (@JohnCassidy) April 18, 2020

So Boris skipped 5 COBRA meetings, ignored scientific warnings and took time off. We have no effective government.

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) April 18, 2020

12 days in February. This is when Johnson went missing. He wasn’t attending COBRA meetings because according to @thesundaytimes he’d got his girlfriend pregnant & was in throes of divorcing his wife. Or what we may come to think of as deadliest mid-life crisis of all time.. pic.twitter.com/949ptQPmZp

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 18, 2020

I’m reliably informed Murdoch wants Gove to replace Johnson. Let’s be clear the whole lot of them have their hands soaked in blood. None of them is fit to lead. https://t.co/vILrXqiXyj

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 18, 2020

thoroughly unnerving claim within the Sunday Times splash pic.twitter.com/LxX2CwlxLU

— Friend of Deep State 🐋 (@PickardJE) April 18, 2020

The threat of #Covid19 to wreck our way of life was already clear to senior health experts on 22 January (this date is etched on my brain because I argued that day with colleagues that we had to discuss it on #Peston show). And on 11 February…

— Robert Peston (@Peston) April 18, 2020

Being overweight can lead to more serious coronavirus hospital admissions, UK research shows https://t.co/uabCHIQRkt

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 18, 2020

NEW: The inside story of the Ventilator Challenge – the muddled thinking, the wasted time the political egoism. It's a mad tale. Stay with me. Me with my superb @ft colleague @Michael_Pooler 1/Threadhttps://t.co/5SNI7QbzAU

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) April 18, 2020

Gordon Brown’s Case for Global Coöperation During the Coronavirus Pandemic | The New Yorker https://t.co/xJJzQdtFCF

— Matthew Hardy (@drmatthewhardy) April 18, 2020

‘Donald Trump is in no position to dictate terms, not at home, not abroad, certainly not to India.’ — Watch this Indian news outlet skewer Trump’s coronavirus failures and tantrums pic.twitter.com/OUc338qVnQ

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) April 18, 2020

In case you were wondering how Sweden’s “no lockdown” experiment is going: pic.twitter.com/VRLOvlYrRV

— Ben Coates (@bencoates1) April 17, 2020

In glimpse of life after lockdown, some countries begin to reopen schools https://t.co/MAiklJ9s4B

— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) April 18, 2020

NEW: Russia reports 4,785 new cases of coronavirus, 36,793 cases in total.

Russia's largest daily increase by far.

— Norbert Elekes (@NorbertElekes) April 18, 2020

What?! Don't trust China, but spread Putin's blatant Covid propaganda? He's been lying from the start and Russia's numbers are just as fake as China's. Don't trust dictatorships, even if they support Trump. https://t.co/eXwDaEmF4l

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) April 18, 2020

Trump: "Following the announcement of our reopening guidelines, there have been some very partisan voices in the media and politics who have spread false and misleading information about our testing capacities." pic.twitter.com/AnayltbY4l

— The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2020

For the first time in US history every state and US territory is operating under a major disaster declaration, right now, due to coronavirus.

The president just said that the US has tremendous test and capability.
It does not.
But he continues to repeat that falsehood.

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 17, 2020

Former GOP senate majority leader: "This nation has failed in terms of testing from the top to the bottom" https://t.co/jjUZ16orJe pic.twitter.com/bP8sntuzMW

— The Hill (@thehill) April 17, 2020

Coronavirus testing would have to be at least doubled or tripled from its current levels to allow for even a partial reopening of U.S. economy, public health experts say. https://t.co/dwYRE4uyQy

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 17, 2020

No. We haven’t. Not even close. @realDonaldTrump says it is up to the states. This government can’t even coordinate its lies to complement each other. https://t.co/YCh2hPdDLv

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 17, 2020

With H1N1 we had ample supplies from the Fed stockpile.

Obama tried many times to fund restocking it after H1N1.
A GOP congress refused to fund/restock it.

In 2014—Obama warned about global pandemic & set up CDC task force. Trump fired that task force.pic.twitter.com/2y56iv4joC

— Trinity (@TrinityResists) April 17, 2020

Trump is going claim the number of people who died from covid-19 is proof of how great a job he did – no matter what that number is.

He's already touting 60,000 dead as a sign of his success, even though 24,000 more people have to die to reach that number.

— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) April 17, 2020

Rise in coronavirus cases in states without stay-home orders, in the past week:

OK +53%
AR +60%
NB. +74%
IA. +82%
SD. +205% https://t.co/94UVzDh8rQ

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) April 17, 2020

Minimization and misinformation: Trump is guilty of the very things he's accusing the WHO of doing https://t.co/lZlLzhE787

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020

Trump has long claimed the Iraq War was a tragic mistake. And yet he’s failed to lead America through a pandemic that killed more people in ONE DAY yesterday than died in that entire war. What exactly is he calling to “liberate” the day after America reached that grim milestone? pic.twitter.com/C21nj9Nabz

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 17, 2020

these nuts are going to get themselves and their families sick or even killed – with Trump egging them on https://t.co/HpSKqphpcv

— Jennifer "A man is not a plan" Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) April 17, 2020

Trump's dangerous "LIBERATE" tweets represent the views of a small minority, but one that's being actively promoted by Fox News https://t.co/2y5KNPxAvW

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 17, 2020

This protestor in Huntington Beach is wearing protection against #COVID-19, while saying it is a lie. pic.twitter.com/l5HDCfiTpH

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 17, 2020

Incredible report on the Senate call with Pence's COVID taskforce- @timkaine asks about Trump's "LIBERATE" tweets, Pence basically says we'll continue to work with the Governors but Donald will, you know, ask the people to launch an insurrection… NBD.https://t.co/PRhCMA8cNz pic.twitter.com/Am3imhHNAl

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) April 17, 2020

Federal authorities want grocery stores, gas stations and even COVID-19 testing sites to know they now could be targeted by terrorists determined to strike inside the U.S. homeland—even if such an event is unlikely. https://t.co/WVi2Iuvq6f

— ABC News (@ABC) April 17, 2020

Hucksters literally don’t sleep during a crisis like this. https://t.co/73P5zmcnkn

— John O’Brennan (@JohnOBrennan2) April 17, 2020

Coronavirus could hit the U.K. harder than any other European country. Here's what went wrong https://t.co/abYZpmFl1d

— TIME (@TIME) April 17, 2020

‘Photos showed Johnson walking at Chequers, pale but well enough to go for a stroll. Most ICU patients leave hospital in a wheelchair. They suffer from exhaustion, muscle wastage and other chronic problems. The PM appears to be in much better shape.’ https://t.co/jldF2mnqqu

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) April 17, 2020

The Government needs to be thinking now about how to get the country back to work, while at the same time minimising the possibility of re-infection https://t.co/5A6mAog6Ke

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 17, 2020

don’t try to climb on this bandwagon, a splendid effort, but one that is only necessary because of the callousness, dishonesty, incompetence and failure of you and those that came before.

— Bruce McPherson 🇪🇺🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@brucemcpherson) April 17, 2020

London Mayor 'concerned' over Met's clap for carers https://t.co/cVZdbhnSpV

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 17, 2020

"Taking a generous figure for disease exposure and the low-end threshold for herd immunity, we would need 12 times more exposure than we’ve had to this point—in other words, that we are only one-12th of the way through this crisis." (1/x) https://t.co/U9f9c7p2Ji

— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) April 17, 2020

Coronavirus broke the global food supply chain. It’s like trying to unpick the world’s most complicated jigsaw and put it back together again. An article by @stokel with me & others. https://t.co/JIfn93CWip

— Prof Chris Elliott OBE (@QUBFoodProf) April 17, 2020

Bees are not coping with Coronavirus and much of our food production is at risk as a result

via @FT
https://t.co/EZtDgHf8ut

— roula khalaf (@khalafroula) April 17, 2020

'Biological Chernobyl': How China's secrecy fueled coronavirus suspicionshttps://t.co/5uZZnEBV2k

— Ryan Heath (@ryanaxios) April 17, 2020

Things are going to get more difficult.. hopefully a bit more honest https://t.co/8VOHlXkact

— Ziya Meral (@Ziya_Meral) April 17, 2020

Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything

— Miranda Yaver, PhD (@mirandayaver) April 17, 2020

"Now that we have passed the peak in new cases, we are starting our life again. We are starting rejuvenation of our economy again" — Trump pic.twitter.com/PlD5yGSXJw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 16, 2020

They're literally just going to pretend like the pandemic is over, put everyone's lives at risk, and slap a slogan on it to help Donald Trump's reelection.

That's literally what they're going to do.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 16, 2020

The Trump "plan" to re-open the economy is similar to the Trump "plan" to have drive-thru testing in every Wal Mart parking lot. It's…not a plan. It's just an announcement.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 16, 2020

I think the tone of voice and the down demeanor reflect him being pissed that he can’t just make this all go away and open up the economy tomorrow. I think that’s why we’re getting a “we did great“ litany. https://t.co/xyAHPxr4aQ

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 16, 2020

Birx, now YOU of all people know that these numbers and charts are meaningless because we have only test 1% of the American population. We have NO IDEA who has or have had this disease. When scientist play into the propaganda truth itself is hurt.

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) April 16, 2020

Here's the White House document for reopening the country, if you want to read: https://t.co/ZgtvUvGXzn

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 16, 2020

Trump's obsession has always been winning the news cycle every day — just as it was from Jan to March. Yet his daily pronouncements don't stand up well against a pandemic that goes on & on. https://t.co/119Rj1DBiC

— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) April 16, 2020

"You're gonna call your own shots," Trump tells governors https://t.co/3wZ9tqel00

— Jeffrey Levin 🇺🇦 (@jilevin) April 16, 2020

Trump is arguing that it's time to begin reopening the country, saying: "Our experts say the curve has flattened and the peak in new cases is behind us." But a lot of states are still dealing with major new outbreaks and say their peaks are yet to come. https://t.co/El9uJXPK7G

— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) April 16, 2020

Trump just now touting 3.5 million test completed is a weird boast. On March 10, Pence pledged 4 million tests by the end of that week. https://t.co/CGy10kh0L3

— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 16, 2020

Well, about 200 people did. We’re not sure if they were all from here. https://t.co/6uIcx3NY5G

— Micheline Maynard (@MickiMaynard) April 16, 2020

California gives two weeks of supplemental paid sick leave for essential food workers https://t.co/9YPtBPDSUl

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 16, 2020

Here’s Trump saying he’s planning to send ventilators to Russia because “they’re having a hard time in Moscow” pic.twitter.com/pb5xLhtZR3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 15, 2020

REUTERS: Cuomo hires @McKinsey "to develop a science-based plan for the safe economic reopening of the region that can thwart expected pressure from President Donald Trump to move more rapidly .."https://t.co/ICrufjGFR0

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) April 16, 2020

"Melania could be out there sewing masks, visiting caregivers, working at a food bank—whatever. That’s what first ladies do during crises," writes @MollyJongFast. "So where is she?" https://t.co/VlO9n0uBM6

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 16, 2020

Last weekend I watched my own mother's funeral on Zoom.
So no, I don't feel great about Ivanka breaking the rules for non-essential travel. https://t.co/moDNLs5zde

— Julie Cohen (@FilmmakerJulie) April 16, 2020

The impeached president who got crushed in the midterms has bungled the country into 30,000 deaths and 20 million layoffs…and Democrats are worried about their messaging. https://t.co/lUJcYwHtq6

— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) April 16, 2020

Three stories to read this evening

🔴Lockdown extended for at least three weeks https://t.co/VN0LLMHo7y

🔴Romanian fruit-pickers flown in to UK for lockdown harvest https://t.co/HPcP787V4a

🔴New police guidelines on 'reasonable excuses' for leaving home https://t.co/ZRMBtX8DpZ pic.twitter.com/aOISyjtJCu

— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 16, 2020

Fionola Meredith: Lifting of the lockdown has to be decided by science, not by a populace that is afraid https://t.co/eQM3TzhcZL pic.twitter.com/zX6yHijBZ3

— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) April 16, 2020

Good work, Apple and Google (and good quotes from @mikarv in this).
https://t.co/LfrcpFkh4k

— Kate (@katebevan) April 16, 2020

How many of the excess deaths per million in the UK are attributable to Boris Johnson toeing Cummings herd immunity line and failing to test and provide PPE?#BloodOnHands pic.twitter.com/cMgiILsi6f

— Dame Alun Roberts (@ciabaudo) April 16, 2020

Opinion | People Are Dying and All British Media Can Talk About Is Boris Johnson – The New York Times https://t.co/0HuAWzVXuU

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) April 16, 2020

Carrie Symonds clapped 'harder than ever' for carers this eveninghttps://t.co/h9av0zx1AN pic.twitter.com/1bbHwCgiT4

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) April 16, 2020

Downing Street has said Boris Johnson will look at ways to recognise the “heroic efforts”, of Captain Tom Moore, the 99-year-old who has raised over £13million for NHS charities by doing 100 laps of his garden https://t.co/WkKMnfuj8t pic.twitter.com/w4VgmaMZKd

— ITV News (@itvnews) April 16, 2020

The scene from Westminster bridge #ClapForCarers pic.twitter.com/JpzM0YBjgH

— Damir Rafi (@d_rafi1) April 16, 2020

Join our campaign to #HelpTheHungry during the coronavirus crisis 🥦 https://t.co/OCOm0I0DMs

— The Independent (@Independent) April 16, 2020

In an exclusive interview with the FT, French president Emmanuel Macron warned of the collapse of the EU as a 'political project' unless it supports stricken economies such as Italy and helps them recover from the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/3RtJHCNMl1 pic.twitter.com/AFATBjH4Vg

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 16, 2020

This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country's health system.

This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve pic.twitter.com/VzBLdh16kR

— Benjamin Alvarez (@BenjAlvarez1) April 15, 2020

Coronavirus: EU offers Italy 'heartfelt apology' over response – video https://t.co/RyxFhmPBhE

— The Guardian (@guardian) April 16, 2020

Five weeks after the first coronavirus case in Spain was reported, hundreds of mass gatherings were held in Madrid: protesters marched for International Women’s Day, a far-right party rallied at an event, and soccer fans packed a stadium. https://t.co/FNyZI4Pb5i

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 16, 2020

The Irish Times view on global warming: There can be no return to normal https://t.co/FdWf2vhey7 via @IrishTimesOpEd

— Irish Times Opinion (@IrishTimesOpEd) April 16, 2020