President Trump announced Sunday evening that the United States had passed a major coronavirus testing milestone, telling reporters that 4.18 million Americans have now been screened -- more than France, the U.K., South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Austria, Australia, Sweden and Canada combined...
President Trump must ensure that China pays a considerable price for any actions that cost our country tens of thousands of lives, trillions of dollars of economic growth along with trillions more in debt, precious jobs lost and something even more important: a sense of security that may not return for years — if eveR...
Social distancing is working and a First Coast doctor said Friday it's credited with helping Jacksonville and Florida in flattening the coronavirus curve.
"All it took is for us to socially distance and do some of the things we've done to keep the health care system open for other people who may need it," Dr. Sunil Joshi said in a Facebook post...
Recently, an old friend said, “Porter, I’m almost afraid to ask… but what do you think about all of this madness, about the government telling everyone they have to sit in their houses? How long do you think this can go on?”
What do I think? You probably won’t like it…
We are going through the greatest mass delusion in history. Never in my life have I ever been more ashamed of our elected officials. And never in my wildest dreams did I think our entire country would fall for such complete nonsense on such an enormous scale...
President Trump has wisely unveiled a comprehensive three-phase plan to gradually reopen the economy while safeguarding our hard-won public health victories.
Contrary to what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her ilk would have you believe, no one wants to rush this. But it’s important to acknowledge some need for urgency. A recent article from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center described the situation accurately and succinctly: “the virus is lethal; but so is poverty.”
Florida has passed the projected peak in daily fatalities and hospitalizations from the novel coronavirus, according to one influential model.
The model, by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, suggests the state passed the peak in new deaths on April 2, when 77 people died, and that the final death toll will be 1,363 after an update Saturday. On Monday, the model’s prior update guessed 4,748 Floridians would die by the end of the outbreak with 128 Floridians dying per day at a peak on May 6.
