==LIVE: @VP
Mike Pence speaks at the @AF_Academy
graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colo.==
https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1251557360813740032
NEW DJT TWEETS
No matter what you do for the Do Nothing Democrats, no matter how GREAT a job you are doing, they will only respond to their Fake partners in the Lamestream Media in the negative, even in a time of crisis. I thought it would be different, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even worse…
….Example! V.P. Mike Pence held a conference call yesterday with all Democrat Senators. He gave them everything that they would have wanted to hear in terms of gaining ground on the CoronaVirus, but nothing that anyone could have said, including “it’s over”, could have made….
….them happy, or even a little bit satisfied. They were RUDE and NASTY. This is their political playbook, and they will use it right up to the election on November 3rd. They will not change because they feel that this is the only way they can win. America will not be fooled!!!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251561224120254464
New York sees lowest Covid-19 death toll in April, but reopening would require ‘ARMY’ for contact tracing and more tests
New York had its lowest death toll from Covid-19 since April 1, but Governor Andrew Cuomo warned a lot is still required before the state can start to reopen, including an ‘army’ of tracers and more coronavirus tests.
Though announcing 540 new Covid-19 deaths at his daily press briefing represents a fairly sharp decline from past weeks, Cuomo warned the numbers are still “soul-crushing,” and coronavirus hospitalization rates remain steady at about 2,000 new patients a day.
Remember: We still have about 2,000 new COVID hospitalizations daily.And we lost 540 New Yorkers yesterday. That is a soul-crushing loss.When you feel tired of social distancing, think of those we lost. That's what's at stake here.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 18, 2020
The governor also stressed the decline in the death toll does not mean the state is any closer to reopening and easing lockdown restrictions in place as more testing and tracing of the virus needs to be done.
https://www.rt.com/usa/486222-new-york-coronavirus-tracing-testing
80% of Restaurants Say They May Not Reopen — 11 Million Jobs on the Line — While Pelosi Sits at Home with Her Chocolates, Refuses to Approve More Loan Money
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/80-restaurants-say-may-not-reopen-11-million-jobs-line-pelosi-sits-home-chocolates-refused-approve-loan-money/
Always Ready, Always There #InThisTogether
Members of the Ohio National Guard continue to receive, package and distribute food and pantry items to the citizens of Ohio at locations across the state. To date, over 82,000 distributions have occurred.
https://twitter.com/USNationalGuard/status/1251563690412969986
Hi! Keep up the good work!
"The Fed Is All The Buyers Have": The Banks Agree Stocks Have Never Been More Expensive
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-all-buyers-have-banks-agree-stocks-have-never-been-more-expensive
WHITE HOUSE TWEET
Nancy Pelosi has vowed to fight President @realDonaldTrump
's hold on WHO funding—while refusing to vote on critical funding for America's small businesses.
More from @PressSec:
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1251567197849337861
University of Washington Lab Will Begin Testing of Thousands For COVID-19 Antibodies
GeekWire reports:
The University of Washington School of Medicine's Virology Lab is reporting encouraging results from trial runs of a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects the antibodies created by people who have had COVID-19, whether they knew they had it or not. "This is a really fantastic test," Keith Jerome, who leads UW Medicine's virology program, told reporters today. He said UW's lab could process 4,000 samples per day starting next week, and conceivably ramp up to 14,000 samples per day within a couple of weeks.
The test will be made available through health care providers, in medical clinics or perhaps through workplaces… Epidemiologists say knowing who has had the virus will be key to tracking the true spread of COVID-19, and giving assurances to people who are returning to school and work — particularly in front-line jobs ranging from first responders and health care workers to grocery store clerks.
"It's possible this could be part of a back-to-work process," Jerome said. It's not yet clear how much immunity people develop to COVID-19 in the course of fighting off the virus, but if SARS-CoV-2 behaves like other coronaviruses, people with antibodies should have at least some protection from re-infection…
There's also a chance that being able to detect antibodies for COVID-19 will speed the development of vaccines in the months ahead.
1 million of the tests will be shipped this week in the U.S., and up to 4 million in the month of April, GeekWire reports.
And by June the company plans to be shipping 20 million tests per month.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/04/18/0438201/university-of-washington-lab-will-begin-testing-of-thousands-for-covid-19-antibodies
April 18 marks the 78th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, a joint bombing operation on the Japanese mainland aimed to inflict both material & psychological damage upon the enemy following the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
https://twitter.com/usairforce/status/1251570189268901894
Rest in peace Office Manager Linda McKinney. We have the watch from here.
https://twitter.com/SecretService/status/1251571193825632257