7. Sanders endorses Biden
- It was less than a week ago that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) suspended his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, and now he has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, saying “we need” him in the White House.
- Sanders called on Democrats, independents and even Republicans “to come together in this campaign to support” Biden “to make certain that we defeat somebody who … is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country.” Big hitters like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have still not endorsed Biden.
6. Coronavirus treatment showing promising results
- Fifty-three coronavirus patients who were very sick were treated with the drug remdesivir, a treatment developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
- Seven of the patients died, but more than two-thirds showed improvement with the treatment. The patients were from the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe.
5. Dr. Fauci and Gov. Cuomo blow up a media narrative
- The American media has been trying to push the narrative that Trump was not listening to his advisors about shutdowns and was preparing to fire media darling Dr. Anthony Fauci, but Fauci nuked both takes by saying, “It was a poor choice of words. There wasn’t anybody saying, ‘No, you shouldn’t do that.’” He added, “The first and only time that I went in and said we should do mitigation strongly, the response was, ‘yes, we’ll do it.’”
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has spoken in favor of President Donald Trump, saying that he “has delivered for New York” during the coronavirus pandemic. He also described the president as “amazingly accessible.”
4. Coronavirus impacts start to delay growth
- The new Mazda-Toyota plant in Huntsville will delay its start of production due to the coronavirus, which was supposed to begin in 2021, making it clear that this pain is going to be felt far after the virus is contained.
- Spokeswoman for Mazda-Toyota Manufacturing Toni Eberhart announced that production at the plant would be delayed until a later time in 2021, saying the coronavirus has been “impacting our ability to maintain critical equipment delivery schedules, creating labor shortages and slowing construction.”
3. Abortion apparently essential in Alabama
- The same judge who blocked the abortion ban from taking effect in November, United States District Judge Myron Thompson, has issued a preliminary injunction to keep abortion clinics open during the coronavirus pandemic.
- An Alabama Department of Public Health order has stopped all unnecessary medical procedures during this time, but Thompson said the “medical judgment of abortion providers will be treated with the same respect and deference as the judgments of other medical providers. The decisions will not be singled out for adverse consequences because the services in question are abortions or abortion-related.”
2. Fewer coronavirus patients at UAB
- Officials at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital have said we “cannot afford to slip up now” after announcing that the number of coronavirus patients at the hospital is down to 38.
- In a statement released by UAB that may show we have flattened and bent the curve, they encourage people to “continue to follow their stay-at-home orders” if we want to “see a decrease in the numbers statewide” of coronavirus cases. The peak number of patients at the facility has been 62 so far.
1. Alabama’s response to the virus is working
- Despite what the media is trying to tell you, Alabama is socially distancing, and the projections are showing that it is working with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showing we have gone from projections of 25,000 dead in Alabama to a new projection of 351 as of Monday.
- Huntsville has even expanded its coronavirus testing to homeless camps in the city, but has continued to keep its numbers low. Mayor Tommy Battle noted that Huntsville still has fewer cases than Mobile, Jefferson, Lee, Shelby and Chambers Counties.
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