Latest Stories By Amy Sherman

An upbeat TV ad from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign praises his response to the pandemic and includes clips of Democrats praising him. The overall message of the ad, titled “American Comeback,” is that Trump and the United States will persevere, despite what Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have said. “No matter how […]

President Donald Trump celebrated the early results of a federal study looking into the impact of sunlight, heat and humidity on COVID-19. At his nightly White House briefing, Trump suggested the preliminary findings supported his earlier view that the virus would disappear in April. “I once mentioned that maybe it does go away with heat […]

The coronavirus has two battlegrounds in America — one in the field of medicine and public health, and the other in politics.  On the political front, the Trump campaign launched an ad April 9 that accused Democrat Joe Biden of protecting China’s image as the pandemic unfolded. The Biden campaign returned with a new ad, […]

In a White House COVID-19 briefing, Jared Kushner picked up on President Donald Trump’s theme that the states should do more to obtain medical supplies rather than rely on the federal stockpile. “You also have a situation where in some states, FEMA allocated ventilators to the states and you have instances where in cities they’re […]

By early March, the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented shortage of hand sanitizers at stores and online. A reader asked us, when will we be able to buy hand sanitizer again?  The short answer is, it doesn’t appear anytime soon. “The issue is we have a huge surge in demand across all sectors, so supply […]

States have been clashing with the federal government over who’s responsible for ensuring that critical medical equipment and supplies get to the places that need them most amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  After declaring a national emergency over the health crisis on March 13, President Donald Trump directed governors to order their own ventilators, respirators and […]

Many of the states with more than 1,000 coronavirus cases have told their residents to stay at home to limit the spread. Not Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis is against it. DeSantis prefers a “surgical” approach, with measures tailored for the hardest-hit counties that spare ones with few or zero cases from the economic hardship of […]

The coronavirus pandemic has already forced more than a half dozen states to delay their Democratic primaries, with more states likely to follow. This has raised an urgent question: Could the pandemic still be dangerous enough in November that the general election will have to be held mostly or entirely by mail? On the federal […]

Editor’s note: We updated the timeline Jan. 19, 2021. In the span of one year, Americans went from hearing about a new virus in central China to watching the slow rollout of a vaccine, with only a small percentage of Americans able to access it in the first several weeks.  In between, they endured months […]

A Miami Beach city commissioner created a stir when he suggested that first responders should try to catch coronavirus so that they will develop immunity. Commissioner Ricky Arriola said at a March 13 meeting  that he was researching whether someone develops immunity after they recover from COVID-19. “Some doctors have told me yes,” Arriola said. […]

Joe Biden defends his record on Social Security in a new ad designed to push back against attacks by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Super Tuesday: state after state after state called for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders goes on the attack. PolitiFact has called the Sanders campaign’s attacks false. Joe Biden has always been a strong […]

President Donald Trump made a series of misleading statements about the coronavirus and his Democratic rivals at his first town hall event of 2020.