President Trump made his first trip outside Washington in more than a month Tuesday — as Vice President Mike Pence said the White House’s coronavirus task force is winding down and could be disbanded later this month.
“The people of our country should think of themselves as warriors. We have to open,” Trump told reporters before jetting off to in Arizona to visit a face-mask factory.
As the country reopens, Pence said his goal was to start handing responsibility back to various government agencies by the May 25 Memorial Day weekend.
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Here’s what else we learned today:
New York crisis:
- State and city leaders were outraged about Trump’s comments to The Post that Democrat-controlled states shouldn’t receive federal coronavirus bailouts.
- The pandemic has battered New York’s economy — and an alarming new report found that one in five Big Apple residents could lose their jobs by the end of next month.
- This as the virus’ death toll on the state’s most vulnerable residents in nursing homes skyrocketed to at least 4,800.
- Scores of out-of-town medics have flocked to the Empire State to lend a hand. Read one Nevada nurse’s horrifying account of what she saw in Brooklyn.
- And 15 kids in New York City have been hospitalized with a rare, life-threatening inflammatory syndrome potentially associated with COVID-19.
Nevada nurse Susan Yowell was sent to Brooklyn for a month to help with NYC’s coronavirus pandemic response.L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-JournalResearch continues:
- This is the first detailed, glowing images of the novel coronavirus, showing it multiplying in the gut.
- A mutation in the virus mirrors a change that occurred as the 2003 SARS virus began to weaken, a new study found.
- But another study says it has grown more contagious.
- European scientists say they discovered an antibody that “neutralizes” the virus, hailing it as a potential treatment.
- A potential vaccine being trialed in New York could be ready by the end of the year.
Meat shortage
- Hamburgers have disappeared from some Wendy’s restaurants as the pandemic roils the country’s meat supply.
- But the meat-free Impossible burger is coming to Kroger’s 1,700 supermarkets across the US.
Meanwhile…
- A surprising number of centenarians have defied the odds and kicked the virus — meet some of the world’s oldest COVID-19 survivors.
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