In the big picture, sacrificing a few months of activity to help slow the spread is not asking for much. The smaller picture — the one my wife and I navigate daily — is trickier.
In a statement, Wolf's office said “irresponsibly going against the direction of the secretary of health and reopening businesses too early will only extend the length of the economic hardships created by the pandemic.”
Gov. Tom Wolf's office gave the OK to reopen 106 of the state system's 600 stores for online fulfillment but not for public retail sales.
“The magnitude of the crushing economic impact this virus has had on our states and residents cannot be overstated," Wolf wrote in a letter to President Trump with the governors of Michigan and Wisconsin.
Roughly 22 million filed for unemployment benefits in the past month — easily the worst U.S. job losses. But only 12 million people are getting the checks.
Requests from Democrats are three times more common than from Republicans, state elections officials said Tuesday.
"I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now," Obama said in a nearly 12- minute video.
The backing is a crucial development for Biden, who must bridge the Democratic Party's ideological divide to unify voters against President Donald Trump in the fall.
Asking people to work at polling places and vote there goes against the social-distancing requirements, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said.
Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they'd been started earlier, said the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump now wants him fired.
