Governors

A study has found that Republican governors waited longer than Democratic governors to issuing mask-wearing mandates as a preventive measure against COVID-19. Share on PinterestPreliminary research looks at the links between state governors’ political alignment and how long it took to mandate face masks in their respective states.Christopher Adolph, of the University of Washington (UW)…

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have yet to comment after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday dropped its recommendation for travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon returning from trips overseas or out of state during the coronavirus pandemic.The three states have two-week quarantine requirements for travelers coming from 35 states and territories.The…

Some Republican governors have been holding regular conference calls to complain about President Donald Trump and swap ideas about how to cope with coronavirus outbreaks in their states, The New York Times reported.In recent months, several Republican lawmakers have broken with the president to back restrictions as the coronavirus spreads through the US.Trump has downplayed…

“And I don’t agree with the statement that if everybody wears a mask, everything disappears,” the president told Fox News host Chris Wallace in the interview, undercutting the messaging from his own government experts. Several months into a global pandemic that has infected 3.7 million Americans and killed more than 140,000 people in the U.S.,…

The National Governors Association (NGA) on Thursday called on the Trump administration to postpone planned alterations to hospital reporting requirements for 30 days.“The administration has stated that they plan to utilize this data to better allocate supplies and drugs to states,” the NGA said in a statement.“To ensure the accurate reporting of this data, governors…