Please Politicize the State Department and FDA; It Beats the Alternative

Please Politicize the State Department and FDA; It Beats the Alternative

The latest line of attack against President Donald Trump is that he's inserting politics into government matters.

This has come up on at least two fronts recently — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech to the Republican National Convention, and the federal Food and Drug Administration's emergency-use approval of convalescent plasma as a therapy for Covid-19 patients. In both cases, it's an attack that reflects more poorly on the assumptions of Trump's critics than on Trump himself.

Massachusetts Takes Four States Off Coronavirus Travel Restriction List
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Massachusetts Takes Four States Off Coronavirus Travel Restriction List

Tom Joyce

Restrictions to enter Massachusetts are now looser for people coming from a few states.

Massachusetts residents returning home from Colorado, Delaware, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania as well as visitors from those respective states are now exempt from the governor's two-week quarantine period. Previously, that only would have been the case if the visitor could have provided a negative coronavirus test within 72 hours of coming to the state, as MassLive reports.

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