The news out of Italy confirms that a lock down and social distancing is the best way to slow the spread and cull the deaths from this virus. Two consecutive days of declines, after months of increases, is some of the only recent good news. Italy is now in day 15 of lockdown and the trends started to show declines in day 12.
Social distancing and lockdowns work.
And the media will continue to fail
Media like the NYT, Washington Post, AP, NPR, The Atlantic, and many others, have done an excellent job covering the coronavirus. Where Americans used to be able to rely on the Federal government to give them honest, sober, fact-based information about health threats, all we can rely on today is independent press and facts-based journalism. I really hate to cast such a wide net over all media like "the media is failing," because a lot of journalists are putting their lives at risk and being separated from their families to fill the void that our government has left on informing Americans of reality.
Moreover, it plays into Donald Trump's no-truth-only-Trump narrative. He'd love for all Americans to deeply distrust the media and only have faith in him alone. Please don't cede that to him.