Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns

Plus: ‘1619 Project’ Pulitzer Prize Shows What’s Wrong With Our Institutions May 18, 2020 Good morning from Washington, where policymakers argue about how long America has stayed home because of COVID-19. A flawed computer model led to scrapping life as we knew it, Heritage Foundation statistician Kevin Dayaratna writes. The Trump administration shoots for a vaccine by year’s end, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, we learn about a nonprofit that serves those most threatened by the coronavirus. Plus: raising serious questions about domestic spying by the Obama administration, and allowing American history to be rewritten. On this date in 1860, the fledgling Republican Party, convening in Chicago, nominates a former congressman named Abraham Lincoln for president. Commentary [Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns]( [Photo]( By Kevin Dayaratna The Imperial College model predicted the United States could incur up to 1 million deaths even with “enhanced social distancing” guidelines, including “shielding the elderly.” [More]( Commentary [Awarding of Pulitzer Prize to the Deeply Flawed ‘1619 Project’ Highlights What’s Wrong With Many of Our Institutions]( [Photo]( By Jarrett Stepman ”The 1619 Project might not be correct in fact, but it’s “correct” in feeling. It’s correct by the measure of the identity politics ideology that has become the de facto ideological lens of our country’s elite, liberal institutions. [More]( Analysis [This Nonprofit Empowers African American Community During COVID-19]( [Photo]( By Virginia Allen Clovia Lawrence, co-founder of Project Give Back to Community, explains how she is stepping up to serve those more adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. [More]( News [‘Operation Warp Speed’ Seeks COVID-19 Vaccine by January]( [Photo]( By Fred Lucas New data “made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020,” says Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who is leading the vaccine effort. [More]( Analysis [What Does Facebook’s New Oversight Board Mean for Conservative Posts?]( [Photo]( By Virginia Allen Michael McConnell, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a co-chair of Facebook’s oversight board, joins the podcast to discuss what the board may mean for conservatives. [More]( News [White House Challenges Left’s Pandemic Playbook Narrative]( [Photo]( By Fred Lucas White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says the playbook from the Obama administration was an insufficient packet of paper, and the Trump administration’s own pandemic response exercise in 2019 exposed its shortcomings. [More]( News [Feed the Heroes Delivers a Hot Meal to DC’s Hospital Workers, First Responders]( [Photo]( By Virginia Allen “Together with Feed the Heroes, the Heritage family has been able to serve 800 hot meals to emergency room workers in just a few short weeks,” says Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James. [More]( Commentary [Obamagate Isn’t a Conspiracy Theory]( [Photo]( By David Harsanyi Those sharing #Obamagate on Twitter would do best to avoid the hysterics we saw from Russian-collusion believers, but they have no reason to ignore the mounting evidence that suggests the Obama administration engaged in serious corruption. [More]( [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. [Donate to The Daily Signal]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Twitter]( How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [comments@dailysignal.com](. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]( Add [morningbell@heritage.org]( to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.]( -