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Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 05/11/2020, including: Texas A&M researchers hope tuberculosis vaccine might prevent coronavirus deaths. Health care workers are being recruited for trials to test whether a decades-old TB vaccine might help people fight off the coronavirus. It's not a cure, but it could be a crucial treatment. A coalition of progressive groups, many funded by billionaire George Soros, is sponsoring a “People’s Bailout” community organizing outfit nudging Congress to use the next stimulus package during the coronavirus crisis to enact reforms that would fundamentally transform American society by achieving longtime progressive aims. U.S. adults are having trouble concentrating on work and it's costing employers productivity and engagement.

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 05/08/2020, including: The NFL releases its regular season schedule in a marathon, prime time television shows. The “Lockdown Extremists” are moving the bar as the nation slowly reopens from the coronavirus pandemic. April’s employment report, to be released Friday, will almost certainly show that the coronavirus pandemic inflicted the largest one-month blow to the U.S. labor market on record.

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 05/07/2020, including: I am sick of seeing Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx promise that if we are good, they will feed us teaspoons of our constitutional freedoms at their discretion. I am sick of TV commercials designed to frighten and shame us into obeying tyrannical governors. I am sick of TV images of exhausted health workers to sell the lie that hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. I am sick of well-meaning people ending conversations with “Stay safe” as if a unique monster is lurking outside. I am sick of pundits saying we need to reopen America safely and responsibly as if going back to normal life is unthinkable and dangerous. Dr. Ben Carson announced that 98% of people who get coronavirus recover. Harris County has been implementing lenient bonds policies for habitual criminals even prior to the coronavirus outbreak – now we’re paying the price.