From The Guardian: Asked by the RTHK reporter, Yvonne Tong, if the WHO would reconsider Taiwan’s membership, Aylward didn’t respond for several seconds, before saying he couldn’t hear the question. Tong offered to repeat...
Gertz: Chinese government researchers isolated more than 2,000 new viruses, including deadly bat coronaviruses, and carried out scientific work on them just three miles from a wild animal market identified as the epicenter of the...
As of 1430 EST on 3/31/20, using the John Hopkins Wuhan virus data aggregator site, at the current rate of growth in the number of infected, I estimate that within eight days one percent...
See the State by State list.
From the Daily Kos: She was even more explicit in this NY Times interview a couple of weeks ago. “There’s so much emphasis on making outreach as conflict-based as possible,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “And sometimes I even feel...
Given the cheap price of oil, perhaps it is time to double our national strategic petroleum reserve.
From Politico: Ocasio-Cortez’s shift coincides with turnover among top aides in her congressional office — replacing some outspoken radicals with more traditional political professionals — along with a broader reckoning on the left on...
I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one…. — Donald...
From Bloomberg: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun assembling a next round of stimulus legislation that would include significant funds for cash-strapped states facing record revenue shortfalls and more direct payments to individuals. Just...
It seems fairly straight-forward, obviously, yes.
From CNBC: Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Tuesday that salons, barbershops and other services not related to emergency response will be shut down. The city previously closed schools, museums, libraries, fitness centers and other businesses. “We...
From RealClearInvestigations: China is waging a propaganda war against the coronavirus on several fronts. In addition to its well-documented efforts to deflect attention from its early suppression of information about the disease and to...
From Vice: Many employees say the protections and policies Whole Foods has offered fail to protect workers as many workers do not have enough savings to stay home from work even if they’re sick and coronavirus...
Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College and I have had differing views about the Wuhan virus since it was first reported. Ferguson took a much more alarmist view out-of-the-gate, while I was the first...
From the Wall Street Journal: For my entire career, I have taken a conservative approach to medicine. I don’t want to give false or premature hope. All of this is subject to further refinement...
It is clear that certain conservatives are unnerved and frightened by AOC. They should be, she is a courageous and powerful woman of color. It is without exaggeration that she has achieved more as...
It bears noting that more than four weeks ago, I wrote this blog titled: “Historians will Point to the Lack of Test Kits for the Wuhan Virus as to What Allowed it to Gain...
See the projections here.
From The Hill: Lawmakers are already planning another round of legislation aimed at keeping companies flush with capital and millions of workers on payrolls amid the coronavirus pandemic, even after passing a $2 trillion...
From CNN: Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “his denial at the beginning was deadly” and that as he “fiddles, people are...
He did promise "America First." https://t.co/bzks3hqCUE — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 27, 2020
From DW: Hundreds of thousands of masks sent to Dutch hospitals have been recalled after tests showed they failed to protect the face or had defective filters. The Netherlands recently bought 1.3 million masks...
These workers are our nation’s surge capacity during this pandemic and are now and should be recognized as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. They should be given increase compensation, just like combat pay,...
From The Daily Beast: Classified Chinese government data suggest “silent carriers” could make up at least one-third of the country’s positive cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post recently reported. Approximately...
From ABC NEWS: While it might be impossible to figure out who is going to become sick with novel coronavirus, some public health experts believe the more critical question may be who has already been exposed. In...
By Mike Ahmadi I think America may finally be waking up to the utter bullshit the insurance led for-profit healthcare system really is. We are literally still dealing with healthcare professionals that are being...
By Cory Mills: Iranian leaders hoping to seize on the United States military engagement in the coronavirus pandemic have been dealt another hard dose of reality: America’s military remains well prepared to defend our...
By A Guest Author I read a bunch of these every day and they all suffer from the same basic misunderstanding – gee, if Trump hadn’t fired the pandemic coordinating team at the National...
From The Epoch Times: MILAN—Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 may be a signal...
From Bloomberg: The closures of schools, factories and offices to prevent spread of the coronavirus will “profoundly impact” the U.S. power sector, according to BloombergNEF. Already in New York, electricity use dropped about 7%...
From the NYT: WASHINGTON — China and Russia have both seized on the novel coronavirus to wage disinformation campaigns that seek to sow doubts about the United States’ handling of the crisis and deflect...
Italy’s nightmare Wuhan virus attack was seeded by Italy’s Chinese workers from Milan returning from their annual New Year’s holiday in China. As Grace-Marie Turner points out: One reason can be explained by this 2018...
From BloombergQuint: The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of...
From Yahoo News: According to the account Giardinieri provided to Yahoo News, doctors never told him his diagnosis of the coronavirus compounded with pneumonia would be fatal, but by Friday he’d become convinced that...
From Futurism: What we’re learning from Iceland this week is as fascinating as it is crucial to fighting the coronavirus epidemic: That somewhere in the neighborhood of half of everyone testing positive for the coronavirus will...
From The Atlantic: It started with an unsubstantiated rumor. “You can laugh now,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show on December 19, 1973, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t—but it...
From Bloomberg via Yahoo: Antibody tests — simple blood tests that can detect whether a person has developed antibodies, and thus immunity, from the coronavirus — could well be the answer. They are easy...
Not knowing which bottle to have with dinner #RichFolkLockdownProblems pic.twitter.com/ICM0BYzi2j — B.J. (@brob2268) March 28, 2020 #RichFolkLockdownProblemsCan't work the helicopter pic.twitter.com/HuwuUfDQZK — Jerry Chacon (@chaconkie) March 28, 2020
Jussie Smollett Claims 2 Chinese Men in MAGA Hats Coughed on Him
From USA Today: The law means fewer people showing up at emergency rooms because they have nowhere else to go. It means more people getting medical advice that could help them avoid contracting the...
From FOX NEWS: In a press conference in Albany, Cuomo said the smartest way forward would be a public health strategy that complemented a “get-back-to-work strategy.” “What we did was we closed everything down....
From The Spectator: The White House trade adviser says Big Pharma wants to ‘preserve its offshore oligopoly’ White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is hitting back at a group of Big Pharma lobbyists, medical...
The must-watch video below, of a month’s worth of travel from the beaches of Ft. Lauderdale, FL to back home, is an eye-opening example of how Americans not heeding the 15 days to Stop...
Continuing our look at #SocialDistancing impact on #COVID19 … This week @NYGovCuomo took decisive action calling for New Yorkers to #StayHome We took a look at mobile device movement leaving NY this week and...
Marc Thiessen: President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense. After the president expressed hope...
(1/11)I swore an oath to uphold the constitution, and I take that oath seriously. In a few moments I will request a vote on the CARES Act which means members of Congress will vote...
Freedom caucus — founded by cos @MarkMeadows — turns its back on trump, declines to support the bill. pic.twitter.com/Zt9h9WnGH9 — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 27, 2020
From The Daily Caller: Renowned epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College suggested in his model last week the U.S. and the U.K. would have to continue to shut down for as many as 18 months...
From ProPublica: Since August 2019, ProPublica has tracked more than 10,000 suspected fake Twitter accounts involved in a coordinated influence campaign with ties to the Chinese government. Among those are the hacked accounts of...
Texas Monthly: We’ve seen chains struggle with the challenges the current crisis presents. Some stores are instituting policies limiting the numbers of shoppers allowed in at a time, creating long waits to enter. Perhaps...
From Politico: Social distancing might raise the risk of homegrown radicalization, he noted, as isolated people with loads of free time get pulled down disinformation rabbit holes online. “The idea that that can lead...
From Yahoo News: According to Reade, Biden pressed her up against a wall and digitally penetrated her without her consent. “It happened all at once, and then… his hands were on me and underneath...
From Yahoo News: Representatives from the Group of Seven nations met Wednesday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, but they couldn’t agree on a joint statement to release to the public afterwards. German newspaper Der Spiegel reported...
Voice vote means the bill will pass the U.S. House on Friday.
From Politico: As countries across the world announce lockdowns and multi-billion-euro bailouts, they know these can only offer short-term fixes. National leaders have one eye squarely on the calendar and are trying to calculate...
From Elpais in Spain: The much-announced rapid tests for coronaviruses with which the Government wanted to start testing the broader layers of the population to find out what is the real size of the contagion...
Spain bought 640,000 testing kits from China. They don’t work https://t.co/Q2wrgsapDn — Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) March 26, 2020
From The Hill: China’s government is taking aim at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the country’s harshest criticism yet of Trump administration officials who have insisted on referring to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan” or “China” virus. Foreign...
From Bloomberg News: The U.S. Senate approved a historic $2 trillion rescue plan to respond to the economic and health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, putting pressure on the Democratic-led House to pass the bill...
From the Las Vegas Sun: These are people like the grocery staffers who stock shelves, ring up purchases and wipe down shopping carts with disinfectant. Like the restaurant employees who prepare and serve takeout...
From NBC: In every crisis, there is an opportunity. Amid a global pandemic, it looks like my own Gen X has finally found ours. As the generation raised in the age of stranger danger and...
From The Spectator: Britain is now locked down for at least three weeks, but could the government’s original policy of relying on herd immunity have been right all along? That is the inference of...
Cuomo’s prison made hand sanitizer is actually rebottled hand sanitizer from some other vendor.
From CNN: (CNN) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the high-profile freshman from New York, is leaving open the option of forcing House members to return to Washington to cast a vote on the $2 trillion stimulus package...
Health Policy Provisions of the Pandemic Legislation.
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Section by Section of Unemployment and other benefits of the Pandemic CARES Act.
According to Der Spiegel, the G7 foreign ministers haven't been able to agree on a joint statement because of Pompeo's insistence it refer to #coronavirus as the "Wuhan virus". Pompeo did not deny that...
Becker’s Hospital Review: Telehealth services have seen a 312 percent increase in demand from New York patients amid the coronavirus outbreak, Amwell spokesperson Holly Spring told CNBC News. “The rate of use of telehealth …...
Mark Steyn: The banner at right flutters over a franchise of the Chinese restaurant chain Mama Yang. If you don’t speak ChiCom Wuhu, it reads: Huge congratulations to the American epidemic and long live the...
Here’s what is expected to be in the final bill, though specifics are subject to change because its final text has yet to be distributed: Direct payments: The bill would distribute up to $1,200 to Americans...
From The Critic: Once the virus made its inevitable outward march, claiming lives beyond China’s borders, the CPC mounted a major public relations exercise that exploited common human decencies to evade accountability. Criticism of...
From Information: The Icelandic health authorities have found 40 coronavirus mutations among infected people in the country. A single person has been found to be infected with two variants of new coronavirus. The health authorities,...
Swell Life: I have been a resident of the city of San Francisco for over two decades. In this time, I have seen two devastating economic recessions (the dot-com bust and the wall street...
Just the News: When the coronavirus crisis slows, congressional Republicans plan to unleash sweeping health care reform proposals that would draw a sharp contrast with Democrats’ Medicare-for-All and public option plans by empowering patients...
From the Washington Examiner: American companies that produce essential goods in China should plan to shift their operations back to the United States or other Western countries, according to a senior Republican lawmaker. “We’re...
The Federalist: The Chinese communists are afraid. You might not guess it from the invertebrate and borderline anti-national corporate media parroting Chinese state propaganda, but they are. Beijing is shaken. Their dream of dominating...
ABC NEWS: An investor in Wyndham Hotel stock has sued Sen. Richard Burr in federal court, alleging the North Carolina Republican used inside information he learned as chairman of the Senate’s intelligence committee —...
From The Daily Beast: Some emergency room doctors in the U.S. have already tested positive for the virus, and other medical providers have personally prepared for the possibility of infection—creating wills, isolating off parts of their...
Watch British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, start the video at 12:05.
From Bloomberg: People are still testing positive for the new coronavirus in Wuhan four days after China said there have been no new cases at the epicenter of its outbreak, a local magazine reported,...
As the only reporter in the Senate chamber for all that – let me just say WOW. I’ve seen a lot, never seen anything quite like that. Need to send notes to my newsroom,...
From The Today Show: https://www.today.com/video/us-surgeon-general-jerome-adams-on-coronavirus-this-week-it-s-going-to-get-bad-81091141801
From the NYT: the agenda is to survive and watch too much TV. We are eating cookies and carbs and hoping for the best. We are loving one another and trying not to go...
From CNN: (CNN)The Democratic Party’s leading super PAC this week is launching ads in a $6 million campaign that slams President Donald Trump for his response to the coronavirus pandemic — in one of the first...
Important message in English from Defense Minister @Naftali_Bennett @naftalibennett: pic.twitter.com/Ti6k5is1Ht — Jeremy Saltan (@TheJeremyMan) March 20, 2020
From The Economic Times and The India Times: A mother who was infected with the coronavirus couldn’t smell her baby’s full diaper. Cooks who can usually name every spice in a restaurant dish can’t...
From FOX NEWS: Democrats risk being portrayed by Trump as politically bent on stopping him at any cost. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the move by Democrats is “irresponsible and unwise.” “They are playing with...
From RCP: “If we must have an absurd debate on whether it’s racist to refer to the ‘Chinese virus,’ fine, but is it too much to ask that purportedly objective reporters not take a...
From The Hill: “We are going to get it under control, but it China had right up front done what it should have done as responsible world citizen[s], we would not be in this position...