CNN: Seven States have more than 5,000 Cases — NY, NJ, MI, CA, MA, FL and IL
See the State by State list.
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Daily Kos: AOC Broke with Bernie because She can do Math
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...
GasBuddy: $1.99 a Gallon is the U.S. National Average, by Mid-April Many Stations may be Selling Gas at 0.99 a Gallon
Given the cheap price of oil, perhaps it is time to double our national strategic petroleum reserve.
Politico: AOC breaks with Bernie on how to lead the left
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...
Meadows to resign from Congress this afternoon, officially starts as Trump’s chief of staff tomorrow
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...
Pelosi Begins Drawing Up Next Pandemic Bill to Be Ready When Congress Returns April 22
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...
States Urged to Designate Utility Workers ‘Essential’ During Pandemic
It seems fairly straight-forward, obviously, yes.
DC has No Shelter-in-place Order, but Virtually All Businesses are Shut Down
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...
Real Clear Investigations: China’s Propaganda War Against the U.S. Over the Wuhan Virus
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...
Vice: Whole Foods Worker Issues Under a Pandemic Come to a Head, “sick-out” planned
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...
Clarity Regarding the Pandemic: Millions Won’t Die because of America’s 21st Century Response
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...
WSJ: Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin continue to show results Against the Wuhan Virus in the Severely ill
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...
Comparing AOC to Hitler is Vile and Disgusting — and it Pisses Me Off
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...
NYT: The Lost Month — How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to the Wuhan Virus
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...
Dr. Brix: State by State Projections of Ventilators and ICU Beds Needed, and Short Falls, by Date
See the projections here.
Lawmakers already planning more coronavirus stimulus after $2T package
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...
Pelosi on Trump’s coronavirus response: ‘As the President fiddles, people are dying’
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...
Hillary Clinton: “He did promise America First.”
He did promise "America First." https://t.co/bzks3hqCUE — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Netherlands recalls ‘defective’ masks bought from China
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...
USA Today: Instacart Workers Threaten Strike over Working Conditions During the Pandemic
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,...
Are a Third of Infected Asymptomatic Spreaders?
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...
Antibody Test Roll-out in Colorado, Builds on Testing Done in China
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...
Ahmadi: “Stop believing the propaganda that health insurance lobbyists keep shoving down our throats.”
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...
Mills: Multiple Iranian Truck-Mounted Katyusha Rocket Attacks Against American Bases in Iraq go Unanswered
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...
If Only Trump hadn’t fired the pandemic coordinating team at the National Security Council
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...
Italians Investigate if “higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy” was from the Wuhan Virus
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...
As Lockdown Orders Spread, Demand for Power Drops — so do Prices, Down 10% in New York
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%...
NYT: As the Wuhan Virus Spreads, China and Russia See Openings for Disinformation
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 Explosive Wuhan Virus Infections Seeded by Chinese Workers in Milan
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...
Abbot Labs Launches a Five-Minute Portable Wuhan Virus Test, for Use Anywhere
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...
Florida Man Believes Hydroxychloroquine Saved him from Certain Death from the Wuhan Virus
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...
Iceland’s Great Contribution to the Wuhan Virus Fight: Testing Shows Half of Infected have No Symptoms
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...
The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973
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...
Bloomberg: It’s Time to Start Testing for Wuhan Virus Immunity
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...
#RichFolkLockdownProblems
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
Madhouse Magazine: Jussie Smollett Claims Two Chinese Men in Maga Hats Coughed on Him
Jussie Smollett Claims 2 Chinese Men in MAGA Hats Coughed on Him
USA Today: Killing ObamaCare in the Middle of a Pandemic would be Insane
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...
Gov. Cuomo: Locking the Old and Young Together in Quarantine Probably Not the Best Strategy for Public Health or the Economy
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....
Peter Navarro blasts ‘Swamp Creature’ opponents of ‘Buy American’ order
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...
Spring Break ‘Heat Map’ and ‘Spider Query’ Shows Cell Phone Travel from Ft. Lauderdale Beach to Back Home
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...
The Same ‘Spider Query’ for New York City for Only Two Days of Travel in March
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...
Trump understands the current lockdown is economically and politically unsustainable
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...
Congressman Massie Forces his Colleagues to Fly Back to DC and Have a Roll Call Vote on Pandemic Rescue Bill
(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 at No on $2T Pandemic Rescue Bill
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
Ferguson, Doctor Behind Coronavirus Imperial College Study, Revises Predictions
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...
ProPublica: How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus
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...
The Inside Story of Supply Chain Pandemic Prep and How One Company Prepared
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...
Politico: Is Social Distancing Accelerating Terror Threats by Increasing Radicalization and Alienation?
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...
Biden Faces Sexual Assault Allegations From A Former Staffer
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...
A G-7 joint statement on Wuhan Virus failed because the U.S. insisted on calling it the ‘Wuhan virus’
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...
Pelosi says House will take up Wuhan Virus relief bill on Friday by Voice Vote
Voice vote means the bill will pass the U.S. House on Friday.
Locked-down Europe asks: How long can we afford this?
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...
640,000 Virus Test Spain Bought from China Don’t Work: “They do not detect the positive cases as expected”
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
Spain bought 640,000 testing kits from China. They don’t work https://t.co/Q2wrgsapDn — Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) March 26, 2020
China: Pompeo has ‘sinister motive’ for pushing ‘Wuhan virus’ language
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...
House Faces Urgency to Act on $2 Trillion Virus Rescue after Senate Passes the Bill
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...
Value of those Workers Performing Critical Infrastructure Tasks is Being Re-evaluated
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...
Gen X Revel in Lock-Down, Boomers and Millennials — Not so Much
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...
An Italian study published yesterday suggests that between 50 percent and 75 percent of those infected show no symptoms
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...
Vice: Cuomo’s Prison Workers Say They’re Not Actually Making Hand Sanitizer, Inmates told VICE that they’re really just Rebottling a Mysterious Vendor’s Existing Product in ‘NYS Clean’ bottles
Cuomo’s prison made hand sanitizer is actually rebottled hand sanitizer from some other vendor.
AOC: Change the Bill or I Will Force Everyone Back to DC
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...
Section by Section Description by the Senate Finance Committee of the Health Care Provisions of the Pandemic CARE Act Legislation
Health Policy Provisions of the Pandemic Legislation.
Fidelity: Using Your HSA During this Time of the Pandemic
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Section by Section from the Senate Finance Committee on Unemployment and Other Benefits of the Pandemic CARES Act
Section by Section of Unemployment and other benefits of the Pandemic CARES Act.
Best News Ever: Der Spiegel Reports Sec. Pompeo Insisting on G7 Statement Refer to the “Wuhan Virus”
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...
Telemedicine Supply Glitchy: “Major Lag Times”
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 …...
Steyn: Chinese Banner Gloats that Wuhan Virus is Hitting the U.S. and Japan
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...
Small Business to get $370 Billion to Make Payroll, Individuals $1,200 check plus Higher Unemployment
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...
The Coronavirus Cover-Up: How the West’s fear of appearing racist obscures the blunders at the beginning of this outbreak
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...
Scientists found 40 mutations of the Wuhan virus on the tiny island of Iceland with 364,000 people
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,...
Bay Area of San Fran is Flattening the Curve — Shelter in Place Seems to be Working
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...
When virus recedes, GOP plans to unleash sweeping health care reform plan
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...
‘Cheap manufacturing be damned’: Sentiment builds for moving U.S. companies out of China
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...
China Is Lashing Out Because Wuhan Virus Has Unmasked It To The World
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...
Investor Sues Sen. Richard Burr over Stock Sales Ahead of Wuhan Virus Pandemic
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 —...
U.S. Doctors Prepare Wills, Recordings for their Children as Italy-like Scenarios Swirl
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...
Start at 12:05, Watch Boris Johnson’s Clear and Easy to Understand Statement about UK Going Into Lockdown
Watch British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, start the video at 12:05.
Bloomberg: Wuhan Still Finding Symptom-Free Virus Cases, Caixin Reports
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,...
Senate Meltdown
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,...
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams: “I Need America to Understand, It’s Goin’a Get Bad this Week”
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
Education Professor is at Nyet — “I Refuse to Run” a Wuhan Virus Homeschool
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...
Democratic group launches $6 million campaign attacking Trump on Wuhan Virus response
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...
Israeli Defense Minister: Here is the “Single Most Important Insight” of the Entire Wuhan Virus Pandemic
Important message in English from Defense Minister @Naftali_Bennett @naftalibennett: pic.twitter.com/Ti6k5is1Ht — Jeremy Saltan (@TheJeremyMan) March 20, 2020
Can you smell that? Wuhan Virus Kills the Sense of Smell in Some of those Infected
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...
Collins blasts Democrats for blocking coronavirus stimulus plan, says they’re ‘playing with fire’
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...
Biased Press Does China’s Bidding on the Wuhan Virus
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...
King: China must face ‘serious consequences’ for ‘indefensible’ behavior at start of Wuhan Virus crisis
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...
Treatment for the Wuhan Virus: Tylenol, the Internet and Chicken Noodle Soup (seriously)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/tylenol-soup-and-the-internet-can-treat-most-symptoms-of-covid-19-whether-you-have-it-or-not/ar-BB11yfoQ
Happy Hour Goes Online as Wuhan Virus Forces Everyone Inside
https://www.wsj.com/articles/happy-hour-goes-online-as-coronavirus-forces-everyone-inside-11584735297
The Media Are Embarrassing Themselves Over Trump’s Use Of ‘Chinese Virus’
From The Federalist: Yesterday, amid the ongoing economic and social disruptions caused by the coronavirus, rising numbers of infections and deaths globally, and widespread closures of schools and other extreme measures imposed across the...
Classified Chinese Data Show Up to a Third of Wuhan Virus Cases May be ‘silent carriers’
South China Morning Post: The number of “silent carriers” – people who are infected by the new coronavirus but show delayed or no symptoms – could be as high as one-third of those who...