From Politico: “We probably will do another bill. What I’m saying is it won’t just be about money,” McConnell said. “The next pandemic coming will be the lawsuit pandemic in the wake of this...
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From CBS 2, in New York City: Regionally, the results suggest: 24.7% positive in New York City 15.1% positive in Westchester/Rockland 14.4% positive on Long Island 3.2% positive in the rest of the state...
Dr. Atlas in The New York Post: First, we know the risk of dying from COVID-19 is far lower than initially thought, and not significant for the overwhelming majority of those infected. Multiple recent...
From First Things: Data are coming in, and their import is clear. The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society. COVID-19 poses a danger to the elderly and the medically...
The “No PR Act” will give President Trump negotiating leverage.
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Three-quarters of the U.S. House of Representative’s Republican Members of Congress belong to the Republican Study Committee, which is not to be confused with the Freedom Caucus, which has about 30 members and was...
Father Raymond J. de Souza in the National Post: Is the coronavirus pandemic China’s “Chernobyl moment”? A cruel and callous cover-up that will mean the beginning of the end for the Communist Party of...
From CNN, the Face of the American Woman says Started the Pandemic: Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at...
From Real Clear Economics: Let’s All get Back to Work.
THREAD: This week, Social Security’s trustees projected that reserves in the retirement trust fund will deplete in 2034 & the disability fund in 2065. But the report didn’t look at how a significant COVID-19...
Read all about it in The Wall Street Journal.
From the New York Post: The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out 40% of the U.S. economy, quadruple the federal deficit to $3.7 trillion and push the national debt to nearly $27 trillion, the Congressional Budget...
From CNN: Since last week, Gomez has driven to more than 50 homes and apartments in Los Angeles for Postmates, the on-demand food delivery startup. He was nervous at first about interacting with many...
Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal: The coronavirus lockdown model is about to collapse beneath its own weight, undermined by politics, confusion about the virus itself, and the basics of human nature. ….As...
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal: Columbia University once found that only 20% of flu sufferers and 5% of cold sufferers bothered to see a doctor. This is why the Wuhan...
Posted by Mike Ahmadi this morning: Darwinism. It’s tough to deny it and even tougher to fight it. I’m not talking about the whole man evolving from apes thing that gets the collective panties...
From The Dallas Morning News: Then they turned to a treatment from the history books. Convalescent plasma, antibody-rich blood donated by survivors of infectious disease, was developed in the late 1800s to fight diphtheria....
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Hinderaker in PowerLine: One can think about it in this simple way: the virus doesn’t disproportionately strike nursing homes relative to other institutions. It’s just that when it reaches a nursing home, it has...
From an excellent interview by CNN’s Peter Bergen who interviews Michael Osterholm. OSTERHOLM: I’m from rural Iowa where a lot of very commonsense, smart people live. I think to myself: if I were at...
From American Greatness: The focus on saving “just one life” from the coronavirus, as Cuomo put it in March, to the exclusion of all other considerations likely will prove a catastrophic failure of policymaking....
From the Huffington Post: “Both days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine. If you’re...
From the New York Post: De Blasio wants you to report people violating the lockdown orders (even if cops are reluctant to get tough in many cases), so he set up an account where...
From ABC NEWS: Results from two new South Korean studies shed light on whether antibodies will be a reliable form of protection against COVID-19 for those who have recovered from the disease. In one ongoing study,...
For the ‘Slow the Spread’ aficionados — the two California studies findings that there are about 50 times more unknown infecteds for every known infected or yesterday’s study announced by Gov. Cuomo that one...
From CNBC: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s top officials recommended Friday that the captain relieved of duty after sounding the alarms of a growing coronavirus outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier should be reinstated. The decision to reinstate...
From FOX NEWS: Pompeo Blasts China over Global Deaths and Economic Damage from the Wuhan Virus.
The Federalist: In early March, President Donald Trump was lambasted for saying on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show that he had a hunch the coronavirus fatality rate, which the World Health Organization pegged then...
From Big League Politics: According to a recent Stanford University antibody study, the fatality rate of the infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent. These numbers are far lower than past World Health Organization estimates that were 20...
Once again we can look to Kirk’s actions on the planet Deneva for guidance during this challenging time. Hat tip to my Democratic friend’s husband, for that great line.
From the Washington Examiner: U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his team as his review of the Trump-Russia investigators ramps up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has gripped the country and swept the globe....
The lying, super-scumbag, hand-wringing racist Jussie Smollett chalks up the latest of his soon-to-be-long-string of court losses.
Donald Trump, Jr. in the Daily Caller: Joe Biden is an older, less coherent version of Hillary Clinton, and he seems to enjoy proving it. Like the last Democrat presidential candidate, Biden is an...
The American Mind: And the result is also what might have been expected. Nearly 330 million Americans have been sheltering in place, stopping the largest and most powerful economy on earth. Almost thirty million Americans...
From Reason: Evidence that the virus is much less deadly than people feared weakens the case for maintaining lockdowns. When she announced the startling results of a new COVID-19 study on Monday, Los Angeles...
Now, citizens of Pennsylvania can use the Democratic Governor’s Online-Snitch Form — my neighbor is not wearing a mask! You can be part of the new Big Brother, Government report on your neighbors, Obergruppenfurer,...
From DHS’s Master List of Scientific Questions Regarding the Wuhan Virus:
From AFP via Yahoo: The theory is that nicotine could adhere to cell receptors, therefore blocking the virus from entering cells and spreading in the body, according to renowned neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux from France’s...
Thiessen: The blame-Trump-for-everything crowd is accusing Republicans of pointing the finger at China for the coronavirus pandemic to divert attention away from the Trump administration’s response. Rubbish. Case in point: The front-page headline in Sunday’s New...
From CNBC: An estimated 13.9% of the New Yorkers have likely had Covid-19, according to preliminary results of coronavirus antibody testing released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery...
From The New York Times: More than one in five people who were tested for virus antibodies in N.Y.C. had them. More than 21 percent of around 1,300 people in New York City who...
From The Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday, offering insight that...
Massive infection levels point to far more widespread Wuhan virus infections among Americans than currently acknowledged by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and, therefore, a far lower mortality rate. The key question remains,...
From FOX Business: The initial $349 billion set aside for the Paycheck Protection Program ran out on April 16, after being available for less than two weeks. The Senate has approved an additional $310 billion for...
See Kansas’s easy to understand data by county.
Senator Cassidy’s idea for reopening from Real Clear Politics: Cassidy, a gastroenterologist with a history of dealing with infectious disease, worked diligently in private practice in Louisiana to expand hepatitis B vaccinations to 36,000...
From The New York Times via DNYUZ: By the time New York City confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on March 1, thousands of infections were already silently spreading through the city, a...
From The Washington Post via MSN: Now five weeks into the crisis, a paper published in the journal JAMA about New York State’s largest health system suggests a reality that like so much else about...
4-21-20 bi-partisan Letter to HHS on immunity testing from US Senators
From The Hill: Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama White House senior adviser, took a hatchet to the recent speculation that the former first lady would consider joining the Democratic ticket with Biden, who served as...
From The Washington Examiner: President Trump said Tuesday that 20 states are making plans to reopen their economies “in the very near future.” “They’re going to be doing it safely. They’re going to be...
From The New York Times via Yahoo News: WASHINGTON — The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling...
From Spiked: Several weeks ago, one of the USA’s better quantitative scientists, John Ioannidis of Stanford, made a critically important point. During the coronavirus pandemic, ‘we are making decisions without reliable data’, he said As...
From CNBC: Some blood tests being marketed to tell people if they have had the new coronavirus are a “disaster”, Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan said on Wednesday as he prepares to launch the...
From the LA Times: The 27-year-old tech entrepreneur is hardly the only person to have wondered if he has unknowingly come down with the coronavirus before the extent of the pandemic was known and...
From The Washington Post: At least two people who died in early and mid-February had contracted the novel coronavirus, health officials in California said Tuesday, signaling that the virus may have spread — and...
From The Hill, by long-time Democratic pollster, Mark Penn: Our Constitution set up three branches of government. And yet, in this crisis, only two branches are fully operational. In particular, the House of Representatives...
Read the Primary Care Collaborative’s one-pager here.
From USA Today: OK, so the country has been shut down for about a month, and we’re seeing cracks start to form. While some epidemiologists are talking about keeping things closed down for months longer, we’re also seeing growing...
The New York Times: If the numbers prove accurate, the coronavirus may be much less deadly than originally expected, with a fatality rate more closely resembling that of a seasonal flu strain than a...
From The Spectator: “schools and stores remain open. Unlike some countries on the continent, no one is asking for ‘our papers’ when we move around in cities. The police don’t stop us and ask...
From the Detroit Free Press.
The Jerusalem Post: Israel has started analyzing wastewater for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, to estimate the number of infections at a population level, according to Dr. Itay Bar-Or, head of the Health Ministry’s national lab...
The White House Coronavirus’s Task Force’s focus on the potentially super-sick is politically and economically damaging. For those who have not been hospitalized because of the Wuhan virus, that’s 99.98% of the American public,...
From CNBC: USC and the health department released preliminary study results that found that an estimated 4.1% of the county’s adult population has antibodies to the coronavirus, estimating that between 221,000 adults to 442,000...
The perfect opportunity denied by President Clinton, CIA operatives had to tell Afghans to stand down for fear of being prosecuted and put in jail.
Facebook goes with censoring those at No on Slow the Spread.
KIRO 7: “It showed a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 99.6%,” said Alex Greniger, assistant director of the UW Virology Lab. “Diagnostically, this is one of the best tests we can offer,”...
There are not enough tests and some are inaccurate.
From Axios: The coronavirus is shriveling the businesses of doctors’ practices, which serve as the home base for most patients, Axios’ Bob Herman reports. The big picture: Small and independent groups that are facing the most...
There is a price to pay for the Wuhan virus.
According to the CDC: Currently, CDC’s serologic test is designed and validated for broad-based surveillance and research that will give us the information needed to guide the response to the pandemic and protect the...
We Don’t Need to Live in a ‘Post-Wuhan virus’ World.
Dr. John A Lee on why we need to keep questioning the response to Covid-19.
We need massive antibody testing now to find out how many Americans have antibodies and the real mortality rate of the Wuhan virus. Read the story about how one-third of those tested have Wuhan...
Did the Wuhan Virus leak from the Bio Lab in Wuhan China?