When the World Health Organization announced there were no evidence antibodies conferred immunity, it was a bizarre and suspect announcement. It had the immediate effect of fanning the flames of fear among the worried...
From Science Alert: In France, a cluster of cases was discovered in late January. But a new study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents has suggested the virus was already in the country a...
From VOX: based on data from a poll of 4,917 adults (taken from April 7 to 12, with a 2.1 percentage point margin of error) shows those between ages 18 and 29 have been...
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins Martha MacCallum on ‘The Story.’
From Science Daily: Researchers report that they have identified a fully human monoclonal antibody that prevents the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus from infecting cultured cells. The discovery is an initial step towards developing a fully...
Washington Examiner Editorial: A Department of Homeland Security analysis has concluded that China hid the early spread of the coronavirus so it could hoard medical equipment, keeping it from other countries that would have bought it...
From Bloomberg: U.S. President Donald Trump promised a “conclusive” report on the Chinese origins of the coronavirus outbreak, showing relations between the world’s biggest economies are set to remain rocky at least until the next election...
Pro-Lockdowners Are Moving the Goal Posts, Lowry writes: Besides which, people are capable of making their own decisions. They decided to stay at home before the state formally told them to. According to a...
I wonder how Dr. Brix and Dr. Fauci feel about these conclusions? From The Wall Street Journal: Americans are paying a fearsome price for the government’s strict lockdowns of American life and commerce, and...
From The Financial Times via Yahoo: The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the American health care system, pushing hospitals and providers to their limits amid the worst medical crisis in a century. And...
NBC News: Higher ticket prices, temperature checks before boarding, and no inflight alcohol: Airline travel in the post-coronavirus era will look very different from the low-cost “getaway” trips of the past — and you...
Read the paper here. Read the news story about the paper from The Wall Street Journal, here. Some quotes from the WSJ: The paper, written by bank economist Kristian Blickle, examined how the German political system...
From Yahoo Finance: (Bloomberg) — Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday night if the company fails to rework its debt and can’t get lenders to extend...
From CNN via MSN: General Electric is cutting as many as 13,000 jobs in its jet engine business after the coronavirus pandemic brought devastation to the aerospace industry. GE Aviation on Monday announced plans...
Newt Gingrich in Newsweek: Why am I so certain Biden will melt? First, Biden has always been a terrible candidate, and he is getting worse. When the people shift from the COVID-19 disaster, the...
Cultural significance of this tweet is EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT: pic.twitter.com/dmWrKLJmIH — Diddy (@Diddy) April 29, 2020
Chinese internal report predicts Tiananmen-like global backlash: BEIJING (Reuters) – An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations...
From The Hill: Congressional Republicans are also open to creating a new sign-up period to allow uninsured people to enroll for coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, despite the always-fraught politics of...
By Leon Krauze in Slate: A recent Latino Decisions poll reveals a clear enthusiasm gap among Latinos for both Biden and the 2020 election itself, with only 49 percent of registered voters currently committed to choosing...
From FOX Business News: The higher layoff rate among hourly employees was likely driven by the impact of the virus on service industries like restaurants, bars and hotels. The vast majority of workers in...
More Wuhan virus strange: And yet these so-called “happy hypoxics” have been observed scrolling on their phones, chatting with their health care providers and describing themselves as generally comfortable, Science Magazine reported. “There is a...
From The New York Post: Four tons of cocaine worth more than $165 million seized off of the Spanish coast last week has been linked to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, US authorities said. Spanish,...
From Business Insider: US regulators authorized Sunday emergency use of a coronavirus antibody test that is more than 99% accurate, addressing concerns about high false-positive rates that have plagued some of the first tests. The...
From MIT Technology Review.
See Center for Disease Control Wuhan Virus Death Toll as of May 1, 2020: 37,308
Joe Biden’s coronavirus death count is only slightly off by… 540,000 people. 🥴 pic.twitter.com/PBndtNrWp6 — ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) May 1, 2020
New York Post: At the same time, a senior intelligence source told Fox News that while most intelligence agencies believe COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab, “it was thought to have been released accidentally.”...
Ferrari Leads the Way: MARANELLO, Italy—Ferrari NV’s normally bustling factory and headquarters here stood mostly deserted earlier this week, except for the line of employees waiting to have their blood drawn and tested for...
The Federalist: It was a terrifying mob, the worst kind of feeding frenzy many Americans had ever witnessed. Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee accepted each claim, no matter how outlandish. After Swetnick’s obviously...
From the NY Intelligencer: The objective truth, Biden argued, is what matters. I agree with him. But this was emphatically not the standard Biden favored when judging men in college. If Biden were a...
From The Federalist: The “elective” surgeries we can no longer perform are not “optional.” They are important surgeries that need to be done. “Elective” only implies a surgery can be timed conveniently for the...
In a nutshell, Bates Theorem shows that areas like New York City with antibody testing that shows 24% of the population has Wuhan virus antibodies are 95% accurate test results, while areas with a...
From Vice: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she will vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, but she stopped short of endorsing him in an interview with Shane Smith for VICE TV’s “Shelter...
UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal: From Pennlive: A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with...
From Gulf News: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last as long as two years and won’t be controlled until about two-thirds of the world’s population is immune, a group of experts said in...
From The Washington Post via MSN: The calls came from police or child protective services, sometimes 10 to 15 a week, most of them about sexual abuse. The children would sit across from her...
By the Washington Post via the San Francisco Gate: “Time to free us for the sake of progress,” wrote investor Adam Draper, managing director of the firm Boost VC, in a post retweeted by...
From medRxiv: These prevalence point estimates imply that 54,000 (95CI 25,000 to 91,000 using weighted prevalence; 23,000 with 95CI 14,000-35,000 using unweighted prevalence) people were infected in Santa Clara County by early April, many...
From NBC New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed the preliminary results of FDNY/EMS and NYPD members who were screened for coronavirus antibodies and tested positive. The preliminary antibody study showed that 17.1 percent of...
From The Seattle Times: In private, Trump and aides have discussed stripping China of its “sovereign immunity,” aiming to enable the U.S. government or victims to sue China for damages. George Sorial, who served...
Sean Davis in The Federalist: New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security...
From The Washington Inquirer: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacted to unsealed documents related to the investigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, calling it “shameful.” “There is so much to...
Imagine having your life and reputation ruined by rogue US govt. officials. Then years later when the plot finally comes to light the first thing you do is post an American flag. This is...
I’m really sad, and I’m really tired. I normally share thoughts, but tonight it’s emotion. pic.twitter.com/mhtaoW6dTd — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) April 29, 2020
CNN via MSN: The White House is telling Americans to brace for a period of Great Depression-level unemployment this summer. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump, warned Tuesday that the jobless rate in the...
DC May Not Reopen for Another 3 Months, Officials Say
Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in...
From Bloomberg News: The Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by...
By Joe Nocera in Bloomberg: New York is the densest city in the country, and density is a crucial factor in spreading the virus. Yet cities and states that are far less dense have...
$TSLA CEO @elonmusk blasts shelter in place orders: “To say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do, this is fascist. This is not democratic, this is not...
From Variety: Mac Brandt was one of the lucky ones. For the past six years, he’s made a living purely from acting, appearing in television shows like “Kingdom” and “Arrested Development,” and scrounging up...
The Washington Post via MSN: Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the second wave of infections is “inevitable” in the United States, which has recorded more...
Is this one of the reasons Biden wants a woman on his ticket? From Politico: The job description for Joe Biden’s running mate has suddenly become more complicated: the Democratic vice presidential nominee must now...
Stacy Abrams from The Hill: Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) on Tuesday night defended presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden when asked about sexual assault allegations from Tara Reade, a former Biden aide who has alleged that the then-senator sexually assaulted...
From RealClearPolitics: If you want a preview of Democrats’ agenda should they gain more political power this fall, look no further than coronavirus legislation that Nancy Pelosi released last month. That bill includes an...
I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential...
From FOX NEWS: “UFOs are real and my partners at @TTSAcademy (that hail from CIA, DOD and Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks) stood with me for three years to let you know this (and more) was...
Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, in Spiked: Climate scientists are frustrated by people who do not believe in climate change. In epidemiology, our frustration is with anti-vaxxers. Most...
Capitalism cannot plan for or prepare for a black swan event like a pandemic — as U.S. hospital management software specifically used up personal protective stockpiles and did not replace them for financial reasons,...
Things have really gone off the rails when I am agreeing with Friedman, here, and quoted below: Mother Nature does not reward the strongest or the smartest. She rewards the species that are the...
Read about Governor DeSantis’s Wuhan Virus strategy, from FOX NEWS: There’s one state in America that has a larger elderly population than New York, which is more ethnically diverse than New York, and that...
From USA Today: Sweden, unlike its Nordic neighbors Denmark and Norway – and virtually every other country in the western world – has resisted extensive lockdown restrictions to stem the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, it’s largely kept society, including...
The infographics below are from The New Atlantis, a Journal of Technology and Society. Their main point clearly and graphically illustrated below is that the Wuhan virus death toll is unlike all other leading...
From the BBC: A top diplomat in the UK, Chen Wen told the BBC the demands were politically motivated and would divert China’s attention from fighting the pandemic. Information about the origin of Covid-19...
From Just the News: A few days ago the World Health Organization’s European regional director garnered global headlines by providing a grim statistic that pinpoints the ground zero in this coronavirus pandemic. More than...
From The Guardian: “We’re doing very serious investigations … We are not happy with China,” the president said. “We believe it could have been stopped at the source. It could have been stopped quickly and...
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.