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...
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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...
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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...
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...
From Forbes: Novins had been a pneumonia patient for three days, treated mainly with antibiotics. But within an hour, a new drug was added to her med list: hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old malaria-turned-autoimmune drug, also...
From The Wall Street Journal: A flash of potential good news from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic: A treatment is showing promise. Doctors in France, South Korea, and the U.S. are using...
From The New York Post: A top New York City surgeon warned that the hospital he works at could reach peak volume for COVID-19 cases in as few as 22 days — while grappling...
From CNBC: WASHINGTON — Joe Biden consolidated his gains as he races to the Democratic nomination, dominating a trio of primaries last Tuesday among voters male and female, rich and poor, white and nonwhite, college and high school graduates....
From The Washington Post: Want to know why the U.S. economy is in free fall? Why restaurants and bars are closing, putting millions out of work, and why the airline industry is facing possible bankruptcy?...
From City AM: Millions of tests that can detect if someone has ever had coronavirus will arrive in the UK in the coming weeks, according to the housing and communities secretary. The antibody tests,...
From The New York Times: The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why.
So, this is what it comes to when there is no vaccine, no treatment and self-quarantining will not stop the spread of the Wuhan virus, from The Jerusalem Post: Israeli doctor Gai Peleg, who...
From Vice President Pence: Vice President Mike Pence, who is the head of the White House coronavirus task force, has warned that the novel coronavirus is much more dangerous than the seasonal flu and...
From the LA TImes: The department “is shifting from a strategy of case containment to slowing disease transmission and averting excess morbidity and mortality,” according to the letter. Doctors should test symptomatic patients only...
From The Telegraph in the U.K.: Of the 47,000 people confirmed coronavirus patients in Italy, 4,032 so far have died – with a record increase of 627 in the last 24 hours. By contrast China...
From FOX NEWS: “Generally countries like China have sovereign immunity and governments cannot be brought to regular courts or held liable regardless of their conduct,” Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israel-based attorney who has long specialized...
From ABC NEWS: Coronavirus mortality rate is twice as high among men in Italy as it is among women, marking a “concerning trend,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus task force coordinator said during a Friday briefing. “Mortality...
At @realDonaldTrump’s direction, we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15. All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties. — Steven...
From CNBC: The IRS is extending the federal income tax filing deadline to July 15 as part of a growing effort to stem the financial pain from the coronavirus pandemic, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday....
Sean Penn’s call for martial law on CNN is surprising. Mike Ahmadi thoughtfully supplies the cite in U.S. martial law of the definition of mutiny and sedition, as well as its penalty: From Cornell...
Dr. J: They are in crisis mode, as we are. Our hospitals are getting overrun by people under 50 on vents, we are running out of vents. Primary care offices closing because they can’t...
Disinformation is not only coming from random actors around the world – but also from the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, and the Iranian regime. We must not permit these efforts to undermine our democracy,...
Via FOX NEWS: In the last few days, the Chinese Communist Party has changed its propaganda tactics. Party officials, government representatives and state media are now overtly attacking the U.S., spreading deliberate lies about the COVID-19 outbreak. More...
From MSN via The Atlantic: Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of...
Rothman on PA 21: https://local21news.com/news/local/cbs-21-exclusive-state-lawmaker-responds-to-gov-wolfs-order-to-close-businesses
From The Federalist: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr is being criticized by liberals and conservatives due to the news he sold up to $1.6 million in stock after receiving private briefings about the coronavirus but...