NPR: The Grim Reaper Comes for Most on a Ventilator
NPR: Most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators go on to die, according to several small studies from the U.S., China and Europe. And many of the patients who continue to live can’t...
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NPR: The Grim Reaper Comes for Most on a Ventilator
NPR: Most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators go on to die, according to several small studies from the U.S., China and Europe. And many of the patients who continue to live can’t...
McConnell and Pelosi Signal More Pandemic Aid Likely from Congress — Healthcare must be “at the top of the list”
From the Associated Press via WTOP: WASHINGTON (AP) — In a shift, the top leaders in Congress made it clear Friday there will be another coronavirus rescue package amid the stark need for federal...
Traffic Analysis Shows Despite Stay in Place Orders, U.S. Traffic is at 60% of Normal
From The Washington Post: Nationwide, traffic analytics firms say, daily traffic remains at about 60 percent of normal levels, even as the vast majority of Americans tell pollsters they’re staying home more. On Wednesday —...
Rut Row: Joe Rogan says “I’d vote for Trump over Biden”
BREAKING: Joe Rogan says "I'd vote for Trump over Biden. " Liberal heads explode in 3…2…1… — Matt Couch 🎙 (@RealMattCouch) April 4, 2020
Trump Retweets: Hydroxychloroquine Proving an Effective Treatment for Wuhan Virus
Hydroxychloroquine proving an effective treatment for coronavirus patien… https://t.co/L3imNmv1ua #OANN @PearsonSharp — One America News (@OANN) April 2, 2020
Video: The Wisdom of a Five Year Old Girl Staying in Place During the Pandemic
Palms 8:2 — Out of the mouths of babes.
Ahmadi: Put the Unemployed by Covid-19 to Work in Manufacturing Critical Goods Now Made in China
By Mike — aka Yoda — Ahmadi I have always been fond of the saying “When God closes a door he opens a window.” Simply put, what it means is that for every crisis...
Video: Watch a Doc Prep for Wuhan Virus Patients
This gives you an idea of how many layers of protection doctors must wear to protect themselves every day from the coronavirus.#ChineseVirusCorona #doctors pic.twitter.com/4o0odR8jzQ — पंडित जी 🇮🇳 (@Pandit_Ji719) March 29, 2020
NYT: In Italy, Going Back to Work May Depend on Having the Right Antibodies
From The New York Times: Weighing an idea that might once have been relegated to science fiction, Italy once again finds itself in the unfortunate vanguard of Western democracies grappling with the coronavirus. The...
The Great Scientific Significance of the Wuhan Antibody and Virus Testing Results of the Crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt — CVN-71
The great Captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt — CVN-71 — Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, forced action by sending a letter to so many recipients that it was bound to leak. Sometimes, the best...
Demons Feeding Off of Fear Have a Field Day
Lifesite News: April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A malevolent force kept by my side when I was dying in a hospital room in 2009. Repeatedly, though, Fr. William Spacek chose to walk into the...
Inside the Early Wuhan Virus Test Delays and Failures at the CDC and FDA — 100 Hours Spent Filling Out Paperwork and FDA Would Not Accept It Because it was sent Via Email
A chronology of bureaucratic failure from the San Francisco Chronicle: On Feb. 8, when lab technicians for New York City’s health department ran the test on samples that contained the virus, they saw on...
WSJ: Why We Don’t How Many Americans are Infected — and How We Know the Totals are Too Low
From the WSJ: Sparse testing is just one reason the official tally is far too low, but the numbers will get more reliable over time Preliminary research by mathematical modelers in the Centre for...
Russian Government Detains Doc who Publicly Questioned Kremlin Wuhan Virus Figures
From DNYUZ: MOSCOW — Russian authorities detained the leader of an independent doctors’ union, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin who has dismissed as “lies” the country’s low official numbers for coronavirus infections. Anastasia...
Israeli coronavirus fatalities are mostly elderly men, average age 79.8
From the Times of Israel and AP: 64% of dead are male, only 6% under 60, in line with global averages; 50,000 now deceased worldwide, with nearly a million infections Most of Israel’s coronavirus...
Legacy and Dadi: Welcome to the New Age of Male Fertility Testing
Welcome to the Age of Male Fertility Testing
Financial Times: Marseille’s maverick chloroquine doctor becomes pandemic rock star
From the Financial Times: France’s Paris Match magazine usually reserves its glossy covers for rock stars, actors, and royalty. Last week it showcased a different kind of celebrity: Didier Raoult, a long-haired, iconoclastic virologist...
DC Mayor: Our CHIME Model Predicts 1 in 7 Infected
WASHINGTON — Roughly one in every seven District of Columbia residents could get infected with coronavirus, according to projections Mayor Muriel Bowser cited Friday, which show the pandemic hitting its peak in the nation’s...
Pelosi punts on infrastructure in next Wuhan virus package
From Roll Call: Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday backed away from proposals to include a major infrastructure package in a new round of coronavirus-related economic aid, arguing instead for a measure tailored to the immediate needs of...
McSally: WHO boss should resign over China coronavirus ‘cover-up’
It’s unconscionable that the WHO has helped China cover-up its mishandling of the coronavirus crisis for months, while thousands die globally. I’m calling on the Director-General of the WHO to resign. pic.twitter.com/f2TItzZcnh — Martha...
A Very Disturbing Infographic
The mammoth US unemployment claims in their historical context. pic.twitter.com/UNDwhBMpZt — Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) April 2, 2020
The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs
From National Review: …China Global Television Network, a state-owned television broadcaster, illuminated another rumor while attempting to dispel it in a February 23 report entitled “Rumors Stop With the Wise”: On February 17, a Weibo...
Flattening the curve: What California and Washington can teach the world about Containing the Wuhan Virus
Yahoo News, West Coast: LOS ANGELES — The numbers have been devastating. More than 215,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases across the United States, with a staggering 84,000 in New York alone. A death toll — more...
Trump’s ambitious infrastructure vision faces Senate GOP roadblock
From The Hill: President Trump faces a clash with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Senate Republicans over the president’s desire for a $2 trillion infrastructure spending bill, something he promised during his 2016 campaign....
UK Seeks to End Wuhan Virus Lockdown with Immunity Passports for those with Antibodies
From The Guardian: Hancock revealed that certificates to prove someone is immune to the virus could allow some of the population to go back to work, as he made a new pledge to complete 100,000...
Wuhan Virus can Spread via Stool Plume — Why Closing the Toilet Lid is a Must
Alexandra Sternlicht in Forbes: While scientists have warned that COVID-19 can be spread by fecal-oral transmission (hence the importance of post-bathroom hand washing) the disease can also be spread through what is known as “aerosolized feces”...
Blackburn: China ‘Should Waive Some of Our Debt’ — ‘They Have Made a Global Pandemic Worse’
Sen. Blackburn (R-TN): According to the latest data from the U.S. Treasury Department, the United States owes nearly $1.08 trillion to Mainland China. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) argues China should consider waiving some of that...
Time for Dr. Fauci to Go: His Hide-bound, Patronizing “Science” Speech is Old — Especially when He Ignores American, French and Spanish Data
It is time for Dr. Fauci to go. He is a hide-bound ideologue who simply will not listen. First, watch these two American doctors discuss the results of their work with Wuhan virus-infected patients...
This is What Happens when Dems Believe the Chinese Government
SUPERCUT! Dems give really terrible Coronavirus advice pic.twitter.com/j9pTJr5Lw5 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 1, 2020
C.I.A. Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China, Dismissing Government Tallies
From The New York Times: Intelligence officials have told the White House for weeks that China has vastly understated the spread of the coronavirus and the damage the pandemic has done.
National Academy of Sciences: Aerosolization of Wuhan Virus from Normal Breathing Appears to be Occurring
CNN: (CNN) A prestigious scientific panel told the White House Wednesday night that research shows coronavirus can be spread not just by sneezes or coughs, but also just by talking, or possibly even just...
Mnuchin: Social Security Recipients will Automatically Receive Wuhan Virus Checks Directly into their Bank Accounts
From the Hill: The Treasury Department said late Wednesday that Social Security recipients who typically don’t file tax returns will automatically receive their coronavirus relief checks and will not have to file tax returns...
Trump: It’s Infrastructure Time
With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be...
CDC Chief Cites Estimates that 25% of those Infected with the Wuhan Virus are Asymptomatic
Talk about burying the lead, from the guts of an AP story: In an interview Tuesday with a radio station in Atlanta, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield cited an estimate that 25% of infected...
We’ve Moved Mountains to Deal with the 20% Severely Sick, It’s Now Time to Focus on the Rest of Us, the 80%
While it is clear that American Exceptionalism is just that — it has set us apart from the rest of the world — the ventilators are in production, the therapies are being rolled out...
The Slow the Spread Watch List for Netflix, Amazon and Epix
In no particular order: On Epix: Berlin Station in English Pennyworth in English Deep State in English Godfather of Harlem in English On Netflix: The Messiah in Arabic, English and Hebrew The Angel in...
American Exceptionalism on the Wuhan Virus Make us Cyber Target One
For China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, among others, it is always easier to steal American technology than invent it themselves. Now that the Wuhan virus is threatening their country, they want what only...
The One U.S. Senator who Saw the Wuhan Virus Coming and Tried to Warn Everyone he Could
From The National Review: While others slept, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the coronavirus was coming for America. On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to...
Bloomberg: China Concealed the Extent of the Wuhan Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence says
From Bloomberg: China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report...
World Health Organization Official Hangs Up on Reporter Rather than Utter the Word Taiwan
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 researchers isolated deadly bat coronaviruses near Wuhan animal market
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...
My Estimate: the U.S. is Eight Days from 1% of the Population being Infected
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...
CNN: Seven States have more than 5,000 Cases — NY, NJ, MI, CA, MA, FL and IL
See the State by State list.
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...