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“Orel” (K-266) is an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered submarine sailing for the Northern Fleet. Normally, the submarine has a crew of about 110 sailors. The civilian that had met with a man infected with the coronavirus was on board “Orel” in a “business matter”, Murmansk-based news-online B-port reports. Also, the crew of a nearby submarine and the personnel on a floating workshop are placed in quarantine. The submarine is based in Zapadnaya Litsa, the westernmost bases of the Northern Fleet on the Kola Peninsula. No reports have been published about any coronavirus cases in Zaozersk, the navy town where the crew...

The Hydroxy treatment appears to be working so far! In an exclusive interview, Dr. Vladmir Zelenko shares with us a preliminary study outlining that out of his 699 patients treated, he has had ZERO deaths, ZERO intubations, and four hospitalizations.

New York’s Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo has now admitted that his state has a “stockpile of unused ventilators” – all after he previously complained that the American government was not providing enough. This comes after President Donald Trump stated, on Twitter, that there was plenty of ventilators in...

They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours. Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed. In 2006, citing the threat of avian...

ATLANTA, GA—In an effort to help curb the spread of Coronavirus, Chick-fil-a has announced that it will temporarily be changing its advertising slogan from "Eat Mor Chikin" to "Eat Fewer Bats." The chicken sandwich chain will run public health ads and billboards with its iconic cow mascots reminding people to "eat fewer bats" and "have a delicious chicken sandwich instead." Chick-fil-A restaurants will also host "People Who Don't Eat Bats Appreciation Day," where people who come in and don't eat a bat get a free chicken sandwich. "We're just doing our little part to stop this kind of thing from...

Cuomo noted that New York had 15 times the coronavirus cases of California and other states and offered his opinion about why that was the case. “Because we welcome people from across the globe,” he said. “We have people coming here, we have people who came here from China, who came here from Italy, who came here from all across the globe.” Cuomo said that he believed that the virus was in New York City long before people even knew it was a problem. “I had no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than we even know,” he...

Babies Laughing - Cutest Compilation

Just wondering - what people are watching (TV, movies, videos) during this crazy time. Never posted a vanity before. Sorry if not done correctly.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Friday labeled Detroit as a “hot spot” for the coronavirus pandemic and said the situation there will worsen in the next week. For those on the front lines of the crisis, reaching this point has been an unfortunate expectation. “I have been saying all along as an epidemiologist that we are going to see a big tsunami,” said Dr. Teena Chopra, an infectious diseases specialist for Detroit Medical Center. “This is going to explode. We are seeing the surge. The growth rate is 100 percent. We are doubling every day...”

"They don't want to be on record as making the biggest mistake in history" US Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) March 27,2020 Six point two trillion dollars worth of bailout rushed through Congress Friday with some going to the little folks but a lot going to the big folks and the big banks. "We Are All Socialists Now" The leadership of the House refused to have a roll call vote yesterday... All that's been done to financially manipulate things by the Federal Reserve means us little folks are going to need more money to manage things because prices are going to...

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the past several days could offer what one behavioral health expert called a "fascinating" hint of the possible numbers. In the nationwide poll, 2.3% of Americans surveyed said they've been diagnosed with the coronavirus, a percentage that could translate to several million people. Of course, it's impossible to know if the answers are a result of misinformed self-diagnoses, untested professional diagnoses or test-confirmed infections.

I wrote last week about how leftist elites engage in Logomancy, the Renaissance superstition that manipulating words can hand them power over reality. I was speaking then about how the same media that called the Coronavirus “the Wuhan Flu” a couple of months ago now refuse to use such phrases. The memo went out that talk like that is “racist” and they obeyed. In the 1930s, Communist Party agents in Hollywood studios would do something similar. They’d run new movie scripts by their handlers in Moscow, and edit them as ordered. (Ever wonder what the “Hollywood Ten” refused to testify...

Back in February, health officials in New York told residents to congregate in huge crowds in “defiance” of coronavirus, a move that could have exposed thousands of people to COVID-19. New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot posted a tweet on February 9 urging citizens to flock to Chinatown in large numbers to celebrate the lunar new year while suggesting that advice to avoid crowds was “misinformation.” Commissioner Oxiris Barbot ✔ @NYCHealthCommr Today our city is celebrating the #LunarNewYear parade in Chinatown, a beautiful cultural tradition with a rich history in our city. I want to remind everyone to enjoy...

Column: From the Pastor Geniuses often are thought to be absent-minded. Archimedes was so preoccupied with a mathematical diagram he was constructing during the invasion of Syracuse in Sicily in 212 BC, that he told a Roman soldier about to slay him: “Let me finish my numbers.” He was not professorially absent-minded, but present-minded. His obligation to truth took precedence over life itself. In our exceptional times, the President has declared a national emergency. This is not unprecedented, and I have an oral tradition of my own family witnessing to the influenza epidemic of 1918, when my grandparents’ venerable parish...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago archdiocese demands bishop’s approval for ‘emergency’ baptisms Directions issued under Cardinal Blase Cupich not only ban all baptisms but require ‘permission’ for emergency baptisms. CHICAGO, March 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― The Archdiocese of Chicago, under the leadership of Cardinal Blase Cupich, has reportedly told its priests that all baptisms “must be postponed” in response to the coronavirus pandemic and that even an “emergency” baptism requires the “permission” of the bishop.  In an analysis published yesterday, Ed Condon and J.D. Flynn of Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported that Archbishop Cupich’s priests “have been told that during the (coronavirus)...

China's behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic will eventually result in a 'reckoning' in relations with Beijing, close allies of Boris Johnson have warned. Senior Ministers think China risks becoming a pariah state unless there are sweeping reforms when the crisis abates, and they are demanding an urgent review of Britain's relationship with the Communist super-state. It comes as the Prime Minister faces renewed Cabinet pressure to block the deal with the Chinese technology giant Huawei to build vast swathes of Britain's 5G network. There is fury at the top of government about the Chinese Communist Party's misinformation blitz around the...

Sacramento County’s health chief said this week he is cautiously optimistic county residents and local hospitals are taking steps that will reduce illnesses and deaths in the coming critical weeks of the fight against the highly contagious coronavirus. Speaking to The Sacramento Bee, Dr. Peter Beilenson said he believes residents have been doing enough “physical distancing” in the last two weeks to cut into the expected upcoming spike locally in cases. But, he said, the virus remains a major health issue, and it would be a huge mistake to underestimate its ability to spread widely through the community. The county...

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Bill and Hillary Clinton donated more than 400 pizzas to all of the hospitals in their home county of Westchester, NY. The donation was heralded by a tweet from Hillary “thanking medical workers and everyone else who is working to save lives and keep us all going right now.” Angela Cirilli, an emergency medicine ultrasound director at St John’s Riverside Hospital, tweeted her gratitude saying “Amazing !!! Thank you !!!! We NEED LEADERS LIKE YOU in this tough time.” A spokesperson for the Clintons contrasted “this unprecedented act of generosity with Trump’s failure...

Table 1: Estimated influenza disease burden, by age group — United States, 2018-2019 influenza season Symptomatic Illnesses Medical Visits Hospitalizations Deaths Age group Estimate 95% UI Estimate 95% UI Estimate 95% UI Estimate 95%UI 0-4 yrs 3,633,104 (2,506,551, 7,199,330) 2,434,180 (1,667,892, 4,820,252) 25,328 (17,475, 50,191) 266 (85, 713) 5-17 yrs 7,663,310 (6,027,982, 10,438,419) 3,984,921 (3,067,414, 5,415,715) 21,012 (16,528, 28,621) 211 (38, 640) 18-49 yrs 11,913,203 (10,077,523, 16,032,899) 4,407,885 (3,498,694, 6,064,550) 66,869 (56,565, 89,993) 2,450 (1,402, 5,813) 50-64 yrs 9,238,038 (6,582,690, 15,759,286) 3,972,356 (2,712,868, 6,886,487) 97,967 (69,808, 167,123) 5,676 (3,547, 13,486) 65+ yrs 3,073,227 (2,008,898, 6,030,701) 1,721,007 (1,097,482, 3,394,980) 279,384...