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Primary Author: David Williams, MD Revised April 23 with updates to section regarding COVID-19 deaths and the addendum.The Truth (and Lies) about CoronavirusThis is being written on April 19, 2020. Although there is a central author, it is being written on behalf of multiple physicians in West Alabama and will be distributed through multiple medical offices. Between us we have well over a hundred years of practice and have treated hundreds of thousands of patients suffering infectious diseases. Including mission trips we have treated patients on five continents. We planned this date for several reasons. First, most of our patients now...

The Chinese government has been “transparent, open” and “very quick” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak, Beijing’s ambassador to the United Kingdom said Thursday. Liu Xiaoming urged international cooperation during the pandemic and said “blaming” and “bullying” would just create a wedge between nations. The United States thinks “they can bully China, they think they can bully the world," he continued in an online news conference with a member of Britain's House of Lords. "If WHO [the World Health Organization] do not act in their way, they stop supplying, they stop support. They criticize WHO to be China-centric, that’s...

Go to Facebook and look up Jeremy M. Jack's (from Texas) Facebook account and you will see his rant about CNN showing video of him standing in line with a grocery cart with the headline "How you can cope with your fears.". Jack is UPSET because the image is from when he was shopping for groceries during HURRICANE HARVEY. CNN is publishing material, without permission, which is an outright lie. Hello Federal Government?

Majorities of Michigan voters are concerned about coronavirus, think President Trump was too slow reacting to it, and favor waiting to reopen the economy. That contributes to Joe Biden leading the presidential race in a Fox News Poll of Michigan registered voters released Wednesday. Biden’s 8-point advantage over Trump, 49-41 percent, is slightly larger than the poll’s margin of sampling error. However, both candidates remain below 50 percent and 10 percent of voters are still up for grabs.

Click here for commentary by noted Epidemiologist Knutt WittkowskiThis well-known Epidemiologist tells us that there has been a huge overreaction to this virus. It is becoming obvious that lots of people around the world are using this for political gain instead of having concern for peoples' welfare. This is an EXCELLENT video giving a proper perspective of the entire situation.

At a time of such pain, it seems cruel to borrow more from the past. But COVID-19 and the tragedy in Oklahoma City raise similar questions that should stir us as a nation. Twenty-five years ago today, a young U.S. Army veteran named Timothy McVeigh parked a moving truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. At 9:02 a.m., McVeigh’s homemade truck bomb detonated, ripping a hole through the Murrah building and killing 168 people, 19 of whom were children. Sadly, this anniversary comes at a time when Americans are in the midst of another...

WASHINGTON - Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they are more concerned that a relaxation of stay-at-home restrictions would lead to more COVID-19 deaths than they are that those restrictions will hurt the U.S. economy, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But while strong majorities of Democrats and independents are more worried about the coronavirus than the economy, Republicans are divided on the question, with almost half of them more concerned about how the restrictions could affect the economy. In the poll, 58 percent of registered voters say that what worries them more is that...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is easy to cast as just another lumbering UN bureaucracy and there is more than a bit of truth in that. Established in 1948 in the aftermath of the Second World War, its mandate comes from no fewer than 193 member states, each with their own peculiarities and vested interests. The organisation is lauded for its role in the eradication of smallpox, the near-eradication of polio and the fight against the three big global killers of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. But, as it freely admits, it also gets things wrong. It reacted too slowly to...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Trump’s decision to freeze funding for the World Health Organization, vowing Wednesday to “swiftly” challenge the action amid the coronavirus crisis. In a statement, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the halt in funding amid the global pandemic “is senseless.”

“US has more known cases of coronavirus than any other country” - CNNReading breathless headlines such as this, one would never know that the on a cases per million population basis, the United States  is on par with Germany, often held out as European country with a low incidence of cases, and well below the rates for Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.  But wait, this must be because of the US’s low testing rate, notwithstanding that our testing rate per million is above that of Spain, France, the UK, and Switzerland.“The United States is reporting 20,000 coronavirus deaths, more than any...

Perhaps the best thing that could come out of this entire debacle and turning America into a police state — where people are arrested for going somewhere in their cars and never leaving their cars — should be a total disdain for and disbelief in computer models. The Imperial College of London model that terrified our largely scientifically illiterate politicos and therefore killed the world economy, like every other model that tries to model human behavior, assumed a spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum. Computer modeling can be incredibly useful, particularly when you’re modeling physics: an object...

Why aren't the hospitals being over run.? Why are the news organization spouting Craptastic Claims about deaths and attributing them to CCP-19? What are the economic and health ramificiations of continuing down this path? Fauxci thinks we should wait 18 months until a vaccine can be created and distributed? Really? There isn't a cure for this Quinine and Zinc may have some ability to alleviate symptoms

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 dying." "We should be taking every precaution. What the President, his denial at the beginning was deadly," Pelosi said in an exclusive interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." As US cases surge, Pelosi questioned when Trump was informed about the coronavirus and his knowledge on its potential impact. "I don't know what the scientists said to him, when did this President know about this, and...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still on lockdown because he contracted the coronavirus, but he’s staying on top of his duties. These include monitoring the spread of the disease in his own country and around the world. The fly in the ointment on that front is the increasingly obvious likelihood that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been lying to the entire world about the number of confirmed cases and deaths they suffered during the initial stages of the outbreak. That may have impacted the estimates that health officials in other countries were using when determining how to...

There is a time to reap and a time to sow. This is the time to act and pray. Amen Hopefully, Mark Twain will approve. Although our normal everyday lives seemed to be spinning out of control by the minute as many of us are in fear of what a ‘lock down’ or other policies/controls tomorrow will bring, please fear not, have faith in the Lord and we will get through this together—at an acceptable ‘social distance’, that is.

It’s troubling to see how quickly disinformation about the government’s response to the coronavirus has spread. Democrats and the mainstream media have willingly spread false information in the hopes of damaging Trump politically before the election in November. Many of these lies were quickly debunked, but that hasn’t stopped the false information from being repeated over and over.  The left hopes these lies will continue to spread, but so far it doesn’t seem to be working since Trump’s approval for his handling of the pandemic has gone up. But that doesn’t mean the left will give up their disinformation...

When this China/Wuhan Virus illness fades in about a month, all of the people who publicly scared the hell out of everyone and caused the market to crash and the economy to suffer incredible damage MUST be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for deliberately tanking our economy for political gain. I may die of the disease and it STILL needs to happen. The rantings and ravings of those who stand to gain politically MUST be stopped. I am not going to go through a long list here, but all of you know who they are. The overreaction...

America’s deeply unserious but very corrupt and unreliable establishment media have no intention of changing their dangerous ways in the age of the Wuhan coronavirus. Watching the media spread lies and unnecessary panic over the last few weeks reminds me of the CNN Race Riots of 2014. After the George Zimmerman Hoax failed, after it was discovered that a white man had not hunted down and murdered a black teen (Zimmerman is Hispanic and a jury ruled he killed in self-defense), the fake news media moved on to the Hands-Up-Don’t-Shoot Hoax, which was led primarily by far-left CNN and the...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

(Video at source)On Tuesday, while sneaking in some last-minute campaigning in Detroit on the day of the critical Michigan primary, Joe Biden got into an extended confrontation with an autoworker who took issue with the former vice president's stance on guns..... ....The insinuation was obvious. Biden, the front-runner to be the Democratic presidential nominee, had lost it when an autoworker had confronted him about his too-liberal gun policies. (Wolking also shared video on Twitter of some of the autoworkers chanting "Trump!" as Biden toured the facility.) This was a bad moment -- in the mind of the Trump team --...