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First, let me say I am more than pleased in how my chemo and radiation treatments have been going. No nausea at all from the chemo and outside the pain from the arthritis in my shoulders holding my arms over my head for 15 to 20 minutes during radiation, I am not suffering much at all. Oh, I am down in the dumps at times and have fatigue to the max. I am sleeping about 16 hours a day. All in all, the whole experience has been much better than I ever expected and all thanks to you all who...

When the economy gets you down, just throw truckloads of taxpayer cash at it. At least, that’s what MSNBC Anchor Chris Hayes says Congress should do. Hayes sent out his policy prescription on Twitter in the early morning of March 13: “I increasingly convinced we need Congress to pass a trillion dollar stimulus in the next week, focused on people not industry bailouts. Probably best just direct cash.”

President Donald Trump said Friday he was declaring a national emergency -- "two very big words" -- to free up federal resources to combat coronavirus. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said the action would "unleash the full power of the federal government." Trump is declaring both national emergency and invoking the Stafford Act, which gives access to additional funding, according to a source familiar with his decision. The national emergency gives access to authorities.

On Friday, March 13, 2020, the President signed into law: H.R. 5671, the “Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2020,” which provides for the award of a Congressional gold medal collectively, to the United States Merchant Mariners of World War II, in recognition of their dedicated and vital service during World War II.

Testing for the novel coronavirus continues to face severe limitations... The shortfall compounds a month of sluggish progress in deploying diagnostic tests developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, if not quickly remedied, will continue to substantially undercount infected patients and could hinder efforts to contain the outbreak. The chemicals needed, known as reagents, are used to extract genetic material from a nasal swab sample, among the first steps in the testing process. Demand for reagents has left a key supplier struggling to keep pace with orders from countries around the world. The new information provides...

Earlier today news Broke that Democrat and former Florida Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was involved in a drug overdose incident late last night in Miami according to local PD. Following the incident Republican Florida Rep. Matt took to twitter to comment on the incident. Noted by The Daily Caller, Gaetz slammed Andrew Gillum, Democrats’ 2018 nominee for Florida governor, after Gillum was found allegedly inebriated in a Miami Beach hotel room that contained three bags of suspected crystal meth. Gaetz had this to say: ““Everyone should respect @AndrewGillum’s privacy as he explains why he was one of three men in...

Diana Hernández has one foot in the Ivy League, where she’s an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and another in the grittier streets of the South Bronx, the mostly working-class area where she lives. Walking down a Bronx boulevard the other day, she witnessed scenes much different from the TV-news version of the coronavirus crisis, where suburbanites stuff payloads of squeezably soft toilet paper and price-gouged Purell in the back of luxury SUVs. Instead, Hernández wrote that she witnessed Bronx shoppers at her local Dollar Tree stocking up on bleach, a tiny...

The global spread of the coronavirus is “much, much worse” than seen with Ebola — which, unlike COVID-19, “requires very close contact for transmission,” according to the professor who helped discover the earlier illness. Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told Sky News that the coronavirus pandemic has the potential to turn into a “really bad situation.” “This is much, much worse than Ebola,” he said. “Ebola requires very close contact for transmission. People are very scared of it, but frankly it is usually very contained. There are some exceptions. But because (COVID-19)...

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On Friday morning, President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor former President Barack Obama for refusing to fix issues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and allegedly making “changes” that only “complicated” the problems. The president told the public that his administration, however, has cut through the “red tape” and are now “ready to go.” “For decades the [CDC] looked at, and studied, its testing system, but did nothing about it,” President Trump posted to social media. “It would always be inadequate and slow for a large scale pandemic, but a pandemic would never happen, they hoped.” “President Obama made...

The odds that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic vice presidential nominee are surging. A week after one betting aggregator said she was a distant 25-1 shot, and 12th on a list that put her behind an Ohio state senator, another betting site has the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee with a 16-1 shot and fifth in line. Clinton has roared back into the public spotlight with a new Hulu feature. She has also embraced former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent string of victories over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who she has drubbed with a string of negative comments. Still,...

The World Health Organization on March 11 declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, the first such declaration in 11 years. Here's a look back on the 2009 swine flu pandemic with eight key facts from the CDC: 1. The flu strain responsible for the outbreak — influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 — was first detected in America in April 2009. 2. The strain represented a unique combination of influenza viruses never before seen in humans or animals. 3. The virus quickly spread globally, primarily affecting children and adults under 65 who lacked immunity to H1N1. 4. The WHO declared the swine flu...

New government documents out of China claim to have found the earliest case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in a 55-year-old man from Hubei province. The documents, which were seen by the South China Morning Post, show the man contracted the illness on Nov. 17, 2019, predating the World Health Organization's first confirmed case on Dec. 8 and suggesting the disease could have spread undetected for weeks before serious measures were taken to mitigate the outbreak. More than 250 cases of COVID-19 from 2019 have been confirmed by Chinese officials, who didn't alert global authorities to...

Man discovers ‘strange doll made out of coconuts’ with human teeth, snakeskinHistory shows you can find just about anything on Florida’s beaches. Some things are obvious about what they are, but what a beach walker found Thursday is much more mysterious. "It was a rather strange doll made out of coconuts," Bruce Robertson described. Initially, at Cherie Down Park, Robertson said he was creeped out. "What was really sort of terrifying or horrifying or interesting was it had actual human teeth," he remembered. His pictures also show snakeskin and the item has arms and legs with feathers on them. Robertson...

CHICAGO - Things were gloomy inside Elizabeth Warren’s Illinois campaign headquarters the day after Super Tuesday, where it had become clear the Massachusetts senator’s presidential bid was coming to an end. Staff in Chicago “floated around like ghosts” and tried to figure out what the roughly 40 people showing up for that night’s phone bank should tell voters, organizer Cat Valdez recalled. Another staffer came up with an idea: They would make calls for Marie Newman, a progressive trying to unseat Chicago-area Rep. Dan Lipinski, a staunch abortion opponent and one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress. By the...

ELK GROVE, Calif. - Kiyana Esco needs free school lunches and breakfasts to feed her six children. But with schools shutting down over coronavirus concerns, she’s scrambling to pick up the meals, care for her kids and keep her job. Esco, a single mother, manager at a Dollar Tree, fears she’ll be fired because she can’t work following school closures in Elk Grove, the fifth-largest district in California. She’s among the parents who are relying on school leaders as they look for ways to keep millions of America’s poorest children from going hungry. While schools across the U.S. close their...

It took 56 minutes to find the ringNearly a month after Ann DeVries got her wedding ring back, she still treats the band with extreme caution. You might, too, if you had to dig through the garbage dump to get it. In January, Ann DeVries was doing the dishes when she set her ring on the counter. When she finished, she noticed some smudges on a glass door in her home. After cleaning it, she placed the dirty paper towels over top the ring without realizing it, and since it was trash day, Wednesday, she scooped the whole pile up...

People are beginning to hoard toilet paper. I went on a normal shopping trip to buy toilet paper last week and could not find any because of all the panic-buying. Social media is full of people storming grocery stores and fighting over two-ply. Hand sanitizer is extremely difficult to find. The Clorox plant up the road from me is running 24 hours to keep up with demands. But the toilet paper? The run on toilet paper should be the biggest signal that an economic stimulus plan is not going to work right now. People are being driven by fear, and...

The coronavirus is not as bad as the seasonal flu. President Donald Trump is not worried about having had a direct exposure to the virus. The United States is in far better shape than other countries. Those are some of the messages from Trump to the American public in recent days. They are textbook examples of disastrous communication during disease outbreaks, according to some researchers into the psychology of pandemics and how leaders can most effectively communicate to keep the public safe during them. Trump is known for his informal style in attempts to, for instance, calm markets amid trade...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday ordered most schools in the country to close as a precaution against coronavirus, and called for the formation of an emergency national unity government. Primary and secondary schools, with some exceptions such as special education programs, would be shut, he said. “We are altering our internal routine in order to handle an outside threat, the threat of the virus,” Netanyahu, 70, said in remarks broadcast live. The right-wing leader’s tenure is in doubt after three inconclusive elections in less than a year. Calling for a unity government, he said: “It will be an...