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According to official Chinese numbers. This is a watershed point. 162,687 confirmed cases world wide. 81,003 confirmed cases in China.

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Number of specimens tested for SARS-CoV-2 by CDC labs

After years of urging its terrorists to attack major European cities, ISIS is now telling them to steer clear due to the coronavirus. Any sick jihadists already in Europe, however, should stay there — presumably to sicken infidels, according to a ‘sharia’ directive printed in the group’s al-Naba newsletter, the Sunday Times of London reported. The “healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic and the afflicted should not exit from it,” the newsletter advised. The newsletter instructs jihadists that the “plague” is a “torment sent by God on whomsoever He wills.” Iraq, where most of the surviving fragments of...

This follow-up to my March 12 coronavirus piece comes with the same important caveats, important enough that I’m stating them up front: I’m not here to alarm anyone, and I am not here to scoff. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I do know what our experts are saying, and this is me reporting what the experts are saying. Andrew Slavitt, Barack Obama’s former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is quoting experts who say more than one million Americans are already doomed because the “virus was not contained.”“Currently experts expect over 1 million deaths...

Can simple mathematical models give an insight into the question of how many people will be infected by SARS and how well it is being controlled ? In late 2002, a severe form of pneumonia called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) broke out in Southern China. It was met by a government determined to deny its existence. Shortly after the Chinese New Year 1st February 2003, SARS spread across the world. By mid April, over 1200 people in Hong Kong had been infected, including many health workers, and its 6 million people were in a state of virtual panic. S-shaped...

The surge of coronavirus cases throughout the United States and around the world has brought countries to a practical standstill. While countries like Italy, Spain and China have declared complete lockdowns in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, life in the United States also has dramatically changed in just a week. From work to entertainment to even worship, several aspects of American life have been reordered as health officials encourage the public to carry out "social distancing" to prevent the spread of the infection. A woman shops among empty shelves at a Hy-Vee food store Friday, March 13, 2020, in...

The World Health Organization on Sunday said there is no evidence the U.S. introduced the coronavirus into China as suggested by Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman last week. “We have neither seen the allegation nor any evidence to support it,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told The Washington Times. WHO is coordinating global response and has sent teams inside China to learn how the virulent bug sprouted and infected over 80,000 Chinese, by far the world’s most by country. Zhao Lijan, spokesperson and deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry information department, shifted virus blame to America on Twitter. “What are the...

Hours after it happened on Saturday, White House correspondents were still discussing intently what several called “the incident:” a Chinese correspondent from the state-run CGTN television network was the lone reporter barred from a White House briefing on that afternoon after he was found to be running a high temperature. The taking of temperatures for reporters as a requirement to enter the briefing as well as the refusal of admission for the Chinese correspondent made as much news as anything said at the briefing by Vice President Mike Pence and the members of Coronavirus Task Force, including a short appearance...

Elderly Britons may be told to self-isolate for four months under the government’s “wartime-style” effort to combat the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. The government of the United Kingdom is expected to impose a swathe of new measures to fight the further spread of the virus and to prevent the National Health Service (NHS) from “falling over” during the peak of the epidemic. Within the next 20 days, those over the age of 70 will be told to self-quarantine in their homes or care homes for up to four months, a Government source told ITV. Boris Johnson’s government is concerned...

On Sunday, March 15, 2020, Breitbart News spoke with Jerry Wayne, the auto worker Joe Biden cursed as “full of shit.” Wayne told Breitbart News that after Biden cursed at him, he knew more blunders would follow, saying “I was going to let him dig that hole.” Jerry Wayne told Breitbart News he wants to hold Biden accountable for the words he says, as they related to prohibiting firearms, and he wants to do so in such a way to make it “political suicide to even mention taking one of our rights away.” On March 10, 2020, Breitbart News reported...

Manhattan bank temporarily runs out of $100 bills as wealthy customers frantically try to withdraw up to $50,000 amid Wall Street's coronavirus crash A Bank of America branch on Park Avenue experienced a run of wealthy customers seeking to stockpile cash on Thursday The rush came amid dramatic drops on the stock market, and caused the bank to run out of $100 bills The banks says smaller bills were available as normal, and $100 bills were replenished the following day The Federal Reserve says it has not seen a dramatic spike in the demand for cash despite the coronavirus crisis...

Tom Hanks thanked his carers at the Gold Coast University Hospital on Sunday, where he and wife Rita Wilson are being treated for coronavirus. But the 63-year-old actor's Twitter post grabbed the attention of fans for all the wrong reasons - namely the very thick spread of Vegemite Tom applied to his toast. In the photo accompanying his tribute, the Forrest Gump actor showcased his breakfast, featuring a tube of Vegemite, with a kangaroo toy nearby.

President Donald Trump praised the media’s coverage as being “very fair” recently as he spoke Saturday about the novel coronavirus that has continued to spread across the world. Trump spoke at the White House after meetings about the novel coronavirus with state and local government officials, he tweeted. During one part of Trump’s coronavirus update, he thanked the media for how it has covered the global pandemic. “So I just want to thank everybody. I think the press has been really — over the last 24 hours I think the representation’s really been very fair for the most part, been...

Television personality and practicing surgeon, Dr. Oz, joined FOX and Friends Weekend on Sunday for an hour to discuss the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. During the discussion Dr. Oz told the co-hosts President Trump should not have had the coronavirus test. “He didn’t fit the criteria. He didn’t show symptoms.” Dr. Oz also explained that the virus is likely to have been in the US for months. Dr. Oz: Now that he got tested without any symptoms why wouldn’t the average say, “Hey, just test me too!”… We don’t have enough units. We can’t get people tested who probably should be...

A source with direct knowledge of the Miami Beach Police Department's response to the scene told TheBlaze that first responders said they allegedly found Gillum in a state of complete undress and Dyson wearing "chaps,".... which Dictionary.com defines as "a kinky or provocative article of clothing, which leave the butt and sometimes crotch exposed," when they arrived at the Mondrian South Beach Hotel room.

In the absence of a vaccine for the novel COVID-19, which is now quickly spreading across the world, doctors believe that slowing down or treating the virus might be achieved with plasma therapy. The method of obtaining “convalescent serum” involves using plasma of those who’ve already recovered from the disease, which is considered to be rich in antibodies against the infectious agent. This approach has been used to treat and slow the spread of polio and measles outbreaks decades ago. Scientists have also reported that this strategy has led to a drop in deaths among ill patients during the Spanish...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is calling on President Trump to activate the Army Corps of Engineers to increase hospital capacity in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The governor cautioned in a New York Times op-ed that the U.S. has not dealt with the pandemic on a national level like other countries, which are still struggling, and predicted the failure of the hospital system is “all but certain.” “There is now only one question your team must answer for you: Can we slow the spread of the disease to a rate that our state health care systems can handle?...

You've probably of heard the soothsayer’s warning to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's play of the same name: “Beware the Ides of March.” Not only did Shakespeare’s words stick, they branded the phrase—and the date, March 15—with a dark and gloomy connotation. It’s likely that many people who use the phrase today don’t know its true origin. In fact, just about every pop culture reference to the Ides—save for those appearing in actual history-based books, movies or television specials—makes it seem like the day itself is cursed. But the Ides of March actually has a non-threatening origin story. Kalends, Nones...

Latest Coronavirus stats for the USA: Total Cases: 3083 (Increase of 700 since yesterday) Total Deaths: 60 (Increase of 6 since yesterday) When will we know the curve flattening is working? We are still in the steep exponential (expoDential if you are Bi-Den) part of the curve. We are expected to double every 2-3 days, which means we expect around 600,000 cases by the end of March following this trajectory. We will only find out if we are successfully flattening the curve once the rate of testing catches up with the rate of infection. Once we are past that (Testing...