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MGM Resorts International (the "Company" or "MGM Resorts") today announced its decision to temporarily suspend operations at its Las Vegas properties until further notice, effective as of Tuesday, March 17th. Casino operations will close on Monday, March 16th, followed by hotel operations. The following statement was released by Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts: "As the coronavirus pandemic has intensified in the United States over the past week, the people of MGM Resorts have worked to try to find a way to continue delivering high quality hospitality and entertainment experiences for our guests while keeping our employees doing...

An emergency room doctor at EvergreenHealth in Kirkland is in critical condition with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The hospital at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in King County confirmed that the doctor was ill Sunday afternoon. “EvergreenHealth is providing care for one of our physicians who has a confirmed case of COVID-19. He is in critical condition but stable. Out of respect for our patient’s privacy and that of his family, there is nothing more we can share at this time,” says a brief statement issued by the hospital on Sunday.

Latest Corona virus news and developments around the world.

With Throbbing Gristle, P-Orridge inadvertently helped invent an entire genre – industrial musicFor someone who occasionally purported to hate rock music – it was, a homemade T-shirt s/he was fond of wearing in the 1970s proclaimed, “for arselickers” – Genesis Breyer P-Orridge ended up having a vast influence on it. With Throbbing Gristle, P-Orridge inadvertently helped invent an entire genre – industrial music, its name taken from the band’s Industrial record label – which, over the years, developed and mutated from a misunderstood and frequently reviled cult into a platinum-selling concern. Intent on, as one writer put it, “bursting open...

Thousands cheer the Vive Latino festival in Mexico City, Saturday, March 14, 2020. On Friday afternoon organizers confirmed that the 21st edition of the festival will go on as planned. (AP Photo/Christian Palma) MEXICO CITY (AP) — While the coronavirus pandemic has led authorities around the globe to cancel concerts and sporting events, and even shut down daily activities in some places, Mexico City is going ahead with Vive Latino — one of the most important music festivals in the country. Some acts backed out, but tens of thousands of music fans flocked on Saturday to the first day of...

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez suggested it is hypocritical for President Trump’s supporters to attend his rallies and go to church. "I think the challenge that I see among a lot of people that go to Donald Trump rallies, and then they will go to church on Sunday, and I'm not, I don't know what faith they are worshiping," Perez told Axios.

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-Gay Maltese Mass-Cancelling ‘Fixer’ Bishop Scicluna: “God is making us fast from Him!” A reader from Malta writes of the arrogance, faithlessness of Mass-cancelling Vatican FrancisBishop, Abp. Scicluna:***FYIAll masses have been canceled in Malta and – get this – even confession. Priests are refusing to meet even at a distance with parishioners and literally mocking confession at a distance even though the Church Herself provides for this. Please note that the shutdown of Masses is NOT coming from the government, who has encouraged everyone to go about “business as usual.” This is coming directly from Charles Scicluna who,...

Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five ‘expected’ to contract virusThe coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals. The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for another 12 months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS. It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons...

Shameful government sponsored theft and interference with free enterprise by a swamp dwelling RINO Attorney General.

A Colorado nurse says her bout of coronavirus started with the “sniffles” — but soon involved nightmarish symptoms that were “nothing” like what she expected, according to a report. Lisa Merck of Crested Butte said she tested positive for the virus after a vacation to Hawaii, where she attended a medical conference, news station KDVR reported. “We went to a medical conference over there and on the day we were going to leave, I had little sniffles. That’s it,” Merck said.

Fox News’ Michael Hollan published the “delivery do’s and don’ts” to ensure safety precautions are taken for those who use food delivery services. “As more and more people across the U.S. are preparing to stay in for the time being,” Hollan writes, “some may be asking if it’s safe to get food delivered to their house.” CNET reported that food delivery services such as Doordash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and Postmates have continued to operate.

Using an experimental drug, scientists in the US have managed to save a victim they feared “was going to pass away”. The patient is a woman was confirmed as the first case of community transmission in the US. She tested positive for COVID-19 on February 26. The patient had had not travelled to an infected area or been in known contact with a confirmed case, according to scientists from the University of California Davis Medical Center. The woman’s condition deteriorated significantly, and she became critical. She was then given special permission to become a test subject for the drug named...

Singapore has been hit by a double whammy in recent times. We have been presented with quite a few cases of Covid-19, and an alarmingly high number of dengue cases as well. It has been a little over two months since the start of the new year and Singapore has already witnessed 3,640 dengue cases as of March 7, 2020. In addition to the steps we should be taking to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes in our own homes, we can also look into strengthening our immunity by consuming a healthy diet of food for dengue prevention. FOOD FOR DENGUE...

Anyone who's followed my posts on this topic over the past three weeks knows that the Wuhan Virus is impacting global trade and commerce. I've been detailing my employers response to the Wuhan over the past three weeks through my posts on various threads here on FR. Having said all that, this evening I received a phone call from our Global Pandemic Response Line, instructing me to call into a tele-meeting. I just hung up on it, I was so disgusted. Long story very short, our "Indian technology partners" in Mumbai are being instructed by the outsourcing company our Bank's...

Brisbane researchers say they are within reach of finding a cure for COVID-19 but need donations to accelerate the research. In lab testing, two drugs have stopped Coronavirus in its tracks and a clinical trial on humans is ready to begin. Renowned RBWH Infectious Diseases Physician Professor David Paterson who is overseeing the research said the drugs are “effective” but they are yet to determine whether “one is better than another”. He’s hoping these drugs are the panacea the world so desperately needs. “Potentially down the road, it’s even something a general practitioner could prescribe,” Paterson said. Safe for use...

So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has “lost” the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will debate this evening in a near-empty studio in Washington, DC. The debate–sponsored by CNN, Univision, and the CHC Bold PAC–was scheduled to be held in Arizona but moved to D.C. for precautionary reasons due to the coronavirus outbreak. CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper will moderate the debate with Univision’s Ilia Calderón. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern — 8:11 PM: Sanders says Trump only exacerbates the health crisis (disfunction) that is obvious to anyone right now. Sanders says the experts are saying that...

... For three and a half years, Democrats along with their fake news media minions have sought “the big one” to remove Trump from the White House. All of their this-is-the-big-one attacks on Trump have bombed out: Russian collusion, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, the Mueller Report, the Ukraine phone call, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clauses, quid pro quo, bribery, and far too many for me to remember. Barely able to contain their excitement, Democrats and fake news media believe they have finally found their kryptonite to take down this Superman president. They are confident that their insidious, evil manufactured...

People who don't buy into the left's big-government healthcare schemes are literally . . . killers! That was the essence of an accusation made by Eric Boehlert, a guest on Joy Reid's MSNBC show today. Reid quoted to Boehlert from a Washington Post column that suggested that Rupert Murdoch should force Fox News to "tell the truth" about coronavirus, and also use his influence with President Trump on the matter. When Reid asked whether there was a possibility that Murdoch would do such things, Boehlert replied: "Anyone waiting for Rupert Murdoch to do the honorable thing is going to wait...

US - 3244 cases NY - 729 WA - 642 CA - 374 MA - 138 LA - 103 *** Local news broadcast todday (John Hopkins has only 91) Louisiana also has 2 deaths. My Parish (equivalent of County) has declared a state of emergency but no cases reported in Acadiana (West of NOLA and Baton Rouge. This is East of Lake Charles and South of Alexandria). 10 Parishes reporting cases. CO - 101 GA - 99 NJ - 74 IL - 66 TX - 63 PA - 47 VA - 45 OR - 36 MN - 35 MI -...