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A 34-year-old man has died in California after testing positive of coronavirus just days ago, and 2 weeks after visiting Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida ... TMZ has learned. Jeffrey Ghazarian from Glendora, CA, died Thursday morning at a Pasadena hospital after spending 5 days hooked up to a ventilator and battling for his life ... according to his family. His sister says ... "He suffered a lot and put up a good fight. We will miss our Jeff everyday but we are thankful for all the fun happy memories of the times we had together." Jeff's...

WHITSETT, N.C. — The Guilford County Sheriff’s office said they found nearly 18,000 pounds of commercial bathroom paper products in a stolen 53-foot Hyundai dry-van trailer on Wednesday. Sheriff Danny Rodgers said their Specialized Enforcement Unit initiated an investigation on the driver of a tractor-trailer who was traveling on Interstate 40 in Whitsett, North Carolina. Rodgers said the driver was in violation of NC Motor Vehicle law, so deputies followed the vehicle to a warehouse/dock facility a short distance off the interstate. Deputies encountered the driver and determined the tractor-trailer was stolen from a local facility and was being used...

Chuck Schumer knows his tweet from February 5, attacking President Trump as a racist for banning travel from China, is a real liability for him. So he has apparently deleted it (see Tweet below). But it won’t be forgotten! President Trump moved quickly . . .

A group of homeless and housing-insecure Angelenos seized more vacant, publicly owned homes in El Sereno on Wednesday, arguing that government officials have failed to provide the shelter that’s necessary for them to remain healthy during the coronavirus pandemic. The occupation followed a similar takeover Saturday, when two families and a man moved into one of the neighborhood’s dozens of empty homes — all owned by Caltrans. The state agency bought them years ago as part of a now-failed plan to extend the 710 Freeway.

California is trying to prepare for a future when it will need thousands of beds to house people as they come down with the coronavirus and in the eyes of the state Asilomar has proven itself a successful quarantine site already.California is trying to prepare for a future when state emergency teams predict it will need thousands of beds to house people as they come down with the coronavirus. The Governor's Office of Emergency Services is looking for alternative care sites across the state and in its eyes, Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds has already proven itself a successful quarantine...

Monday six Bay Area counties announced a “shelter in place” order, the most restrictive measure announced anywhere in the United States, in response to the coronavirus. The idea was to completely shut down transmission of the virus by having everyone stay home for a period of three weeks. How is that working out so far? For the most part, people have been going along with it: The order in San Francisco bans any activities that aren’t essential: no drinking at bars, no haircuts by barbers and no dinner parties. Restaurants can operate only for takeout or delivery. Outdoor exercise is...

Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said. Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the...

A drug developed over half a century ago to treat malaria is showing signs that it may also help cure COVID-19 — especially when combined with an antibiotic, a promising new study reveals. Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil — and also used to treat arthritis and other ailments — was determined to be effective in killing the deadly bug in laboratory experiments, Forbes reported, citing findings published March 9 in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal.

Amid growing nationwide demand for guns, law enforcement officials in San Jose, California shut down a gun shop on Tuesday, after the city's mayor declared that "gun stores are non-essential," The Mercury News reported. The gun shop closure was among the first enforcement actions taken in San Jose on day one of a "shelter-in-place" order. (Likewise, San Francisco Mayor London Breed told CNN on Wednesday that local government has ordered the closure of all non-essential businesses, but that does not include marijuana dispensaries: "We've allowed essential services to remain open like grocery stores, places where people can get gas, banks...

Hong Kong takes emergency measures as mystery ‘pneumonia’ infects dozens in China’s Wuhan city Most patients worked at a seafood market and health workers are still trying to identify virus responsible City authorities tell hospitals to report any more cases of the illness, which is described as being ‘of unknown origin’ Hong Kong health authorities are taking no chances with a mysterious outbreak of viral pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, warning of symptoms similar to Sars and bird flu as they step up border screening and put hospitals on alert. “The situation in Wuhan is unusual, and...

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McConnell indicated job status would not be a factor, and that the money would go to unemployed workers and those recently laid off; those still working; and retirees, even if they're already receiving Social Security checks. While officials have indicated the ultra-rich would not be eligible, McConnell said Thursday the checks would still go to everybody "from the middle class on down. Period." How the middle class is defined can be a contentious subject when stimulus checks are on the line. One source told Fox Business Network that the amount would start to reduce for those making $75,000 and above...

I saw this earlier. I didn't see anything posted about it. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday opened the door to a sweeping shift in the government's relation to private industry as the coronavirus outbreak upends the nation's economy, saying he would back the government taking stakes in certain companies. Asked if he would support the federal government moving to take an equity stake in some companies, Trump said: "I do. I really do."

Here is a real reporter at the White House today that asked a great question.  This is an OAN Reporter. The bread and butter comes at 25 second mark. The OAN Reporter mentions the Left wing media even in this room have teamed up with Chinese Communst party narritives, and claiming the President is racist for saying these things about the Chinese virus.  The Left wing media just to oppose the President are consisting siding with foreign State propaghada, Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and Cartels.  They work right at the White House with direct access to the President and his...

The more we isolate, the less our known economy can do. Is there going to be a New Great Depression? Would that be worse than a quicker pandemic? Is it time for America to redouble the effort to build the wall? How many Americans would donate their one thousand dollar cheques to that national cause? Is C-19 the death of globalism? Has Japan got it right with their Olympic spirit? How many countries will attend in Tokyo? There are so many things we just dont know. Only God is omniscient.

President Donald Trump suggested that the Chinese regime is to blame for the viral pandemic that has now appeared in more than 150 countries globally. “It could have been stopped right where it came from, China,” Trump said during a White House press conference on Thursday. “The world is paying a very big price for that they did,” he said in reference to a question about Chinese Communist Party officials not sharing information sooner about the outbreak when it started. “It would have been much better if we had known about this a number of months earlier,” the president said,...

A reporter for One America News Network asked President Trump if he thought the term "Chinese food" was racist during a line of questioning centering on the president's use of the phrase "China virus" to describe the coronavirus. Chanel Rion, OANN's White House correspondent, asked the question of the president during Thursday's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. Rion, who spent part of her childhood living in South Korea, asked, "Do you consider the term 'Chinese food' racist because it's food that originates in China?" "No," the president answered before she finished the question. "I don’t think it’s racist at...

Brenna Coogle frequented the Paramount Drive-In as a child growing up in Lakewood but hadn’t been there in about 30 years. On Tuesday night, however, she visited it for the first time in decades to take in a showing of Pixar Animation Studios’ “Onward” with her 9-year-old son and friends. Moments before previews began, Coogle stood near her car under a darkening sky and considered how the coronavirus had upended daily life. She said the widening pandemic made her feel she couldn’t go most places — including a conventional movie theater — and she yearned for a distraction. “So, Day...

President Trump on Thursday quipped that the press has been "much nicer" to him now that fewer reporters are attending daily briefings due to social distancing, while adding that he thought some were still "sitting too close." The remarks came during a briefing with the White House coronavirus task force in which Trump was more confrontational than in previous appearances, as reporters pressed him on his administration's handling of the pandemic. "You're actually sitting too close," Trump said at one point. "Really, we should probably get rid of about 75, 80 percent of you. I'll have just two or three...

I just thought this was a useful site to have pinned somewhere, so people can keep track of it. It gets updated twice a day and seems to be very accurate.