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This post is an excerpt, not sure about GreenMed Info's copyright policies: Tried search and could not find this article. This article draws from a Bloomberg article. More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority. After deaths from the virus reached more than 2,500, with a 150% increase in the past week, health authorities have been combing through data to provide clues to help combat the spread of the disease. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is evaluating whether to extend a nationwide lockdown...

Bergamo, Italy, Mar 19, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Italian dioceses surrounding Milan have reported the deaths of 30 priests during the coronavirus outbreak. Avvenire, the Italian newspaper owned by the Italian bishops conference, attributes at least 28 of these priests’ deaths to COVID-19, and also notes two additional cases: that of Fr. Guido Mortari, who died of pneumonia before he could get tested, and Fr. Giorgio Bosini, who had a serious underlying medical condition. All but three of the priests were over the age of 70, and more than half were over 80 years old. The youngest priest to...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he has come to fulfill the Law. The same Jesus who railed against the hypocritical legalism of the Pharisees also said, "I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it." And the same Jesus who threatened to tear down the temple in Jerusalem also promised "raise it up" in three days. The point is this: Jesus certainly criticized the corruption in the institutional religion of his time, but he by no means called for its wholesale dismantling. He was a loyal, observant, law-abiding Jew. What he effected was a transfiguration...

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Veteran Iditarod musher Nicolas Petit has scratched from the 2020 Iditarod. Petit scratched at 5:20 a.m. Thursday between the Elim and White Mountain checkpoints. Iditarod officials say a mix of “weather and resulting trail conditions, Petit was not able to continue, and by activating his SOS, Petit scratched.” Golovin Search and Rescue helped Petit to the shelter cabin located between Elim and White Mountain. Race marshal Mark Nordman spoke with Petit by satellite phone and confirmed that he and his race team are fine. As soon as the weather clears, Petit and his team will travel to...

During his press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump said that he told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift rules and bureaucracy to help combat the COVID-19 epidemic. He also directed the agency to make experimental drugs, such as those used to treat malaria, available. “I have directed the FDA to eliminate rules and bureaucracy so work can proceed rapidly, quickly and fast,” the president said, as reported by Fox News. “We have to remove every barrier or a lot of barriers that were unnecessary and they’ve done that to get the rapid deployment of safe, effective treatments...

The NFL is taking COVID-19 very seriously, and on Thursday an example of a positive COVID-19 test from within NFL community underscored that it should be. Saints coach Sean Payton told ESPN that he has tested positive for the virus. There’s no mention as to whether Payton, 56, is suffering from any symptoms. Many who have the virus have no symptoms, or mild ones. Payton told ESPN that he came forward with the diagnosis to encourage people to “heed the warnings of government officials, stay inside, and behave responsibly.” Amen to that. We wish Coach Payton a quick recovery, and...

Here are the rankings: 1 Thomas Waerner - Total race time: 9d 10h 37m 47s 2 Mitch Seavey - Total race time: 9d 16h 15m 38s 3 Jessie Royer - Total race time: 9d 17h 47m 16s 4 Brent Sass - Total race time: 9d 18h 57m 47s 5 Aaron Burmeister- Total race time: 9d 19h 18m 53s 6 Joar Leifseth Ulsom - Total race time: 9d 19h 48m 41s 7 Paige Drobny- Total race time: 9d 19h 54m 35s 8 Ryan Redington - Total race time: 9d 20h 40m 58s 9 Jessie Holmes - Total race time: 9d 21h...

UCLA plans to poll students graduating in 2020 about how they would like to proceed with their commencement following the cancellation of in-person spring ceremonies. Chancellor Gene Block announced in a statement Wednesday evening that all spring campus graduation ceremonies will be conducted virtually in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus. This decision will affect UCLA’s College commencement, doctoral hooding and all campus graduation ceremonies. The largest commencement that will be impacted is UCLA’s College, whose virtual ceremony will be held June 12. Soon after students were notified via Twitter that commencements would be held online,...

The National Guard in California has been put on 'alert' and the governor has asked to use the Navy's hospital boat as it's predicted more than 60,000 homeless people could become ill with the coronavirus over the next eight weeks, badly straining the healthcare system. California, the nation's most populous state, has also been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, with 892 confirmed cases as of Wednesday, and at least 17 fatalities have been reported. With San Francisco on lockdown for three weeks and six Bay Area counties being told to shelter-in-place, supermarket shelves have been emptied as...

Workers are bugging out in certain industries with the intentio of applying for those checks. Thousands of workers who are fine are going to bug out from work. The offer of checks will hasten the economic collapse. Hello? Wake up.

Donald Trump is blaming China for COVID-19. In a tweet, the U.S. president called the coronavirus "Chinese virus." Such a term, as well as "Wuhan virus", have been used by some others in the United States. Chinese Foreign Ministry has urged all countries to work together to resolve the crisis, rather than attribute blames.

ANCHORAGE (KTUU0 - Rookie Iditarod musher Quince Mountain's time on the Iditarod trail has come to an end. Race marshal Mark Nordman made the call around 11:38 a.m. to withdraw Mountain from the race at the Unalakleet checkpoint. Nordman made the decision based on rule 36 of the official Iditarod race rules regarding competitiveness. Rule 36 -- Competitiveness: A team may be withdrawn that is out of the competition and is not in a position to make a valid effort to compete. The Race Marshal may consider, but is not limited to, weather, trail conditions and the overall pace of...

★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★ The Coronavirus Spread SLOWS as the latest Chloroquine Study Shows a 100% Cure Rate; that’s what we’ll be talking about on today’s video. President Trump HAS just announced and indeed has confirmed that the malaria drug chloroquine is showing astonishing results in the fight against the coronavirus, and we’re going to take a look at the observations of a Noble Laureate as to the rate of natural immunity to the virus; I think you’re going to find it very, very interesting.

Bayer AG said on Thursday it has donated 3 million tablets of the malaria drug Resochin to the U.S. government for potential use to treat COVID-19. Resochin, made of chloroquine phosphate and an approved treatment for malaria, is being evaluated in China for its potential use against COVID-19, the disease caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus.

Self-awareness is apparently in short supply these days among CNN media hall monitors. For the past week, the media have focused incessantly on what President Trump and other Republicans call the Wuhan coronavirus. Teeth have been thoroughly gnashed over the connecting of the current pandemic to China, who’s government lied and helped propagate the spread of the disease, killing thousands along the way. Even as the Chinese have waged an information war against the U.S. to shift blame, the mainstream media have been right there to serve as pawns, repeating nonsensical charges and focusing on irrelevant arguments. Today, Chanel Rion...

Key Points Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday laid out details of the Trump administration’s plan to send Americans relief money. The White House is talking to congressional leaders of both parties about a massive stimulus package to blunt the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The proposal includes sending payments directly to Americans totaling $500 billion, broken up into two tranches. “The first one would be $1,000 per person, $500 per child,” Mnuchin said. “So for a family of four, that’s a $3,000 payment. ============================================================================= Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday laid out details of the Trump administration’s plan to...

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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve heard various friends and colleagues express their suspicions regarding the timing of the Coronavirus pandemic, surfacing as it has in the midst of this election year. Some have suggested that the virus may have been manufactured and deliberately released, whereas others have felt that the whole situation has been hyped and overblown for the purpose of undermining President Trump’s administration. To be sure, sadly but not at all surprisingly, there are surely many people attempting to politicize the pandemic to their own advantage. I’ve had my own cynical suspicions along these lines, especially...

January 19, 2020 - The true scale of a viral pneumonia outbreak in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have said, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading. Fears that the virus will spread are growing ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, when hundreds of millions of Chinese move around the country and many others host or visit extended family members living overseas. Authorities in China have said two people have died and at least 45 have been infected, with the outbreak centered around a seafood market in Wuhan, a central city...

The state's temporary limit on size of gatherings violates the First Amendments "Assemble Peaceably" clause. The limit on size of gatherings for religious groups violates the First Amendments "Free Exercise" clause. There is no pandemic exception to the First Amendment in the United State Constitution. People should have the freedom to choose rather or not to go to a gathering. Many of us would rather take risks that make us happy, rather than live sad because many people are scared of COVID-19. We believe that states which do not follow the United States Constitution bring confusion. Not all states have...