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As of March 20, a total of 150 U.S. residents have died from Covid-19 as of 4:00 PM on March 18, 2020. Among these deaths, 66 occurred in the State of Washington, and at least 35 of them are associated with a single nursing home near Seattle. To put those figures in perspective: Roughly 12,469 people in the U.S. died from the swine flu from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010. Unlike Covid-19, which mainly kills older people with preexisting health problems, 87% of people killed by the swine flu were under the age of 65. An average of...

WGN Investigates has learned Chicago police officers have concerns the city has given them old, ineffective hand sanitizer that potentially puts them at risk. The city distributed thousands of bottles of “Safe-Tec” hand sanitizer to officers at roll calls Wednesday morning. Some officers who thought the bottles looked old, contacted the company. In an email obtained by WGN Investigates, a “Safe-Tec” sales manager said the hand sanitizer hasn’t been manufactured since 2012. A city spokesperson insists the sanitizer is effective as long as the bottle wasn't opened in the years since it was produced. A Chicago police spokesperson blamed a...

Most Americans are horrified at the havoc the coronavirus has wrought on the U.S. and its economy - everything from lockdowns to school and church shutdowns, to missing products on store shelves, to business closures and layoffs, to travel and tourism restrictions, to the stock crash, to isolated elderly people being protected from harm's way. That's in addition to those who have been directly hit by the virus, some severely, and our horror at what is happening in Italy. The only thing that keeps us going is the prospect of ... getting through it. But in a Fox News appearance on...

Financial markets paused their slide Thursday, but no one should think this rolling economic calamity is over. If this government-ordered shutdown continues for much more than another week or two, the human cost of job losses and bankruptcies will exceed what most Americans imagine. This won’t be popular to read in some quarters, but federal and state officials need to start adjusting their anti-virus strategy now to avoid an economic recession that will dwarf the harm from 2008-2009.

With symptoms ranging from a gasping death to nothing at all, one has to wonder whether COVID-19 is a super flu or a mild cold. Have we ruined our economy over nothing or saved millions of people from death? If COVID-19 is a mild cold, how did we mistake it for a super flu? There are over 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. The most common are rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, and respiratory syncytial viruses. The average person gets one to three colds per year, and due to the large variety of viruses responsible, there is no vaccine. Influenza...

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Brenée Goforth. The United States’ response to Coronavirus has been slow—potentially fatally so. America’s numbers of confirmed cases have started to skyrocket, not because people are all-of-a-sudden contracting the virus, but because the government’s decisions around screening have held Americans back from receiving proper diagnoses. Of course, this is to be expected in an overly-centralized and overly-bureaucratic system. And future virus mitigation will continue to be unnecessarily hindered until the United States decentralizes its response. When the first cases of Coronavirus were being reported in the U.S. in late January, doctors were having to mail samples...

This morning news broke out that four Republican senators are being accused of dumping their stocks after being briefed on the coronavirus in private meetings. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. The mainstream media was quick to attack the GOP members as corrupt but it seems they are not alone. Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of California is also accused of insider trading. Feinstein, who serves as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her husband sold between $1.5 million and $6 million in stock in California biotech...

Mike Bloomberg has talked a good game about maintaining campaign offices nationwide and spending possibly $2 billion of his enormous personal wealth to help elect a Democrat in the 2020 general election, but he may not deliver on his grandiose promises. That's the word from numerous staffers who tell Fox Business that a new plan may be on the drawing board that will provide significantly less support from the former New York City mayor and billionaire entrepreneur than Bloomberg initially stated when he dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination following his Super Tuesday losses. FOX Business has...

As the coronavirus hammers the economy, Californians are losing their jobs and boosting the pace of unemployment claims as much as 40-fold. The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that in the week ended March 14 Californians filed 58,208 initial claims for jobless benefits — an increase of 34% in a week and up 42% vs. a year earlier. The state’s no outlier. Nationwide, 250,892 claims were filed in the same period — up 25% in a week and an increase of 29% in a year. These increases are the tip of the iceberg. In a speech Wednesday...

Washington (AFP) - The United States and China on Friday took their growing clash over the coronavirus pandemic to social media, with Beijing telling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo he was "lying through (his) teeth." In an interview on Fox News, Pompeo said Beijing "wasted valuable days" after identifying the novel coronavirus by letting "hundreds of thousands" leave the epicenter of Wuhan to places including Italy, which has surpassed China as the country with the highest death toll. "The Chinese Communist Party didn't get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that," Pompeo said. Chinese...

Members of “Antifa” took part in a demonstration against police brutality in downtown Montreal on Sunday, despite health officials urging the public to practice social distancing amid a coronavirus outbreak. Roughly 100 masked protesters took part in the march, right-leaning Canadian news outlet True North reported. The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality organized the demonstration, according to a Montreal anarchist website. “In these troubled times, it’s easy to retire within oneself and forget about the rest of the world. We may be in quarantine, but the cops are not, anywhere in the world,” the group said in a post on...

Is Republican Gov. Charlie Baker going to become a Democrat? The offer to abandon the Republican Party and become a Democrat came after Baker was handed his head last week on Super Tuesday when he lost all control of the Republican State Committee. The 80- member committee, headed by conservative former Rep. Edward Lyons, is now firmly in the hands of pro Donald Trump conservatives by a 60 to 20 margin.

About 175 executives were expected at the Biogen leadership conference on Feb. 26. Employees from Biogen locations around the United States and the world reunited with colleagues they don’t often get to see. Within days, though, the Biogen conference would be infamous, identified as an epicenter of the Massachusetts outbreak of Covid-19, with 70 of 92 coronavirus infections in the state linked to the conference as of Tuesday night, including employees and those who came into contact with them. That doesn’t include a cascade of individual cases in Tennessee, North Carolina, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Norway, and suspected...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered non-essential businesses to keep 100% of their workforce at home to try to contain the fast-spreading COVID-19 outbreak across the state. “This is the most drastic action we can take,” Cuomo said Friday. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been pushing Cuomo to issue a shelter-in-place order for New York City, where cases skyrocketed by more than 1,000 over a matter of hours on Thursday and the state has the worst outbreak in the U.S. with more than 5,700 confirmed cases — more than half of which are concentrated in New York City.

Two executions have been postponed in Texas this month, and it's possible the coronavirus pandemic could disrupt several more, which one expert says could reduce the dwindling support for the death penalty in the United States. With many non-essential public spaces shut down to try to contain the virus' spread, lawyers for two condemned men sought and received 60-day stays of execution. The Court of Criminal Appeals approved the stays for John Hummel on Monday and Tracy Beatty on Thursday. They were on the schedule to be executed March 18 and March 25, respectively. Robert Dunham, director of the Washington,...

The former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency removed his earpiece and stormed off a live MSNBC segment on Thursday, saying he didn’t “have time to listen to bulls–t.” “The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth,” Craig Fugate, who served as the head of FEMA under President Barack Obama, said during a panel discussion centered around dealing with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “This is going to be dealt with on the front lines and local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their...

The Federal Reserve said Friday it would extend its asset purchase program into short-term municipal bonds. Thus far, the central bank has limited its efforts to Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities in an effort to keep liquidty flowing through the system and to stabilize credit markets. However, continued disruption in the markets for state and local government debt promoted the Fed to take further action in its efforts to combat coronavirus effects. The market for munis this week has all but collapsed, with few willing to step in and buy the government debt in the uncertainty of the current climate.

PROVIDENCE — Chelsea Clinton, who played hide-and-seek in the West Wing, says living in the White House was both ordinary and extraordinary. “I never forgot that I lived in the White House,” the best-selling author told 40 children Tuesday at the South Providence Public Library. “But I also had sleepovers and homework and had to clean my room.”(snip) Clinton opened by answering questions about climate change and one of her pet projects — preserving endangered species. The questions — from second, fourth- and fifth-graders — reflected their innocence and their curiosity. “We have so much in common,” she told one...