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New York State will start coronavirus drug trials Tuesday in an attempt to control the pandemic's impact on the state, said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. New York is the hardest-hit state in the U.S. As of Monday afternoon, the state had 20,875 confirmed cases of COVID-19. During a news conference on Sunday, Cuomo announced that the state has acquired 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine. The trials will start Tuesday, he said. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are antimalarial drugs. Zithromax, or azithromycin, is an antibiotic. "I want to thank the [Food and Drug...

This is where we are. "Whatever it takes" is their sickening philosophy.

All K-12 schools in Virginia will remain closed through "at least" the academic year and all restaurants must end dine-in service, the governor announced Monday as the state dramatically ramps up its efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus. Gov. Ralph Northam said at a news conference Monday afternoon that he signed an executive order to close many businesses for at least 30 days. Restaurants can continue carryout, delivery and drive-thru service.

Please be nice; this is my first vanity. I did this just out of curiosity because it’s not something I have seen elsewhere. All data is from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ I was interested in the growth rate of new Covid 19 cases and have been monitoring the link above. I noticed a large spike in cases yesterday along with a relatively small number the previous day. It occurred to me that daily growth rates are too noisy to really matter, but a longer term average might be a better way to look at it. I started my data analysis with the 3/7...

Congressional Democrats are taking heat from Republicans for rejecting a massive stimulus package twice amid a national emergency caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus. The bill would’ve provided nearly $2 trillion in financial aid from the federal government to prop up the struggling economy but Senate Republicans failed to get the required 60 votes to approve the package.

Nurses at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in East Hollywood voiced their outrage at the hospital's coronavirus response during a rally Monday morning. Christina Pascucci reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on March 23, 2020.

Ben Buckley is the octogenarian deputy mayor of the Shire of East Gippsland, an Australian local government body whose area is 93% the size of Delaware. He is a modern day outlaw. The Australian Kinky Friedman? He has flown planes under bridges and has crop dusted the local football team when in training. A frequent candidate for public office, he has represented the populist One Nation Party and the libertarian Liberal Democrats in parliamentary elections. In a field of 39 candidates he topped the poll in the 2016 East Gippsland Shire election. Then he was suspended for a year for...

A Trump administration official said Sunday that illegal border crossings have dropped by half as the strictest U.S.-Mexico border policies yet went into place amid the coronavirus pandemic, but there was confusion about how it was all working. Anyone caught crossing the border illegally is to be immediately returned back to Mexico or Canada, according to the new restrictions based on an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday. According to Mark Morgan, the acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the decision applies to all migrants. “We’re not going to take you into our...

[Catholic Caucus] Coronavirus: Protection against Christ? Father Paddy Mockler, the parish-priest in Pass Christian, Biloxi Diocese, Mississippi, celebrated last Sunday Mass in rubber gloves. Parts of the Mass can be seen on YouTube.com (video below). A woman who read the epistle also wore rubber gloves, likely to protect herself from the Word of God.

The producer of this documentary asserts that the COVID-19 outbreak is far different from what we have been led to believe. China's government, for example, set up a hospital in record time--an admirable work--ostensibly for the benefit of its citizenry. Why, then did all the windows of the extremely-hastily-constructed "hospital" have bars and locks on the outsides of all its rooms? It sure looks a lot more like a prison than the hospital about which had been boasted. Many health-care workers have been dragged off and incarcerated! US Media only told of one dissident whistle blowing doctor, but apparently there...

The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo noir psychological political thriller film about the Cold War and sleeper agents. It was directed and produced by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay was written by George Axelrod and was based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate. The film's leading actors are Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh, with Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva and James Gregory in supporting roles. The plot centers on the Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, the progeny of a prominent political family. Shaw was a prisoner of war during the conflict in Korea and...

The national shortage of N95 respirator masks can be traced back to 2009 after the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, when the Obama administration was advised to replenish a national stockpile but did not, according to reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times. The Trump administration is scrambling to replenish a stockpile of protective medical gear for healthcare workers and patients as the coronavirus sweeps across the nation. N95 respirator masks are one of the most needed medical supplies amid the outbreak. The George W. Bush administration published the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza plan in 2005, which called...

As President Donald Trump suggests the response to the coronavirus may be going too far, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is urging his administration go further. Cruz — who has emerged as one of the most vocal members of Congress on the dangers the virus poses — wants the administration to tell private manufacturers to begin making ventilators, warning the nation could soon face a shortage. “I don't want to see doctors having to make a choice of who gets to live and who has to die because they don't have the equipment to save their lives,” Cruz said on his...

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing the committee charged with planning the Democratic National Convention to consider emergency “contingency options” for the event, scheduled July 13-16 in Milwaukee. Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez has publicly stated that there are no plans to cancel or significantly alter the convention, but the Democratic National Convention Committee acknowledged publicly for the first time on Monday that it is considering backup plans if the coronavirus continues to pose a public health threat this summer. “As we navigate the unprecedented challenge of responding to the coronavirus, we're exploring a range of contingency options to ensure...

On January 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State Department of Health announced the first case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States in Washington State. Learn more about the coronavirus from Washington State’s official COVID-19 website. Maintained by the state Joint Information Center.

Cook County Republican Chairman Sean Morrison lashed out Monday at Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot, accusing them of putting politics before constituents with their “volley of combative and sarcastic tweets” aimed at President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. “Finger-pointing and name calling by Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot solves absolutely nothing except for trying to score some cheap political points,” Morrison said in a statement. “We need steady, effective and focused leadership and they’re not providing it.” House Minority Leader Jim Durkin also called for an end to partisan finger pointing... ”Fighting for our state through...

Pope Francis’ Coronavirus Antidote: ‘Be Nice and Keep Hugging’ Sociologist identifies pontiff's religion as Moralistic Therapeutic Deism ROME (ChurchMiliant.com) - It is the nicest response to come from the successor of St. Peter in the 2,000-year history of the Church confronting plagues. It is also a unique and unparalleled pontifical exhortation to a world knocked off its axis by pandemic and pandemonia.      If only previous popes had responded to the Plague of Cyprian (250–271) or the Plague of Justinian (541–542) or the Black Death (1346–1353) with Pope Francis' gentle non-judgmentalism! Just do it. Be nice and hug one another.       Alas! The...

Researchers in four countries will soon start a clinical trial of an unorthodox approach to the new coronavirus. They will test whether a century-old vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial disease, can rev up the human immune system in a broad way, allowing it to better fight the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 and, perhaps, prevent infection with it altogether. The studies will be done in physicians and nurses, who are at higher risk of becoming infected with the respiratory disease than the general population, and in the elderly, who are at higher risk of serious illness if they...

A Florida man was arrested last week for causing almost $70,000 in damage to a neighbor's home after putting a water hose through a broken window, police say. Jonathan Babij, 37, of Ocala city, was detained by deputies from the Marion County Sheriff's Office on February 27 and hit with multiple felony charges related to incidents that took place during 2019. In a media release, police confirmed the suspect has a dozen prior theft convictions. Inmate records posted online suggested that Babij has since posted the required $14,000 bond. His latest arrest was first reported by local media outlet WGFL....