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“I don’t have time to follow people’s twits…tweets, Twitters, whatever, tweets — so don’t expect me to comment on that,” Pelosi said. “Well, even beyond Twitter, the President of the United States is signaling that he could open it up,” Bash said. “What is your opinion on that?” Bash said pressing Pelosi. “I don’t care! I don’t care! I don’t care!” Pelosi said as CNN’s Dana Bash brought up Trump’s plans to open America back up for business soon. “It is not scientific based — he’s notion mongering,” Pelosi slurred. Of course Pelosi doesn’t care about Americans going back to...

The Lambeth Conference website has posted this information today: In recent weeks, the organising teams for the Lambeth Conference have been prayerfully thinking through the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the plans and preparations for this important event. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Lambeth Conference Company has been monitoring the situation and following advice from public health authorities. The public health risk of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom has now been assessed as ‘high’ by the UK’s Chief Medical Officers and a wide range of governmental measures are in place to respond to the health crisis. Following consultation...

German customs officials are attempting to track down about 6 million face masks ordered to protect health workers from the coronavirus which went missing at an airport in Kenya. "The authorities are trying to find out what happened," said a defence ministry spokeswoman, confirming a report first published by Spiegel Online. The FFP2 masks, which filter out more than 90% of particles, were ordered by German customs authorities. They and the armed forces procurement office have been helping the health ministry to get hold of urgently needed protective gear.

The 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting kicked off on Nov. 4 with a rousing presentation by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). A terrorist attack on U.S. soil, hurricane, cyberattack and pandemic were the four scenarios played out in late 2016, when NIAID conducted a tabletop exercise for the newly elected president’s incoming cabinet. In this first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, three of these four potential disasters have already occurred: We’ve had a terrorist attack in Las Vegas. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria wreaked untold damage in Texas, Florida and Puerto...

NEW YORK (AP) — A “cacophony of coughing” in packed emergency rooms. Beds squeezed in wherever there is space. Overworked, sleep-deprived doctors and nurses rationed to one face mask a day and wracked by worry about a dwindling number of available ventilators. Such is the reality inside New York City’s hospitals, which have become the war-zone-like epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis. Faced with an infection rate that is five times that of the rest of the country, health workers are putting themselves at risk to fight a tide of sickness that’s getting worse by the day amid a shortage...

**SNIP** “I was at the point where I was barely able to speak, and breathing was very challenging,” Giardinieri said. “I really thought my end was there.” On Friday, he said goodbye to his wife and three children, thinking he would be the next victim of the COVID-19 virus. Then a friend sent him an article about hydroxychloroquine. **SNIP** Thirty minutes later, nurses administered the drug, and for two hours, he felt his heart race and experienced an episode where he couldn’t breathe. He then woke up at 4:45 the next morning and felt “like nothing ever happened." His breathing...

Minsk, March 24, Interfax - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he believes that the peak of coronavirus in the country will have passed by Orthodox Easter on April 19. "We'll use your [China's] experience and our experience in order to pass the peak at the maximum acceptable level. If we endure until Orthodox Easter, that means we'll live," the presidential press service cited Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Cui Qiming in Minsk on Tuesday. A lot of things happen in life, but refraining from panicking is most important, Lukashenko said. "My worst fear is that...

Medical researchers in Asia, Europe and the United States are working around the clock on ways to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, hunting for clues and crunching data from decades of studies on pathogens similar to the new coronavirus. The importance of that research was stressed on Friday when science authorities from 12 countries, including the US, Italy, and South Korea, released a statement urging corporate publishers of academic papers to make all relevant information openly and quickly available. “[We] urge publishers to voluntarily agree to make their Covid-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible,” it...

Bill Gates and Elites want to reduce the population by 90%. They believe that 500 million is about all the population that planet earth can support. The Coronavirus pandemic has become a convenient, or manufactured, excuse to enact their plans. Yet it was God gave man a mandate to procreate and fill the face of the earth. God said be fruitful and multiply. Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5...

Hoping to stem the toll of the state’s surging coronavirus outbreak, New York health officials plan to begin collecting plasma from people who have recovered and injecting the antibody-rich fluid into patients still fighting the virus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the plans during a news briefing Monday. The treatment, known as convalescent plasma, dates back centuries and was used during the flu epidemic of 1918 — in an era before modern vaccines and antiviral drugs, NBC News reports. Some experts say the treatment, although somewhat primitive, might be the best hope for combating the coronavirus until more sophisticated therapies can...

The coronavirus pandemic has left much of society sequestered in their homes, a tactic that's being referred to as "social distancing." The concept is simple: The less time spent in public, the less chance of spreading the virus, and better the odds of slowing the spread of COVID-19. As a result, many people are finding themselves working from home, limiting their activities and generally having a lot more time on their hands. We've assembled two dozen songs to accompany your social distancing experience. Whether they echo the advice of health experts, reflect the feeling of solitary seclusion or simply resonate...

Pope Believes Chinese Virus Is Nature’s Wrath ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is weighing in on one of the most troubling theological questions of all time: Does God bring about natural disasters and other trials to punish humans for their sins? His answer is "No."Dr. Gavin Ashenden But Mother Nature does. In a Skype interview aired on Spanish television, Francis suggested the global pandemic is nature's response to man's ecological sins: "God always forgives. We forgive from time to time. Nature never forgives. Fires, earthquakes ... nature is kicking in so that we take care of nature." Some analysts note that embedded within the pontiff's remarks...

Researchers have identified dozens of drugs and compounds, some experimental and others already approved by health authorities, that may be effective in combating the CCP virus. The Epoch Times refers to the novel coronavirus, also called SARS-CoV-2, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mishandling allowed the virus to spread throughout China and spark a global pandemic. In a preprint study not yet peer-reviewed, published on March 22 on bioRxiv, the research team indicated it found hundreds of “high confidence” interactions between SARS-CoV-2 virus proteins and druggable human proteins. Nearly 70 substances, including both drugs in...

Rose Garden 12:02 P.M. EDTQ    With me now to begin this hour here at the White House, the Vice President, Mike Pence, who is leading the task force from Washington.  And thank you for your time today.THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Good to see you, Bill.  Welcome to the White House.Q    Thank you.  It’s an honor to be here.  And I hope for the people at home, they get some value over the next two hours, and we’ll try and get them some answers.Moments ago, New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, is imploring the construction, immediately, of up to 30,000 ventilators to...

A gangster named Henri “Le Tigre” Olivier was guillotined in Lille on this date in 1925. According to eyebrow-raising (but widely circulated) reports, once the Tiger was reduced to a Cadaver, he joined the august line of medicalized corpses for, as noted in the papers of the executioner Anatole Deibler, “In the cemetery, a professor from the Faculty of Lille removed the thyroid gland from him, for transplant to a young girl suffering from paralysis, the operation succeeded perfectly, the child was saved.”

Brady Sluder, the now infamous Florida spring breaker who basically said he doesn’t care if he contracts coronavirus and that “here’s just here to have a good time,” has since apologized. Sluder, who is a Soundcloud rapper from Milford, Ohio, posted the apology to his Instagram account, saying, "I wasn't aware of the severity of my actions and comments. "Like many others, I have elderly people who I adore more than anything in the world and other family members who are at risk, and I understand how concerning this disease is for us all.” “If I get corona, I get...

This is our ongoing prepper thread, re-invented to be more specific to prepping for, and of course during, pandemics. Where gave you found your preps have withstood this test? What would you like to have done differently? What are your current prepping plans?

The first deaths were reported back on February 24th — one month ago. Since then there has been a wave of deaths. Over 69,000 Italians tested positive for the coronavirus. But the trend is starting to turn in Italy’s favor. The past three days have seen a gradual decrease in cases reported.

We will update the time series tables in the following days, aiming to provide a cleaner and more organized dataset consistent with our new/current naming convention. We will also be reporting a new variable (i.e, testing), as well as data at the county level for the US. All files will continue to be updated daily around 11:59PM UTC.The followiing specific changes will be made: Three new time series tables will be added for the US. The first two will be the confirmed cases and deaths, reported at the county level. The third, number of tests conducted, will be reported at...

Facebook page NUS Atheist Society has found itself in a crappy situation after a post on toilet humour landed them in trouble. Police are investigating after the page made a post suggesting the Bible and the Quran as toilet paper alternatives, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in a Facebook post today (March 20). A screengrab of NUS Atheist Society's post showed a picture of the Bible and the Quran, along with the caption: "For use during toilet paper shortages." NUS Atheist Society is not an official National University of Singapore (NUS) student organisation, according to the university's...