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Eleven students who attend Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, have come down with coronavirus symptoms after returning to campus. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. decided to reopen the campus to students at the end of spring break despite public health officials warning him not to do so. The Democratic governor of Virginia Ralph Northam had previously banned gatherings of more than 100 people in the state to which Liberty said it would transition most classes to online.

Twitter on Monday morning deleted Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s viral tweet posted earlier this month touting the drug hydroxychloroquine as having been used by one New York hospital to “very promising results” and claiming that one “seriously ill” patient had a Lazarus-like recovery from the coronavirus thanks to it. On two consecutive nights earlier this month, Ingraham hosted an oncologist she described as being “with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City” to promote the anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump has peddled as a “game changer” in treating COVID-19. The primetime cable star repeatedly touted the doctor’s credentials...

It looks like the millions liberal billionaire George Soros’s Democracy PAC dumped into lefty group Priorities USA’s coffers are paying dividends. An Advertising Analytics March 21-March 27 “The Week in Review” report found that, out of ten coronavirus ads aired on TV last week, Priorities USA’s anti-Trump coronavirus ad “Hoax” led the pack with a whopping “1,074 airings.” Advertising Analytics noted that “The top advertiser for the week was Priorities USA.”

The chief physician executive at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey discussed on “Fox & Friends” how drugs meant to treat other conditions are now being used to help treat COVID-19 patients. “Anything that might work, it's nice to get out there,” Dr. Daniel Varga said on Monday. “It's great to use it in emergency situations, use it for compassionate use. Even better to get it out in clinical trials.” Varga made the comments responding to a report where two coronavirus patients in New York City were moved out of the intensive care unit after taking an experimental drug typically...

My first of two posts on the breakdown of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or CARES Act. This one pertains to business owners and employees and those seeking grants, funding, and loans as a result of COVID-19. Contact your lender today if you're a business owner and take advantage of these methods to continue paying your employees and operating expenses. This will open up a wide array of new lenders not already under the SBA program. THERE IS LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR: 1. Payroll costs 2. Mortgage interest 3. Rent 4. Utilities There is also a tax abatement...

Yesterday's thread here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3829536/posts?page=1

Former Vice-President Joe Biden sharply criticized President Trump for "pushing an unproven malaria drug as a cure for the virus. A couple in Arizona poisoned themselves by taking it. My son has used his business connections in China to secure millions of doses of a traditional folk remedy for respiratory ailments. It's a formula comprised of bear bile, goat horn and dried fruit." "It's time for us to undo the mistakes of the previous administration," Biden said. "So today, I am issuing an executive order for the Health and Human Services Department to purchase as many doses as Hunter can...

The Democrat doubled down on remarks he made last week defending his decision -- or lack thereof -- not to cancel February 25 Mardi Gras events. He conceded that the raucous partying scene "likely" contributed to the spread of the virus in the New Orleans area, where health experts now say the next coronavirus "hot spot" is emerging. Just one day prior to the city's Mardi Gras festivities, the president said "the coronavirus is very much under control" before going on to tout the day's stock market gains. Speaking on several Sunday morning TV news programs, Bel Edwards tried to...

A study on COVID-19 patients in China links high viral load to worse symptoms Viral load is the amount of a virus inside someone's body during infection As well as reducing the risk of coronavirus spreading social distancing could make people's symptoms milder if they do get the illness, scientists say. It can do this by reducing a patient's viral load - the number of particles of the virus they are first infected with. Having a high viral load gives an infection a 'jump start' and raises the risk of a patient's immune system becoming overloaded in its battle against...

I remember a researcher who’s tracking the genomes of strains in the Seattle area saying earlier this month, “January 1 in Wuhan was March 1 in Seattle.” Washington state could experience the same disaster that China did, he said — if nothing was done urgently to mitigate the disease’s spread. But something was done. Seattle was among the first places in the U.S. to encourage stringent social distancing.Result: Wuhan had to be locked down on January 23 in an urgent attempt to stop the virus’s spread. Whereas Seattle is now 29 days removed from March 1 and the contagion...

So, when I saw that one of my favorite actor’s John Krasinski is starting his news network during the coronavirus lockdown, I had to check it out. The network is called, “Some Good News”. It was sweet, and all the good that was promised was there. This video has everything you need, and I applaud him for making this in a time where most celebrities seem to have lost their minds. Stars can be the worst in our society. So, it is refreshing to have a celebrity that showcases positivity instead of bashing the president or hoping conservatives get coronavirus....

...Klamath River... Now, plans to demolish four hydroelectric dams on the river’s lower reaches to save salmon — the largest such demolition project in U.S. history — have placed those competing interests in stark relief. Each group with a stake — tribes, farmers, ranchers, homeowners and conservationists — sees its identity in the Klamath and ties its future to the dams in deeply personal terms. “We are saving salmon country, and we’re doing it The project, estimated at nearly $450 million, would reshape the Klamath River and empty giant reservoirs. The proposal fits into a trend toward dam demolition in...

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video. The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue outside Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, according to a man shooting the clip who does not identify himself. “This is for real. This is Brooklyn,” a man filming the terrifying event can be heard saying in the video. “They putting the bodies in the 18-wheeler … this...

VANITY An anti-Trump person just told me that hospitals are now sending the oldest patients with coronovirus home from the hospital. I know this is bound to be fake (she does watch CNN). I've done research--does anyone have ANY idea what she might be referring to? It might be futile--but I want to set the record straight as much as I can to as many people as I can.

Once again, government intrusion into the health-care sector has proved disastrous. While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames the president and the federal government for the lack of beds and ventilators in his state, the power to determine the number of these critical medical supplies in New York hospitals falls squarely upon the shoulders of the governor.During a Tuesday press conference, Cuomo lashed out at the federal government for not sending enough ventilators as the Wuhan coronavirus continues to rattle the state. “Four hundred ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators,” Cuomo said. “You want a pat on the back for sending...

President Donald Trump said U.S. health officials should have a “good idea” whether an anti-malaria drug being tested as a treatment for COVID-19 is effective in fighting the coronavirus in “the next three days.” “Hydroxychloroquine is something that I have been pushing very hard,” Trump said Monday morning during an interview on Fox News. “I think we’re going to have a good idea over the next three days because it’s been used now in New York at my request -- 1,100 people. It’s been used. I think that’s better than testing it in a laboratory. But the doctors tell me...

Democrats are already posturing for provisions they failed to get into the last one. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's failure to secure financial assistance for Planned Parenthood in a historic coronavirus relief package has her talking about a new one, according to a top Republican lawmaker. 'Before' the historic relief package was passed last week, Pelosi said lawmakers must begin drafting a fourth relief package to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the bill was insufficient. McCarthy said on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures..."What concerns me is, when I listen to Nancy Pelosi talk about a fourth package now, it's...

For weeks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged New Yorkers to “go about your lives” as fears of the novel coronavirus spread, advice that has come back to haunt him as the pandemic takes a deadly toll on the Big Apple. On the 24th of January New York City officials laid out their preparedness plans, accurately assessing that the city’s international travel hub and large population made the coronavirus’s arrival just about inevitable. Mayor Bill de Blasio declared, “We have to act on the assumption that there will, unfortunately, be cases sooner rather than later in New York...

While layoffs continue and unemployment rises as most US production is forced to close, and while innocent citizens are caged in their homes under government order, unable to legally even attend a concert, we can finally find out what is in the Wuhan Coronavirus disease-19 (Covid -19) economic stimulus bill that needed the help of 80 year old Rep Nancy Pelosi, (D-coyote roaming-homeless living CA) the first rich female Speaker of the House, to pass. “Much more must be done. The President must use the full powers of this law to address the dire, widespread shortage of materials required to...