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Chinese regime authorities locked down a county in Henan Province to curb the spread of the CCP virus starting from April 1—the first time Chinese officials placed an area under quarantine after the regime announced that lockdowns would be lifted nationwide. The Chinese regime announced in March that the lockdown in Wuhan city would be lifted on April 8. But rail services and subways already started to operate at the end of March. Officials said that all residential compounds and villages in Jia County, located near Henan’s Pingdingshan city, are now on lockdown. Residents cannot go out, even if they...

A doctor who may have been the first person in China to try to spread the word about the coronvirus was reprimanded and told to remain silent. Earlier this month she disobeyed that order and gave an interview to a Chinese magazine. Ai Fen, director of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital, told Chinese magazine People that she posted an image of a diagnostic report on social network WeChat on December 30, showing that the patient had a pneumonia infection caused by a Sars-like coronavirus…Ai told the magazine she alerted the hospital’s community health service centre and infectious...

As the beleaguered Zaandam and Rotterdam cruise ships steam toward Port Everglades, more than 1,200 passengers on board still don’t know what will happen to them when they arrive early Thursday. Both ships are on the Port Everglades docking schedule for Thursday at 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Broward Health confirmed to the Miami Herald that “critically ill” patients will be transferred to the hospital system. DeSantis alluded to a third ship on its way to Florida, the Coral Princess, which is expected to arrive to Port Everglades Saturday with flu-like cases on board. All 1,024 passengers are confined to...

President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, are arranging a call regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the Biden campaign said Wednesday. "Our teams will be in touch and we will arrange a call," Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, said in a statement to CNN Wednesday evening. The development followed Trump’s comments that he would “absolutely” take a call from Biden to discuss the response to the outbreak. “Oh absolutely. I’d love to speak to him,” Trump said during a White House coronavirus briefing. “I always found him to be a nice guy,” he added....

A video montage released by a Chinese government-run news outlet used journalists from CNN and MSNBC, as well as politicians and celebrities, in order to attack President Trump. The Washington Examiner first highlighted the video, which was shared last week by Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper, showing the backlash Trump received for referring to the coronavirus as the "Chinese virus" in reference to the disease's origin. The montage features multiple media figures, prominent Democrats and celebrities critical of the rhetoric. "Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus? Why do you keep using this? A lot of people...

BEIJING—China has once again claimed no new deaths by coronavirus today, drawing praise from the American media. President Xi Jinping made the extraordinary claim even as a peasant pushed a cart filled with dead bodies behind him, shouting, "Bring out your dead!" the entire time. "No, no one is dead," President Xi assured the media. "We have completely cured everything." The communist dictator claimed they have cured the virus using sheep's bladders, which they also use to prevent earthquakes. His scientists also discovered the earth to be banana-shaped. As he continued to claim everything is perfectly fine in China, the...

UPDATE: An earlier version of this article misgendered Sam Smith as 'him'. It should have read 'them'. The error has been corrected. At the iHeart 'Living Room Concert for America' held on Sunday, March 30, Elton John hosted an hour-long special to raise funds for all the heroes and pillars of society working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic: aka the health care workers and first responders. The event saw performances by Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, the Backstreet Boys, Tim McGraw, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, H.E.R., Sam Smith and more. However, what caught social media's...

llis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of one of New Orleans’ great musical families has died. The 85-year-old jazz piano legend was hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19. He had been tested for coronavirus and results were pending. Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a statement Wednesday night on his passing. "Ellis Marsalis was a legend," she said. "He was the prototype of what we mean when we talk about New Orleans jazz. The love and the prayers of all of our people go out to his family, and to all of those whose lives he touched. He was a...

I finally had it and decided to deactivate Facebook. It seems if you have a different opinion about the economy and the coronavirus you are considered an idiot and or do you want the hospitals to be overrun with people and everybody will die because of you. It seems there are a lot of people who are lemmings to the government that I didn't know where. They scream and scream about staying inside and listening to your governor!! and there's a lot of people who are just fat and happy watching Netflix and working from home and not worrying about...

US authorities are now firing an opening salvo at China, claiming that the county misinformed the rest of the world about the severity of covid-19. And that better information would have spurred other nations to take the threat more seriously. That would perhaps make sense if it weren't such a crock of baloney. Anyone paying attention (like we here at PeakProsperity.com) could see sufficient signs by late January that the virus was extremely contagious, deadly, and had overwhelmed China's attempts to contain it. And yet US, and CDC officials continued to downplay its risks into early March. And, c'mon. Who...

Whiting Petroleum Corporation WLL has become the first oil and gas sector casualty of the current slump in crude demand in the wake of the coronavirus or Covid-19 global pandemic, and the price war between producers triggered by Saudi Arabia and Russia. Early on Wednesday (April 1), Denver, Colorado, U.S.–headquartered Whiting announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, prompting a suspension of its shares (NYSE:WLL) on the New York Stock Exchange. In a statement, Whiting said its board had concluded that given a severe downturn in oil and...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Projection models suggest Virginia could see a surge in coronavirus cases between late April and late May, Gov. Ralph Northam said Wednesday. “You need to know the truth. No sugarcoating,” Northam said as he delivered yet another sobering message about the pandemic, saying Virginians needed to be realistic in their expectations and prepare “for the long haul.” The governor said he expected to release more information Friday about sites the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been evaluating for alternative hospital beds. He also announced Virginia had received a third shipment of personal...

The Treasury announced late Wednesday that Social Security beneficiaries who typically do not file a tax return will automatically get the $1,200 payment. The announcement is a reversal from earlier in the week when the Internal Revenue Service said everyone would need to file some sort of tax return in order to qualify for the payments. Democrats and some Republicans criticized the IRS for requiring so many extra hurdles for this vulnerable population to get aid when the government already has their information on file. The reversal came as the Trump administration tries to rapidly get stimulus payments out to...

World Autism Awareness Day is a tribute to the millions of Americans living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Their numerous triumphs over many and varied obstacles are a testament to the strength and resolve of the American spirit. We also extend our gratitude to all those who, through their unwavering dedication to supporting Americans with ASD, help empower them to thrive at home, in the workplace, and in their communities. As President, I am committed to ensuring all Americans with ASD can thrive and prosper. Last year, I was proud to sign into law legislation reauthorizing the Autism CARES Act,...

Woman who fed her husband a lethal dosage of fish tank cleaner and then blamed it on Trump was apparently abusive to her husband. She also donated heavily to anti-Trump causes, as stated here.

Hypothetical. An employee is paid every two weeks. He worked for two weeks before his first paycheck. His checks are always two weeks in arrears. His employer tells him his (the employee's) hours are getting cut in half and that his salary will be halved accordingly. However, the following paycheck followed two weeks of full time work. The employee is owed a full paycheck since he hasn't even started working part time yet. Is this illegal? Can the employer simply take the employee's legally earned wages?

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is as frustrated with people there violating gathering and social distancing rules as governors in many other states including New Jersey. He reached out to Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David to help. David made this brief video as an appeal to these clods who refuse to adhere to the bans. Perhaps the “idiots” as Larry David would call them in Newark, Lakewood and elsewhere could use this lecture.

The man accused of ploughing his car into a group of children in NSW, killing four of them, has been hit with an additional 14 charges including being under the influence of cocaine and MDMA. Samuel Davidson was allegedly three times the legal alcohol limit when his ute allegedly mounted a kerb and struck the youngsters who were walking along Bettington Road in Oatlands to get ice-cream on February 1. Siblings Antony, 13, Angelina, 12 and Sienna, 8, were killed at the scene, along with their 11-year-old cousin Veronique Sakr. An 11-year-old boy and two girls, aged 10 and 13,...

Some Western governments are turning to mass testing for the new coronavirus, hoping that quickly isolating more new carriers could halt its spread and allow the gradual reopening of stores, offices and factories. With the economic cost of lockdowns rising and only faint signs of a slowdown in infections, officials and scientists in Europe, following the example of South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, are advocating the new approach.

Many people believe we're under-counting the Covid-19 infection rate, but Italian data suggest we may be getting the death numbers wrong too.