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Doctors who have treated a combined total of over 425 confirmed or presumptive Chinese coronavirus patients with the drug hydroxychloroquine told Breitbart News they are finding the medication to be helpful.

Many Democrats and much of the media claim that President Donald Trump has mishandled and continues to mishandle the response to the coronavirus pandemic. But a Johns Hopkins study found the United States is better prepared for a pandemic than any other country. Released in October 2019, the Global Health Security Index examined 195 countries on their preparedness and ability to handle an epidemic or pandemic. It found: "No country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics, and every country has important gaps to address." No, Trump did not cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among...

Yesterday's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Luigi Pirandello. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. NOTE: Apologies for yesterday. The Internet was not available most of the day due to neighborhood cable break, and tethering was not available. This puzzle is from yesterday; today's puzzle will be released in a few hours.Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, Pirandello was one of the few anti-fascists protesting the fomenting Mussolini regime...

While coronavirus ravages New York – with officials desperately clamoring for life-saving supplies and federal assistance – attention has also turned to years of fiscal mismanagement and cost-cutting, despite it being one of the highest-taxed states in the country. Since the outbreak gained a foothold in the United States earlier this year – and quickly spawned across New York, a state of 19.5 million people – Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appealed for support. He has also criticized the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic. But critics contend Cuomo also needs to look closer to home.

I can’t think of a better TT game than the one pbird suggested the other day:  WWJS – “What would Jte say about the current Chinese plague. Or anything else…”Janice was one of us from nearly the start. Sadly, she shuffled off this mortal coil nearly 2 years ago, less than a year after her beloved husband and less than 6 months after her retirement from Los Alamos Labs. Janice was a special kind of uncommon, as indicated by her avatar - “I Fight For the Users” – which can be taken several ways.Her famous tag line “I drink, I...

An infectious disease doctor who has been treating coronavirus patients told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Wednesday that the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is a “game changer” in fighting the deadly virus. Ingraham started off the segment showing the breakdown of Dr. Stephen Smith's 72 patients, which included a mix of those who were prediabetic, diabetic, and had a high Body Mass Index score indicating obesity. “The more we see this disease, the more we understand that severe rapid COVID disease is in diabetics or prediabetics … we don’t have anyone in our group over 80 that was not diabetic...

A Virginia store clerk heard a crash that sounded like a car had crashed into the place at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. He grabbed a gun and shot at three masked men he found stealing merchandise and cash from the shop. When it was over, the clerk was the one in handcuffs. He now sits in jail on no bail, charged with crimes for which he could be locked up for 20 years. Those charges include: "Malicious Wounding, Reckless Handling of a Firearm and Violation of a Protective Order." Police say they'll get around to charging the robbers later. What's...

That isn’t going to be any time soon. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci says that the United States will not come out of lockdown until there are no “new cases” of coronavirus, prompting some to question precisely how long that will be. During yesterday’s White House briefing, Fauci, who has become the face of America’s response to the coronavirus, was asked by a reporter whether social distancing measures will be imposed until there is a drug or vaccine to treat COVID-19. “I think if we get to the part of the curve that Dr. Birx showed yesterday when it goes down...

With millions of Americans concerned about coronavirus, radio host Rush Limbaugh is providing some perspective on the actual number of fatalities from COVID-19 compared to those from other causes. Coronavirus: 21,000 deaths. Seasonal flu: 113,000. Malaria: 228,000. Suicide: 249,000. Traffic fatalities, 314,000 deaths. Alcohol related deaths, 581,000. Smoking-related deaths, 1,162,000. Cancer deaths, 1,909,000 deaths. Deaths attributed to starvation, 2,382,000 deaths. And death by abortion, 9,900,000."

In early March, Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ramped up COVID-19 precautions. Each day it seemed a like a new order was put into place in Washington or Oregon. On March 12, Inslee closed schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. The same day, even with significantly fewer confirmed cases, Brown closed schools across Oregon — only hours after saying she would keep them open. The next day Inslee closed schools statewide. On March 15, Inslee announced restrictions on eating at restaurants. The following day Brown announced a similar order. Then on March 23, Inslee took the...

A police officer shot dead a man suspected of shooting his way into a 7-Eleven convenience store early Thursday morning in Irving, police say. The store was closed for business when a 69-year-old man opened fire on the front windows of the building at about 1:15 a.m., police spokesman Robert Reeves said. A clerk inside the store at the time hid behind the counter and called police to report the shooting, Reeves said. A police officer confronted the man as he was leaving the building and opened fire, striking him. Officer Kills Suspected Robber at Irving 7-Eleven: PD Police in...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There’s no way to know right now how much of Ohio’s population has coronavirus, because of limited testing. The “tip of the iceberg” is how Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton refers to the 2,547 confirmed cases of COVID-19. A potential solution to know just how widespread the coronavirus is -- and how many people have had it without developing symptoms -- could be antibody testing. The idea is to check for antibodies the body has produced to fight off the coronavirus, basically to see if someone has developed immunity. The method uses blood testing...

Watching a couple hours of local news on the Miami market. Observations: Miami media has COMPLETELY IGNORED the words of President Trump yesterday. Seriously. Not a single mention. Miami "news" IS reporting on the Republican governor's shutdown order. The way they're doing it? Slamming him for taking "what Democrats say" is too long. Now a LOT of time and attention and PLENTY of sound bites are given to Democrat Andrew Cuomo...a liberal who is 1,400 miles away. Andrew, it seems, is a genius. He is in firm control of the situation and is a national champion.

New York City resident Sabri Ben-Achour, 39, began to feel ill on March 12 and experienced roughly 36 hours of intense symptoms: fever, aches, fatigue, cough and headache. But by March 14, Ben-Achour felt back to normal, except for one thing: Both his sense of smell and taste were gone. "I couldn't smell anything," he said. "I could literally not smell s---." He ordered from an Indian restaurant: "I asked them to make it extra salty and extra spicy, and it tasted like water." By March 16, he was fairly certain he had contracted and recuperated from COVID-19, the disease...

The plague brought about the rise of the middle class - and pubsThe Black Death is the world’s most infamous plague, killing an estimated 75m people and profoundly changing the way survivors lived their lives.In Europe, the disease killed half the population, and completely wiped out some towns when it struck in Britain in 1348-49. But the Black Death returned regularly, first in 1361 and continuing - increasingly as an urban disease - until the Great Plague of 1665 in London. Here is how it changed the world.Social effects We know now that deaths caused by the plague’s first outbreak...

Politico is channeling a big fear of liberals concerning the coronavirus outbreak. Is this a fear that the deadly virus could spread exponentially? Perhaps. However, what really disturbs them is the possibility that President Donald Trump will get credit for keeping the number of cases relatively low which would make his reelection more likely. Political correspondent David Siders somehow assumes that recently the Democrats had an effective plan to "take down Trump." The headline is "How coronavirus blew up the plan to take down Trump." The subtitle reveals the anxiety: "Donald Trump’s reelection is likely to rise or fall on...

The folks at the conservative website Grassfire put together their estimate for the costs of the shutdowns related to the coronavirus and the amount is staggering: . Loss of Stock Market ValuationAt the end of February, reports indicated the stock market lost $6 trillion in valuation based on a drop of the Dow Jones Average from a high of 29,551 to 25,429 in the first wave of coronavirus crisis slides. Until we find a site that states the total loss due to the coronavirus crisis, based on the $6 trillion slide, we are estimating the total loss as of 3/31 (with the Dow at...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 143 A psalm of David. 1 Lord, hear my prayer,     listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness     come to my relief. 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,     for no one living is righteous before you. 3 The enemy pursues me,     he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness     like those long dead. 4 So my spirit grows faint within me;     my heart within me is dismayed. 5 I remember the days of long ago;     I meditate on all your works     and...

Liberal media outlets were quick to shill for former President Barack Obama’s recent swipes at President Donald Trump. CNN, USA Today and The Washington Post all pushed liberal spin stories elevating Obama’s tweet, which took two veiled shots at the Trump administration. One alleged the administration’s denial "of warnings of a pandemic." Obama’s other shot bleated about the consequences of “climate denial” over Trump's decision to roll back his auto emission standards

Chloroquine, now a popular drug for the treatment of COVID-19 has a dangerous side effect, a doctor has warned. Dr. Michael Ackerman, a genetic cardiologist said the 65 year-old drug and the companion, hydroxychloroquine can trigger a sudden cardiac arrest. Ackerman said the drugs come with a risk of sudden cardiac arrest for those with prolonged QTc, a lengthier-than-normal interval between heartbeats as shown on an electrocardiogram [ECG]. “The patient’s QTc value reflects the health of the heart’s electrical recharging system,” he said in a report by Washington Times. Dr. Michael J. Ackerman,: warns about chloroquine’s side effect “If the...