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On Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Verma echoed Vice President Mike Pence’s belief that the United States could see an improvement in the fight against the spread of the virus by early summer. She said the task force is “hopeful” the country will be “in a different place” by June. “Well, what I’m optimistic about is just watching Americans in everyday life trying to adhere to 30 days to slow the spread,” Verma told host Ed Henry. “That’s what’s going to make the difference here. We want to reduce the number of people that get sick. We want to reduce...

Rural America is experiencing 'disaster gentrification' as wealthy Covid-19 evacuees from the hotspot cities flock to the relative safety of picturesque towns. In Blaine County Idaho, home to Sun Valley ski resort, more than half of the houses are rental properties. As of yesterday 228 had tested positive for the disease, around 10 percent of its population. 'People come here from all over the world,' ER doctor Brent Russell told the Idaho Statesman. 'When I'm in the ER, I get people from New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle. Every week there's people from those places.

The two most non-essential professions on the planet right now are that of Big Climate alarmist and his attorney in a vanity lawsuit. Yet Michael E Mann, inventor of the global-warming "hockey stick", and his counsel John Williams are disinclined to let their lousy eight-year-old defamation suit against me shelter in place for a couple of months, and the other day they made a surprise move. By which I mean a deranged and desperate move. Before we get to that, let me make a general observation: You'll have noticed that millions of people around the world are what one might...

Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that his aides are working to set up a call between him and President Trump to discuss the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic. Biden offered earlier this week to speak with Trump about the government’s strategy to combat the coronavirus outbreak. The president told reporters on Wednesday that he would “absolutely take his call.” “I’m happy to hear he’ll take my call,” Biden said in a virtual briefing with reporters on Thursday. “My team is working with him to set such a call up.” Biden and Trump’s willingness to speak on...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), while announcing a statewide stay-at-home order, said Wednesday that he only recently became aware the coronavirus could be spread by asymptomatic people. "The reason I'm taking this action, like I've continued to tell people, I'm following the data, I'm following the advice of Dr. [Kathleen] Toomey," Kemp said in response to a reporter's question at a press conference announcing the order.

Clark County Manager Yolanda King has suspended union contracts for some 9,000 employees, including medical workers at University Medical Center. The move, which union leaders say was unprecedented and came without warning Tuesday, followed a March 15 emergency declaration by the county. In an email sent to county employees Wednesday evening, King wrote that the contracts would remain suspended through the duration of the emergency, which was spurred by the new coronavirus outbreak.

COVID-19-positive train passenger was seen in a video spitting on another traveler in Thailand on Tuesday before he dropped dead. Anan Sahoh, 56, tested positive for the virus after he was discovered dead Tuesday on the train from Bangkok to the southern city of Narathiwat, Metro UK reported. Surveillance video shows the disturbing interaction on a train platform in Bangkok … the patient walking up to another man in line to buy tickets and hocking a loogie right in his grill! Video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrHI5C479c&feature=emb_title He then passed a mandatory temperature check to board the train, where he was seen vomiting...

Front line report from a friend. This person is a retired nurse that retired to a southern state. She was informed this Sat. that she was to report to her original state for nursing duties. If she failed to comply she would lose her retirement and be arrested. Since she reported for duty, she has been working 16hr shifts in full hazmat. She said that her hospital is full of dead bodies, that they are being stacked on pallets and loaded on to freezer trucks that are kept running. She is in a city that is getting overflow from NYC....

Newsom was right to balk at hand sanitizer for $400. Are other vendors hiking prices on other things?

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As NRL News Today readers are keenly aware, pro-abortionists are incensed that in prioritizing their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governors in a number of states have issued orders that have properly concluded that elective—elective with a capital “E”—abortions are not “essential medical care.” To Planned Parenthood, NARAL, etc. every abortion is, by definition, essential. Thus, any governor, such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who “justly prioritizes supplies and personal protective equipment for the medical professionals in need” (as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said), must be demonized. Enter Planned Parenthood’s acting president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. McGill Johnson...

Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo and two assistant coaches contacted a witness in a 2017 investigation of criminal sexual conduct involving a basketball player before the witness had discussed the incident with police or school investigators, records newly obtained by ESPN show. MSU student Brayden Smith was with then-freshman guard Brock Washington on the night a female student said Washington forcibly groped her, according to a Michigan State University police report obtained by ESPN through a public records request to the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office. On Aug. 31, 2017, the female student told...

The IMHE model is using New York and New Jersey data and applying it to the rest of the US. It predicted that over 121,000 Americans would be hospitalized yesterday (Wednesday) over the Coronavirus, Sean Davis of The Federalist said. The actual number? 31,142. For example, the IMHE model predicted 1,716 people in Texas would be hospitalized yesterday from the Coronavirus, but the actual number of Texans hospitalized is 196. In Georgia, the IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 2,777 people would have been hospitalized due to the Coronavirus. The actual number of people hospitalized in Georgia? 952. In...

Key Points The U.S. shale patch bears some of the highest production costs in the world, requiring a breakeven price of between $50 and $55 per barrel. Now, with Saudi Arabia and Russia’s planned production increases to battle for market share exacerbating the price crash brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, the sector faces what may well be a bloodbath. “U.S. shale is now economically unviable,” Chris Midgley, global head of analytics at S&P Global Platts, told CNBC. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Wednesday’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for Colorado-based Whiting Petroleum is a grim omen of things to come, experts say, as oil...

President Trump says he is invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to clear up supply chain problems encountered in the manufacturing of medical ventilators. “Today, I have issued an order under the Defense Production Act to more fully ensure that domestic manufacturers can produce ventilators needed to save American lives," Trump said in a statement.

Pennsylvania's system of state-owned liquor stores, closed because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, resumed limited online sales Wednesday only to have the state’s Fine Wine & Good Spirits website fail to keep up with demand. The state's website is accepting a "controlled number" of daily orders but plans to expand as it develops more capacity. The website had an apology posted Thursday morning that told customers that “due to overwhelming demand, the online store is not available at this time.” People looking to reload their booze supply are urged to try again in the coming days.

Why is COVID-19 worse than past viruses? The 1968-69 Hong Kong flu caused 1 million deaths worldwide 6 months after the first case. COVID-19 has caused 50,000 deaths 4 ½ months after the first case. The link below contains a chart for the number of deaths from Pneumonia and Influenza in annual flu seasons (page S5). http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.323.4407&rep=rep1&type=pdf Notice something familiar? Each year there is a sharp, exponential increase in flu deaths, just like we see with COVID-19. How does the COVID-19 case/ death rate compare with past viruses 4 ½ months after the first case? I can’t find that data....

The economic fallout of government mandates meant to deal with the coronavirus pandemic is causing hospitals across the country to cut hours and furlough workers. In Cincinnati, Ohio, a March 17 order from the Ohio Department of Health halted all nonessential surgeries in order to preserve personal protective equipment in hospitals. The financial ramifications were severe, and it's estimated that the surgery cancellations cost area hospitals $1.2 billion per month, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. That disruption has forced hospitals to cut back on hours and consider furloughs for hundreds of hospital workers. A spokeswoman for Mercy Health said that...

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 24. Andrew Cuomo today at his daily briefing for the people in New York… CUOMO: You have projection models that have us hitting the apex, coming down from the apex. Models vary at how quickly you come down from the apex. But they all basically say you come down from the apex quickly. Models have it flattening out and continuing through the summer. How many lives lost? There’s only one model that we look at that has the number of projected deaths, which is the IHME model which is funded by the Gates Foundation....

This post provides a timeline of the ChiCom Virus thus far. HereÂ’s an interactive map of States issuing stay at home orders. It has dates for state actions.New York Slimes: See Which States and Cities Have Told Residents to Stay at Home IÂ’m not going to break out most state actions in the timeline below. IÂ’m focusing on responses from the President and the federal government. I am staying away from politics for the most part and I am not reporting fake news. There are a lot of tweets from the President. That should give you some context as to...