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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a stop to major sports with increasing concerns for whether or not the 2020 college football season will start on time. As coaches and college administrators continue to navigate their way through an unprecedented time, there is reportedly talk about moving the upcoming season into 2021. According to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman, one possibility being discussed around the NCAA is playing the season in spring 2021. The idea, which has reportedly been talked about by coaches and administrators, would allow teams more time to prepare for a potential season.

Dr. Drew Pinsky is issuing a mea culpa after continually downplaying the danger of coronavirus for months and claiming it was "press-induced panic."He once said you're more likely to die after being "hit by an asteroid" than the highly-contagious virus. On Saturday, he drastically changed his tune. "My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect," Dr. Drew said on Saturday, referring to his consistent comments from February and March. "I was part of a chorus that was saying that, and we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin physician and her husband whose bodies were found at the school's arboretum near the Madison campus were shot to death, and a second teenage suspect in the killings has been arrested, police said.

Web site that tracks actual hospital beds in use suggests the model used by top White House health officials to project the trajectory of the coronavirus has so far overestimated the number of Americans hospitalized by the disease by tens of thousands. Those projections, popularly known as the "Murray" model after the model's lead author, University of Washington professor Christopher Murray, were explicitly cited by Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House's Coronavirus Task Force, at a press conference in the last week. Birx told reporters that Murray's model, which predicts a shortage of tens of thousands...

Rush, I have a solution to the ventilator shortage. We need to invest in alternative breathing machines. Like one that you mentioned before was CPAP. But there’s one technology out there that’s better than the traditional ventilator. It’s called the Hemolung. The University of Maryland and the University of Pittsburgh already have developed this technology. It’s about the size of a fishing tackle box. The difference between using the Hemolung and the traditional ventilator is that the Hemolung is like an IV or a catheter that goes in the neck down into by the heart. (snip) think of it as...

Wisconsin’s dairy industry is calling for federal help as farmers have begun dumping milk because of falling demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite empty grocery store shelves in recent weeks, widespread closures of schools and restaurants — coupled with falling exports — have led to a sharp drop in demand. This is without precedent,” said John Umhoefer, executive director of the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. “Half the restaurants in the U.S. are closed or operating at a reduced level. That has never happened before.” With more than they can sell, processors are refusing to pick up milk from farmers, who...

Florida authorities tracking a stolen car also discovered a little something unexpected — a baby alligator being kept as a pet. SNIP The deputy trailed the car to a Lake Mary home and stopped a separate car that was attempting to leave the driveway. Deputies found guns, heroin and cocaine in the car, according to an area newspaper.

Press “ lid” lifted for a 7pm press conference at the WH.

The Daily Telegraph this week received a letter from the Australian Consulate General of the People's Republic of China, who took gentle issue with our excellent coverage of the coronavirus crisis. Following is a point-by-point response to the Consulate General and China’s communist dictatorship: Recently the Daily Telegraph has published a number of reports and opinions about China’s response to COVID-19 that are full of ignorance, prejudice and arrogance. If a state-owned newspaper in China received this kind of complaint, subsequent days would involve journalists waking up in prison with their organs harvested.

They keep saying 400 Deaths just today in Louisiana. That is the RUNNING TOTAL. C'mon fox, I expected better reporting from you. and in other breaking news on fox, a tiger in a zoo has been tested and confirmed to have the CV.

Man’s best friend could soon become a lifeline to citizens threatened by the spread of the coronavirus. A charity, which has previously trained dogs to detect malaria, believes canines might be able to use their powerful sense of smell to detect the disease. U.K.- based Medical Detection Dogs is working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Durham University in the collaboration, and, if successful, the animals could be used to identify travelers infected with the virus who are entering a country. They would also be able to be deployed in other public spaces to identify...

We've seen dogs sniff for drugs, bombs, diabetes, and even cancer, but can man's best friend sniff out coronavirus? With a shortage of tests kits available to the public, a dog training school is training their pups to be the next best thing. At Top Tier K-9, dogs are learning to sniff for the virus so they can use their skills in restaurants, waiting rooms, vehicles and other public areas so businesses can use this tool before re-opening. "What we want to do is make sure that when you are clean, you know the facilities you are going into have...

I would like to know what Freeepers have to say about evaluating presidents through their use (or overuse/underuse?) of the veto. The first thing I noticed was POTUS 45’s low rate of use of the veto compared with other eras. How do Freeepers evaluate Trump’s use of the veto? Here are some facts: 298 years ago, on April 5, 1792, President Washington (should we now call him POTUS 01 or POTUS 1?) exercised the first presidential veto. If I am not mistaken, he blocked legislation that would have given Northern states more seats per head of population than Southern States....

But there’s one data point being used in all of the prevailing models, including Imperial, that no one is talking about. When did the COVID curve begin? And it’s an important point. How can we interpret the data we currently have if we don’t know where on the time axis we actually are?

Mr. President, Please recommend at least 5 states tentatively "re-open" the day after Easter, based on recent data. The following five states practice good social distancing (proven by their low daily percentage increase) and have the highest percentages of (formerly infected) citizens, deemed now NOT-contagious. State     % "Recovered" MN       50.9% SD       35.8% ND       33.9% ME       30.7% NH       23.2% One of these states in particular, MN, now had MORE 'recovered-positive cases' (440) on 04/04 than it had 'Total-Cases' seven days prior, which implies this...

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that doctors, not legislators, should decide whether the immunosuppressive drug hydroxychloroquine should be used as a possible treatment for coronavirus. President Trump and some other politicians have presented hydroxychloroquine – a drug used to treat and prevent malaria – as a possible remedy for coronavirus after a number of small, early tests that some researchers have encouraged. “I think we should let the doctors decide if we should use hydroxychloroquine, not the national bureaucracy,” said Giuliani “Sunday Morning Futures” by Fox News. (Please see link for full story)

Since no one in the mainstream media would ever dare write this, allow me: I’d like to give a round of applause to Vice President Mike Pence. I can’t wait for the Trump-Deranged trolls to lose their minds as they read that opener. Take a deep breath guys, because I’m just getting started! We’ve always known that the vice president is a religious man. I mean, how could we forget? Since the day he was picked as VP in 2016, the media has never missed an opportunity to mock him for being an evangelical, born-again Christian.

(Article profusely illustrated, with movie links.) The mass of the Chinese people are held in thrall by an efficient system of hourly checks unimagined by George Orwell in 1984. But how does the CCP monitor their foreign-agent students in the U.S.? Saddam Hussein's state security engaged about 60% of the populace spying on the other 40% and each other, high-quality human intelligence unable to be easily worked-around like electronic intelligence, but also so high-maintenance it must have been a drag on the economy. China's reliance on public, closed-circuit cctv and regular cell-phone loyalty check apps could have once been beaten,...