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A lack of adequate testing means many of those who have been infected with the coronavirus will not appear in official statistics. This suggests that many estimates for its mortality rate are much too high... Public health epidemiology is the science of counting to prevent disease and promote health. We count the number of new cases of a particular disease; this is the incidence. Then we count how much a disease has spread in a population; this is the prevalence. When it comes to COVID-19, counting is a challenge. Despite all the news articles and reports, we know very little...

Over the past three weeks, we’ve been sharing with you the great work Dr. Zelenko, a board-certified family practitioner in New York, has been doing in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in New York. In our last piece, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko treated 700 coronavirus patients treated with 99.9% success rate using Hydroxychloroquine, 1 outpatient died after not following protocol.

President Trump signaled he is open to creating a second White House task force for implementing a plan to reopen the American economy, which is now virtually shut down by the coronavirus. "Thinking about it, getting a group of people and we have to open our country," Trump told reporters Saturday. "You know, I had an expression, the cure can't be worse than the problem itself. Right? I started by saying that, and I continue to say it. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. We got to get our country open." The president sent a tweet hours...

Many of us have imagined how the communists (or whatever you want to call the enemies of God, truth and freedom) might defeat the United States and destroy our liberty and economy. It's likely that few of us imagined the defeat would be self-imposed like this, or that the threat of a Chinese flu-like virus would be whipped up by leftist media-driven hysteria and panic to the point that our nation's leaders would despotically shut down our country in the name of so-called "safety." From the start of this nightmarish ordeal, I have not trusted the reporting on the Chinese...

EXCLUSIVE - Multiple patients infected with coronavirus were transferred to the hospital ship Comfort from the Javits Center in New York by mistake, three U.S. officials tell Fox News. The number of Covid-19 patients brought on board the hospital ship was estimated to be “less than five,” one official said. The information had not been

“I’m trying to restrain my anger and speak measuredly, but it’s damn hard to do so. (Nancy Pelosi’s latest trial balloon -- an investigation into the President’s handling of the Wuhan virus, was so preposterous it drove me into something I never do -- binge watching old TV serials, in this case “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”) The Wuhan virus spread throughout the world due to the Chinese government’s lies, and the acts of the head of the WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysesus who came to that position from the violent Ethiopian Communist party and covered up for China...

President Trump and Coronavirus Task Force News Conference 4/5/20 – 6:45 P.M. (Eastern) White House news conference at 6:45 P.M. Eastern. Thank you!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2020 The White Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-J7MRUo0Y RSBNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDcvgVxtm2A Golden State Timeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzciOP3OSKM FOX Newshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqCohp54wcE C-SPANhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?470975-1/white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefing Because the “Ratings” of my News Conferences etc. are so high, “Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers” according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. “Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him.” said one lunatic. See you at 5:00 P.M.!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2020 “President Trump is a ratings hit. Since...

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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...