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The price of eggs is going up. There's been a run on eggs and other commodities at grocery stores the law of supply and demand in play. Reports of higher egg prices in the last week but if you haven't seen it on the shelf, get ready, it is coming..... Those OPEC+ talks among oil producing nations aren't happening tomorrow as originally thought. That's the word from the oil minister of the Central Asian nation of Azerbaijan..... President Trump meanwhile continuing his efforts to keep the price of oil as high as possible with Russia and Saudi Arabia opening up...

Highlights • Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro. • A single treatment able to effect ∼5000-fold reduction in virus at 48h in cell culture. • Ivermectin is FDA-approved for parasitic infections, and therefore has a potential for repurposing. • Ivermectin is widely available, due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines. Abstract Although several clinical trials are now underway to test possible therapies, the worldwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak has been largely limited to monitoring/containment. We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum anti-viral...

Infectious Disease Modeling: What’s the Track Record? The London Times has a fascinating story on the tiny, incestuous world of infectious disease modelers. It begins with the two modeling outfits in Great Britain: Oxford University and Imperial College, London. We have all learned about Imperial as the source of the two wildly conflicting estimates that the British government has relied on. Now an Oxford professor is questioning Imperial’s model: The first public signs of academic tensions over Imperial’s domination of the debate came when Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University, published a paper suggesting that some of...

Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history. As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective. Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, don’t look as good as they once did. So I have written, as I did on March 12, that Trump is the worst president in modern times — not of...

As we’re well into the crisis now, health experts are warning us to protect ourselves at all costs. But some people have taken the warning a little too literally. It turns out, there’s virtually nothing some of us wouldn’t do (or wear) in order to keep the virus at bay. As a result, DIY-at-home protective gear has now been spotted all around the aisle runways. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the coronapocalyptic look, which is both a fashion statement and a major faux pas. But the people sporting it couldn’t care less. Kitchen sponges, diving masks, and full-length tarpaulin suits—you...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come under increased pressure to lift his executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he recently witnessed an elderly man with a high fever arrive at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine.” “Why is the governor banning it?” asked Mr. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.” Touted by Mr....

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Booker T Washington. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Booker T Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half...

Enloe Pennsylvania State Police cited a woman last month for going on a leisurely drive amid the coronavirus outbreak. Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! According to Pennlive, 19-year-old Anita Shaffer went for a drive last Sunday just to get out of her house. On her way back, Shaffer was stopped by two Pennsylvania State Police officers. During the stop — which the troopers initiated over a faulty taillight and dark window tint — Shaffer told the officers that she was just "going for a drive."...

A fire that spread through a grassy area of Southwest Florida International Airport has destroyed thousands of rental cars, fire department officials said. The blaze began Friday, spanned 15 acres and originally involved only 20 cars in the grassy rental car overflow area at the airport in Fort Myers, fire department officials said. But by the time it was extinguished, the flames had destroyed more than 3,500 rental cars, a Lee County Port Authority spokesperson told CNN affiliate WINK. Melinda Avni, Mitigation Specialist for Florida Forestry Service of Caloosahatchee, said authorities were called to put out the fire around 5...

On April 7, Hachette Books will release British writer Paul Rees's new book, "The Ox: The Authorized Biography Of John Entwistle". The book is described by the publisher as "the definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, THE WHO's legendary bass guitarist."It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES and THE WHO represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that incontrovertible end, Entwistle remains an enigmatic yet undeniably influential figure, renowned as much for his immense talent as for his gloriously oversized-seeming character. However, unlike his fellow musicians, Entwistle...

Scientific research suggests that prayer has the power to calm the mind, increase resistance to temptation and make people happier. One thing prayer can’t do, however, is stop the coronavirus. So far, two members of one Sacramento church have died from COVID-19. Four other members of the church are infected. It’s important to note that these infections took place before Gov. Gavin Newsom and local officials issued stay-in-place orders on March 19.

Democrats seeking electoral advantage from this crisis are in an untenable position. Even in suboptimal circumstances, it is hard to see where any case can be made for mismanagement by the administration.

Pressure has been building on the insurance industry to reimburse companies big and small for their losses after a proposal began circulating in Congress that would treat the COVID-19 pandemic like an act of terrorism for insurance purposes. The Pandemic Risk Insurance Act would require insurers to cover business losses resulting from pandemics. The federal government would serve as a backstop for insurance companies. Some are arguing that the coverage should be offered to companies retroactively as a solution to the massive losses hitting nearly all sectors of the economy during the outbreak. “If they don’t do this, we’re in...

...Morley Winograd, president of the Campaign for Free College Tuition, acknowledged that the proposals from Sanders and Biden on how to pay for eliminating tuition now are unlikely to happen. The plans “need to be put aside for now,” he said, given the focus on preventing state cuts from sending college tuition soaring...

Warning: this article contains information some readers may find upsetting Duffy has called rape a “weapon of war” in a painful account of her experience of being kidnapped, drugged and sexually assaulted. The singer last released an album with 2010’s ‘Endlessly’, before disappearing from the public eye. Back in February, she broke her silence on her decade-long absence, explaining that she had been “raped and drugged and held captive over some days” and that her subsequent recovery “took time.” Now, she has posted a lengthy piece on her website, titled The 5th House. In it, she shares what happened to...

How did America endure (by the grace of God): Major modern influenza pandemics: Basic source is from Wikipedia, but with specific US data added as well as for the 2017-18 flu season, with other words in [brackets] being added, and formatting improved, while reference numbers are removed for clarity (see original for such) Name [Main]Date U,S. population World pop. Sub-type Reproduction rate Infected (est.) U.S. Deaths [Tot.] Deaths world-wide U.S. fatality rate [World] Case fatality rate Pandemic severity I also added this column: During the 2017-2018 flu season the the % of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was...

All parishes and monasteries in Georgia will remain open for Palm Sunday and Pascha, His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II wrote in an address published on the official site of the Georgian Patriarchate on Wednesday. “Any person, at the time of a trial, seeks for deliverance and consolation,” His Holiness said. “Today, when a new infection that has spread throughout the world threatens the life of the population, it is natural that parishioners would place special hopes in the Lord and be drawn to church.” “For believers, spiritual food is just as important and necessary as physical food; therefore, it is...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s assertion that churches and synagogues will be “permanently” closed if they refuse to obey a stay-at-home order banning large gatherings in light of the coronavirus pandemic has drawn the ire of national Christian leaders. At a March 27 press briefing, de Blasio singled out Christian and Jewish congregations and threatened that agents would shut down their houses of worship if they held in-person services. “A small number of religious communities, specific churches and specific synagogues are unfortunately not paying attention to this guidance even though it’s so widespread,” de Blasio said. The Democrat...

NASHVILLE (BP) -- The coronavirus outbreak has had ripple effects across the country, including in U.S. churches, according to a new study of pastors. Nashville-based LifeWay Research asked Protestant pastors how the pandemic has impacted their congregations and what their plans are for the near future. See related Baptist Press story. While nearly all pastors say their church held in-person worship services at the beginning of March, the situation had changed radically by the end of the month. On the weekend of March 1, 99 percent say they gathered, while 95 percent held services the next weekend. By March 15,...

“We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and ... correct the public health.” Thank you.