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Boris Johnson says he is in "good spirits" after spending the night in hospital with coronavirus. The PM was taken to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday evening with "persistent symptoms" - including a temperature and a cough - for routine tests. He remains in charge of government, although Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab chaired Monday's coronavirus meeting. Mr Johnson, 55, tested positive for coronavirus 10 days ago. In a tweet, he said he was "keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe". He also thanked the "brilliant NHS staff"...

Monday: day 23 of the shutdown for some of us. Most strikes don’t last this long.But let’s forget about pathogens, pandemics and politics for the day. I have something much better for you to focus on, music and movies. Or to be more precise, a movie about music – Hitsville: The Making of Motown is a nearly 2 hour documentary film that explores the founding of Motown in Detroit in 1958. We just watched it last night.Hitsville museum, a simple house in Detroit where the legendary Motown sound was createdIt’s not without its flaws but all you need to know...

Your body needs LDL cholesterol for:Immunity: Your body needs cholesterol to fight infections. That’s because blood lipids, including cholesterol, play a key role in the body’s defense system by binding and inactivating microbes and their toxins. So low cholesterol levels can make you more susceptible to infections. Numerous studies have shown this, including a 1997 study at the University of Pittsburg’s Center for Pharmacology where researchers found that those with low cholesterol had fewer white blood cells—suggesting a less efficient immune system. 1 1 Iribarren C, et al. Cohort study of serum total cholesterol and in-hospital incidence of infectious diseases....

A miscommunication may have led to a letter from the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discussing the possible removal of a temporary hospital from the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas, County Judge Clay Jenkins says. The letter, sent by Abbott’s Chief of Staff Luis Saenz, says the governor was told Jenkins did not plan to use the convention center for medical needs related to COVID-19. Federal assistance could be lost if Jenkins did not make his intentions for the facility known by Monday, the letter said. Saenz wrote if the resources were not used in Dallas...

Suppose there were a deadly virus that disproportionately attacked Jewish people, akin to Tay-Sachs disease, but was contagious via the air through sneezing, or via direct human-to-human touch, or indirectly, via cardboard or metal. What would the proper procedure be to reduce its spread? Would it be to quarantine everyone, given that this sickness affected virtually only members of the Jewish faith? Of course not; it would be to isolate and protect Jews alone. Suppose there were another virus that disproportionately attacked black people, similar to sickle cell anemia, with the same characteristics. Again, the policy to limit the spread...

In breaking news, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives will form a House Select Committee to oversee the Trump Administration's response to the coronavirus. The Democrats can't stand that the president is getting high marks for how he is handling the coronavirus. Therefore, Pelosi decided to create a committee purportedly to weed out “waste, fraud and abuse” and provide “transparency and accountability.” Though it is technically bipartisan, like all committees, make no mistake about it: the purpose of the committee is to criticize the Trump administration for political purposes prior to the upcoming election. Pelosi and her...

Acting Secretary to the Navy Thomas Modly flew to Guam Monday and delivered a fiery speech to the sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt after their captain was fired over a leaked letter pleading for those infected with the coronavirus.The speech, a transcript of which was obtained by the Daily Caller, backs the decision to relieve Capt. Brett Crozier of his duties. Modly called the letter, which begged the Navy to send resources and help the at least 155 sailors on board who have the virus, a “betrayal of trust.”  “So think about that when you cheer the man off...

For those who read the New York Times, the Sunday edition was a scary one. A headline blared, “Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll.” The subheading was even more disquieting (and ungrammatical): “Inconsistent protocols, limited resources and a patchwork of decision-making has [sic] led to an undercounting of people with the coronavirus who have died, health experts say.” Ah, those experts. What would we do without them? The article opens, as all Times articles are wont to do, with anecdotes. Once upon a time, the Times included those anecdotes to create “hooks” that made facts more compelling....

It has long been a cultural phenomenon that when people are confined to their homes due to dramatic weather events, babies start springing forth nine months later. Nearly half the worldÂ’s population is confined to their homes with two primary tasks: 1. Do not catch nor spread COVID-19. 2. DonÂ’t go nuts from boredom or cabin fever.In trying to accomplish No. 2, people are playing more board and card games. Others are catching up on sleep and preparing more homecooked meals. These are very good things.Husbands and wives are also finding themselves with plenty of time for other activities, and...

In perhaps the most explosive accusation yet against President Trump made by a liberal media member regarding the coronavirus, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski has accused the president of having a "financial tie" to someone that leads to him to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus. Brzezinski's accusation is tantamount to an allegation that President Trump is on the take.<| Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

One classic is, "What is a shipload of lawyers that sinks in the ocean?" "A good start." But now they're losing their place. The new subjects for the sometimes ribald, sometimes outlandish, and mostly funny stories are journalists. (Watch out for the R-rated ones on that link). Twitchy, that aggregator of Twitter social media comments, has pointed out that #JournalistJokes is a new, and big, hashtag on social media. "Full transparency, folks. At this point in the week, we’re just SO GLAD to write about anything other than the freakin' coronavirus. We realize it's the biggest story in the WORLD...

Any pandemic or epidemic is a complicated process, and the current one is not an exception. Besides all the actual problems (how to treat people, how to organize logistics, how to inform media and so on), there are basic ones: how to measure different aspects of the process. It was always not easy; it is very hard now. Here are some often repeated critical comments about different widely published and discussed indicators. 1. The real number of people with the virus is drastically higher than reported (according to some authors, by a factor of 10), because many people have the...

Schools are likely to continue home e-learning efforts in the upcoming weeks as we continue through the pandemic. Parents, use this time to find out what your kids are studying. “Mom, can you look at this assignment?” A few weeks ago, before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic forced my school-aged children home, I looked at the homework sheet my high school-age child was referring to and quickly realized what prompted the question. The freshman world history reading assignment was about parents raising “theybies.” Scratching my head, I read through the assigned article, which included definitions such as “gender is a social...

CBS News posted a video of a nurse crying that claims she Quit her job because she was asked to work in an ICU with no mask. The nurse which the Twitter community labeled as “the Crying Nurse” become viral. CBS posted: In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected” Video below: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1246804028601896961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1246804028601896961&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fjussie-smollett-2-0-people-suspect-that-cbs-staged-the-video-of-the-crying-nurse-where-she-claims-she-quit-because-was-asked-to-work-without-a-mask%2F The video divided Twitter users because another video from her social account came to light and one took her side and felt...

The coronavirus cannot kill the spirit of American defiance in the face of government orders Americans believe to be unjust, as shown by Scott Nichols, the sheriff of Franklin County, Maine. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills on Friday issued an executive order that requires all out-of-state travelers to self-quarantine for 14 days to lessen the chance of transmitting coronavirus, according to the Portland Press-Herald. The order also tells would-be visitors not to come to Maine if they have symptoms of the virus. Violators could face up to six months in jail and $1,000 fine. "We will not be setting up a...

Duran Duran bassist John Taylor said he is recovering from the coronavirus after testing positive three weeks ago. The 59-year-old musician said he was “blessed with getting only a mild case” and said he was sick for about a week with what he described as a “Turbo-charged Flu.” “I came out of it feeling okay- although I must admit I didn't mind the quarantine as it gave me the chance to really recover,” Taylor said in an Instagram post. “I am speaking out in answer to the enormous amount of fear being generated by the pandemic, some of it entirely...

In a back-and-forth that yielded more desperately needed COVID-19 ventilators for Illinois on Sunday, President Donald Trump, after announcing the new shipment, said Gov. J.B. Pritzker has “not performed well” and is “always complaining.” Trump slammed Pritzker at the Sunday evening coronavirus pandemic briefing at the White House. That was hours after the Illinois governor in a morning CNN show ripped the president over the federal stockpile holding undistributed and urgently needed COVID-19 supplies. “I hear him complaining all the time,” Trump said about Pritzker. “He’s always complaining.” Trump said “we’re building a 2,500-bed hospital” in McCormick Place. Pritzker and...

We told you several weeks ago about the Orange County, New York doctor – Vladimir Zelenko – who has had tremendous success in treating hundreds of symptomatic coronavirus patients with a combination of hydroxycholoroquine and antibiotics. That course of medication is now being copied by many doctors around the country, despite the best efforts of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the corrupt news media to hide the crucial information from the public. This morning comes news out of Los Angeles of another doctor, Anthony Cardillo, who is experiencing similar success in treating his own patients. His approach is slightly different from...

“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life” (Proverbs 6:24-26 KJV).

The moral lesson that I have taken from reading the Bible is that God’s sense of justice, fitness, and proportionality is at odds with my own, but He still gets to be God. There are two Christian concepts on my mind on this Palm Sunday. One is theodicy, the other is the sin of presumption. “Theodicy” means “the vindication of God,” referring to a seeming conundrum that has vexed Christian thinkers since the beginning: How can evil coexist with an all-good, all-loving, all-powerful God? Christians conceive of God as a father, which occasionally places us in the role of resentful...