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A woman who was allegedly trying to help her husband during a fight was arrested after police say she stabbed the man her husband was fighting. Morgaine Huey, 22, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Monday for investigation of aggravated assault. About 9 p.m., police say Huey’s husband got into a fight with another man near 2200 S. Highland Drive. “(She) stated her husband was getting hurt and appeared to be losing the fight,” according to a police affidavit. That’s when a witness observed Huey “pull an object out and stab the victim, causing him to fall to...

This crisis is demostrating the suicidal nautre of "Just in Time" supply chains. When it is over we need to end the inventory tax in every state. It is immoral and bad policy to tax wealth that isn't moving anyway but it might just kill us in a crisis.

Sweden, which broke international trends and didn't implement a lockdown in its bid to slow the coronavirus, has so far avoided a mass outbreak. But it's now bracing for a potential surge. As European countries moved into strict lockdown mode — ranging from the closure of non-essential businesses, to police-enforced orders for people not to leave their homes — Sweden carried on almost as normal. The country moved to protect the most vulnerable while doing little to slow the virus through the rest of the population as most workplaces, restaurants, and bars were still open. People have been urged to...

A Heber restaurant is still open for curbside and delivery service during COVID-19 business restrictions. However, some locals said it’s not the food at The Junction Pizzeria & Grill that people are buzzing about. About four weeks ago, the local business advertised a “buy 1 meal, get 1 roll of toilet paper free” campaign. It was met with mostly chuckles and praise. More recently owners changed the Main Street sign to read, “This is the longest anything from China has ever lasted.” Again, many supporters applauded the humor. One social media commenter wrote, “I think the sign is great; almost...

Rev. Franklin Graham’s charity is making sure Alaska residents have the supplies they need to fight the coronavirus. Tuesday on Facebook, Graham wrote that workers with Samaritan’s Purse had delivered more than eight tons of medical supplies to be distributed throughout rural Alaskan communities in the next few days: “This is going to the native villages here in Alaska that are so vulnerable with this virus,” he said. “We love this state, and we want the people here, the residents, especially those in the villages, to know that Jesus Christ loves you very much and we appreciate all the support...

Black Chicagoans account for half of all coronavirus cases in the city and more than 70% of deaths, despite making up 30% of the population. Other cities with large black populations, including Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans and New York, have become coronavirus hotspots. The US has recorded nearly 370,000 virus cases and almost 11,000 deaths.

In 2006, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration began purchasing ventilators to allow the city to be prepared for a pandemic like the current coronavirus crisis -- only for the city to later auction them off, according to a report. ProPublica reported Monday that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a report in 2006 on the city's preparedness for pandemic influenza -- similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu or the 2019 novel coronavirus -- that projected the city would need thousands of extra ventilators in order to properly treat all of its residents who...

Some Australian health care providers have their priorities straight. As Buzzfeed News reports, hospitals and doctors offices on the continent are being given higher priority than abortion clinics for essential medical supplies, including masks, hand sanitizer and other personal protective equipment (PPE). It may seem an obvious move during a global health crisis, but the abortion industry is complaining. Marie Stopes International, the largest abortion chain in Australia, griped this week that it is running short on supplies because companies and government health leaders are canceling or refusing to fill their orders, according to the report. “Many PPE suppliers do...

If Israel finds a vaccine for coronavirus, boycotters can still take it, Omar Barghouti, founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement said on Sunday. Barghouti made the remarks in a live video on the BDS Arabic Facebook page as part of a webinar on “BDS and Anti-normalization: The most important strategies to fight against the deal of the century, even in the time of COVID-19.” The BDS founder warned that coronavirus cannot be a “honeymoon” for Israel and questioned why the Palestinian Authority hasn’t stopped security cooperation with Israel. At the same time, he said “if you...

Today, Vice President Mike Pence led a discussion with the chief executives of approximately 50 States, territories, and Washington, DC, and their state emergency managers and health officials to provide an update on the all-of-America approach to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The Vice President, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor, CMS, Administrator Seema Verma, and Rear Adm. John Polowczyk with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all 10 FEMA Regional Administrators urged State, local, and tribal leaders to regularly highlight community mitigation efforts to “Slow the Spread” through April 30. Participants also discussed the...

In a Monday press briefing of the White House Coronavirus task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States might never get entirely back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine and effective treatments. As of Monday, there are currently over 364,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the United States, with over 9,600 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Both economic activity and life as normal have come to a grinding halt across the country. Forty-four states have issued some form of a...

It struck me today that what is completely different about what we are currently doing with the COVOD19 Virus is completely different from all other diseases of the past. In the past when a pandemic occurred in history, health authorities in the past quarantined the SICK who threatened the healthy population. That is not what we are doing today. Turning aside from what worked in the past, sequestering the ill and sick in their homes, providing the needs in a safe manner, our authorities, or at least the progressive versions of authorities that masquerade as our Health Authorities and experts,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks with MSNBC'S Rachel Maddow about work Congress is doing on providing economic relief to Americans hurt by the coronavirus crisis, and the need for Donald Trump to put someone in charge as central command of the federal coronavirus response. RACHEL MADDOW: I mean, I'm just trying to keep up. I feel like, and as the top Democrat in the American government, as the person with the key role that you have, leading the House of Representatives, I feel like there's great frustration over the patchwork and sometimes backwards and slow response that we've had as...

In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin, but we’ll get to that in a minute. There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re...

Seems many didn't get the memo.

Glenn Fine, who had been the acting Pentagon inspector general, was informed Monday that he was being replaced by Sean W. O’Donnell, currently the inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency. Fine is a career official... “Mr. Fine is no longer on the pandemic response accountability committee,” Defense Department spokeswoman Dwrena K. Allen said in a statement. He will, however, continue to serve in his current position of principal deputy inspector general at the Pentagon. The $2 trillion coronavirus emergency spending law created several layers of oversight, including a Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which is supposed to be overseen by...

Five weeks into the coronavirus outbreak, officials in New York seeking a light at the end of the tunnel were hoping that deaths from the virus would remain flat for a third straight day. It did not happen.

DHS mulls massively expanding immigration as 10 million Americans are forced out of work. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies reports: "With 10 million unemployment claims just in the past two weeks and a jobless rate that could reach 32 percent, the Trump Administration is continuing the trend of increasing importation of foreign workers, whose numbers have doubled over the past decade. The State Department has waived the interview requirement for H-2A visa farmworkers to speed their arrival, while the Department of Homeland Security is going ahead with a lottery for H-1B cheap-labor visas for tech firms and...

Officials from Philadelphia and the four counties that surround it are asking Gov. Tom Wolf to reorganize the commonwealth’s supply of ventilators and empty intensive care beds to help them deal with mounting coronavirus cases. On Monday afternoon, they sent a letter urging the governor to implement “load balancing” — a technique they say already is being used in New York and Michigan. It would involve transferring patients from overburdened hospitals to ones with more space, and likewise transferring ventilators and other necessary equipment from flush facilities to struggling ones.

Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) is leveraging the same material it uses for air, fuel and lubrication filtration in diesel engines as feedstock for much-needed N95 respirator masks worn by healthcare workers treating coronavirus patients. “Our technical leadership knew it was capable and when we started seeing shortages we said “‘Wow, maybe this is an opportunity for us to fill a void,’” Amy Davis, vice president of Cummins Filtration, told FreightWaves. An N95 designation means the respirator can block at least 95% of particles from entering the wearer’s nose and mouth. Cummins Filtration Inc., based in Nashville, Tennessee, could provide enough...