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Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, said the Prime Minister is “sitting up in bed” and “improving” during a daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing. The Prime Minister remains in the care of St Thomas’ Hospital NHS staff and is “improving” but still being closely watched by his clinical team. Mr Johnson was admitted to hospital on Sunday evening upon the advice of his doctor after his temperature failed to fall despite other Covid-19 symptoms subsiding. He announced his coronavirus diagnosis on March 27th on Instagram and assured Brits he was ill but choosing to social-distance as Government advice recommends.

Joe Biden’s campaign is offering to help states receive coronavirus resources through its own private connections. Let me repeat that for the CNN-impaired… Joe Biden is offering to help states get their hands on coronavirus resources through his own private connections. In other words, rather than offer these much-needed resources to the federal government or even the state and local governments, Biden’s connections are offering them to his campaign so Biden can pretend to be president while he hides out in his Delaware basement. And Joe Biden is okay with that. This is not a joke. This is really happening...

And I predict that even stranger things have happened.” - The Amazing Kreskin In what has become a continuing series on the Great Coronavirus Panic of 2020, I would like to begin this much shorter article by thanking Remnant readers for their prayers for my father, Joseph, who is still locked down in a nursing facility in which the Wuhan virus is present. So far, he is doing well and shows no signs of the virus. To sum up where we stand today, April 6: Based on the pretext that we must “limit the spread” of the Wuhan virus, the...

Walgreens pharmacies in seven states will soon offer drive-thru coronavirus testing stations. The nationwide retailer announced on Tuesday its partnership with Abbott Laboratories to offer rapid-result coronavirus tests for patients in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas. The COVID-19 test produced by Abbott can deliver results in 13 minutes. In total, 15 stores will offer the testing services. Walgreens has yet to announce the exact locations for the drive-thru testing centers but noted that the company had been in talks with the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the best "hot spot" location for the centers...

China may have lifted a state-imposed lockdown on the city of Wuhan, but outbound travelers from what was the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak are facing severe limitations on their movements within China. Chinese news service Pengpai reported Wednesday major cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, are conducting coronavirus tests for travelers from Wuhan. In Beijing, the seat of power for the Chinese Communist Party, travelers from Wuhan are not allowed into the city unless they test negative for COVID-19, according to reports. The Chinese capital also requires people from Wuhan to quarantine and undergo a second test. A negative test...

“Might trigger violence.” Tucker Carlson wonders how Americans will react if health authorities forcibly remove family members from their homes following a World Health Organization official’s suggestion that this scenario could happen.During his monologue last night, the Fox News hosted drew attention to a statement made by Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program, back on March 30 which was not reported by the mainstream media.Ryan was asked by a reporter; “Do you think that home quarantine will be as effective anywhere for people who are positive, or would central quarantine be needed...

On his Fox News show last night, Tucker Carlson noted that experts, including Dr. Zeke Emanuel [of the hard-left Center for American Progress], are saying society cannot return to normal for at least 18 months. Carlson pointed out how wrong those same experts have been when it came to projecting hospitalization rates, needed numbers of ventilators, etc. On today's Morning Joe, Emanuel called Carlson a "right-wing clone" of President Trump, and whined that Tucker was "attacking" him. Emanuel claimed he was merely promoting "physical distancing." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Some scientists and commentators, like leading coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, have referenced the possibility of a “second wave” of the coronavirus pandemic in the fall, following expected slower growth rates of COVID-19 cases during the summer,

“We have to decide who gets the vent.”A self-proclaimed registered nurse took to Twitter to suggest that she would not give someone emergency medical treatment for coronavirus if he was a Trump supporter.The nurse was responding to a man called George S. Martan who posted a photo of himself wearing a face mask with ‘Trump 2020’ embroidered onto it.“My wife sewed this face mask today to protect me from the Wuhan Virus and show support for President Trump,” commented the man. ’ll see you in ER. Please wear your mask so when we have to decide who gets the vent,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in a conference call with staff, his campaign said in a statement.

Government Accountability Insititute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers, author of Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election, says the Democrats’ plan for nationwide mail-in voting would send ballots to 24 million inaccurate and flawed voter registrations. In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Eggers said nationwide mail-in voting would be wide open to fraud and abuse. “The concern I have if we’re trying to mandate national mail-in elections — which by the way was part of the language that Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats inserted in the first version of the most recent stimulus...

We’ve been harping on this for a couple of weeks now, focusing on it in Louisiana, but last week it started to become a more national thing when Fox News anchor emeritus Brit Hume noted on Twitter that New York’s Wuhan virus death rate reflects everybody who has the virus and then dies, whether they die of the virus or some other cause. Hume was pilloried by the usual suspects, but his reasoning was quite sound. And since we know the vast majority of the people who get a serious enough case of the Wuhan virus to put their lives...

In what is difficult to comprehend as anything other than delusional, a Planned Parenthood leader appeared to suggest that killing unborn babies is “more essential” than any other health care. On Tuesday, Nancie Schwarzman, a board member of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, insisted that abortions are important medical care – perhaps the most important health care of all. “This health crisis is being used as a tool to shut down clinics, deeming many of our services, including access to abortions as non-essential care,” Schwarzman said, according to WPRI News 12. “Can you imagine anything more essential and time-sensitive?”...

Tuesday, Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume weighed in on the actions taken by governments throughout the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and spare lives in the process. Hume was critical of the medical data used to justify some of the decisions, which he said have had an impact on the American economy. “[T]he models were the basis really for these decisions that have been made,” he explained during a segment with FNC’s Tucker Carlson. “These drastic restrictions that we have placed on ourselves as a country to combat the coronavirus and you know, we may not —...

When the history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, the vanishing of toilet paper might rank as just a footnote in an otherwise dark and frightening account. But it might be a very long, complex and even wise footnote, because toilet paper — or rather, the lack of it — turns out to reveal a great deal about who we are and how we behave in a crisis. It showed David Cohen something about the nature of humanity: As a checkout guy at a supermarket in Asheville, N.C., he saw people buying absurd amounts of toilet paper, but he also...

From Fiona Whelan Prine... Our beloved John died yesterday evening at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville TN. We have no words to describe the grief our family is experiencing at this time. John was the love of my life and adored by our sons Jody, Jack and Tommy, daughter in law Fanny, and by our grandchildren. John contracted Covid-19 and in spite of the incredible skill and care of his medical team at Vanderbilt he could not overcome the damage this virus inflicted on his body. I sat with John - who was deeply sedated- in the hours before he...

Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his presidential campaign, paving the way for pro-abortion former Vice President Joe Biden to become the Democrats nominee. many Democrats wondered why it took Sanders so long to formally end his campaign after he came in second to Biden in a number of Democrat primary contests prior to the coronavirus outbreak. Democrats coalesced around Biden as opposed to Sanders because exit polls show them mostly being concerned about defeating President Donald Trump. Somehow Biden is seen as having the ability to defeat Trump even though he is 77 and has a reputation for gaffes, misstatements,...

As doctors treat more patients who are severely ill from COVID-19, they’re noticing differences in how their lungs are damaged. Some patients coming to the hospital have very low oxygen levels in their blood, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to them. They don’t seem starved of oxygen. They may be a little confused. But they aren’t struggling to breathe. When doctors take pictures of their lungs -- either with a CT scanner or an X-ray machine -- those also look fairly healthy. One doctor treating COVID-19 patients in says it was like altitude sickness. Luciano Gattinoni, MD, says...

If there’s one thing David Benham isn’t social distancing from, it’s his convictions. So when police showed up outside a North Carolina abortion clinic that was still operating on Saturday and told his group to stop counseling pregnant moms, he didn’t blink. If abortions can continue during the coronavirus, he insisted, then so should pro-life ministry. Local officials didn’t agree. When they asked the Cities4Life volunteers to leave, David refused. “We are a federally recognized 501(c)(3) public charity,” he insisted. “We are an essential business.” Not only that, he argued, but the group has followed every possible government guidance—sanitizing and...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, paving the way for former Vice President Joe Biden to win the 2020 nomination. Sanders was unable to build on his early momentum in the race after wins in New Hampshire and Nevada as well as virtual tie in Iowa, going on to lose a string of states to Biden after the former vice president consolidated the support of moderate Democrats. The departure marks Sanders's second failed attempt at the Democratic nomination after he came up short in his 2016 challenge against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The...