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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room5:47 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Thank you.  This is a holy week, when religious believers across the nation will observe Passover, Good Friday, and Easter.  Millions of Jewish families begin Passover at sundown tonight, a sacred, unbroken tradition that traces back to the ancient land of Egypt.  And on Sunday, we celebrate our beautiful, wonderful Easter, which we all look forward to.  And we’re going to have many Easters together in churches in the future.We’re getting closer.  You see the numbers.  We’re getting much closer to getting our country...

Doctors around the country are prescribing the drug, hydroxychloroquine, to many of their to coronavirus patients. The drug is also being used in the Rochester area. Chief of Infectious Disease at Rochester General Hospital, Dr. Maryrose Laguio-Vila, says the drug is being prescribed to about 50 percent of the hospital’s positive COVID-19 patients. “The reason I think that it requires so much discussion among providers, because there is not a bounty of scientific evidence.... What we do is we evaluate them on a case by case basis,” said Laguio-Vila. Hydroxychloroquine, also known as Plaquenil, has been around for decades. Once...

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Attorney General Bill Barr called the media’s reaction to the use of hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus “quite strange,” and criticized the “jihad” aimed at discrediting the drug following President Trump’s touting of it as a potential “game-changer.” “The politicization of decisions like hydroxychloroquine has been amazing to me,” Barr said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Before the president said anything about it, there was fair and balanced coverage of this very promising drug, and the fact that it had such a long track record that the risks were pretty well known, and as...

Long before Fabergé, ornate ostrich eggs were highly prized by the elites of Mediterranean civilisations during the Bronze and Iron Ages, but to date little has been known about the complex supply chain behind these luxury goods. Examining ostrich eggs from the British Museum's collection, the team, led by Bristol's Dr. Tamar Hodos, were able to reveal secrets about their origin and how and where they were made. Using state-of-the-art scanning electron microscopy, Dr. Caroline Cartwright, Senior Scientist at the British Museum was able to investigate the eggs' chemical makeup to pinpoint their origins and study minute marks that reveal...

Mosquitoes are a common summer-time foe that are known vectors of the West Nile Virus, Zika, Chikungunya and several other diseases that sicken humans, but what about the novel coronavirus? As the weather warms and many move their stay-at-home orders to their backyard, the question of whether you can contract COVID-19 through a mosquito bite continues to surface. There are several types of human coronaviruses, including MERS and SARS, which each caused deadly outbreaks of their own. COVID-19, however, has never been seen before, and is caused by SARS-CoV-2. As a whole, coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that...

Government has warned against self-medication using anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine which has been used in some countries including the USA for treatment of Covid-19 cases in special instances and added that it can prove harmful for cardiac patients. The warning was given out during the daily joint press briefing by the officials of health and home ministry on Wednesday. The health ministry official stated that the anti-malarial drug was meant for use only by medical practitioners exposed to the infection and by the contacts of positive patients. It added that the drug was to be administered only on medical advice. “Hydroxychloroquine...

The Chinese government has signalled an end to the human consumption of dogs, with the agriculture ministry today releasing a draft policy that would forbid canine meat. Citing the “progress of human civilisation” as well as growing public concern over animal welfare and prevention of disease transmission from animals to humans, China’s Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs singled out canines as forbidden in a draft “white list” of animals allowed to be raised for meat.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "rupaul's Drag Race" dream is about to come true — with the New York Democrat poised to appear on this week's episode as a guest judge. ITK has an exclusive first look at the House freshman — an avid fan of the VH1 series — striking a pose alongside the reality competition's namesake. Ocasio-Cortez makes her debut on the show on Friday, in which the contestants compete in a "Rusical" dedicated to pop icon Madonna. In a promo for the show, Ocasio-Cortez is dubbed "the judge America needs right now." The 30-year-old lawmaker is seen doling out...

In light of the crucifixion and the shedding of Jesus' blood, we wanted to share with you the biblical definition and ETERNAL TRUTH of what TRUE LOVE is and what it produces in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Jer. 31:3, John 3:16;13:34-35; 14:21-23; 15:9, Rom. 5:8; 8:26-39, Gal. 5:19-21, 1 John 2:9-17; 4:7, 10-12, 16-19; 2 John 1:6)! ONLY in the PERFECT RIGHTEOUS LOVE of Jesus Christ is there TRUE and TOTAL deliverance and liberation from the horrific ravishings of the flesh and its control, power, and tyranny! ONLY in the PERFECT RIGHTEOUS LOVE of Jesus Christ is there TRUE and TOTAL deliverance and...

The ancient Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was last closed during the Black Plague of the 1300s. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. And now a video circulates across social media of the caretaker, a Muslim man whose family, it is said, has reverently tended this holiest of all Christian churches since the 1100s. The caretaker closes the doors. The heavy bolts fall into place, sounding like a hammer thudding on the hearts of the Christian world just before Easter. Coronavirus is most certainly not the Black Death. But the doors of churches are closed just the same. This...

As the COVID-19 pandemic widens across the world, there has been a sudden interest in an anti-malarial and anti-inflammatory drug called hydroxychloroquine. India, which manufactures 70% of the world's supply of hydroxychloroquine, banned its export on March 25. But after Trump called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting for supplies, the ban was reversed on Tuesday; Trump had threatened “retaliation” if India were to refuse. India is a dominant manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine because it is an inexpensive drug used to treat malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. India had about 6.8 million malaria cases (3% of the global total) with nearly...

One hundred thousand coronavirus deaths in the U.S. is the low estimate. That figure is the bottom end of the White House’s best-picture scenario of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths, which predicts that the U.S. will hit a peak death rate of more than 2,000 deaths a day in mid-April. President Donald Trump warned that this week in particular would be the “toughest.” In the world we can see the whole picture in the table below: From WorldOMeter: Apr. 8 88,457 6,414 8% Apr. 7 82,043 7,383 10% Apr. 6 74,660 5,227 8% Apr. 5 69,433 4,737 7% Apr. 4 64,696...

Leilani’s brother Cedrick Jordan told WTTG that his sister, who worked as a greeter at a Giant supermarket in Largo, had cerebral palsy, and was considered the family’s “miracle baby

Japan is willing to fund its companies to shift manufacturing operations out of China as the disruptions caused to production by the coronavirus pandemic has forced a rethink of supply chains between the major trading partners. As part of its economic stimulus package, Japan has earmarked $2.2 billion to help its manufacturers shift production out of China. The Japanese government’s panel on future investment had last month discussed the need for manufacturing of high-added value products to be shifted back to Japan, and for production of other goods to be diversified across Southeast Asia.

Africans in Guangdong and Fujian Province mostly affected are lamenting the move by the Chinese, fearing that they could be exposed to the virus. Africans in China, who confirmed the ejection to our correspondent, said the government was employing force to eject foreigners from their homes. They said, “There are claims that blacks are the ones now importing Coronavirus into China. “Foreigners and particularly black people are currently not allowed to access public places including malls, restaurants and hospitals.

Things took an interesting turn during Wednesday evening's White House Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefing when President Donald Trump was asked about pardoning Joe Exotic, the star of the Netflix hit "Tiger King." "One of the biggest rating hits of the coronavirus, beside from these briefings, a show on Netflix called 'Tiger King.' And the man who is the start of this is a former zoo owner who's serving a 22-year prison sentence. He's asking you for a pardon, saying he was unfairly convicted," the New York Post's Steven Nelson said. "Your son, yesterday, jokingly said he was going to...

MSNBC's Chris Hayes was ripped on social media for suggesting that the White House coronavirus task force team "rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less" so President Trump could take a victory lap. "The most cynical interpretation of all this, one I can't quite bring myself to accept, is they rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less than that so they could anchor everyone to that # and take a vicotry lap when "only" tens of thousands died," Hayes wrote to his 2.1 million followers on...

What do Angela Merkel and Queen Elizabeth II give us that Donald Trump doesn't? The answers to that question shed light on what citizens need from leaders as we struggle to cope with COVID-19. 1. Straight talk Not too long ago I received an envious message from a friend in Washington: "Angela Merkel's speech, that 60 percent of us will get the virus, made her an instant hero here." In her own address to the British people on Sunday night, Queen Eilzabeth's first words were an acknowledgment of the disruption, grief and financial difficulties the nation was facing. Like the...

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