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Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul called for the firing of Dr, Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, and called him a “fraud.” “He should be fired, but if you don’t do it in the literal sense, the people have to fire him,” the Texas Republican said on his show. “They have to fire him by saying ‘he’s a fraud.’” “The plan that they have is when things are getting back to normal, people can return to their work, and they do things, and go to the golf course if they get a stamp...

Vice President Mike Pence's office is barring top public health officials from appearing on CNN, the network reported. The ban will remain in effect until CNN agrees to carry the daily White House coronavirus briefings in their entirety, instead of breaking away after the president is done speaking, the network said it was told. The situation reflects a growing unease among news organizations about how much of the hours-long daily briefings should be aired live.

Dr. Oz The television doctor, an "unpaid guest," has become a regular dispenser of analysis and commentary. Dr. Oz had a busy day Tuesday. The syndicated talk show host participated in Fox News Channel's virtual town hall with President Donald Trump in the afternoon, appeared on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business Network show, did a hit on Fox host Sean Hannity's radio show a few hours later and then did Hannity's primetime television show at night. (On Wednesday, he started off the day on Fox & Friends in the morning.) Dr. Oz, the director of the Integrative Medical Center at the...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville claimed Wednesday that Republicans were so intent on maintaining power that they would literally “kill people” in order to do so. “My kind of mission in the short-term is to sound the alarm to say [that] Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court — they’re going to do everything they can to hold onto power,” Carville said duing an appearance on MSNBC. “This thing in Wisconsin was one of the most awful things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Carville added, referring to the controversy over whether to postpone the Badger State’s primary elections due to...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci joins "CBS This Morning" after he and other medical experts credited Americans as well as the mitigation efforts of state and local governments for what they say are signs that the coronavirus' spread is slowing. However, he warned that the next few weeks will be critical and that models may continue to display a downward trend if Americans "redouble our efforts" at social distancing and other precautions.

One of the sources said Cohen was placed in solitary after another inmate complained about his internet use. “It is my understanding that a verbal dispute over phone use prompted a temporary placement to SHU pending an investigation. I do not, however, know who prompted the altercation, or if the action taken was factually/regulatory appropriate,” Cohen’s lawyer, Roger Adler, said in an email to Reuters. A former representative for Cohen, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.

"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable." Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2

Six sites across Los Angeles County will be used to test for coronavirus antibodies in 1,000 people to find out how many have already fought off the virus, USC Price School of Public Policy officials said Thursday. The pilot serology tests will start on Friday and Saturday and take place at drive-thru sites throughout the county every two weeks to track the trajectory of the pandemic, according to a news release from the school. Working with the L.A. County Department of Public Health, the school said it hopes to find if people have the antibodies or immune cells that potentially...

UPMC announced Thursday that they are launching a new fast-track clinical trial for COVID-19 drugs. The clinical trial developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine launched officials say addresses one of the most important debates during the COVID-19 pandemic: How should doctors decide between quickly adopting new therapies, such as the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, and waiting until they are tested in longer clinical trials? “The solution is to find an optimal tradeoff between doing something now, such as prescribing a drug off-label, or waiting until traditional clinical trials are complete,” said Derek Angus, M.D., M.P.H., professor...

Providers and public health officials hope that more COVID-19 testing will help contain spread of the disease. But efforts to get tests done faster and results quicker are hindered by how many tests can be quickly deployed and how accurate they prove to be.Three decentralized tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been granted Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the past 10 days. Decentralized molecular tests are meant to bring lab-quality test results while the patient is with the provider so that they can guide treatment decisions. These tests, and any accompanying equipment,...

Sacramento-based publisher The McClatchy Co. is furloughing about 115 employees at 30 newspapers across the country to cut costs during a period of slow ad sales due to the pandemic. Nearly all the furloughs will be in advertising departments, and no news positions are being furloughed, said McClatchy (AMEX: MNI) spokeswoman Jeanne Segal. Some 4.4% of the workforce will take a COVID-19 leave for 90 days, Segal said. “But we will work hard to bring everyone back sooner as advertising rebounds.” The company, which publishes the Sacramento Bee, is also laying off four executives, according to a letter to employees,...

Kemal Bey’s hanging in Bayezid Square occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Great War. Here, on its last legs, the remains of a sultanate splintered apart in the war instituted tribunals for wartime offenses by the Young Turks who had run the government during the war — a sop to the British occupying forces making worrying noises about international trials for much bigger fish. Much testimony at the trial pointed to the governor’s fervor for massacres; an Armenian priest who survived the slaughter later wrote that a Turkish officer had told him that Kemal “made a vow on the...

Pfizer Inc. said it's making "important advances" in the drug company's battle against the coronavirus. The New York-based pharmaceutical giant (NYSE: PFE) said its researchers and scientists "have been relentlessly working" to find a treatment for coronavirus, as well as working on a vaccine to prevent it. "We are facing this public health challenge head on by collaborating with industry partners and academic institutions to develop potential novel approaches to prevent and treat COVID-19. Our researchers and scientists also have been exploring potential new uses of existing medicines in Pfizer’s portfolio to help infected patients globally," said Dr. Albert Bourla,...

It’s amusing to see the media lying with statistics, especially when they’re criticized President Trump for presenting them exactly the way they are now. When President Donald Trump began claiming that the U.S. led the world in coronavirus testing, liberal pundits were quick to point out that you’d have to adjust for population to make such a claim. Fair enough. President Trump did clarify at least once that he was talking about total tests, not per-capita when later making the claim.Yet now the same people in the media who criticized Trump for not measuring tests on a per-capita basis are...

California experienced its first decrease in coronavirus intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday. The number of patients in the ICU dropped 1.9 percent from Wednesday's report, to a total of 1,132 people across the state. At the same time, the rate of total virus hospitalizations has slowed down this week. But the governor warned against premature celebration or speculation that the outbreak was over. "One data point is not a trend. One data point is not a headline, so I caution anybody to read too much into that one point of data,” Newsom said during his...

“Washed and Clean, We Have Life Together with Christ” (John 13:1-17, 31b-35) Right now, everybody is concerned about washing their hands, washing their face, and keeping clean. Yesterday I went to the grocery store, and at the entrance they had some Purell wipes. So I wiped my hands and the grocery cart handle, and afterwards, when I had loaded the groceries in my car, I wiped my hands again. Then when I got home, I made sure to wash my hands and my face and so on. Earlier today I saw this comment on the internet: “I just Clorox-wiped a...

Yesterday, Fauci announced that he’s been friends with the World Health Organization’s Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for many years. His announcement linked to the Clinton Foundation and the terrorist WHO leader. //snipp// https://nationalinterest.org/ 'Fully Complicit In the Terrible Suffering': Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Blamed For 2017 Cholera Outbreaks Health professionals accused him of covering up the previous epidemic to shield two African regimes.

Billy Saracino of Franklin Lakes believes a major dose of Hydroxychloriquine, the anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump in fighting coronavirus, may be what saved him. His doctor Robert Bock agrees, and says he's had incredible success in using Hydroxychloriquine to treat his other patients. However, Bock recognizes that the drug comes with a host of side effects that can be fatal if not for proper administration and supervision. A dosage of Hydroxychloriquine as soon as a patient's condition worsens, and co-presence of the antibiotic Zithromax are also key in the drug's success, according to Bock. In Saracino's case, they...

SNIP Smollett and Daniels’ “relationship is nonexistent, and it was tense even before Jussie’s attack incident,” an insider told Page Six. One point of contention, we’re told, was that Daniels wanted now-disgraced musician Kelly to write songs for Smollett’s “Empire” character — and even suggested that Kelly work on the actor’s own album. SNIP Meanwhile, we’re told that Smollett would often complain to Fox execs about Daniels. “It was things like that that did not sit well with Lee,” said the insider. “He [was frustrated by] Jussie because he was constantly going over his head to Fox about their creative...