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The Chinese Communist Party has underreported its CCP virus numbers, according to a recent report by Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The report, released on April 7 and penned by resident scholar Derek Scissors, concluded that there should be an estimated 2.9 million confirmed cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, in China, instead of less than 100,000 known cases currently reported by the Chinese regime. The estimate was based on reviewing information in a Chinese state-run media report; an infection rate observed in South Korea, where data reporting is reliable;...

More than 2,000 Americans are predicted to die of COVID-19 on April 12, according to a model by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). It's expected to be the most deaths in one day during the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States, at least through August, although public health officials have raised the possibility of a second wave later this year. If IHME estimates are correct, the day before will have marked the peak use of hospital resources against the coronavirus, including more than 94,000 beds, about 19,500 ICU beds and at least 16,500 invasive ventilators. The...

Disney continues to pepper children with the gay agenda, this time with Season 3, Episode 1 of the DuckTales reboot, which airs on Disney Plus and Disney XD. The children’s cartoon introduced Violet’s two gay dads to the show, showing that Disney has no qualms about paving the way for kids to learn about the intricacies of backdoor bufflehead bandits. The show joins other recent Disney properties, such as Beauty and The Beast and Onward, in adding gayness into children’s media in order to normalize the lifestyle. Centrists™ will be quick to say, “There’s nothing wrong with promoting the gay...

Previously redacted footnotes from Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report expected to raise questions about prior FBI assessment of key informant. U.S. intelligence has decided to declassify several redacted footnotes from a recent Justice Department report that will expose more problems with the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s campaign, including that agents possessed evidence their main informant may have been the victim of Russian disinformation, Just the News has learned. The previously redacted footnotes are likely to raise new concerns that the FBI ignored flashing red warning signals about the informant Christopher Steele and gave a false picture in briefing materials...

Illinois public health officials reported Thursday the state was getting closer to “bending the curve” when it comes to new cases of COVID-19. On Thursday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,344 new cases and 66 additional deaths. The governor was asked if summer events, including festivals, could go on as planned. "I think everybody needs to think seriously about canceling large summer events,” Pritzker said. “From my perspective today, I do not see how we are going to have large gatherings of people until we have a vaccine, which is months away.”

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Sponsor: Tan Tock Seng Hospital Collaborators: National Center for Infectious Diseases Singapore Clinical Research Institute Singapore Eye Research Institute Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Netherlands: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports Information provided by (Responsible Party): Tan Tock Seng Hospital STUDY DESCRIPTION The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed tremendous stress on the global economy since its outbreak in December 2019. Currently, with nearly 1.3 million confirmed cases, there is still no effective way to contain the disease. The transmission of COVID-19 occurs via direct (prolonged close interaction, within 2 meters for more...

President Trump Participates in an Easter Blessing with Bishop Harry Jackson

MADRID, Spain (ChurchMilitant.com) - Stricken with COVID-19, exorcist Fr. José Antonio Fortea is describing the pandemic as a lesson from God — one that underscores not only the inevitability of judgment, but also Christ's love for humanity. "We have been living in a sick society," Fr. Fortea said in a March 30 Spanish-language post to YouTube. "This society has turned its back on God. This society has lived as if they were gods," he observed. "I want to speak to you as did St. Paul so many times by starting with the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with...

Joe Kennedy III needed the convention. Not that he could have won it. He did not have the votes. But he could have used it as a platform to explain to Massachusetts voters — especially Democrats — why he’d make a better U. S. Senator than incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, a fellow Democra

One of the writers of this article, Frank de Varona, who fled Cuba after communists stole his family’s cattle ranch, joined what would be later called Assault Brigade 2506 on April 1, 1961. He and about 100 other CIA recruits joined the Brigade just weeks before the assault. The goal: Liberate his homeland. Upon arrival in Guatemala, he met his older brother, Jorge de Varona, and many of his cousins and classmates from Cuba. The bulk of the soldiers, sailors, and pilots of Assault Brigade 2506 were trained for more than nine months in Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and...

April 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Police in Spain shut down a Palm Sunday Mass on a church rooftop after receiving reports from locals that the regional coronavirus confinement laws were being broken. The incident happened in the southern Spanish city of Seville. Local media reported that the parish priest from “the Paulists’ church” was celebrating Mass on the roof of his church, complete with an improvised altar and lectern. Before the priest was able to finish Mass, local police from Seville along with Spanish National Police showed up and ordered the Mass to be immediately shut down. The regional authorities...

Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation Key FBI officials failed to review an intelligence file identifying Christopher Steele's ties to Russian oligarchs and were later advised some of the information he provided agents in his dossier appeared to be misinformation planted by Russian intelligence, according to declassified information made public Friday. The explosive revelations were contained in footnotes that had been originally redacted from Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's December report on FBI failures in the Russia case. The information was provided to two Senate committees in recent days. One of...

PARIS, France - Still damaged and scarred by fire, Notre Dame Cathedral came back to life - if only for a fleeting instant - as a center for prayer on Friday in a Paris locked down against the coronavirus. Just days before the first anniversary of the April 15, 2019, inferno that ravaged the beloved Paris landmark, the French capital’s archbishop led Good Friday celebrations unlike any that have gone before inside the centuries-old jewel of Gothic architecture. Archbishop Michel Aupetit and three clergymen who accompanied him wore hard hats as they entered the damaged cathedral that is closed to...

After meeting with His Holiness Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Holy Synod yesterday, April 9, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov reiterated that he cannot and will not close the churches for Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Pascha. The Minister met with the hierarchs at the Church headquarters in Sofia to discuss the issue of celebrating the services under quarantine, reports the official site of the Bulgarian Church. Boykov told the Patriarch and the Synod that the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in Bulgaria is expected during the Paschal celebrations and called for strengthened sanitary measures. Accordingly, the hierarchs decided...

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a ruling from a lower court that allowed some abortions to resume in Texas as the government in Austin works to curtail the procedure during the coronavirus outbreak. The Fifth Circuit of Appeals based in New Orleans issued a stay halting the decision from a lower court, with the move essentially upholding a state policy deeming abortion a non-essential procedure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The appeals court’s ruling means that most abortions will now be prohibited in Texas, though it includes an exception for pregnancies nearing the state’s 22-week cutoff. Gov. Greg...

A phlebotomist working at a Chicago hospital said Thursday that 30 to 50 percent of those tested for coronavirus have antibodies, and 10 to 20 percent of those tested are actual carriers of the virus. Sumaya Owaynat, a phlebotomy technician for Rosewood Community Hospital, has had extensive experience with coronavirus testing over the last few weeks, as she has been testing around 400 to 600 people per day in the hospital’s parking lot. Owaynat also stated that there is a far greater number of those that have come through her line and have already recovered from the virus compared to...

Living in Texas is a blessing in so many ways. One of the best of those ways has been to enjoy the blessings of a state run by Republicans for the last 26 years, and current Governor Greg Abbott is proving in many way to be the best of them. At a news conference today, Gov. Abbott announced that he will be among the first governors in the nation to issue an executive order to authorize businesses in our state shut down due to the Wuhan Virus to begin re-opening as soon as next week. Texas has been blessed to...

Some places may be able to reopen at the beginning of May while others should remain under virtual lockdown, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said on April 10. Asked whether reopening on May 1 was realistic, Adams said “some places” might be able to do so. “There are places around the country that have seen consistently low levels and as we ramp up testing and can feel more confident that these places actually can do surveillance and can do public health follow-up, some places will be able to think about opening on May 1,” Adams said. “Most of the country will...