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Republicans specifically fear the prospect of voter fraud, since mail-in voting would be harder to authenticate. Stimulus payments in the next round of legislation must also include “undocumented individuals and mixed-status families where even just one parent is filing their taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number and the other parent and all children have an SSN,” CAP writes. Instead of turning off extra unemployment insurance benefits after the coronavirus pandemic is over, CAP advocates that unemployment insurance “and other stabilizers” – ostensibly stimulus checks — “should be automatically tied to economic conditions, so that continuing and future crises don’t...

Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses coronavirus models in exclusive interview on 'The Story'. #FoxNews

"TheDepartment of Health and Human Services is cutting red tape to begin rolling out mass testing for COVID-19. One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke to the CEO (Steve Anderson) Associations of Chain Drug stores to learn more." Check the CDC Website to learn who qualifies to be tested.

Officials with Burning Man announced on Friday that crews will not be building Black Rock City in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns. They announced on their website they will be holding a virtual event instead. "[W]e believe this is the right thing to do," the blog reads, "...public health and the well-being of our participants, staff, and neighbors in Nevada are our highest priorities."

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A hundred years ago, there were no 4th of July celebrations in New York City. Parades were cancelled and children were banned from movie theaters. Half a million pamphlets warning people not to go outside were distributed. The city was in the grip of a deadly, mysterious illness that crippled child after child. The disease was poliomyelitis, or polio, and it was sending spasms of fear throughout the country. That summer, 27,000 people were infected and 6,000 people died in New York alone. It would be many years before scientists understood the disease and for the next few decades, nearly...

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said he expects a “real degree of normality” by the November elections as a partisan battle breaks out over voting by mail. “I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we could have a real degree of normality. That’s my interest and my job as a public health person,” Fauci, a leading member of the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Friday on MSNBC. The remarks come as Democrats and Republicans feud over the viability of expanding mail-in voting in the November election. The GOP, led...

Irrational panic over COVID-19 causes hospitals to cancel elective surgeries and lay off huge numbers of health care workers All over the country, irrational panic over COVID-19 is causing hospitals to cancel elective surgeries and lay off huge numbers of health care workers. Here are some news headlines about this:https://www.masslive.com/boston/2020/04/coronavirus-financial-losses-prompt-boston-medical-center-to-furlough-700-employees-10-of-hospitals-workforce.htmlCoronavirus financial losses prompt Boston Medical Center to furlough 700 employees, 10% of hospital’s workforcehttps://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241565211.htmlKentucky hospital chain furloughs about 500 employees as coronavirus saps businesshttps://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2020/04/a-mounting-casualty-crisis-health-care-jobs/A mounting casualty crisis: Health care jobshttp://wvmetronews.com/2020/04/03/thomas-health-to-lay-off-hundreds-as-business-shrinks-because-of-coronavirus/Four West Virginia hospitals lay off hundreds because of coronavirus-related shrinking revenueshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/02/coronavirus-pandemic-jobs-us-health-care-workers-furloughed-laid-off/5102320002/Thousands of US medical workers furloughed, laid off as routine patient...

U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service Tammy Whitcomb a letter Thursday, urging the IG to investigate reports of irregularities involving absentee ballots for the election held on Tuesday, April 7. “Unfortunately, there have been numerous accounts from the state that USPS failed to fulfill that critical function for some voters. According to an April 8th report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the account of a state legislator, three tubs of absentee ballots from Appleton and Oshkosh were discovered...

Two manufacturers of the generic — Novartis and Teva — are donating millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine in the fight against the Wuhan virus. Novartis is donating one hundred and thirty million doses — Teva another ten million doses. In other words, there’s no windfall coming Trump’s way. Not even tens of dollars. You would have to be a quarter-wit to think Trump is doing this for the money.

Several Republican members from the House Oversight Committee and other co-signers are requesting the World Health Organization (WHO) hand over information about its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in wake of Beijing’s widely criticized, botched handling of the CCP virus pandemic. In an April 9 letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, U.S. lawmakers laid out concerns that the international organization helped to serve Beijing’s interests over those of other countries by repeating China’s lies about the situation and downplaying the severity of the disease. The letter comes amid the committee’s ongoing investigation into Beijing’s part in the...

OZARK COUNTY, Mo. -- In a Facebook post Thursday, Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed asked community members to check on their elderly neighbors and family members from a distance. The Ozark County Sheriff's Office tells KY3 that four elderly residents were found deceased over the past ten days. Ozark County Deputy Cpl. Curtis Dobbs says none of the deaths were suspicious nor related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deputies say all four residents died from natural causes. It's unclear when the residents died, but Reed says they were deceased for awhile.

The White House issued a rare statement on April 10 accusing the taxpayer-funded Voice of America radio station network of promoting propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party about the spread of the CCP virus. “Secrecy from the Communist Party of China allowed the deadly virus to spread across the world,” the White House said in a statement. “Journalists should report the facts, but VOA has instead amplified Beijing’s propaganda.” The White House cited two examples of VOA allegedly amplifying propaganda from Beijing about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. The first example pointed to...

Nevada’s osteopaths want Gov. Steve Sisolak to reverse his emergency regulation limiting the routine prescribing of two existing anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19, saying it interferes with their rights as doctors. Sisolak’s March 24 regulation applies to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, drugs long in use to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and now undergoing clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment. The drugs have been repeatedly touted by President Trump despite potential health risks and inconclusive proof that they are effective against the illness, which as of Friday had killed more than 100,000 people worldwide. (Please see link for full article)

Attorney General William Barr said the president was right to dismiss the intelligence community inspector general who handled the anonymous whistleblower complaint that prompted a partisan impeachment against the president last year. The attorney general made the comments in a Fox News interview aired on Thursday, saying that the inspector general, Michael Atkinson, exceeded his authority when he disclosed to Congress the whistleblower complaint that centered around a phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “From the vantage point of the Department of Justice, he had interpreted his statute—which is a fairly narrow statute that gave...

Democrats and Republicans have yet to formally reveal their priorities for the phase 4 pandemic relief legislation, but there have been hints about infrastructure from the right and funding for vote-by-mail from the left. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said infrastructure will need to wait as funding for things like vote-by-mail is more pressing. Democrats say vote-by-mail will allow more people to actively participate in the democratic process, but those against say it leads to fraud and weakens the integrity of the voting system. This issue has already played out in the Wisconsin primary legal battle. The judgment in that case...

The new study, of which the abstract was released today, was performed at IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France. A cohort of 1061 COVID-19 patients, treated for at least 3 days with the Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin (HCQ-AZ) combination and a follow-up of at least 9 days was investigated. Key findings are: No cardiac toxicity was observed.  A good clinical outcome and virological cure was obtained in 973 patients within 10 days (91.7%).  A poor outcome was observed for 46 patients (4.3%); 10 were transferred to intensive care units, 5 patients died (0.47%) (74-95 years old) and 31 required 10 days of hospitalization...

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President Donald Trump said at a White House briefing he expects a sharp economic rebound later in the year due to what he said is “tremendous pent-up demand” combined with massive stimulus efforts. Trump was asked by a reporter at an April 10 briefing of the White House COVID-19 task force what his top economic advisors thought of the new forecast by economists at JPMorgan, America’s biggest bank, that second-quarter output will nosedive by 40 percent. “My economic advisors are interested in the third quarter and, really, the fourth quarter. And I think we have a chance to do record...

Former Vice President and top Democrat candidate for president, Joe Biden, now faces accusations from at least seven women who claim he inappropriately touched them. Tara Reade posted a video on social media telling her story and at least three other women have spoken out since the disturbing video was posted...