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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the White House Coronavirus Task Force is considering issuing certificates of immunity to Americans who have contracted and recovered from the Wuhan coronavirus. He made it clear that testing for the virus and anti-body testing will be done on parallel tracks. This will allow health care workers to know who is actively fighting the virus versus who was asymptomatic. "One does not essentially rule out the other," Fauci explained. "We still rely heavily and appropriately on the test to show that someone is, in fact,...

Plans to turn the Cathedral of St. John the Divine into a vast coronavirus field hospital were abruptly shelved on Thursday, with public health officials saying that a leveling off in virus-related hospitalizations in New York City had made them reassess the need for the project. But behind the scenes, Episcopal leaders said they were upset by the role played in the project by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical humanitarian organization whose approach to L.G.B.T. issues runs counter to that of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, which is based out of the cathedral. Samaritan’s Purse is led by the Rev....

The Trump administration is pulling back federal support of testing sites by the end of the week, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, amid ongoing concerns over testing shortages nationwide. The so-called Community-Based Testing Sites program was intended to jumpstart initial testing capabilities to critical areas across the US, according to the agency. But given FDA approval for individuals to self-administer nasal swab tests at sites, the demand for personal protective equipment and trained health care providers will be reduced, a FEMA spokesperson said in a statement. The move has received mixed reactions. While some localities may need federal...

Probably few hospital systems need the emergency federal grants announced this week to handle the coronavirus crisis as badly as Florida’s Jackson Health does. Miami, its base of operations, is the worst COVID-19 hot spot in one of the most severely hit states. Even in normal years, the system sometimes barely makes money. At least two of its staff members have died of the virus. But in a scathing letter to policymakers, system CEO Carlos Migoya said the way Washington has handled the bailout “could jeopardize the very existence” of Jackson, one of the nation’s largest public health systems, and...

A few weeks ago, there was blood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks lost $10 trillion in value and earnings are expected to be in the toilet. So why did stocks add $3 trillion in value just this week? Why a booming stock market in the midst of cratering economy? Investors can't explain it. Bloomberg: Does it make any sense? To skeptical Wall Street veterans, the answer is obvious: no. While stimulus is flowing and the curve may be flattening, investors are bidding up stocks at a time unemployment may already be 15%, with economists forecasting...

The remedy for the ‘new normal’ that they themselves had created could only be found in a…wait for it…global vaccine administered to every human being on the face of the earth. Thinking I am writing clickbait for more traffic? You need to wake up. Welcome to the Plannedemic. Everywhere you look right now, the global elites of the burgeoning New World Order are sending us a message with this Plannedemic, and it is one that you would do well to hear, receive and believe. In this article, I am going to show you that message, and then tell you from...

Below is the powerful personal testimony of one of the few people in northeast Georgia who have contracted the Wuhan virus. According to James Harper, from White County, Georgia, his wife Emily (shown below) started showing symptoms of the Wuhan virus last Saturday (April 4). According to Mr. Harper, Back on March 16, President Trump said he had been told Hydroxycloroquinine (sic), which was developed to fight malaria, could be used to fight the virus. He said he was having it looked into so it could be used for that. Almost on immediately, CNN and other lame stream news outlets...

My 12-year-old daughter was playing basketball alone at the court, when a city truck drove over to her. City workers told me that they were taking down the rim to keep groups from gathering. My family lives on a small mountain in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas, and behind our home is a city green space with a small basketball court and walking trail. Throughout our city are several of these basketball courts and trails. The court by our house is fairly ignored. Because it is at the base of a hill, it floods during rainstorms, so my husband...

The coronavirus crisis calls for an urgent review of Germany's climate targets under goals set by the European Union, the leader of the economic council of the conservative Christian Democrat party (CDU) said on Saturday. The COVID-19 pandemic is "putting the German economy to the test," and the EU should consider a "deferment of climate policy targets," Wolfgang Steiger said in comments published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Steiger said the fallout from the pandemic on the economy could amount to a new "de-industrialization" of Germany. Experts are predicting a global recession as a result of the business shutdown...

Most people who develop COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, will be able to remain at home during their period of infection and will fully recover. Those who have to be hospitalized because of breathing difficulties and other significant symptoms, however, face a trying ordeal, including the possibility of needing a ventilator to breathe. So far, only about a third of patients put on ventilators survive. The large majority of COVID-19 sufferers who need to be hospitalized are older and already had health problems, new research shows. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released a...

Gov. Tony Evers is considering postponing a special election in May for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District after Wisconsin officials took heat nationally this week for holding an election in the middle of a pandemic. Evers' chief legal counsel Ryan Nilsestuen told reporters Friday moving the date of the special election in the 7th Congressional District "is something that we're taking a close look at" a month before the May 12 contest is set to take place. But neither candidate wants to see the date of the election moved. "Unfortunately, Governor Evers has decided to play politics at every turn of...

National File The Dark Truth About Fauci and Birx, Bill Gates And Globalist Elites The President Is Racing To Save Lives Patrick Howley by PATRICK HOWLEY April 9, 2020 27 The Dark Truth About Fauci and Birx, Bill Gates And Globalist Elites Share on Facebook Share on Twitter President Donald Trump is fighting to find a medical solution for Coronavirus in the short term, expressing hope that the anti-malaria drug Chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine can help patients suffering from the Chinese virus. The truth is that President Donald Trump is locked in an intense power struggle with Bill Gates, who is pushing his...

Hundreds of absentee ballots mailed back to the City of Madison for Tuesday's election may not be counted, thanks to a missing postmark. The problem is one that is emerging in communities across Wisconsin as election officials prepare to tally the results of an election conducted during the coronavirus pandemic. During a Friday meeting of the bipartisan state Elections Commission, Democrats tried to have more absentee ballots counted, but Republicans said they had little ability to do that because of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The commissioners unanimously agreed to count absentee ballots that arrived after election day that were...

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life for billions of people, forcing the world to deal with a sudden loss of jobs, security, and regular health care. But for those who identify as transgender, these barriers have existed for years, and advocates fear the pandemic may only make them worse. One transgender woman, who will be referred to as Jane out of fear for her safety, left her home in a right-leaning town along Florida's Gulf Coast for a homeless shelter in New York City so she can get better access to medical care. She's waited years to get gender affirming...

At some point, and hopes it is soon, we’ll need to make the transition from mega-hunkering to MAGA-hunkering. In the memetime, the only two segments of the economy that are clearly thriving are alcohol sales, and meme-making. I suspect the two are related. Just a hunch. I could be wrong.

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr launched a vicious Twitter thread response against Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying Thursday night, listing off several Chinese whistleblowers who were reportedly silenced by the communist government after speaking out about the coronavirus. “Could you un-disappear them so we could speak?” Carr blasted as he listed off the various whistleblowers in the thread, which included doctors Ai Fen and Li Wenliang and journalists Li Zehua and Ren Zhiqiang.

Nearly 2,500 long-term care facilities in 36 states are battling coronavirus cases, according to data gathered by NBC News from state agencies, an explosive increase of 522 percent compared to a federal tally just 10 days ago. The total dwarfs the last federal estimate on March 30 - based on “informal outreach” to state health departments - that more than 400 nursing homes had at least one case of the virus. The full scale of the virus’ impact is even greater than NBC News’ tally, as key states including Florida did not provide data, and nursing homes across the United...

If our goal is to maximize collective lifespan -- which it should be -- then our models need to account for all lives, not just the ones we save today, but the ones our policies may cause to die tomorrow. First, some cold facts and context. The CDC estimates that more than 60,000 Americans died of the flu two years ago. The vast majority -- 83% -- were seniors, but more than 1% -- 643 -- were kids. It also estimates there were more than 800,000 flu-related hospitalizations. Let's be honest: none of these numbers ever concerned you. You likely...

The Illinois stay-at-home order, mandating that residents shelter in place amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, has virtually shut down the city of Chicago, but according to the city's police department, gun violence is still on the rise -- some 24% compared to the same time last year. The scourge of the pandemic and violence on top of that is dealing a double blow to the city and in particular its black population, which has been hard-hit by the outbreak of the coronavirus, officials said. And the gun violence appears to be exacerbated in part by people gathering in public despite...