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The U.S. was given inaccurate information about the coronavirus at the beginning of the crisis Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Saturday. When Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Fauci if he believes China or the World Health Organization "misled" him or if the WHO leader himself could have been "deceived," Fauci noted that while he does not know the details behind the inaccurate information, it was disseminated from the start of the crisis. "You know I don't know where the missteps went, the only thing I know what the end...

If Beijing doesn't change its policies and address corporate fraud immediately, investors might never touch stocks of Chinese companies again. Beijing may pretend it has the coronavirus pandemic under control and insist there are no new infected cases. This week alone, however, the news of notorious accounting scandals in regard to two U.S.-listed Chinese companies surfaced, exposing yet another sickening event that has unraveled in China.Luckin Coffee is a two and a half-year-old startup coffee chain in China founded with the intention to overtake American coffee chain Starbucks. Luckin’s growth speed has been astounding, from nine locations in 2017...

During a daily press conference on the status of the state's coronavirus response, Cuomo pledged to work with the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut to determine when the state could emerge from lockdown safely. "People want to get on with their lives, people want to get out of the house, [they've got] cabin fever," the governor said Sunday. "We need the economy working, people need a paycheck, life has to function. When do we reopen?" Cuomo continued. "Look, the answer is we want to reopen as soon as possible. Everyone does on a societal level; everyone does on a...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he is hopeful that U.S. citizens will be able to head to the polls in November as they would in any other past election, but with the uncertainty of how the Wuhan coronavirus could “rebound,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he couldn’t “guarantee it.” The answer came after CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Fauci whether people would be able to “physically” vote. “I hope so, Jake,” he responded. “I can’t guarantee it. I believe that if we have a good, measured way of rolling into this, steps towards normality, that...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has been leading the fight against the new coronavirus as the leader of the World Health Organization, has come under severe criticism, including by President Donald Trump, for not holding China accountable for concealing the truth about the disease. Here are three things about him that have surfaced.Tedros, the first African to become director-general of the United Nations’ health agency and who will be in office for two more years, is being blasted for sounding the alarm too late even as numerous reports point to the responsibility of the Chinese Communist Party in putting...

Last month, the media jumped on the news that the United States had more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than any other nation. That was bogus on two fronts. First, U.S. intelligence agencies believe that China is lying about its true numbers, and reports from inside the country tell of crematoriums working around the clock and people being paid off to keep quiet.Second, the United States does not lead the world in coronavirus cases per capita—which is the best way to compare how the pandemic is being contained in each country. For much of the pandemic, Italy has been...

“Travesty” is not a nice word. It usually is applied to gross perversions of justice, and that apparently is the context Attorney General William Barr desired when he dropped it into an interview answer the other day in the breezy courtyard of the Department of Justice (DOJ). His composed, understated delivery almost disguised the weighty magnitude of that disturbing word and the loaded adjective that preceded it. “I think what happened to him,” he said, referring to the president and the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, “was one of the greatest travesties in American history.” Okay, it’s important to...

At Christ Hospital in Jersey City, patients hospitalized with coronavirus receive a battery of treatments that doctors hope will ease their suffering and save their lives. They are given oxygen. Steroid inhalers. High doses of vitamin C, thiamine and zinc. Even plain old aspirin, to name a few. Also provided to patients is hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old malaria drug thrust into the spotlight of the coronavirus pandemic by President Donald Trump. It unexpectedly joined the culture wars last month after Trump touted it as a potential “game changer,” though medicine has yet to determine whether it is effective in combating the...

I'm concerned that for 2 days in a row Dr. Birx has been saying "logarithmic" curve instead of "exponential" This could indicate a small issue (her staff's too polite to correct her) or a bigger issue (if she doesn't even know the proper vocabulary what else is she wrong about?)

A sailor from the U.S. aircraft carrier stricken with the novel coronavirus has died from complications related to COVID-19, the Navy said Monday. The sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt was declared dead Monday after being taken to an intensive care unit last week, the Navy said in a statement. The sailor’s identification is being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin is notified. The sailor tested positive for the coronavirus March 30 and was in the middle of a 14-day isolation period on Naval Base Guam when he was found unresponsive during a daily medical check Thursday. CPR...

Good news on a national basis, but this offer may be void where numbers are looking more prohibitive. “We are nearing the peak now,” CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield told Savannah Guthrie on NBC’s Today, as the country progresses through its planned 45 day effort to “flatten the curve.” Redfield warns that the only way to know the peak is to see it in the rear-view mirror, but the numbers are “stabilizing” — nationally, anyway.The question isn’t just when we reopen, Redfield warns, but also where: “We are nearing the peak right now.” Watch @CDCDirector’s full interview with @savannahguthrie...

If Joe Biden weren’t such a corrupt, dissolute, politically vicious man, one might feel sorry for him as he simultaneously battles irrelevance and dementia while locked away in his home in Delaware. As it is, watching Biden public decay is the equivalent of watching someone take Dorian Gray’s picture out of the attic and place it in front of a television camera. It doesn’t help Biden when his campaign churns out bland, meaningless bits of political pabulum that are meant to read as profound insights into public policy during a challenging time in America. The latest example is an...

Have you ever been COVID-shamed online? Maybe you posted pictures of you and your family at a park and got reamed by someone for not being at home. Maybe, heaven forbid, you even dared to express a view on social media that strays from the ‘accepted opinion’ of months of mandated quarantine and government-enforced shutdowns until not a single solitary individual is infected with the virus. If the wrong people get wind you’ve expressed such an opinion, you’ll reap the whirlwind, I can promise you that. I’ve been there and done that. Fortunately, however, my work in conservative and right-of-center...

Buried behind news headlines screaming about social distancing, ventilators, and death counts is the timeline and origins of the Chinese coronavirus in America. At the daily task force briefings, media dimwits seek only to play “gotcha” with the president, begging him to take responsibility for anything and everything and quibbling over which governor asked for how many ventilators and when. Yet they are surprisingly incurious over the origins of this virus and when it first appeared in the U.S. The basketball player and scarf lady (Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx) are happy to use models to look forward,...

People in Guam are used to a constant U.S. military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from a coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. An outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began in late March and has thrust the Navy into a leadership crisis after the ship’s commander distributed a letter urging faster action to protect his sailors. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Capt. Brett E. Crozier and then assailed him during a speech on the ship in Guam, saying...

“He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction” (Proverbs 13:3).

One word keeps recurring in online discussions of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s latest orders to fight the state’s raging COVID-19 outbreak: “Insanity.” Last week, the first-term Democrat issued an order extending the state’s stay-at-home policy, which had been set to expire April 15, until May 1. Michigan has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases of any state in America, and certainly strong measures are required to get the pandemic under control. But the devil is in the details, and Whitmer’s new order instantly provoked a firestorm of outrage. Among the complaints was that Whitmer had prohibited sale of seeds and...

Breaking News A sailor from the USS Theordore Roosevelt died from complications related to Covid-19, the first death of a crew member from the ship.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8212751/Feds-Kashkari-says-U-S-economy-faces-long-hard-road-recover-coronavirus.html

Governor Northam signed five new gun control laws for Virginia on Good Friday. Virginia’s new gun control laws are:1) Required background checks on all firearm sales in Virginia, with criminal charges for both sellers and purchasers who violate this law.2) The establishment of an “Extreme Risk Protective Order” that gives police and prosecutors the power to seize firearms based on the preponderance of evidence of a substantial risk of injury - a determination made by a judge during a one-party hearing conducted outside the presence of the gun owner.3) Reinstatement of Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month rule.4) Increased penalty for recklessly leaving firearms...