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This might be the most powerful press slapping ass kicking Fauci groveling press conference I've seen in my life. I know they have gotten boring, but today's is BEAUTIFUL! It's also very very positive.

Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., signed a bill Saturday allowing individual localities to remove, relocate or contextualize Confederate statues and monuments within their communities. Localities can begin using these powers starting July 1. In 2016, first-year College student Zyahna Bryant — then a student at Charlottesville High School — petitioned Charlottesville City Council to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and to rename Lee Park in Downtown Charlottesville. The following year, Charlottesville City Council voted to remove two statues — one of Robert E. Lee and one of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson — both Confederate generals. The decision was...

Beaumont Health announced it was launching the country's largest study on COVID-19 antibodies which will help identify plasma donors and better understand the disease. The Beaumont Health Research Institute is hoping the serological study will answer many questions surrounding the spread of coronavirus and help treat patients who have it. Serological blood testing detects antibodies that the body creates to help fight an infection. In the case of COVID-19, antibodies may develop as soon as 3-6 days after infection. Even after the recovery, the antibodies remain and offer immunity. The CDC reports that as many as 25-50% of patients may...

According to an estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were approximately 45 million cases of the flu in the United States during the 2017-2018 influenza season, resulting in an estimated 810,000 flu-associated hospitalizations and an estimated 61,000 flu-associated deaths. It also killed more children than in any non-pandemic year on record, 172. In the 2016-17 season, there were an estimated 29 million flu cases in the United States; and estimated 497,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 38,000 flu-related deaths. (For comparison, 36,560 people died in car accidents in 2018 in the United States.) The CDC reports that...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday sought to squash any notion of a fissure between he and President Trump, saying at the opening of a coronavirus task force briefing that the president repeatedly and immediately backed social distancing recommendation from he and other public health officials despite the economic pain. “The president listened to the recommendation and went to the mitigation,” Fauci told reporters in the White House briefing room on Monday evening. Fauci was seeking to clarify remarks he made a day prior in an interview with CNN when he acknowledged that more lives could have been saved if the...

* Public health officials are saying a large number of antibody tests could be available “within a period of a week or so.” * Instead of detecting the virus itself, the tests identify antibodies the immune system generates to fight COVID-19. * Data from antibody tests would show how many people have contracted the disease and recovered and also whether previously infected people would be vulnerable to reinfection. As some Americans are coming up on a month under stay-at-home orders, many are wondering when life will go back to normal. And while things may never fully go back to how...

Michigan Democratic state Rep. Karen Whitsett praised President Trump for mentioning hydroxychloroquine. "It saved my life," she said. "If he hadn't talked about it on TV I never would have known to ask my doctor to prescribe it for me." Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expressed extreme displeasure "with Ms. Whitsett's selfish behavior. The Democratic Party is battling to save the country from this monster getting reelected. The last thing we need is for one of our own to break ranks and praise him for anything." "First of all, there is no proof that this drug saved Ms. Whitsett's life,"...

After President Donald Trump mentioned during a recent press conference the potential benefits of hydroxychloroquine for treating the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) quickly piped in that the remedy supposedly isn’t proven, and that people shouldn’t think of it as a “knockout drug.” So why, then, did he praise this very same drug back in 2013 as a treatment for the MERS coronavirus, a relative of COVID-19? At the time, Barack Obama was occupying the White House, and an NAIAD study conducted by a guy named Darryl Falzarano found that...

Alberta will investigate the effectiveness of a drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump in preventing hospitalization for people at the highest risk of developing severe symptoms of COVID-19. The Alberta Hope COVID-19 study will recruit 1,600 Albertans to determine whether a prescribed five-day treatment of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can prevent hospitalization for those at highest risk of developing a severe illness. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the goal is to reduce the risk of severe disease experienced by individuals and reduce the burden on the health-care system by helping people recover from the effects of the virus at home. “As...

Arcata Police Department press release: On Sunday, April 12, 2020, The Arcata Police Department received a fraud report from the Valley Azteca Restaurant, located in the Valley West Shopping Center. The scam consisted of a fake, online ordering webpage for the restaurant, through a website named “Order Hero.” The webpage contained accurate restaurant information including phone number, address and actual menu items. Customers accessed this false website through Google.com which appeared as “Aztecavalley.site” Customers provided credit card information through the website at the time of ordering and when they arrived at the restaurant, to pick up their food, they learned...

Sanford Health is undergoing a clinical trial into hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and some rheumatoid conditions. The drug has gained recent attention for its potential use against the coronavirus, something President Donald Trump has advocated. Sanford's systemwide, randomized, placebo-controlled study initially will include 2,000 outpatients who have been exposed to COVID-19, including health care workers and high-risk patients, according to a Sanford release. The study could go out to five years, said Sanford Health spokesman Shawn Neisteadt. "Obviously, they're hoping to have preliminary results much,...

On Saturday the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of two antimalarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a related medication, chloroquine, for emergency use to treat COVID-19. The drugs were touted by President Trump as a “game changer” for COVID-19. However, a study just published in a French medical journal provides new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body. The study comes on the heels of two others - one in France and one in China - that reported some benefits in the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 patients...

The University of Kansas Medical Center will be participating in a nationwide clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in preventing COVID-19 infection in exposed health care workers. KU Medical Center is one of 60 such sites across the nation that will be participating in this clinical trial, led by the Duke Clinical Research Institute. The trial, the Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes of Hydroxychloroquine (HERO HCQ), will launch April 22. It is a phase-3 double-blinded clinical trial, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. It is accompanied by a registry, launching today, that will create a community...

The famed fact-checking team at the Washington Post, noted for their use of the 'Pinocchios' rating system, gave the president their highest 'false' rating on Monday for his optimistic early support of hydroxychloroquine. The drug, typically prescribed for treatment of malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis, has shown some promise in the treatment of symptoms caused by the Wuhan coronavirus.  President Trump, who has been consistently chided by the media for his optimistic outlook on the treatment, was accused by The Post of spreading false information for leading the American people to believe the drug was an effective therapy for the...

The Evening Campaign Update Now the race is on And here comes pride in the backstretch Heartaches goin’ to the inside My tears are holdin’ back, they’re tryin’ not to fall My hearts out of the runnin’ True love’s scratched for another’s sake The race is on and it looks like heartaches And the winner loses all – By the great George Jones Don’t look now, but we suddenly have a competition between the governors of major U.S. states to see who can come up with plans to re-open their economies and schools the fastest. Note that I did not...

The end of last week marked a couple of turning points. COVID-19 death and hospitalization projections were revised down significantly. Meanwhile, Attorney General Barr released new documents and ramped up public criticism of the previous administration’s handling of the alleged Trump/Russia collusion investigation in 2016. That’s two very inconvenient developments for Democrats desperate to defeat the president in November. For the last month, little else has been in the news but the virus sweeping the globe. It didn’t take Democrats long to attempt to blame the Trump administration for a pandemic born in and covered up by China with an...

Remember these people? Here's an update to a news story from last year that's even weirder than the original story. The Summit News reports: A man who featured as one of the four male partners in a polyamorous relationship with a pregnant woman that received media attention in December has been charged with aggravated child abuse after the 5-week-old baby suffered multiple severe injuries. 22-year-old Ethan Baucom was one of the individuals shown in a Barcroft TV production which told the story of 20-year-old Tory Ojeda sharing her Jacksonville, Fla. with three of her four partners, including Baucom. Ojeda revealed...

Twice as many people said that they or a family member had the flu recently versus COVID-19.In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 13% said they or a family member had the flu during the 2018-2019 season when 34,200 died.And, for the current pandemic, it found that 6% said that they or a family member has been diagnosed with COVID-19.It also said that many were willing to take the drug touted by President Trump as a potential cure. “Thirty-eight percent say they would take the drug hydroxychloroquine if they were diagnosed with the coronavirus,” Rasmussen said.But, as with so much...

As of: April 13, 1 p.m. NYC confirmed deaths: 6,182 Deaths in NYC Reported by New York State: 7,349 (as of April 13, 12:30 p.m.) Data Collection Differences The State Department of Health reports data on deaths from: The State Hospital Emergency Response Data System Daily calls to hospitals and other facilities that are caring for patients, such as nursing homes The NYC Health Department reports data that reflect both: Positive tests for COVID-19 confirmed by laboratories Confirmations of a person’s death from the City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and our Bureau of Vital Statistics, which is responsible...