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Chicago, IL – Two hours after having a surgical abortion at the Family Planning Associates (FPA) abortion facility on Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, a woman suffered a heart-related medical emergency was rushed by ambulance to Northwestern Hospital on the evening of March 6, 2020. The 911 records, provided to Operation Rescue by the Pro-Life Action League, painted a dire picture of the woman’s condition. The FPA caller described the woman as 23 years old, who had completed an “outpatient surgery” at around 5:30 p.m. She was tachycardic, meaning her heart rate was accelerated. Tachycardia can be cause by a...

"I’m joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation effort to find a drug that will prevent or treat COVID-19. We need this to protect our health workers, the most vulnerable, and all of our friends and families. I’m talking about this: I am so impressed by the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator’s urgent efforts to find new or existing drugs that could effectively prevent or treat the disease. Harnessing the strength and knowledge of the research community, the Accelerator’s critical scientific progress will inform how we end this pandemic and prevent future...

One of the most striking developments over the past two weeks is how quickly the estimates of death and hospitalizations from COVID-19 are being reduced... The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is the most influential modeler of the novel coronavirus in the United States, with White House officials and other public health professionals using the group's numbers to plan strategy and policy. On March 26, IHME predicted that if current social-distancing policies stayed in place, there would likely be 81,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States by June 1. In its most recent projection, from...

When a group calling themselves Global Citizen wants to bring you a One World ‘Together At Home’ concert headlined by a New Age Illuminati satanist like Lady Gaga, it’s not just the end times, it is the end of times. All of this is taken straight from the inside of an end times novel like ‘Left Behind’, and the forces behind it could not be more obvious about their intentions. Take a long, hard look at the image of Lady Gaga in the main graphic, are you getting the message their sending you? By their own words, it is a...

A UK think tank has urged Boris Johnson to pull funding from the World Health Organization (WHO), following President Donald Trump’s example, over the global organization’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. According to The Express , the head of lifestyle economic affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Christopher Snowdon, hinted at WHO’s lackluster response to the outbreak, peddling a dangerous narrative and nestling up to China at the initial phase. He said: “The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the World Health Organisation needs to be reformed or replaced. “As the organisation’s second-biggest funder, the UK should follow America’s lead....

Vox asks What Went Wrong With The Media’s Coronavirus Coverage? They conclude that the media needs to be better at “not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know”. This raises some important questions. Like: how much ink and paper is there in the world? Are we sure it’s enough? But also: how do you become better at saying what you don’t know? In case you’ve been hiding under a rock recently (honestly, valid) the media not only failed to adequately warn its readers about the epidemic, but actively mocked and condescended to anyone who did sound...

The federal judge overseeing the trial of longtime Trump associate Roger Stone on Thursday denied his motion for a new trial that was based on a claim of juror bias. Federal District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone's lawyers failed to demonstrate that a woman selected as a juror was biased against President Donald Trump, failed to disclose those views during jury selection and should not have been allowed to serve. "The defendant has not shown that the juror lied; nor has he shown that the supposedly disqualifying evidence could not have been found through the exercise of due...

In the early days of the outbreak, pundits rushed to the ramparts of Twitter to proclaim that “there are no libertarians in a pandemic.” However, this glee at the apparent failure of markets was soon dashed as more evidence accumulated showing that government intervention was actually the main impediment to success. From an economic standpoint, the channels by which government failure accumulated were legion: Centralizing and restricting testing: the most egregious failure of government has been in its approach to testing, especially in countries not named Germany or South Korea. Highly centralized testing labs (especially in the UK), command and...

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As President Donald Trump rolls out his administration’s guidelines for Opening America Up Again, only one Republican U.S. senator will not be asked to provide input into the process. Early Thursday afternoon, the President listed the names of Republican and Democrat members of congress who would be a part of his coronavirus congressional advisory group. That list includes over two dozen Senate and House Democrats, 21 House Republicans and 52 of the 53 Republican Senate members. The only GOP senator left off the list? Mitt Romney, who not coincidentally was the only GOP senator who made the despicable decision to...

Americans will be able to take the Chinese Communist Party to court for its lies and omissions about the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus from the Middle Kingdom under a new bill proposed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas). The bill would strike down immunity for foreign countries like China in the specific case of the coronavirus, enabling Americans to sue for damages in U.S. courts. "By silencing doctors and journalists who tried to warn the world about the coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party allowed the virus to spread quickly around the globe," Cotton said in a statement...

[Red] China has taken the lead with mobile technology that relies on scanning QR codes and an app. The goal is to curb the spread of the coronavirus by indicating who can go where... Chinese citizens have to give up their national identity number or passport number, as well as their phone number. The app then asks them to complete a questionnaire about travel history and current symptoms. According to CNN, authorities then verify this information and are assigned a color. The color on the screen determines your options, based on your current health status: green means that you’re good...

I am very happy the White House has a YouTube channel, and that Fox News carries these. I am infuriated that the local media is BLOWING OFF the President and his team. He is giving TONS of good information, but the network affiliates are going on with their STUPID coverage. Keep in mind: the local media put on nearly EVERY SINGLE impeachment hearing and they put on every single Brett Kavanaugh bash fest.

RUSH: Last night — now, this is earth-shattering in its own way — the governor of New Jersey was on Fox with Tucker Carlson. I want you to grab sound bite number 11. His name is Phil Murphy. By the way, there are uprisings all over this country against governors and their restrictions. It’s happening. People aren’t gonna put up with this. People instinctively know we’ve gotta get back to work. We have to reopen the economy. People instinctively know now that however bad this is, it isn’t as bad as they all told us. Not one model has been...

The first recorded use of copper as an infection-killing agent comes from Smith's Papyrus, the oldest-known medical document in history. The information therein has been ascribed to an Egyptian doctor circa 1700 B.C. but is based on information that dates back as far as 3200 B.C. Egyptians designated the ankh symbol, representing eternal life, to denote copper in hieroglyphs. As far back as 1,600 B.C., the Chinese used copper coins as medication to treat heart and stomach pain as well as bladder diseases. The sea-faring Phoenicians inserted shavings from their bronze swords into battle wounds to prevent infection. For thousands...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta on Thursday. Dr. Mandetta wanted the Brazilian government to shut down its economy and enforce a total confinement of the population. Jair Bolsonaro refuses to destroy his economy in confronting the virus. Brazil today has 1,924 coronavirus deaths in a country of 207 million. New York state has over 16,000 deaths in a state of 20 million. New York as over 8 times the deaths of tropical Brazil with a population 10 times its size. So far Jair Bolsonaro’s bold policies to save business and people’s livelihoods has paid...

U.S. stock futures surged on Thursday night after a report said a Gilead Sciences drug was showing effectiveness in treating the coronavirus. The move pointed to a jump for the stock market on Friday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 700 points, or about 3%. S&P 500 futures gained 2.8% while Nasdaq 100 futures were up by 1.8%. Gilead shares jumped by 14% in after-hours trading after STAT news reported that a Chicago hospital treating coronavirus patients with Remdesivir in a trial were recovering rapidly from severe symptoms. The publication cited a video it obtained where the trial results...

The coronavirus epidemic may block many foreign graduates from getting the college-level jobs needed by U.S. graduates this year, according to an article in QZ.com.The piece of good news for U.S. graduates is a minor compensation for the millions of American college jobs wiped out in the economic crash caused by China’s lethal disease. U.S. students and political activists have begun targeting the program.Every year, many U.S. universities accept tuition payments from foreign students and then help them get jobs via the little-known Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT) programs. In 2018, 200,000 foreign graduates and 151,000...

Credit: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology The search for coveted high-temperature superconductors is going to get easier with a new 'law within a law' discovered by Skoltech and MIPT researchers and their colleagues, who figured out a link between an element's position in the Periodic Table and its potential to form a high-temperature superconducting hydride. The new paper is published in the journal Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science. The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation. Superconducting materials, with zero resistance and thus no dissipation of energy to heat, would be extremely useful for...

RUSH: All right, this cannot go on, folks. It cannot go on. Even Barry Diller now is calling this cataclysmic, and it is cataclysmic, and we’ve done it to ourselves, and it’s time we stop. We’re at a point now where, no matter how many people die from coronavirus, it’s not gonna equate to the damage done to the U.S. economy. Twenty-two million people have lost their jobs. Stop and think of this. This is not some academic number. This is a number that’s affecting everybody. The 22 million who are without work, the rest of us who are without...