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Well, it looks like NBC News is at it again. With no vaccine against the Wuhan coronavirus, there have been reports that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has been effective in combating the symptoms of the virus. It is not a cure and it has yet to get the seal of approval from the task force as something which is recommended as a treatment for those infected with COVID-19. It’s a stopgap until we get a vaccine, giving us some breathing room regarding preventing future deaths. It’s a hopeful story that the anti-Trump opposition press is trying to squash. They can’t...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will hold no real-life meetups for more than a year, and has encouraged his staff to continue working from home during the pandemic. Zuckerberg posted today that all planned Facebook physical events with 50 or more attendees were canceled until June 2021, but that some virtual events would be possible. “As we start to think about what it will look like to re-open society, I wanted to provide an update on how we’re planning for our teams at Facebook,” Zuckerberg wrote. “The summary is: we’re slowing our plans to return to...

A just-reported Chinese study compares the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine with those of patients receiving standard of care. The results, alas, are disappointing.I summarized that study in my roundup yesterday of COVID-19 therapeutic research, pointing out that this randomized controlled trial of 150 patients "found no difference in the rate of viral load reduction or symptom alleviation between the group treated with hydroxychloroquine and the one that had not been." Now the University of Vermont pulmonologist Josh Farkas has published his own analysis of the results, delving more deeply into the data.The patients in both arms...

5.2 million more file for unemployment BY NIV ELIS - 04/16/20 08:33 AM EDT 5.2 million more file for unemployment Another 5.2 million people filed initial unemployment claims for the week ending April 11, according to the Department of Labor, adding to the sharpest and most severe rise in joblessness in the nation's history. Thursday's report is the fourth in a row showing more than a million initial claims, a level that had not been reached previously. Overall, more than 22 million people have filed for initial benefits in the span of just four weeks, accounting for about one of...

Today a Chateauroux Airport taxiway gave in due to the weight of a British Airways Airbus A380. Around 10:30 local time a BA A380, with registration G-XLED, landed in Chateauroux Airport, France for long-term storage. After this, the aircraft was parked on the taxiway along with other BA A380’s that had already arrived days before. In the images provided by @airline_kitty, it is possible to see that meanwhile taxiing to its parking stand on a taxiway the BA A380 sank into the pavement resulting in damage.

The election was watched around the world as one of the first nationwide votes since the pandemic began. Authorities took stringent safety measures, disinfecting all 14,000 polling stations and requiring voters to wear masks, have their temperatures checked, use hand sanitizer and plastic gloves and maintain a safe distance from others. Driven by record high participation in early voting over the weekend, turnout was 66.2 percent, higher than any parliamentary elections held in the last 28 years since 1992, according to the National Election Commission. Voters wearing face masks wait in line to cast their ballots at a polling station...

Track owner Bill Bader is opening Summit Raceway Park soon regardless of what state of Ohio mandates. Bader says Dr. Acton and Gov. Mike DeWine do not know him or his business and they do not care if he goes out of business. Bader is opening the track soon.

Massachusetts Coronavirus: 140,000 File For Unemployment With this week's jobless claims, the new coronavirus pandemic has erased all U.S. jobs created since the end of the Great Recession. By Dave Copeland, Patch Staff Apr 16, 2020 8:33 am ET | Updated Apr 16, 2020 10:56 am ET BOSTON — The number of Massachusetts residents applying for first-time unemployment benefits during the week that ended April 11 was 139,647, according to Thursday's U.S. Department of Labor report. While that figure was down from last week, more people are staying on unemployment rolls in Massachusetts. As of April 11, 310,211 Massachusetts residents...

Cities, counties fear losing out on US virus rescue funding By RICHARD LARDNER and BRIAN SLODYSKO, Apr 14, 2020 WASHINGTON — The $2.2 trillion federal rescue package could fail to deliver badly needed financial aid to thousands of smaller cities and counties where a majority of Americans live, according to documents and interviews with local officials. The coronavirus outbreak has blown holes in the budgets of communities as the costs of battling it skyrocket and critical sources of revenue like sales and income taxes plummet. The Coronavirus Relief Fund uses a formula based on population to parcel out tens of...

Britain’s relationship with Beijing will no longer be “business as usual” after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, UK foreign secretary and acting Prime Minister Dominic Raab said, in a sign of a toughening stance toward the communist regime over its handling of the outbreak. “There absolutely needs to be a very, very deep dive after the event and review of the lessons, including of the outbreak of the virus,” Raab said at a press conference in London on April 16. “I don’t think we can flinch from that at all.” Asked if there would be a “reckoning” with Beijing after...

TELL CONGRESS: FUND THE FRONT LINES NOW AFSCME is a financial supporter of The American Prospect. One of the lessons of the Trump administration’s late response to the coronavirus pandemic is, those who don’t believe in the mission of government aren’t very good at fulfilling it. There has long been a philosophical debate in this country about how much government is too much, or too little. But it is difficult to recall a time when government leaders so brazenly abandoned their roles—in no small part because they did not believe in them. The Trump White House has stumbled and fumbled...

Ewwww! MUSLIM cannibal arrested in Brooklyn, NY, after killing and allegedly eating body parts of his own father APRIL 16, 2020 BY BARENAKEDISLAM “It’s one of the worst crime scenes I’ve ever seen,” said an NYPD cop after finding the mutilated body inside a Brooklyn house after the 26-year-old Muslim, Khaled Ahmad, told two officers that he had killed and eaten his own father. Daily Mail (h/t Victor S) A Brooklyn MUSLIM man allegedly killed his father before dismembering and eating pieces of his body in a shocking murder that took place in New York City in 24 hours. Cops...

Christina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort. But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help. Potentially millions of U.S.citizens will get no federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their families: The CARES Act excludes unauthorized immigrants and most U.S. citizens or legal...

Senators send letter to FBI Director Wray after declassified footnotes exposed new missteps in probe of Trump campaign. Two Republican Senate committee chairman demanded Thursday that FBI Director Christopher Wray turn over new materials from the bureau’s bungled Russia collusion probe after newly declassified evidence raised new questions about agents’ failure to vet a key informant. In a letter to Wray, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chairman, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Senate Committee on Finance chairman, expressed concerns the investigation was tainted by "Russian disinformation." The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation filed...

The Epoch Times recently published a documentary to Facebook, “Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus.” The documentary went viral across different channels, including Facebook, generating a lot of healthy discussion and more than 70 million views collectively, at last count. However, an “independent fact checker” erroneously marked the video as false. Click here to read the justification provided by the fact checker. The “fact checker” appears to take issue with some of the expert opinions the documentary presents. With the Chinese Communist Party having destroyed evidence and prevented research into the origin of the virus, it’s very difficult to...

This week, we’re seeing more in the media reveal their contempt for anyone concerned about government overreach, as journalists attacked people protesting their state’s strict stay-at-home orders. Joy Behar added to the hate, offering her own scathing suggestion to the thousands in Michigan who showed up yesterday to protest their Democrat governor. On Thursday’s The View, the co-host claimed anyone who dared to defy their local guidelines should have to sign away their rights to be treated at a hospital if they did get sick. Whoopi Goldberg opened the show asking her co-hosts what they thought about protesters in Michigan...

New York doctors are seeing marked improvements in COVID-19 patients by utilizing one simple technique: flipping them on their stomachs. Doctors treating coronavirus patients have begun laying them on their stomachs to help them breathe, a technique known as prone positioning, according to CNN. The practice is particularly effective on patients with COVID-19, caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory system, by increasing the amount of oxygen in their blood by more than 10%.

Wisconsin is one of perhaps the two or three likeliest states to vote for the winning presidential candidate this fall, so it is no surprise that anything that happens politically in the Badger State attracts widespread attention. A wider-than-expected victory by a Democratic-backed candidate in a state Supreme Court race decided earlier this week is therefore getting a lot of attention, but the specific factors in that race should caution us from projecting the results ahead to the fall. Wisconsin remains very winnable for both sides in the presidential race. For the past several years, following Wisconsin's Supreme Court elections...

During its recent press conference, the agency said that this particularly applied to Somalis, but also immigrants from Iraq, Syria, Finland, Turkey, Iran, the former Yugoslavia, and Eritrea.