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The NBA isn’t close to making any decisions on a potential restart, and it isn’t setting any deadlines, commissioner Adam Silver said Friday. The league has been shut down since Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 on March 11. Silver addressed the league’s state amid the coronavirus pandemic in a Friday conference call with media members, but he offered no firm answers regarding the future. “Based on the reports that we got from varied outside officials, current public health officials … we are not in a position to make any decisions, and it’s unclear when we will...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—By all accounts, President Donald Trump has now gone completely mad with power. In a press briefing, he laid out his insidious plan. “When I’m done with this country, everyone will be able to leave their houses whenever they want and do whatever they want,” Trump told the press with an evil grin. “They’ll be able to peaceably assemble in whatever size groups they desire! Muhahaha!” “You’re a mad man!” a CNN reporter cried. “You don’t have the power to let people have freedom! You’re a tyrant!” “My power is absolute!” Trump screamed. “No one can stop me! Soon...

Three French doctors used a combination of azithromycin and zinc to treat hundreds of patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus. Inspired by Previous work on the combination of hydrochloroquine and azithromycin, three doctors practicing in the Moselle in northern France have tested a new treatment on hundreds of patients. Not able to prescribe chloroquine which can only be prescribed in hospital, they prescribed to their coronavirus patients the antibiotic azithromycin along with zinc to increase its effectiveness, while patients with asthma were also prescribed Singulair (montelukast), which has anti-inflammatory properties. Dr. Gastaldi added that he prescribed this combination to over...

The historical record shows that Tedros, the first African and the first non-physician to lead the WHO, has a long history of covering up epidemics and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, where he served as the minister of health and minister of foreign affairs. In May 2017, when Tedros emerged as the top candidate in a three-way race to lead the WHO, the New York Times reported accusations that Tedros covered up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia when he was the country's health minister between 2005 and 2012.

The [Puerto Rico] Secretary of Health, Lorenzo González, acknowledged today to the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) that the agency he heads has been mixing the results of molecular tests, which are confirmatory that the person has the virus, with the results of the rapid tests or serological, whose result according to the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA in English) is inconclusive. The implication of this is that there has been a double count, perhaps even triple, of the results in government reports on COVID-19. For example, a person who had a rapid test that was positive and then...

Contrary to the narrative that is being pushed by the mainstream that the COVID 19 virus was the result of a natural mutation and that it was transmitted to humans from bats via pangolins, Dr Luc Montagnier the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 disagrees and is saying that the virus was man made. Professor Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus that was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Chinese researchers are said to have used coronaviruses in their work to develop an AIDS vaccine. HIV...

This week, thousands of Michigan citizens circled the state capitol to demonstrate their opposition to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's tyranny. The Governor labeled this protest "irresponsible" and threatened to impose further restrictions on liberty. "These people need to understand that this is not South Dakota," she warned. "Just because Gov Noem (R-SD) was too weak to impose a stay-at-home edict on the residents of her state shouldn't be taken as encouragement for Michiganers to disobey my orders. Her quaint notion that the people of her state can be trusted to act like responsible adults is dangerous and intolerable during this time...

Back in 2015, when Barack Obama was president, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sent a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab that grew coronaviruses and injected them into animals. It is quite feasible that the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 global pandemic leaked from that lab, and U.S. Intelligence sources have been saying that the virus came from a Level-4 lab in Wuhan. During his coronavirus press conference on Friday, President Donald Trump pledged to stop the funding. "Why would the U.S. give a grant like that to China?" a reporter asked. "The...

Each spring on Lake Michigan, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to see shipwrecks due to the incredibly clear springtime waters. Every winter, ice forms on the Great Lakes. That ice is often thick enough that the people who live on their shores can not only go ice fishing, but even ride snow mobiles across their surfaces. At the coming of spring, the ice melts, leaving the waters of some of the lakes especially clear for a while until warmer weather creates algae blooms and other events that reduce the water’s clarity. In the early spring, the waters of Lake...

ablighi Jamaat members attack female doctor at LNJP Hospital in Delhi, doctors hide as mob tries to break open the door At a time when frontline workers are risking their lives to limit the spread of the Chinese epidemic, there have been concerted attacks against them by many Tablighi Jamaat members who refuse to cooperate in the treatment. 15 April, 2020 OpIndia Staff AIIMS' RDA write to Amit Shah, demand implementation of bill prohibiting violence against health personnel: Here are 7 incidents the letter cites AIIMS' RDA write to Amit Shah, demand implementation of bill prohibiting violence against health personnel:...

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Maine Republican State Rep. Chris Johansen is expected to join a protest on Monday in front of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills' mansion. Johansen is hosting the "Re-Open Maine" Convoy and Parade, a protest scheduled for Monday, April 20 at noon which will circle the Governor's Mansion in Augusta to protest Mills' stay-at-home orders instated to stop the spread of coronavirus. Another group plans on protesting the state capitol Monday as well. Johansen's Facebook event page for the protest at the Governor's Mansion states, "It is time we sent our governor this message: 'Maine needs to get back to work, we...

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 100 people gathered in downtown Orlando holding signs and chanting a call to reopen the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rally took place directly outside the Orange County Administration Building as officials inside provided updates on the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to Central Florida. The group Reopen Florida, created by resident Tara Hill, helped organize the rally to send the message to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Hill said she would like to see the state “completely open by May 1st with absolutely no restrictions on the movement of Floridians. We are free people.” “A...

Dr. Phil is attempting some clean-up after generating outrage in a Fox News coronavirus segment, admitting he used "bad examples" and taking a sorry-if-you-were-offended approach. TV host Phil McGraw on Thursday appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show to speculate about why lockdown measures are being put in place during the coronavirus pandemic when "we don't shut the country down" for deaths from car accidents and swimming pools, wrongly claiming 360,000 people die in swimming pools in the United States every year. After the segment drew outrage, McGraw, who isn't a medical doctor, on Friday said he does support social...

A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that have been bouncing up and down like an unpredictable fever, and now epidemiologists are criticizing it as flawed and misleading for both the public and policy makers. In particular, they warn against relying on it as the basis for government decision-making, including on “re-opening America.” “It’s not a model that most of us in the infectious disease epidemiology field think is well suited” to projecting Covid-19 deaths, epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health told reporters this week, referring to...

Smiling while wearing a pair of Snapchat filter glasses, this is the widow of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev goofing around on social media. Katherine Russell poses with the nine-year-old daughter she had with the terrorist who was shot dead by police in the April 2013 attack, at the time, the worst on US soil since 9/11. Russell still wears a veil over her head suggesting she has not left the Muslim faith after converting to the religion when she married Tamerlan a decade ago. In another photo Russell, who goes by the name Karima, poses in a navy headscarf with...

The coronavirus epidemic in Germany is “again under control” thanks to a month of lockdown imposed after an early surge in cases, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday, adding that the country would make tens of million of masks a month from August. The restrictions to keep people home “was successful,” Spahn told reporters in Berlin. “The infection numbers have sunk significantly, especially the relative day-by-day number. The outbreak is today again under control.” “We have managed to bring the dynamic growth back to a linear growth,” said Spahn. The minister said it is “encouraging” that since April 12th, there...

In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim. As ice in the region has continued to melt, researchers have made hundreds of additional finds. Now, archaeologists have made their biggest discovery yet: a lost Viking trade route that may have been used for hundreds of years to ferry everything from butter to reindeer antlers to far-flung European markets.

Need a musical distraction while you're staying safe at home? Singer Lady Gaga, the World Health Organization and the Global Citizen social action group have organized a virtual entertainment event to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and it'll air on numerous platforms on Saturday, April 18. The show will include such big names as Paul McCartney, Elton John, Lizzo, Stevie Wonder, Alanis Morissette and Billie Eilish. In a live video posted in early April, Gaga said she and Global Citizen have already raised $35 million for WHO, and are working with large companies and philanthropists to raise more. Here's how...

Comedian Dennis Miller got the last laugh after liberals had a meltdown over his jabs at former Vice President Joe Biden and his 2020 endorsements. The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member made his first appearance on Fox News in three years, speaking with Sean Hannity Wednesday about the coronavirus crisis and Biden, and irritating liberals who ended up stepping on a rake when all their social media hatred caused his name to begin trending...