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The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying, according to results from a long-awaited clinical trial conducted in China. Gilead, however, said the data suggest a “potential benefit.” A summary of the study results was inadvertently posted to the website of the World Health Organization and seen by STAT on Thursday, but then removed.

As of Thursday, nearly 16,000 people in New York have died of virus-related complications. With 250,000-plus confirmed cases, the mortality rate would be as high as 16 percent. With 2.7 million cases, it would be around 0.5 percent -- much lower, though still much higher than the seasonal flu.

The coronavirus dominates the news on every network. NBC Nightly News had covered the virus that started in China since Jan. 17, the “first day the networks arrived at the coronavirus story.” None of the on-air coverage between Sept. 1, 2019 - April 14, 2020 mentioned how the network’s parent company is building a theme park … in China. In fact, NBC News has made only one online mention in six months of the Universal Studios theme park being built in China’s capital of Beijing. If the positive coverage of China’s handling of the coronavirus coming from NBC News seemed...

With draft beer sales virtually zeroed out thanks to the mandated closure of on-premise drinking due to the coronavirus pandemic, Charleston area brewers may soon have to dispose of full kegs of beer that have gone stale in distributors’ warehouses.

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Sacrifices Cleric to Caesar Pro-gay prelate backs cops who 'illegally' disrupted Mass SONCINO, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Italian bishop notorious for his hostility to the Latin Mass is censuring a courageous priest who continued celebrating Mass despite paramilitary police ordering him to stop.   Bishop Antonio Napolioni, an LGBT advocate, denounced Fr. Lino Viola on the Cremona diocese website for failing "to comply with the current emergency legislation that prohibits the celebration of the Mass in the presence of the faithful." Refusing to condemn Sunday's heavy-handed police raid on the church, Napolioni instead "underlined with regret" that the priest's behavior was "in contradiction with the civil and canonical...

The War with rogue Media

An empty grocery shelf focuses the mind like nothing else. With COVID-19 disrupting supply chains and triggering higher-than-usual consumer demand, many of us have been shocked to find food staples in short supply. Although these shortages will resolve as supply chains re-boot, the main reason they will self-correct is thanks to the unsung heroes on the frontlines of the nation’s food supply: America’s farmers. While the American economy has ground to a near-halt, farmers are still on the job, producing the vegetables, dairy, grains, meat, sugar beets and cane that bring us not just farm-fresh ingredients, but the many non-perishables...

"More than 20 percent of people tested for virus antibodies in N.Y.C. tested positive. About 21 percent of people in New York City who were tested for coronavirus antibodies this week tested positive, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday. The surprising results come from a state program that randomly tested 3,000 supermarket customers across New York State. "

In this video, Patriot Nurses calls out the elements of the healthcare industry (or those masquerading as such) that blocked protesters in Colorado from peaceably exercising their First Amendments Rights to freedom of assembly and freedom to petition their government for redress of grievances. Marxist elements within nurses unions and the healthcare industrial complex are now drunk on their own power. Many healthcare workers do NOT think or believe this way. When it's time to call a spade a spade, I'm gonna do it. Some type of error occurred in the first video, but we're back in business!

Churchill Downs announced April 23 that it will conduct a virtual running of the Kentucky Derby during a telecast on NBC on May 2 from 3-6 p.m. ET on the traditional day of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1). Called the "The Kentucky Derby: Triple Crown Showdown," the virtual race is a computer-simulated version of the American classic, which was postponed this year due to COVID-19 from its traditional running on the first Saturday in May until Sept. 5.

At Wednesday's coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump sparred with ABC's Jonathan Karl over ventilators. For weeks Karl and other White House reporters have been demanding to know how the government was going to be able to supply all the ventilators our hospitals need for the overwhelming influx of coronavirus patients. Now, when they've exceeded those expectations and we have a surplus of ventilators, Trump observed that the media has gone silent. "We're now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did, and you should say that's a great story," Trump instructed...

When Boeing workers returned en masse Tuesday to the airplane factories in the Puget Sound region after a four-week shutdown, they found a changed workplace, cleaner and with a series of safety protocols in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Even as Boeing faces a drastic collapse in its business due to the near disappearance of air travel, management instructed about 27,000 factory employees to return to work this week. Yet with the coronavirus still threatening lives nationwide, the first to return came back with varying levels of unease. “Our members have some tough decisions to make personally...

When asked Wednesday about the economic and emotional tolls many New Yorkers are facing as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo said that although the lockdown is difficult for residents, it’s their “responsibility” to comply in order to save lives. Although he recognized that there are issues from the current social distancing measures such as a rise in domestic violence, emotional stress, and increased economic anxiety, Cuomo said it’s “very bad,” but “not death.” “Economic hardship, yes, very bad, not death. Emotional stress from being locked in a house very bad, not death,” Cuomo said....

VIDEO If you want prime evidence that CNN is FAKE NEWS, I present to you the case of Fredo Cuomo's FAKE NEWS emergence from a quarantine that everybody knows he broke. This video is a compilation of people laughing at Fredo PRETENDING that he was actually in strict quarantine. Even though CNN is sticking with upholding Fredo's FAKE NEWS story, I am sure even his own colleagues there are laughing at him behind his back. Bottom line: Fredo's quarantine was FAKE NEWS just like CNN is FAKE NEWS. p.s. Now hoping that President Trump MOCKS Fredo for his FAKE...

A bipartisan investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has validated the January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment describing Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election — including Russian efforts to help Donald Trump — describing it as accurate, thorough, and untainted by political bias. Click here to read the report. "The Committee found no reason to dispute the Intelligence Community's conclusions," said Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C. The CIA and other spy agencies produced the assessment during the final weeks of the Obama administration, and a version of it was made public on Jan. 6, 2017. It told a story of a...

Christine Blasey Ford takes a break in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawyers seated are Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich. (Saul Loeb/ Pool Image via AP) It’s almost like The New York Times is nothing but a partisan gossip rag.Yesterday, a story was put out by Maggie Haberman that made a rather convenient claim that just so happened to reinforce every media narrative. Namely, that an FDA official named Rick Bright was fired for selflessly sounding the alarm on the supposed vast dangers of hydroxychloroquine. Breaking News: A doctor who...

According to E Warren, her brother died from Covid in Oklahoma...

Beijing's aggression confirms that the Chinese Communist Party is fully committed to fulfill its own great power ambition regardless of the consequences to other states. While nations worldwide were busy dealing with health care and economic crises caused by the Wuhan virus pandemic, Beijing is exploiting the attendant confusion to tighten its control over Hong Kong and the South China Sea.Beijing Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong Since summer 2019, an extradition bill that would have eroded Hong Kong’s judicial independence ignited the city’s pro-democracy movement. The spread of the coronavirus added a new dimension to the movement in 2020....

A woman shot a man who broke into her home in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood Wednesday night, Chicago police said. A 31-year-old woman was inside a residence in the 8300-block of South Kerfoot Avenue at about 6:21 p.m. when police said someone forced their way in. The woman took out a gun and shot the intruder, hitting him in the right foot, police said. The intruder was taken to Holy Cross in good condition, police said. The woman has a valid FOID card and concealed-carry license, police said. Area South detectives are investigating.

The University of Washington School of Medicine went to extraordinary lengths to airlift tens of thousands of Covid-19 testing kits from China during a nationwide shortage of sampling swabs and the liquid that preserves specimens for diagnostic testing. In short: a Seattle importer used a business associate in China, who had a connection to a doctor in the province hardest hit by the disease, to secure testing kits from a Shanghai factory and then have them flown stateside as soon as possible on an Amazon-chartered plane. UW Medicine allocated US$125,000 to purchase the kits. The story of the testing swabs...