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68 NEW Production factories for Hydroxychloroquine were just approved in India, which already had 28 factories making millions, and millions of Hydroxychloroquine pills. There will be no shortage. https://m.timesofindia.com/business/india-business/covid-19-68-new-companies-get-fdca-permit-to-make-hcq/amp_articleshow/75566317.cms

PHOENIX - Without wearing a face-covering himself, President Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday, taking a rare trip out of Washington to visit a state he hopes to win in the November election even as Americans avoid travel to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Touching down in Phoenix in midafternoon, Trump visited a Honeywell International Inc factory making N95 face masks for healthcare workers. The facility was rushed into service in less than five weeks because of a shortage of the protective equipment and is producing face masks for the U.S. Department of...

Justin Trudeau just announced the banning of “assault-style fireams” in Canada a few days ago. Who knew that included Imperial blasters. As some of you may be aware, yesterday was Star Wars Day. It’s not an official holiday but it’s an annual day for fans of the movies to deploy a well known play on words, “May the 4th be with you.” That phrase has been around for at least 41 years. So long before people were saying “it’s a thing,” Star Wars Day was a thing. Anyway, yesterday a little restaurant in Alberta, Canada called the Coco Vanilla Galactic...

Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags. California and Hawaii banned them, then New York. Then Oregon, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont passed laws against them. More than 400 cities did, too. Why? Because plastic bags are evil, didn't you know? "Look at the damage done by plastic bags! It is everywhere!" complained New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. A Washington state senator cited "videos of animals choked by plastics, tangled in garbage!" So what should we use instead of plastic? Cloth bags! They're reusable! "Certainly the way to go!" said New Jersey's assembly speaker. But now,...

The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics and geography given in 2018 to thousands of American eighth-graders: "Grade 8 Students' NAEP Scores Decline in Geography and U.S. History; Results in Civics Unchanged Since 2014." The tests were administered from January to March 2018 to a nationally representative sample of 42,700 eighth-graders from about 780 schools. The news is not very good. Only 24% of students performed at or above the "proficient" level in civics. Worse yet, only 15% scored proficient or above in American history and 25%...

As of May 5, the U.S. is at 95 % of Expected Deaths including deaths from COVID-19. COVID-19 Deaths 39,910 Deaths from All Causes 751,953 % of Expected Deaths 95 Percent of expected deaths is the number of deaths for all causes for this week in 2020 compared to the average number across the same week in 2017–2019.

A vaccine to fight against the deadly new coronavirus is being injected into volunteers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Unlike most vaccines, this one does not inject virus proteins into the body. Researchers are studying the safety, efficacy, and dosing of the experimental mRNA- based vaccine as part of a multicenter study in the U.S. and Germany. The first recipient was a doctoral candidate named David Rach. He didn’t flinch when he got the shot and he didn’t hesitate to sign up for the trial. “We have the coronavirus pandemic spreading around the world at the moment...

As Americans debate how to reopen our society in the wake of COVID-19, we seem to be breaking down into three groups: first, those who believe the virus isn't particularly serious and desperately want to reopen everything as soon as possible (a small minority of Americans, by polling data); second, those who believe the virus is extraordinarily serious and want everything to remain closed as long as possible (a significant minority of Americans); and third, those who believe the virus is extraordinarily serious, that the economic damage brought about by COVID-19 is extraordinarily serious and that we will have to...

The defiant Texas salon owner who refused to close her business despite stay-at-home restrictions and repeated court orders has been sentenced to seven days in jail. Shelley Luther, the owner of Salon a la Mode in Dallas, appeared in court on Tuesday where she was sentenced to seven days behind bars and $7,000 - $500 for each day she opened her business' doors.

The COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for a world that has accepted China’s lengthening shadow over global supply chains for far too long. Only by reducing China’s global economic influence – beginning in the pharmaceutical sector – can the world be kept safe from the country's political pathologies. NEW DELHI – The new COVID-19 coronavirus has spread to more than 100 countries – bringing social disruption, economic damage, sickness, and death – largely because authorities in China, where it emerged, initially suppressed information about it. And yet China is now acting as if its decision not to limit...

Prince Harry has sold a pair of handmade hunting rifles as he bids to please animal-loving wife Meghan Markle. A hunter bought a pair of Purdey firearms, thought to be worth around £50,000, in a private deal five months ago, before the couple quit the UK for Canada and later moved to the US, The Sun reports. A friend of the anonymous buyer said: 'He bought them because he wanted them, not because they belonged to Harry, but he was quite chuffed when he found out.

A new academic paper produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concludes that deaths caused by the 1918 influenza pandemic “profoundly shaped German society” in subsequent years and contributed to the strengthening of the Nazi Party. The paper, published this month and authored by New York Fed economist Kristian Blickle, examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933, and shows that “areas which experienced a greater relative population decline” due to the pandemic spent “less, per capita, on their inhabitants in the following decade.” Advertisement The paper...

An increasing number of firms are rushing to manufacture hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the anti-malarial drug being used widely in the treatment of Covid-19 patients across the world, and now India, too. The Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) of Gujarat issued permits to 68 pharmaceutical firms to manufacture HCQ tablets in the state. “In past one and a half months, 68 pharmaceutical companies have received product licences to make HCQ tablets of varied dosages in Gujarat,” HG Koshia, commissioner of Gujarat FDCA, said. Companies like Sun Pharma, Intas Pharmaceuticals, Saga Lifesciences Limited, Norris Medicines, Ellis Pharmaceuticals, Jaimin Remedies, and Lincoln Pharma...

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China's IO campaign is enabled by the virtual bamboo curtain, which President Xi Jinping and the regime have spent the better part of the last decade developing. No longer is the physical barrier of the iron curtain required. Instead, the authoritarian government of China can exert physical and psychological control over Chinese citizens at home and abroad through such means as digital surveillance and a sweeping network of individuals and institutions that monitor Chinese citizens and seek to influence the nations in which they may reside. How does this virtual bamboo curtain work?

The UK must avoid lurching from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper climate crisis, the government’s advisers have warned. They recommend that ministers ensure funds earmarked for a post-Covid-19 economic recovery go to firms that will reduce carbon emissions. They say the public should work from home if possible; and to walk or cycle. And investment should prioritise broadband over road-building, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says. People should also be encouraged to save emissions by continuing to consult GPs online. The government will reply later, although the Energy Secretary Alok Sharma has already spoken in favour of a...

Most important reason for discrepancy appears to be implementation of early lockdown The coronavirus map of Europe makes one thing clear: the richer nations of western Europe have suffered more from the virus than countries in the eastern half of the EU, almost without exceptions. Comparing figures from different countries can be fraught with difficulty, and many factors can potentially skew the numbers. But the comparison between western Europe on the one hand, and central and eastern Europe on the other, shows a difference in coronavirus rates that is too stark to ignore. Even the worst-hit central and eastern European...

Jeff Gourley had the best weekend in the eight years he’s had his San Clemente restaurant open. “We ran out of everything, down to the bare walls,” he said Monday, May 4, after serving dine-in food and drinks at Nomad’s Canteen over the weekend though Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shutdown order aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus is still in effect. “It was record-breaking,” he said. “We sold every tortilla, bottle, can and every margarita. These were the best three business days ever. People were buying shirts, beers for each other and expensive tequila shots for folks they didn’t...

Schools in China are gradually reopening with strict rules to try to keep the coronavirus under control. Pupils returning to school in China now sit in smaller classes, have shorter lessons and must avoid public transport. The reopening of schools has been staggered so that middle and high schools return first. Nearly all areas of China have restarted some school classes, but bigger cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where there are more people in a smaller space, are taking a more cautious approach to avoid a second wave of infection. Schools in cities with large populations are running classes with...

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