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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS aka shock lung) has been recognized since the late 60s. The most common etiology, until recently, was military/civilian trauma or a major surgical procedure. COVID-19, with a high degree of contagion, is responsible for the current global manifestation. Most individuals have minimal symptoms. People with co-morbidities can proceed to the full cascade.

During a Democratic presidential debate last year, Cory Booker weaponized one of Joe Biden's proudest accomplishments. The New Jersey senator noted that the former vice president, who represented Delaware in the Senate for 36 years, "has said that, since the 1970s, every major crime bill—every crime bill, major and minor—has had his name on it." Said was an understatement. Biden has not just noted his leading role in passing those laws; he has crowed about it repeatedly over the years, throwing it in the face of Republicans who dared to think they could be tougher on crime and fellow Democrats...

A group of Trump supporters have gathered at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where President Donald Trump is undergoing treatment for COVID-19. The group organized quickly to show support for the president amid a sea of media filming outside the hospital. Jack Posobiec of One America News is at the scene and shared videos of the crowd.

'The City of Cleveland is aware of positive cases of COVID-19 following the Sept. 29 presidential debate,' the city said in a statement.  'In total, at this time, we are aware of 11 cases stemming from pre-debate planning and set-up, with the majority of cases occurring among out of state residents.'

U.S.—The party that wants to take over and manage your healthcare cheered today as their political archnemesis, President Donald Trump, contracted COVID, hoping and praying to the godless universe that he would die. Leftists who want to manage your healthcare for your own good also think it is a good thing when their political opponents fall ill, and they're especially excited when they die. From Trump's brother Robert to Herman Cain, whenever someone with the wrong beliefs dies, they are ecstatic. "We hope Trump dies of this disease. Oh, and also, we'd like to take over your healthcare," said one...

Dear colleagues, First off, I want to thank you all for your professionalism under these difficult and uncertain circumstances. Despite it all, we have maintained the protective pool around the president, a responsibility that is now more important than ever. An update on where we stand: As of this moment, three White House journalists tested positive for COVID-19 today. Individual 1 (Numbered in order of notification) received a preliminary positive test this morning at call time in the White House. The individual subsequently left the complex and received a confirming positive test. This individual was also at the White House briefing...

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $500,000 on Oct. 1 to Ballot Measure 110, which seeks to decriminalize possession of some hard drugs in Oregon. The measure would also establish a drug addiction treatment and recovery program. The Chan Zuckerberg donations raise Ballot Measure 110's cash contributions to $1.4 million. In contrast, the ballot's opponents have raised $12,800 in cash contributions and secured a $40,100 loan. According to the Oregon secretary of state website, this appears to be the first time the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has contributed to an Oregon...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has tested negative for coronavirus, following President Donald Trump’s announcement that both he and First Lady Melania Trump were positive for the virus. Both Joe and his wife, Jill Biden, have not been infected by COVID-19, according to a Friday afternoon tweet from the candidate. “I’m happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID,” Joe Biden wrote. “Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands.” Joe Biden was in close proximity to the...

88 reasons why Rosh-hash-ana 1988 must be the time of the church's rapture Reasons 4 and 5 The 69th week of Daniel ended 6 April 30 AD.... the 70ths starts with the day of Atonement 1988 when Antichrist signs the seven-year peace with Israel on 21 Sep 1988, and the 70th week of Daniel ends 7 Jewish years later on the Day of Atonement 1995 at the battle of Armageddon, 5 Oct 1995, thus lasting seven Jewish years.Lunar dates... verify beyond any reasonable doubt that from the DAy of Atonement 1988 through the Day of Atonement 1995 is the 70th...

This is BAD for Joe biden. If the media actually covered the race fairly, Joe would have probably dropped out by now.

October 3 2020 Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty-sixth Saturday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 460 Reading 1 JB 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17 Job answered the LORD and said: I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be hindered. I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I cannot know. I had heard of you by word of mouth, but now my eye has seen you. Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Thus the LORD blessed...

A cop attempts to cite a stopped car. Protesters yell and the police warns them to step back. The car flees. As the motorcycle leaves to pursue, several protesters jump in front of his path with clear intention to interfere with an arrest. One is hit and dragged down the street. They were taken to hospital condition unknown. This just happened a few minutes ago.

The Joe Biden campaign is releasing three ads this month targeting Catholic and evangelical Christian voters in an effort to portray the Democrat presidential nominee and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as “the clear moral choice” in the election. The Biden campaign is investing financial resources in an attempt to win over Americans of faith at the same time the Democrat Party has embraced the radical position of access to abortion at any time during pregnancy; an insistence it has no room for pro-life individuals or candidates; a stated intention to provide full taxpayer funding for abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood;...

A federal appeals court on Friday voted against extending the deadline for voters to return their absentee ballots in the state of Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports: A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided 2-1 to grant a stay of a judge’s ruling that would have allowed voters three more days to return their absentee ballots.

Two Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that they had tested positive for Covid-19, potentially jeopardizing the GOP's hopes of swiftly confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court if they were both to remain unable to vote in the full Senate through the end of the month. Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced they'd tested positive -- just days after attending a White House event where President Donald Trump nominated Barrett. Multiple attendees of that event, including Trump, have tested positive in the week since the ceremony, which featured...

A furloughed photojournalist set out to document the protests in late May in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. After the widespread rioting and looting began, he infiltrated groups of individuals who were engaging in violence. He expected to find that white supremacists were responsible for the mayhem. Instead, he discovered something different. The New York Times’ Farah Stockman penned a column last Wednesday about the experience of Jeremy Lee Quinn, who started photographing a Black Lives Matter protest in Santa Monica, California, on May 31. Upon arrival, he saw looters...

Chris Wallace, the Fox News personality that moderated the presidential debate between President Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden, blamed Trump for the cacophony of angry voices talking over each other that took place at the event. "Granted, Mr. Biden was the first to break the rules about interrupting, but in my judgment he deserved a little leeway given his diminished mental capacity compared to Trump," Wallace contended. "And yes, I did more interrupting than either of the candidates did, but I was just trying to level the playing field by fact-checking what I considered Trump's misleading and inaccurate statements."...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said the number of registered Republican voters in Florida is as close to its Democrat counterpart as it has ever been, sharing his comments on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. DeSantis described the political state of play in the Sunshine State as more favorable for President Donald Trump than it had been in 2016, when Trump won the state by a margin of nearly 113,000 votes. “When Donald Trump won Florida in 2016, [there were] 340,000 more registered Democrats than registered Republicans,” DeSantis stated. “As of the close of books...

President Donald Trump went into quarantine on Friday after he tested positive for the coronavirus, but that does not mean he will stop campaigning. The Trump campaign announced Friday afternoon that all events with Trump would be postponed or moved to virtual events. “All previously announced campaign events involving the President’s participation are in the process of being moved to virtual events or are being temporarily postponed,” the campaign wrote in a statement.

According to a new MorningConsult poll, 40% of Democrats are "happy" and 31% are "excited" about @realDonaldTrump's COVID-19 diagnosis.