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  • Jill Biden's COVID Test Sparks Conspiracy Theory: 'All Part of the Plan'

    09/05/2023 6:08:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 80 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 09/05/2023 | ALEKS PHILLIPS
    Conspiracy theories are circulating online that the announcement of Jill Biden's COVID-19 infection was "all part of the plan" to reintroduce coronavirus pandemic restrictions such as mask mandates. On Monday evening, the First Lady's communications director Elizabeth Alexander confirmed the 72-year-old had tested positive for the virus and was experiencing "only mild symptoms." She will remain at the family's Delaware beach house while fighting the infection. The White House later stated that Joe Biden had tested negative, but would continue to be monitored. The president has spent much of the summer with his wife, most recently visiting Florida with her...
  • Massive emergency alert test message to be sent to US cell phones, TVs, and radios

    09/01/2023 6:12:03 AM PDT · by hoagy62 · 38 replies
    Mashable.com ^ | 8/29/23 | Cecily Mauron
    In October, the mother of all emergency alerts will occur in the U.S., but don't be alarmed, it's only a test. We're giving you a heads up, because it the test will be broadcast nationwide to your cell phone, TV, and radio. Here's what to know so you don't freak out and head to an underground bunker when it happens. Where are these tests coming from and when? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are planning a massive test of their Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) at approximately 2:20 p.m....
  • Biden should take a cognitive test — and release the results

    07/25/2023 6:21:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/25/2023 | MERRILL MATTHEWS
    There’s growing public concern over President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. It is in the interest of the president — as well as the Democratic Party and the country — to address those concerns by submitting to a cognitive test that would include independent medical professionals. And he should do it soon. So far, both the president and First Lady Jill Biden have dismissed calls for him to submit to a cognitive test. But the public is growing worried. As reported in The Hill, a recent NBC News poll found that 68 percent are concerned the president “does not possess the...
  • More Than 400 Blood-Test Customers Mistakenly Told They May Have Cancer

    06/03/2023 1:10:24 PM PDT · by NautiNurse · 29 replies
    WSJ ^ | 3 June 2023 | Peter Loftus
    Cancer blood-test maker Grail said about 400 customers were mistakenly notified that its test detected a cancer signal in them, which the company attributed to a partner’s software glitch. Grail said its laboratory test didn’t turn up the incorrect results, but rather the letters sent out to the customers were wrong. Because of the software problem, more than half of the customers were told they may have cancer even before they had taken the test, Grail said. Grail, a Menlo Park, Calif., unit of gene-sequencing company Illumina, is the leading developer of multi-cancer early-detection blood tests, an emerging market that...
  • SpaceX Launches Starship Flight Test (LIVESTREAM) April 20, 2023. Launch window opens at 8:30am CT.

    04/20/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT · by know.your.why · 217 replies
    SpaceX ^ | 04/20/2023 | Self
    Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.
  • Watch how SpaceX launched Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, exploded on its first orbital flight

    04/20/2023 8:12:51 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 114 replies
    MSN ^ | April 20, 2023 | Staff
    Story by mguenot@businessinsider.com (Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kate Duffy) • 13m ago SpaceX launched its new Starship mega-rocket on Thursday after a frozen valve stopped the first attempt. The mega-rocket exploded about three minutes into its flight but managed to clear the pad. Musk previously said he estimated a 50% chance of success. SpaceX launched its new Starship mega-rocket toward space for the first time on Thursday, after canceling its first attempt due to a valve issue. Stacked atop its Super Heavy booster at SpaceX's new launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, the black-and-silver vehicle was poised to prove itself as the biggest,...
  • Elon Musk's Starship goes up in smoke on 4/20: World's most powerful rocket fails to separate and EXPLODES in $3BN fireball before crashing back down to earth

    04/20/2023 8:39:48 AM PDT · by Morgana · 123 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 20, 2023 | Stacy Liberatore
    Elon Musk's SpaceX's Starship exploded into a ball of fire on 4/20 during its second failed orbital launch in a week. The world's largest and most powerful rocket – which was unmanned - lifted off in South Texas and successfully cleared the launchpad, its first milestone. But the craft was sent into a tailspin when the booster - called Super Heavy - failed to separate from the rocket in mid-air. The mission ended at around four minutes when the failure sent both stages crashing toward Earth, imploding mid-descent over the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the failed launch, the team at...
  • AT-HOME COVID-19 TEST EXPIRATION DATES EXTENDED

    04/13/2023 6:43:05 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    LAWEEKLY ^ | APRIL 7, 2023 | ISAI ROCHA
    You may not have to throw out your expired at-home COVID-19 test as many of the dates have been moved past their printed expiration dates. The printed expiration dates were determined by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved shelf-life of about four to six months, but further data shows that they may continue to be accurate for months longer. Among the at-home COVID-19 tests with extended shelf lives are brands such as Abbot BinaxNow, iHealth Rapid Antigen Test, CareStart by Access Bio. Multiple rounds of at-home tests were mailed out to U.S. residents for free, typically from iHealth,...
  • Illinois has 930 schools where only one in ten children can do math at grade level (Update)

    02/21/2023 10:56:49 AM PST · by george76 · 37 replies
    Hot Air ^ | February 20, 2023 | John Sexton
    Baltimore’s failing schools. Recent test scores found that there were 23 schools in the city where not even one child was doing math at grade level. These included Elementary Schools, Middle Schools and High Schools. Those were the extreme low end but the numbers also showed that city-wide just 7% of 3-8th graders were doing math at grade level. Today, Fox News highlights a similar report coming out of Illinois from a conservative group called Wirepoints. In this case, there were 53 schools where not one child could do math at grade level. Granted this is a small number of...
  • Exclusive — Kamala Harris Requiring COVID Tests for Anyone Over Two Years Old to Participate in Senate Swearing-In Photos

    01/01/2023 3:27:29 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/01/2023 | Matthew Boyle
    Vice President Kamala Harris is requiring any senator or family member or guest of a senator wishing to take a photo with her at Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony for the new Congress to have a negative coronavirus test taken within 24 hours of the picture, Breitbart News has learned. The U.S. Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Protocol Office blasted out a message on Thursday to all Senate offices noting that Harris’s office is requiring the coronavirus tests before taking photos with the vice president.
  • Experts: Nonprofit’s non-bid COVID contract was a lucrative ‘sweetheart deal’ that gouged taxpayers

    08/21/2022 6:26:39 PM PDT · by Jyotishi
    Hawaii News Now ^ | Saturday, August 20, 2022 | Rick Daysog
    HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- COVID testing in Hawaii early in the pandemic was extremely lucrative for government contractors, experts say. They also say the city’s airport testing program meant big profits for a local non-profit and its partners. When former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s administration wanted to set up a mobile COVID testing lab at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport two years ago, it awarded a non-bid contract worth $19.5 million to the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii and its partners. Copies of contracts and change-orders obtained by Hawaii News Now under the state’s Open Records Law show that the...
  • More Chinese Cities Locked Down Under Strict ‘Zero-COVID’ Measures

    08/15/2022 12:04:33 PM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | August 15, 2022 | Alex Wu
    China has put several more of its cities and tens of millions of residents under new lockdowns, including the world’s largest wholesale hub and port cities. Many travelers are now stranded and struggling for food, production orders have been canceled, and businesses are closing because of the Chinese regime’s strict “zero-COVID” measures. According to Chinese media, since early August, a new wave of COVID-19 has swept through 25 of China’s 31 provinces, spanning from the southernmost Hainan Province to the Xinjiang region and Tibet in the west. World’s Largest Wholesale Hub Under Full Lockdown.. Yiwu city in the eastern Zhejiang...
  • Beijing appears to retract vaccine mandate after pushback

    07/08/2022 7:37:57 AM PDT · by george76 · 1 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 8 July 2022
    The Chinese capital Beijing appears to have backed off a plan to launch a vaccine mandate for entry into certain public spaces after pushback from residents. While not explicitly saying it had dropped the plan, a city official was quoted in state media late Thursday saying that people could enter venues with a negative virus test result and a temperature check, as has been the norm. They also said vaccinations would continue on the principle of "informed, voluntary consent." An unidentified official in the pandemic control office said residents of the city could enter any sort of public venue with...
  • Reporting Home Covid Test Results Can Be Confusing. Here’s How to Do It.

    06/04/2022 8:18:50 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    New York times ^ | 06/04/2022 | Knvul Sheikh
    So, you got a positive result on your home test for Covid-19. What do you do next? In addition to everything else on your plate — isolating and notifying close contacts, taking time off work and rescheduling appointments — it’s good practice to report your test results. And while home tests have made it easier and faster to screen yourself and get treatment, it is not always easy to report an illness. This confusion has meant that many cases are left out of official counts. If you test positive at a clinic or another community testing site, those results must...
  • O’Rourke announces positive COVID test

    04/25/2022 12:32:42 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    The hill ^ | 04/25/2023 | JULIA MANCHESTER
    Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke on Monday said he tested positive for COVID-19. “In addition to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I regularly test for COVID-19 while traveling the state for town hall meetings,” O’Rourke said in a tweet. O’Rourke said he tested negative on Sunday before getting a positive test on Monday.
  • Canada lifting pre-arrival COVID-19 testing requirement as of April 1

    03/16/2022 10:40:56 AM PDT · by george76 · 15 replies
    CTV News ^ | March 16, 2022 | Rachel Aiello
    Soon, most travellers entering Canada will not have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test, CTV News has learned. As of April 1, the federal government will be lifting the pre-arrival COVID-19 testing requirement at the border for fully vaccinated travellers. Passengers may still be subjected to random PCR testing at the airport, and travellers will still have to use the ArriveCAN app to enter their proof of vaccination and other required information, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra and Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault will be announcing the latest easing of pandemic travel restrictions on Thursday. As...
  • Parents cautioned of possible toxic substance found in at-home COVID-19 test kits

    02/28/2022 6:36:04 AM PST · by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas · 22 replies
    WCAX NEWS ^ | Feb. 22, 2022 | FOX19 Digital Staff and Gray News staff
    CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - Officials are advising parents to keep at-home COVID-19 test kits away from kids because they could contain a harmful, toxic substance. The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center is reporting an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance in at-home COVID-19 test kits, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center said in a blog post on its website. Poison control centers nationwide are reporting the same finding, WXIX reported. This comes as more than 50 million households recently received free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government, according to Dr. Tom Inglesby, senior advisor for...
  • FDA Warns of Vaccine Induced Positive Syphilis Test

    02/22/2022 3:11:59 AM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 32 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | February 21, 2022 | Sundance
    As if there wasn’t enough sketchy stuff amid positive HIV tests as a result of the COVID-19 vaccination program, apparently now there’s a vaccine induced positive syphilis result. ... ... I guess that’s why they call it “practicing” medicine. On a serious note, it would be interesting to see what the difference is between people who took the vaccine and the percentage of people who then took the booster shot(s) after adverse vaccine events began getting recorded. Are there a lot of people who took the original vaccine, but later wouldn’t continue taking the booster shots?
  • A Single Blood Test Can Detect More Than 50 Types of Cancer

    02/14/2022 7:27:18 AM PST · by Blue Turtle · 25 replies
    Researchers are one step closer to making a multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test, that can detect over 50 types of cancer, available to select candidates: those who are age 50 and older, asymptomatic, and considered high risk for the disease.
  • Beijing Olympics lowers COVID testing standards, otherwise, there would be no Olympics

    01/24/2022 11:33:30 AM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Sara Carter ^ | January 24, 2022 | Sara Carter
    How convenient when a bureaucratic body has the power to switch COVID standards at the drop of a hat in order to allow it to continue moving forward and not shut down as the rest of us have been forced to do. COVID Standards around testing and quarantine rules are going from asinine and impossible to achieve to almost gone in the blink of an eye. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week he was doing away with all COVID precautions from vaccine mandates to mask wearing, and instead, would rely on the judgement of its citizens to protect...