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Purpose Infection with COVID-19 potentially can result in severe outcomes and death from “cytokine storm syndrome”, resulting in novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) with severe dyspnea, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), fulminant myocarditis and multiorgan dysfunction with or without disseminated intravascular coagulation. No published treatment to date has been shown to adequately control the inflammation and respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19, apart from oxygen therapy and assisted ventilation. We evaluated the effects of using high dose oral and/or IV glutathione in the treatment of 2 patients with dyspnea secondary to COVID-19 pneumonia. Methods Two patients living in New York City (NYC)...

The state’s biggest ethics offender – racking up 106 violations in one political campaign – will not serve time behind bars. Lt. Gov Ken Ard will remain free under a sentence of five years probation, a $5,000 fine and 300 hours of community service. Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper Jr. decided Ard’s punishment Friday after listening for 50 minutes to character witnesses and pleas for mercy, including from Ard himself. “I stand here humble, apologetic,” Ard said after pleading guilty to seven charges just a few hours after he resigned the job that had him first in the line of...

We at the 'Krag household need prayer. My in-laws own a small business. They've been shaky for a while, but recently the economic crunch really has them stuck on the rocks. This week, they've gone code red - a reduction in force, which will be followed by an emergency relocation until the situation improves. To say the least, the situation is grim, and we are beset on all sides. So, pray for us down here in Georgia if you would. We need all the help we can get.

Nigergate: All Ambassador Wilson’s lies Ambassador Wilson has a lot of strange friends: people that know and reveal top secret information to the foreign media, collaborators of foreign secret services and, last but not least, a number of disgruntled ex Cia officers. Once again Chiocci and Sechi at Il Giornale hit the nail on the head, this time round it’s Ambassador Wilson’s turn to be put under the spotlight. The following article, published Sunday, examines the Ambassador’s interesting ties to the French secret services and the anti-Bush cabal of ex Cia officers that go by the name of ‘VIPS’. Note...

A fictional crime drama based on the premise that the Bush administration ordered the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington aired this week on German state television, prompting the Green Party chairman to call for an investigation. "I think absolutely nothing of the conspiracy theory that has been hawked in this series. I hope this particular TV movie will be discussed very critically at the next supervisory board meeting of ARD [state television]," said Green Party Chairman Reinhard Buetikofer, who acknowledged that he had not seen the show. Sunday night's episode of "Tatort," a popular murder...

Well they won't really do that, because, you see, that would be "going too far." Giving a few hours of free publicity to the most prevalent hoax theories regarding 9/11, however, is apparently not going too far. But the folks at ARD, German public television, did not stop at that: they also portrayed those hoax theories in a very positive light. In the 600th episode of their top-rated crime show, Tatort (which basically means "scene of the crime"), which aired last night, the sympathetic character is a young lady with a troubled past who finds her boyfriend -- her Arab...