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The FDA will ask drug companies to follow late-stage clinical trial participants for a median of at least 2 months, starting after they receive a second dose of the vaccine, the newspaper reported. The FDA will also look for at least five cases of severe COVID-19 in the placebo group for each clinical trial, as well as cases in older patients.

Joe Biden’s town hall on CNN drew 3.3 million viewers, an uptick for the network but short of audience that watched Donald Trump’s rally on Fox News later in the evening.

The company suddenly removes an interview with Trump’s virus adviser. ... Note that YouTube has appointed the WHO as an arbiter for what Americans can see on the platform. The WHO has sometimes been swayed by China’s Communist Party, and as recently as January it relayed Chinese assertions that there is “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the virus.

Hazardous weather outlook [Front Range Colorado]

"I Am Joe Biden's Husband"

President Trump said he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement who was arrested for violating male-only voting laws in 1872, at an event later Tuesday. “I will be signing a full and complete pardon for Susan B. Anthony,” he told reporters at the White House. “She was never pardoned.” The pardon comes 100 years to the day after the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote, was ratified.

Joe Biden talks about Blacks becoming predators unless they are socialized. Speaks of taking blacks off the streets to protect his family.

Maxwell, 58, was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, on Thursday morning and is now in custody She had been hiding out in a $1million estate she bought in secret called Tuckedaway A neighbor told DailyMail.com he saw two small planes buzzing the area around 6am Thursday Tuckedaway is a four-bedroom, four-bathroom timber frame home which, boasted the realtor who brokered the sale, offered 'total privacy' She has been charged with six counts including trafficking minors for sex and with perjury for later denying it The charges apply to incidents between 1994 and 1997 and involve three victims, the youngest of...

Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an “occupied” protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle’s mayor said Monday that officials will move to wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago that President Donald Trump asserted is run by “anarchists.”

Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale on Monday said they have received more than 1 million ticket requests for President Trump’s first campaign-style rally since the coronavirus lockdowns slated to take place Saturday.

Raz Simone, a local rapper with an AK-47 ... was filmed allegedly assaulting multiple protestors who disobeyed his orders, informing them that he was the "police" now, sparking fears that he was becoming the de facto warlord of the autonomous zone. The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill. According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city’s “leadership is in chaos” and “the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000.” The officer said that...

Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy. Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more than 300,000 older adults with multicomorbidities, with estimated proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is <20%, 9/100,000 users, compared to the 10,000 Americans now dying each week. These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan disregarded two controlling precedents from higher courts with his decision to appoint John Gleeson as amicus curiae in the U.S. v. Michael Flynn case this week. Judicial conduct similar to J. Sullivan’s in these prior, far less politically charged cases was roundly and unanimously condemned by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ... One week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision, authored by Justice Ginsburg, that took judges to task for similar amicus antics. Her opinion for the Court in U.S. v. Sineneng-Smith upbraided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was mocked as "Nancy Antoinette" last week for showing off her posh freezer with boutique ice cream that goes for $13 a pint in a webcam interview on 'The Late Late Show with James Corden.' The Trump campaign showed off her extravagant fridge and freezer set in a new campaign web video highlighting Americans standing in line at food banks.

Herd immunity is necessary for the C-19 contagion to burn itself out, but that can't happen by having lockdowns of the public because lockdowns actually PREVENT herd immunity from occurring, and it doesn't matter if a lockdown lasts a month or lasts six months because regardless of the length of the lockdown, any economic reopening will produce an unavoidable new wave of C-19 cases. Public policy makers know all of the above, and their claim has always been that a lockdown was *ONLY* to avoid the unknown possibility of the medical system being overwhelmed by too many severe cases all...

Clinical trials are key to effective treatments, even if it means LONG DELAYS IN THE USE OF the MAJORITY OF PATIENTS WHO NEED THEM, said Dr. William Schaffner, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “There are any number of drugs in the laboratory that seem to have some kind of anti-viral effect,” he said. “That’s very intriguing. But there’s a long distance between what works in the lab and what works in humans.” But some experts are pushing back against the hype, warning that none of these...

Watters' World 4/4/20 FULL SHOW | Trump Breaking News April 4, 2020 [relevant part with Hahn starts at 11:46]

The Treasury announced late Wednesday that Social Security beneficiaries who typically do not file a tax return will automatically get the $1,200 payment. The announcement is a reversal from earlier in the week when the Internal Revenue Service said everyone would need to file some sort of tax return in order to qualify for the payments. Democrats and some Republicans criticized the IRS for requiring so many extra hurdles for this vulnerable population to get aid when the government already has their information on file. The reversal came as the Trump administration tries to rapidly get stimulus payments out to...