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Medical experts are predicting that these next two weeks are likely to be the most severe in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. As such it is prudent that we Americans take every precaution that will mitigate the spread of the disease. At the same time, it is important that we not overreach or overreact in our efforts to contain this coronavirus when some of the rules and regulations should give way to common sense. Americans must have clearly defined guidelines, because the further local governments go in stringent enforcement of nonsensical or counterproductive measures, the more likely it is that...

To slow the exponential growth of coronavirus, and lessen the burden on hospitals and healthcare workers, local and state officials have issued sweeping mandates closing non-essential businesses and schools and ordering residents to stay at home. But have these blunt measures started to "flatten the curve" of the virus' spread? Data from recent days, as seen in the charts below, point to encouraging results. We review daily deaths reported in California, New York, and the U.S. as a whole. While case numbers are regularly reported and updated, the number of cases is fraught with bias due to testing constraints and...

In Belgrade, Serbian troops patrol city streets with fingers on machine guns. President Aleksandar Vucic, who announced an open-ended state of emergency on March 15, said the soldiers are there for protection. The first-term president warns there will not be enough graveyards in the city if people ignore his lockdown orders, the Associated Press reports. The situation in Serbia is not as unique as one might think. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Thursday that any person defying quarantine could be shot on sight. "Do not intimidate the government. Do not challenge the government,” Duterte said in a televised address....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday there will be no huge economic stimulus program as the country faces the threat of coronavirus-induced crisis almost certainly unlike any it has seen in the past century. "There is a lesson that we have learned well and that we don't forget," López Obrador said to an empty and echoing National Palace patio. "An economic model that only benefits minorities does not yield general well-being, but on the contrary engenders public misery and violence."

Last TUESDAY Coronavirus Task Force Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx pushed the talking point that by completely locking down the US economy and American public, the US government and Coronavirus task force “experts” were able to cut the total coronavirus deaths in the United States from 1 to 2.2 million deaths to 100,000 to 200,000 deaths.This is based on “models” by her chosen scientific “experts” — Chris Murray and the IMHE.Here is the chart Dr. Birx discussed during the daily coronavirus press conference at the White House.It shows an estimated 2.2 million US deaths.Again — this was at the press conference 6...

A Los Angeles doctor praised using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 during an interview with a local news station on Sunday, claiming that it has a dramatic effect on patients who are seriously ill when combined with zinc. Dr. Anthony Cardillo, CEO of Mend Urgent Care, made the remarks during an interview with ABC 7 news anchor Jory Rand. “What we’re finding clinically with our patients is that it really only works in conjunction with zinc. So the hydroxychloroquine opens the zinc channel, zinc goes into the cell, it then blocks the replication of the cellular machinery,” Cardillo said. “So, it...

A fight broke out in the White House Situation Room over the weekend between Dr. Anthony Fauci and another member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force, with the exchange getting so intense that Vice President Mike Pence and others were left trying to calm down the country’s trade czar, according to a report. The argument, which Axios reports took place Saturday afternoon, ensued when FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn brought up the topic of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug Trump believes could help fight the virus. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro then stood up and distributed reading materials on what he...

It’s just the flu, bro. Agendas everywhere driving this overblown Corona scare: 1. Epidemiologists and politicians don’t want to forecast too low of a death count as a CYA maneuver and for purposes of a power grab. Yes - power grab for epidemiologists because they operate the same as the climate gurus - get on the gravy train. 2. Doctors - cause of death Corona...no matter what. They are overstating this as it helps their hospitals get money. 3. Incels, beta boys and commies - they want anything to happen that would overturn meritocracy because they lose out when merit...

The UK government reportedly believes the coronavirus outbreak may have started in a Chinese laboratory. Most experts believe the outbreak began when animals passed COVID-19 onto humans in China. However, some scientists believe an accidental leak is a plausible alternative theory. UK officials are not ruling out the possibility that a laboratory close to Wuhan accidentally leaked the virus. A UK Parliament committee on Monday accused the Chinese government of spreading "disinformation" about the origins of the virus. "Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan," one UK government official told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

New data reveals that nearly 40,000 people have landed in the United States from China after President Trump imposed the coronavirus travel ban.“The travel data finds that since Trump’s travel ban, close to 40,000 people landed in the U.S. from China,” reports Breitbart. “Since New Year’s Eve, about 430,000 people landed in the U.S. on direct flights from China — thousands of which traveled directly from Wuhan, China, while mostly arriving in California, New York, Illinois, Washington, Michigan, and New Jersey.”These states have since all become epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.Travelers were allowed to enter the country...

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Apr 3 2020 South Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud technology and vaccine technology developed by local company Vaxine Pty Ltd are testing a vaccine candidate against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The team is headed by Nikolai Petrovsky, Flinders University Professor and Research Director at Vaxine. His team has tapped Oracle for technical collaboration, access to an expanded research community, and cloud infrastructure that helped enable the rapid design of the novel COVID-19 vaccine candidate. "The vaccine has progressed into animal testing in the US and, once we confirm it is...

* Government’s around the world are examining plans for so-called “immunity passports” that could allow people who have immunity to the coronavirus to return to normal life. * However, the UK is months away from identifying a test which works, a scientific advisor to Boris Johnson’s government has warned. * The tests the government have looked at so far do not work and that a large-scale solution would take ‘at least a month’ to develop, Professor John Bell warned. * The UK government ordered 3.5 million of them last week, but Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday: “We still...

The COVID-19 virus is a threat the United States, and the entire world, hasn’t seen in over 100 years. The speed at which the virus is spreading is the only thing outpacing the 24-hour news cycle. In less than three months medical professionals, starting with the World Health Organization (WHO), went from calling the coronavirus the flu to a global pandemic that has ground the country to a halt. This has forced healthcare providers onto the front lines of a war against an enemy they can’t see and have trouble tracking. The WHO, politicians, doctors, and news organizations have rapidly...

What’s up with Dr. Brix’s modeling? Check this out https://t.co/kgg2gXB7fv— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 6, 2020 The IMHE model for the Wuhan coronavirus that the White House is relying on is garbage. It is using NY/NJ data and applying it to the rest of the U.S. It predicted that over 121,000 Americans would be hospitalized yesterday over the coronavirus. The actual number? 31,142. pic.twitter.com/vZCGXB5HLN— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 2, 2020

In the past 24 hours, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been making news again. US President Donald Trump has once again promoted the use of this drug as a cure for the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. The US has also reached out to India to lift the ban on hydroxychloroquine exports, which India had imposed on March 26. It is not just Trump and the US who want India to lift restrictions on exports of what is believed to be the miracle drug to cure Coronavirus. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, among other state leaders, is also believed to have reached out to the...

Ohio state Rep. Tavia Galonski (D) said that she will make a "referral for crimes against humanity" over President Trump's promotion of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for novel coronavirus, despite its unproven benefits and lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. "I can't take it anymore. I've been to The Hague. I'm making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow," Galonski tweeted late Sunday. "Today's press conference was the last straw," Galonski added. "I know the need for a prosecution referral when I see one." Trump has repeatedly promoted hydroxychloroquine, which is approved to treat conditions...

What started as a catastrophe for China is shaping up to be a moment of strategic opportunity, a rare turning point in the flow of history. Suddenly, the protests in Hong Kong, carrying a mortal threat to political stability in the mainland, became a physical impossibility. More important, the pandemic set in motion a global competition, to contain the virus, for which China and the Chinese Communist Party seem uniquely prepared. As the virus spread to the whole world, it became apparent that Western societies — Beijing’s true rivals — did not have the ability to quickly organize every citizen...

As Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) said to the alien invaders near the beginning of Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” “The earth is closed today!” The world continues to respond to the current novel coronavirus pandemic by closing everything from churches, to restaurants, to movie theaters and many other public spaces in order to limit person-to-person interaction. While my own family practiced “social distancing” this past Sunday by watching a livestream of our pastor, we reflected on current events and the changes we are all making. We talked about having peace in the midst of trouble and the fact that God...

Sleep experts report an uptick in lucid dreaming during the coronavirus crisis. I know what they meanJohn and I had just left a college party after some guy spilled a beer on me. I hadn’t seen John in a decade, since we were members of the same theater company. As we ran up a set of seemingly endless stairs towards his dorm room I asked how his brother’s restaurant was doing. Suddenly he said, “Almost there, you’ll know what to do.” A fast moving metal treadmill stood at a 45-degree angle to a bright sky. My feet gripped it and...

The findings are clear: A deadly virus that could kill untold numbers of people worldwide escaped from a Chinese research lab. Chinese health officials have confirmed four suspected cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including one death, which appear to have been caused by a safety breach at a laboratory... It's the first SARS death reported since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the initial SARS outbreak more than nearly a year ago. That's from BioSpace, 2004. The words may have changed over the past 16 years, but the song remains the same. There were also reports that...