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My cousin who is a head nurse at a local hospital in Chicago suburbs gave me this info on covid. These are the text messages from her. Take her information as you wish. From what I've seen, there are very high false positive And negative rates. Also, if you test positive, then test again 3 days later and are all positive, that counts as 2 positives. What we can't dispute are the number of actual hospitalizations, which are definitely up in my area, but I'm very specious of anyone who has zero symptoms but comes up positive. The good news...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of Utah’s largest hospitals had no beds left Friday in its regular intensive-care unit as the governor declared the state's weekslong spike in coronavirus cases “unsustainable." The University of Utah Health had to set up extra ICU beds staffed by doctors and nurses working overtime to care for its critical patients this week as the unit hit 104% capacity, said Chief Medical Officer Dr. Russell Vinik.

Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett arrived at Tel Hashomer Hospital on Saturday, for the second time this week. On Tuesday, Bennett was hospitalized for a series of tests for neck pain, and was released the next day, after undergoing treatment under anesthesia. On Thursday he arrived at the Knesset and even spoke during the meeting about approving the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, but over the weekend his neck pain resumed and he returned for tests at the hospital. His office said: "Since his military service in the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment, MK Bennett has been dealing with a back...

The Department of Health and Human Services is threatening to withhold U.S. funding from hospitals that fail to comply with federal requirements on reporting data about Covid-19 and influenza patients, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma announced Tuesday. Verma said on a conference call with reporters that hospitals will be given 14 weeks to comply with the requirements before enforcement is implemented. She said federal officials will work with hospitals over that time to help bring them into compliance. “Because this requirement is in the Medicare conditions of participation, noncompliance could result in termination from both Medicare...

A Maryland school board official is set to resign after writing on social media that she hoped President Trump dies from the coronavirus. “Since he has tested positive for COVID19, maybe the country will get lucky and he will die,” the official, Jacqueline Fischer, wrote on her personal Facebook page. “Wouldn’t that be an act of karma!” “He could care less how many Americans die from this even if he is the one who exposed them,” Fischer added. “I hope he dies from it. That would solve a lot of America’s problems.” The Washington County Board of Education, on which...

While you don’t know for sure if President Donald Trump is behind it, somehow you just know he is.A peculiar thing happened Sunday night outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, hot pizzas kept showing up. By the dozens.  A throng of Trump supporters have been holding a vigil outside the facility since the president was admitted on Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, or as Trump is now calling it, the “plague from China.”According to one enthusiastic supporter, Domino’s pizzas were being delivered every 45 minutes to the crowd — 250 pies and counting. WOW!! President Trump has...

President Trump is not a basement guy. Sure, he could have done a Joe Biden and hidden in the White House the last five months, a president under quarantine cowering from the Chinese virus. The symbolism would have been disastrous for the mightiest nation on the planet. Trump had to show fearlessness in the face of the virus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week called his refusal to kowtow to the coronavirus a “brazen invitation” to get sick. But, as the president told his old friend Rudy Giuliani, Saturday afternoon, he took the risks he had to take, because: “Great...

BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday evening before briefly leaving the hospital to salute cheering supporters from his motorcade, a surprising move that raised new questions about the president’s understanding of the coronavirus that has killed more than 209,000 Americans. “It’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID,” Trump said, standing in his hospital room in a video posted on social media. “I learned it by really going to school.” He added, “I get it, and I understand it.” Before the video was posted, the...

The White House Correspondents Association on Sunday blasted President Trump's brief foray out of his hospital room to wave to supporters from an SUV, calling it "outrageous" and criticizing the lack of transparency around the photo op. "It is outrageous for the president to have left the hospital - even briefly - amid a health crisis without a protective pool present to ensure that the American people know where their president is and how he is doing," WHCA President Zeke Miller said in a statement. "Now more than ever, the American public deserves independent coverage of the president so they...

just saw it on CNN...no links..

Live stream from Trump supporters at Walter Reed

POTUS drove by rally at Walter R!

A short video of the crowd out front of Walter Reed singing "God Bless the USA"

A Trump supporter who stood outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday to show his support and love for the president said Trump has been “fighting for us” and he’s going to “fight for him” in turn. Reggie, a Trump Prayer Rally Attendee, told Breitbart News that he decided to come to the rally outside the hospital after seeing a few Trump supporters doing so the night before. “Since I live an hour and a half away, I thought it’d be important for me to come out here and show my support for the president and to...

A MASSIVE crowd sending "get well soon!" wishes to President @realDonaldTrump !

Americans gathered outside Walter Reed Medical Center on Saturday night to show support for President Trump after he tested positive for the coronavirus. A woman named Anna told Breitbart News she attended the prayer rally because the president spoke up for Americans when they could not speak for themselves. “Donald Trump had the courage and backbone, despite persecution, to speak for us and have commonsensical stances on major issues that we were not represented with,” she said. “So the least we can do, when he’s suffered so much to represent us, is to come out here and let him know...

A Video Message from President Trump

President Donald Trump’s doctor on Saturday said he is doing well.“This morning, the president is doing very well,” Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s physician, said at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Saturday.“The team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made.”Trump had a mild cough, nasal congestion, and fatigue, but all the symptoms are “resolving and improving,” Conley told reporters at a press conference.Dr. Sean Dooley, a Walter Reed pulmonologist, said Trump is receiving multidisciplinary care.“We are monitoring him very closely for any evidence of complications from either the coronavirus illness...

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.

Jacob Blake, the Black man whose shooting by a white police officer has sparked nationwide protests, appeared in court on Friday to plead not guilty to three prior charges. Blake, 29, made his appearance via Zoom from his hospital bed, where he has been recovering. The court hearing marked his first public appearance since the Aug. 23 shooting, which left him paralyzed below the waist. The criminal complaint, which was filed prior to the shooting, accuses Blake of third-degree sexual assault, a felony charge, as well as criminal trespass and disorderly conduct, both misdemeanors, according to CNN and ABC News....