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All the happy-story analogies to past pandemics being mere bumps in the road miss the mark. A popular claim is that the 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed millions but no biggie, the Roaring 20s started the following year. It's onward and upward, baby, once we toss the masks. Wrong. Completely, totally, dead wrong. The drivers of the past 75 years of growth-- globalization and financialization--are dead, and so is everything that depended on them for "growth". (Growth is in quotes because once external costs and currency arbitrage are factored in, most of what's been glorified as "growth" is nothing but losses...

Initial indicators show that Americans are very optimistic for an economic rebound in the short term. There are some good reasons for this optimism. Here are four reasons why Americans are ready for an economic rebound never seen before in world history:1. US optimism for an economic recovery is at an all-time high for most sectors. People are ready to begin making money again like never before: More & more sectors are showing record-breaking short term optimism.We previously noted this in tech, healthcare, small caps.Now, short term optimism for sectors like energy, retail, homebuilders, & materials are reaching *HISTORIC* and...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – It was last month when 39-year-old Marcus Hawkins started feeling sick. What started with sinus issues progressively got worse. ADVERTISING “The morning I woke up on the 16th I went to the restroom, came back and sat on the side of the bed and was breathing funny,” he told CBS 11. “I knew something wasn’t right.” He was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with COVID-19. “Going to the restroom I’d take two steps and I’m gasping for air,” he described. Marcus Hawkins – recovered COVID-19 patient who took Remdesivir (CBS 11). Dr. Lauren Hoffman with Methodist...

Thanks to numerous lockdowns to slow the spread of the coronavirus, millions of Americans are out of work and businesses across the country teeter on the verge of collapse. Even when the economy fully reopens, it may take a while to return to normalcy. One investment expert predicted that it could take as long as a decade to return to the strong economy America enjoyed before the coronavirus. “It’s going to take years, or longer, to get back to where we are — or where we were,” J.P. Morgan Chief Investment Officer Bob Michele predicted. He told Bloomberg News that...

A 90-year-old woman from Long Island, New York, has miraculously recovered from coronavirus — and she wants to offer hope to everyone else feeling afraid amid the pandemic. Before she was hospitalized for 13 days, Anna Fortunato came down with a sore throat, but believed it was simply a cold, her daughter Teresa Gund recalled to the Associated Press. But Fortunato’s condition continued to worsen, and she was transported from the assisted living home where she lives to a hospital on March 13. Once there, Fortunato spoke to her daughter over FaceTime while using a nurse’s phone. “She says, ‘Don’t...

America’s relationship with the free market is on the rocks as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Economic commentators have already begun calling the current crisis a recession. The government response to this apparent recession has been unprecedented. But there is another, better way to tackle our economic woes. If we take a look back at our history, we can find a model in President Warren Harding’s wildly successful laissez faire approach to tackling the Recession of 1920. We’ve seen countless comparisons in today’s media of the coronavirus to the 1918 Spanish Flu. Not only is it natural to...

TEXAS CITY, Texas - "This is an experience of a lifetime," said Dr. Robin Armstrong. "This is something we will probably never experience again." Dr. Armstrong and others at the Resort at Texas City Nursing home knew time wasn't on their side. "Two of our residents had symptoms and that's when we tested everybody," said nursing home Executive Director Jan Piveral. 56 residents and 33 staff members were COVID-19 positive. "Our Goal was to make sure we could shelter them in place so we don't spread it to other people," Armstrong said. "Then also at the same time treat them...

The doctor’s fever spiked above 103 degrees. His dry cough was getting worse. And the fatigue was advancing. Dr. Joseph Manno was deteriorating with each passing day. "I was getting progressively weaker," he said. Manno, a vascular surgeon at Holy Name Medical Center, was home self-quarantining, trying to beat a case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. He called a colleague March 30 to update him on his condition. There was urgency in the response. “You need to come in now,” the doctor told Manno, 65. Holy Name was the epicenter of one of New Jersey’s early hot...

There is no evidence that people who contracted COVID-19 and recovered are immune to a second infection, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). On today’s Daily Dose, Dr. Michael Wilkes, a professor of medicine and global health at UC Davis, says the announcement could be a game changer during the pandemic. Before the WHO announcement, many health care workers were operating under the assumption that once someone became infected, they developed antibodies that would protect them in the future, Wilkes says. However, WHO didn’t explicitly say these antibodies don’t exist, Wilkes points out. How California has faredA new...

Interview with Dr. Ananda Prasad, Medical Research Doctor, Michigan April 19, 2020 - Detroit, Michigan The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major turbulence across the planet. Several theories and assumptions on prevention and cure have kept the social media busy. As thousands of lives have fought hard and lost, here’s a sunshine “recovery” story of a senior couple – 92 years old Dr. Ananda Prasad and his wife Aryabala – both of whom were COVID-19 positive but have since recovered using a treatment approach with Zinc. According to Dr. Prasad, Zinc has been his area of research for several years...

An elderly couple — she’s 88 and he’s 90 — are back home from a hospital stay Friday — coronavirus free after being prescribed by their celebrity psychiatrist son an unproven treatment touted by President Donald Trump. It was Sunday, March 29, when EMTs wrapped Dolores Amen in a yellow tarp and whisked her off to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. The EMTs did not allow her suitcase in the ambulance. She had pneumonia and a positive test for COVID-19. A second ambulance came for her husband. Louis Amen also had pneumonia and a fever. He made it to the...

DALLAS — What happened at a Galveston County nursing home over the last week was one of the first big tests of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients in Texas. “I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not an acceptable,” said Dr. Robin Armstrong, MD, medical director at The Resort at Texas City. Fifty-six residents at this senior facility in Galveston County contracted the novel coronavirus. Dr. Robin Armstrong said 39 of them gave him permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine pills. “Most of the patients have done well. And, you know, and I...

If you or your loved one has just had a diagnosis of COVID-19, your chances of surviving the illness will depend on your ability to gather your resources, make a plan, and adapt. As told to her daughter, Carrie Severino. This article is personal information, not medical advice. Please consult your doctor with any health questions and decisions.The past two weeks have been a rollercoaster as my husband and I celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary, learned we were both COVID-positive, spent multiple nights we thought could be our last ones together, and finally received a surreal email from the Kent...

The Communist Democrats, NWO freaks, and the media are trying to kill us. On Wednesday March 25, 2020 I was supposed to have dinner with First Lady Melania Trump and a number of fellow women fundraisers, at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida. On that morning I awoke in Washington, DC with flu symptoms. This is the story of that journey – and I promise you – a truthful report of what is really going on out there with this pandemic and how politics is responsible for the damage to the U.S. economy and for the unnecessary deaths of Americans. Day 2:...

Perl said she was treated with hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and azithromycin, an antibiotic often referred to as a Z-Pak. She never needed a ventilator, but stayed on oxygen, which she was using anyway for a heart condition. But it’s unclear exactly what ultimately helped her. Several factors might have influenced Boccard’s unlikely success against the virus, including just how much virus Boccard was exposed to at the time of infection, said Dr. Aileen Marty, a professor of infectious diseases at Florida International University. A lighter exposure to the virus could make it easier to beat. Medications she was already...

So for what it's worth, this was just posted on a neuro MD site: The author is a triple board certified Neurologist. He has published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. and Cell Mol Neurobiol. He trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian, Hospital for Special Surgery, Montefiore, Northwell and Mount Sinai. He has been in Private Practice for the past 12 years in New York. Surviving COVID-19 with Neurological Involvement from the perspective of a Neurologist "To be honest, it was very scary to go through no matter how much specialized medical training one...

Too weak to move in his Lexington, Ky., hospital bed or even pick up his cellphone to call his family, Dennis Campbell came to a stark, dark realization. “I was prepared to die,” he said. The 48-year-old father of three from Richmond, Ky., said he had no doubt that he had reached the end of life. “I was just praying to God and saying that if it is my time, then it’s my time. If not, then use me for something (good),” Campbell said. “I came to grips with it. If it was my time, then it was my time....

NEW YORK—Over 2,200 members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) have recovered from COVID-19 and returned to their posts as of Sunday. The largest police force in America has seen a total of 4,371 positive cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. At some point, nearly 20 percent of the force was out sick, but that number has since dropped to 14 percent, according to a press release. It’s good news for the agency, but the silver lining surprised NYPD Sergeant Joseph Imperatrice. “It’s incredible because you see all around the world—especially...

This was something we discussed when I recently asked if there was a plan for how we’re supposed to “turn the country back on” as the pandemic fades away. It will almost certainly have to be done in stages rather than just opening the floodgates all at once. But who goes back to work and is allowed to begin socializing again first? One suggestion that seemed to make sense was to cut loose the people who had survived the infection and presumably now have antibodies to protect them from the illness.This would be a complicated process to be sure,...

On Tuesday morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced the happy news that he has recovered from the coronavirus. He's not resting on his laurels, however. The senator decided to jump right back into work, getting his hands dirty — but not in the Senate. "I appreciate all the best wishes I have received. I have been retested and I am negative," Paul tweeted. "I have started volunteering at a local hospital to assist those in my community who are in need of medical help, including Coronavirus patients. Together we will overcome this!" Paul is not just a senator — he's...