On April 6, 2020, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US) reported a 10-person study using convalescent plasma (CP) to treat severe COVID-19 patients. Larger randomized trials are needed, but the results appear MORE
Beijing (CNN)A Chinese billionaire who criticized President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic has been placed under investigation, Beijing authorities said in a brief statement Tuesday.Ren Zhiqiang, a retired real-estate tycoon with close ties MORE
Warmer weather is unlikely to significantly impede the spread of the novel coronavirus, a National Academies of Sciences (NAS) panel told the White House on Tuesday. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/health/coronavirus-summer-weather.html The homebound and virus-wary across the Northern Hemisphere, MORE
Senate Republicans ready to fill a seat on the nation’s second-most powerful court with a 37-year-old man rated “not qualified” to be a judge Source: Even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump and MORE
Tripp was working in the Pentagon when she befriended Lewinsky, the former White House intern who was having an affair with the president. In 1997, she made 22 hours of surreptitious recordings of Lewinsky speaking MORE
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on The Most Incompetent Buffoon Trump, Pastor Pence, Scarf Lady, and the real Coronavirus Warrior, Dr. Fauci’s press briefing. More than likely, the Warriors will begin their briefing late as usual but allegedly, MORE
Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry paid the grocery bills for all shoppers during senior hour Wednesday morning at 44 Kroger supermarkets in metro Atlanta and 29 more in his hometown of New Orleans. “Senior MORE
In a great act of kindness, one Las Vegas woman has donated her empty house to hospital workers, so they can rest for free in between looking after those suffering from COVID-19. While treating COVID-19 MORE
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director-general, said countries should unify or risk worsening the coronavirus pandemic. His comments came after President Trump on Tuesday threatened to withhold funds from the U.N. agency, saying MORE
Republican Congressional candidate Steve House held a virtual campaign event Tuesday with a doctor who has spread conspiracy theories about coronavirus. Late Tuesday afternoon, House’s campaign organized a Facebook event with Dr. Colleen “Kelly” Victory, of Steamboat Springs. MORE
Senator Bernie Sanders has officially ended his 2020 presidential campaign. He’s expected to speak shortly. Watch Live:
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told Chris Cuomo on CNN Tuesday about his phone conversation with Trump that took place Monday, saying “it was a good conversation.” “I laid out what I thought he should MORE
Kayleigh McEnany has been named Trump’s new press secretary, replacing Stephanie Grisham, who never held a press conference in her tenure. A 2010 Georgetown University graduate, McEnany earned a law degree from Harvard University, and MORE
“Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event,” one of the sources said of the NCMI’s report. “It was then briefed multiple times to” the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff and the White MORE
Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system Source: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about creating a national coronavirus surveillance system to give MORE
“You are incredibly safe to go out. Actually, there’s less exposure here than you would get if you went to the grocery store, or you went to Walmart, or you did any of the many MORE
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to MORE
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration issued an executive order Monday calling on the planet’s leaders to join forces to extract the natural resources of another world: the moon. MORE
Challenge yourself; test your skills. Today, you get to put your comments, whatever you want to post, in Haiku format. You can reply to others as you choose but try to make your first, any stand alone comment, as a Haiku. MORE
As of April 7, Germany had reported some 105,000 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However the country’s death rate from the pandemic remains around 1.5% MORE
It started with one doctor. On January 22, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws published an interview with Kris Van Kerckhoven, a general practitioner from Putte, near Antwerp. “5G is life-threatening, and no one knows it”, read the headline. MORE