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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019. Due to SARS-CoV-2's high infectivity, it spread rapidly across the world. In less than three months, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak as the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, over 41 million cases are reported, with over 1.1 million deaths. Genomic structures and phylogenomic studies reveal that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to genera beta coronavirus (includes SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus). However, there are important differences in the genotypic and phenotypic levels that influence their pathogenesis. While there are variations in severity and...

An Italian infectious disease expert said that the CCP virus is losing its virulence and could disappear on its own without needing a vaccine. Professor Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious diseases clinic at the Policlinico San Martino hospital in Italy, said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, is losing its ability to infect people and the mortality rate is decreasing. “The clinical impression I have is that the virus is changing in severity,” Bassetti told The Telegraph, adding that in March and early April, the patterns of virulence were very different from what...

RUSH: Let's go to the phones. Matthew in Yonkers, New York. Open Line Friday. You're up first today, first. Great to have you with us. CALLER: Rush, how are you doing? RUSH: Good. CALLER: Rush, I think you're missing the basis on this entire thing. RUSH: Of course, of course. CALLER: I have yet to meet one person who has said, "I'm going to take great joy in seeing the death of this woman." As we speak right now there are probably 50 to a hundred families that are going through the same decision-making process. The two things that people...

"...The art of painting, one of the greatest traditions in all of human history has been under a merciless and relentless assault for the last one hundred years. I'm referring to the accumulated knowledge of over 2500 hundred years, spanning from Ancient Greece to the early Renaissance and through to the extraordinary pinnacles of artistic achievement seen in the High Renaissance, 17th century Dutch, and the great 19th century Academies of Europe and America. These traditions, just when they were at their absolute zenith, at a peak of achievement, seemingly unbeatable and unstoppable, hit the twentieth century at full stride,...

ARC Chairman speaks at the Met Good Art / Bad Art - Pulling Back the Curtain, by Fred Ross June 7, 2001 -- Fred Ross, Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, addressed a crowd of over 700 portrait artists, gallery owners and members of the press today at America's premier institution of art, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the American Society of Portrait Artists (ASOPA) Conference. Mr Ross was interrupted at least 10 times to thunderous applause or peals of laughter as he blasted Modernism and its chief icons, Picasso, Mattisse and DeKooning, with some of the most...