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  • Encouraging Coronavirus Numbers From the U.S.: Noting These Numbers Provide Us With Some Perspective On the Scope of the Pandemic

    05/20/2020 8:15:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 05/20/2020 | Paul Mirengoff
    Recent numbers regarding the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. are somewhat encouraging. The reported number of daily deaths from the virus has averaged around 1,000 the past three days. In early May, daily deaths were averaging about twice that number. Two of the past three days were weekend days. Sometimes the number of reported deaths declines on weekends, so we’ll need to see what happens during the rest of this week. In fact, today’s total death (Tuesday’s) is already around 1,500. However, I can’t find three consecutive days of death totals as low as the past three since late March-early...
  • Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14–2016/17 seasons)

    05/19/2020 3:45:11 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 5 replies
    International Journal of Infectious Diseases ^ | November 1, 2019 | Aldo Rosanoab et al.
    ...In recent years, Italy has been registering peaks in death rates, particularly among the elderly during the winter season. A mortality rate of 10.7 per 1,000 inhabitants was observed in the winter season 2014/2015 (more than 375,000 deaths in absolute terms), corresponding to an estimated 54,000 excess deaths (+9.1%) as compared to 2014 (Signorelli and Odone, 2016), representing the highest reported mortality rate since the Second World War in Italy (UN, 2019). Although the above-described excess mortality created concern among researchers, health authorities and public health experts, it has been challenging to identify its determinants (Signorelli and Odone, 2016)...
  • REOPEN AMERICA: Coronavirus Deaths Decrease Despite CDC Instructions to Count ‘Presumed’ Cases in the Coronavirus Totals

    05/19/2020 12:09:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/19/2020 | Joe Hoft
    Two months ago, on March 17, 2020, we reported that the controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was 3.4% — many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu which is estimated to be around 0.1%. This was egregiously false and we knew it.The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus: While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains,...
  • The Second Great Depression – Has It Started Yet? Can The Donald lead America out of the insanity of lockdown?

    05/18/2020 12:00:24 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 49 replies
    If Donald Trump is to be a great president, it could well be by leading America out of the insanity of lockdown. When in the history of medicine has it made public health sense to quarantine almost all the people who are healthy? A fully funded lockdown for the life of this pandemic would be just enough socialism to bankrupt America. That's not what the free world needs. The western world (especially Hong Kong and Taiwan?) needs America to stay solvent. Its Pax Americana or China Over All. (China Uber Alles?) https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/05/18/the-second-great-depression-has-it-started-yet/
  • Coronavirus in Georgia and Florida: Why No Spikes As States Reopen?

    05/18/2020 10:00:23 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 05/18/2020 | John Hinderaker
    This morning on the Sunday talk shows, Alex Azar pointed out that in states that have reopened ahead of the others, like Florida and Georgia, there has not been an increase in COVID cases and deaths: “We are seeing that in places that are opening, we’re not seeing this spike in cases,” Azar said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “We still see spikes in some areas that are, in fact, closed.”However, Azar said identifying and reporting new cases takes time. …“It’s still early days,” Azar cautioned in an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” He said data...
  • CORONAVIRUS IN FIVE STATES: A Comparison of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota

    05/18/2020 9:57:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 05/18/2020 | John Hinderaker
    I have periodically taken a look at the coronavirus numbers for the five-state Upper Midwest region. See here, here, here, and here. The Upper Midwestern states offer interesting comparisons because they are similar in most ways, but their governors have followed quite different paths in dealing with the Wuhan virus.For this comparison, I got current fatality numbers from each state’s Department of Health, looked up each state’s population, and computed the death rate for each state. These are the numbers:MinnesotaFatalities: 722 Population: 5,640,000 Death rate: 0.00013WisconsinFatalities: 453 Population: 5,822,000 Death rate: 0.00008IowaFatalities: 351 Population: 3,155,000 Death rate: 0.00011North DakotaFatalities:...
  • Democratic governors hit with flurry of legal challenges to coronavirus lockdowns

    05/17/2020 11:29:41 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    Politico ^ | 5/17/20 | Caitlin Oprysko
    The raging public debate over statewide coronavirus lockdowns is running parallel to a series of legal battles in state capitals - and the lockdown skeptics got a big boost this week. The decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to toss Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide shelter-in-place order set off a scramble in cities across the state to impose their own local restrictions. Elsewhere, bars and restaurants shut down by the order declared themselves open for business. And legal challenges are continuing to pile-up across the country - even as governors who extend their state’s shelter-in-place orders begin peeling back some...
  • This Could Be a Clue as to why Minnesota’s COVID-19 model was wrong by at least one, and perhaps two, orders of magnitude

    05/17/2020 8:41:24 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 30 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 05/16/2020 | John Hinderaker
    This Could Be a Clue… …as to why Minnesota’s COVID-19 model was wrong by at least one, and perhaps two, orders of magnitude: Before Friday, March 20, Marina Kirkeide, who graduated from the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering in 2019, was a School of Public Health part-time research assistant working on HPV transmission for Kulasingam. On a gap year before starting Medical School at the University in fall 2020, Kirkeide also had a second job as a lab tech at St. Paul’s Regions Hospital. That Friday, Kulasingam called her and two other research assistants and asked if...
  • If You Are Under Age 29 You Are More Likely to Drown than Die from Coronavirus

    05/17/2020 7:26:13 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/17/2020 | Jim Hoft
    The number of deaths from coronavirus in the US has been plummeting since mid April.According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there were 78 coronavirus deaths in the United State in the 0 to 29-year-old age group this year. The numbers were totaled from the week ending Feb. 1 2020 to May 9, 2020 during the current outbreak.Those coronavirus victims under age 60 are also likely to have at least one comorbidity.In the United States since 1999, an average of more than 815 children ages 14 and under have died as a result of unintentional drowning each year....
  • NYT Magazine Publishes Hit Piece on Renowned French Doctor, Didier Raoult, Who Identified Inexpensive Cure with Hydroxychloroquine for Coronavirus – Top Critic Linked to Gilead and Remdesivir

    05/16/2020 9:05:59 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/16/2020 | Joe Hoft
    The French doctor who identified a cure for the coronavirus that saw immediate results, is now being targeted and smeared by those who want to cash in on a different more expensive drug made by Gilead. Of course nothing is sacred anymore. The progressive socialist left has taken over everything. Since the advent of the China coronavirus, we discovered that even medicine and the medical community is now a corrupt and political industry. This past week the far left New York Times released a report where they belittled “eminent French microbiologist Didier Raoult” and his claims for a quick and...
  • COVID-19 deaths and pre-existing conditions. What Illinois’ data says about who’s at risk

    05/15/2020 7:57:30 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    Wirepoints ^ | 05/15/2020 | Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
    By: Ted Dabrowski and John KlingnerWirepoints recently analyzed data from Cook CountyÂ’s Medical Examiner and found that 92 percent of Cook County COVID-19 victims had pre-existing conditions. Those that died had comorbidities including diabetes, obesity, hypertension and heart disease.Many Americans have pre-existing conditions. Data from the CDC says that 45 percent of people have hypertension. Another 43 percent are obese. And another 10 percent have diabetes. (Read part 1 of WirepointsÂ’ look at pre-existing conditions: Wirepoints analysis reveals 92 percent of Cook County COVID-19 victims had pre-existing conditions)However, that doesnÂ’t mean that all Americans with one or more pre-existing...
  • The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away”

    05/15/2020 9:11:02 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 57 replies
    TMIN ^ | 05/15/2020 | Michael Snyder
    Are you ready for “the new normal” to become permanent? Originally, most of us assumed that “shelter-in-place orders” and “social distancing restrictions” would just be temporary, but now top health officials are warning us that some of these temporary measures may have to remain in place for the foreseeable future. That means that our lives could be severely disrupted for a long time to come. In fact, Dr. Anthony Fauci just told a Senate Committee that it may not be safe for schools all over America to reopen when the next school year begins in the fall. Apparently Fauci and...
  • Greta Thunberg Hopes Coronavirus Pandemic Convinces People to Listen to Scientists on ‘Climate Crisis’

    05/15/2020 6:36:14 AM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 60 replies
    Breitbart - Politics ^ | 5-14-2020 | Joshua Caplan
    Appearing Thursday on CNN’s Coronavirus: Facts and Fears town hall program, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said she hopes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic teaches others to listen to experts on climate change. "People are starting to realize that we are actually depending on science and that we need to listen to scientists and experts." -Teen activist Greta Thunberg on how people are reacting to science and what that means for the climate crisis. #CNNTownHall https://t.co/EvUEaN7gza pic.twitter.com/HLQb1AQ7ax— CNN (@CNN) May 15, 2020 (Partial transcript) ANDERSON COOPER: One of the things I’ve seen you talk about alone is how important it is...
  • A Scientific Explanation Of Why Shutdowns Are Useless To Fight Coronavirus

    05/14/2020 8:58:37 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 05/14/2020 | John Hinderaker
    For the third time, Peter Robinson interviews Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford Medical School for Uncommon Knowledge. Dr. Bhattacharya is cogent and articulate, and this conversation, a little under an hour long, is well worth your time. Among other things, he reports on a study he has just completed of COVID-19 in employees of major league baseball. Dr. Bhattacharya brings bad news: 1) Only a small percentage of Americans, less than one percent in his study, maybe two or three percent nationwide, have had COVID-19. Herd immunity requires something like 70 percent or 80 percent to have antibodies. So the...
  • Covid 19: When do we look back and amend

    05/14/2020 4:40:49 PM PDT · by Outlaw76 · 8 replies
    5/14/2020 | outlaw76
    Like most, I’ve been working from my home for over two months now. At first it made sense due to the uncertainty involved with the Covid-19 virus. Back in Mid-March we were looking at data from China that was suspect, massive deaths in Italy and a virus that spread in such an insidious way that it would be nearly impossible to prevent it’s spread without drastic actions. We were looking at hospitals being overwhelmed and with too few beds to take care of the ill. It was a pretty scary time.By Mid-April we knew that the virus was most deadly...
  • Didier Raoult of Hydroxychloroquine Fame: Government Study in Spain finds Those Who Kept Working Were Less Infected Than Those in Lockdown

    05/14/2020 12:47:24 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/14/2020 | Jim Hoft
    Renowned French researcher and physician posted this study today from Spain that found those who were essential workers and were out working actually were less infected than those who were cooped up at home in lockdown.The lockdowns didn’t work as intended in Spain. Governement study about COVID-19 seroprevalence in Spain: among workers, those who had an "essential profession" and continued working were less infected than those staying at home. This should lead to a reflection on the role of general confinement. https://t.co/rMaFSLH8eR pic.twitter.com/4pvoTGPiaz— Didier Raoult (@raoult_didier) May 14, 2020 More… BREAKING COVID-19 antibody testing in Spain estimates ~5% infected-Those...
  • Opposing lockdown is NOT “profits before people”; It's not an either/or thing

    05/14/2020 6:49:45 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Off-Guardian.org ^ | 05/14/2020 | Kit Knightly
    Ever since the UK entered “lockdown”, those pushing for it to end have been labelled “callous” or “selfish” or accused of putting profits before people. Meanwhile millions are unemployed and a global famine is on the horizon. The lockdown will kill more people than the virus, and needs to be ended. The lockdown has been “eased”. Apparently. Some people should go back to work, schools might be opening a bit. You can see one person at a time. You’d be forgiven for not noticing any tangible difference. You’d be more forgiven for thinking it’s a contrived mess designed to confuse...
  • Is Sweden's Herd Immunity Strategy the Best We Can Do?

    05/14/2020 6:46:33 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 51 replies
    Mish Talk ^ | 05/13/2020
    A debate over herd immunity is in the news spotlight. Answers vary widely, so let's look at both sides."Only Realistic Option" Says Foreign AffairsHerd Immunity Is the Only Realistic Option.. The Question Is How to Get There Safely say Foreign Affairs authors Nils Karlson, Charlotta Stern, and Daniel B. Klein.Their articles is entitled Sweden’s Coronavirus Strategy Will Soon Be the World’s Swedish authorities have not officially declared a goal of reaching herd immunity, which most scientists believe is achieved when more than 60 percent of the population has had the virus. But augmenting immunity is no doubt part of the...
  • Mayor Garcetti: Los Angeles Won’t Completely Reopen ‘Until We Have a Cure’ For Coronavirus (VIDEO)

    05/14/2020 6:17:44 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 05/14/2020 | Cristina Laila
    Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that Los Angeles won’t completely reopen until there is a cure for Coronavirus. There are 4 million people living in the city of Los Angeles and upwards of 10 million people living in Los Angeles County.On Tuesday it was reported Los Angeles County will likely extend its Coronavirus house arrest through until August.California State Universities will also cancel ‘in person’ classes for the fall 2020 session. Mayor Garcetti on Wednesday told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that Los Angeles isn’t completely closed down and the millions of people...
  • Israeli ambassador slams ‘New York Times’ for ‘libel’ against the Jewish state

    05/13/2020 1:39:34 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 10 replies
    JNS ^ | Yani Hersch
    Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer leveled scathing criticism at The New York Times on Friday over an article pointing out that the Israel Defense Forces’ research and development efforts, which have proven crucial in Israel’s battle against the coronavirus, are predominately dedicated to devising ways to counter the Jewish state’s enemies. The article, “Israeli Army’s Idea Lab Aims at a New Target: Saving Lives,” which was published on Thursday, states that “The Israeli Defense Ministry’s research-and-development arm is best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up, with stealth tanks and sniper drones among its more...