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Resentment grows as governors pile on rules for reopening economy | 15 April 2020 | The federal government has issued constantly evolving criteria for Americans to return to work safely during the coronavirus crisis, while various governors this week began adding their own layers of rules for reopening states for business -- a process increasingly leading to partisan disputes in state capitals... In the Northeast, seven governors led by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are crafting their own rules for determining how and when it’s safe to reopen. All but one of them are Democrats, and some of them are talking about keeping stay-at-home restrictions in place well into June...The debate over what's prudent and practical is taking place in other states such as Michigan, where a conservative-led "gridlock rally" at the state capitol on Wednesday demonstrated opposition to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's extended stay-at-home order.

Trump accuses NYC of padding its coronavirus death toll | 15 April 2020 | President Trump on Wednesday questioned Mayor Bill de Blasio's revised coronavirus death toll -- a day after New York City revised how it tracks fatalities by adding more than 3,700 victims who died of apparent coronavirus symptoms and were never tested. "I see this morning where New York added 3,000 [sic] deaths because they died. Rather than [a] heart attack, they say heart attack caused by this," he said during the daily briefing of the Coronavirus Task Force, referring to COVID-19. Responding to a question about the staggering US death toll, which topped 27,000 Wednesday, the president suggested that the Big Apple added the new deaths to the tally "just in case" the victims had the virus.

Trump says coronavirus pandemic has peaked, some states will reopen before May 1 | 15 April 2020 | President Trump said Wednesday that the US had passed the peak of the coronavirus pandemic -- and that some states would reopen before his May 1 deadline. "While we must remain vigilant, it is clear that our strategy is working, and very strongly working. New cases are declining throughout the New York metropolitan area. Cases in Detroit and metro Denver areas are flat. Washington, DC, Baltimore, St. Louis is showing progress. New cases in New Orleans are declining. The data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new cases," Trump said during the daily briefing of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Rose Garden.

9/11 Families, Experts Mount Unprecedented Challenge to NIST in New Filing | 15 April 2020 | Family members of those who died on September 11, 2001, joined building experts earlier today in submitting a "request for correction" to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding its 2008 report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. The request, which comprises more than 100 pages and five exhibits, represents an unprecedented challenge to NIST's report on WTC 7. With the ultimate aim of forcing NIST to reverse its conclusion that fires caused the building's destruction, the request covers eight separate items of information that it says violate the agency's information quality standards. Only by revising its "probable collapse sequence" can NIST correct these violations, the request contends.

Fauci Plotted 'Global Vaccine Action Plan' With Gates Before Pushing COVID Panic and Doubts About Hydroxychloroquine Treatments --Is this why Fauci has been so skeptical of hydroxychloroquine? | 06 April 2020 | Dr. Anthony Fauci, who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, once worked with technocratic oligarch Bill Gates on his "Global Vaccine Action Plan." Reporter Mike Coudrey drew attention to this fact on his Twitter account in a post from Sunday. The "Global Vaccine Action Plan" was announced in 2010 as a public-private partnership of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As the NIAID director, Fauci helped guide the vaccine-pushing project as a member of its Leadership Team... The project was designed to assemble some of the most powerful globalist actors on the planet and encourage them to conspire on ways to peddle vaccines throughout the world. Fauci has been the primary voice in the Trump administration urging the public to be skeptical of hydroxychloroquine, a possible miracle treatment for coronavirus. Fauci has remained a critic of hydroxychloroquine, despite indications that it can be effective in helping the afflicted recover from the disease.

Literally, *killing* people, because Trump recommended the drug: Doctors banned from prescribing potential COVID-19 drug, face $13,000 fine | 08 April 2020 | Doctors who prescribe an anti-malarial drug being trumpeted as a potential COVID-19 treatment face a $13,000 fine. New prescription rules, brought into effect in Queensland on Tuesday, mean clinicians are banned from prescribing the drug, hydroxychloroquine, as a COVID-19 treatment... The University of Queensland is on the verge of starting a large clinical trial, involving 60 hospitals across Australia, with hydroxychloroquine and another a HIV medication. Infectious diseases expert Professor David Paterson said the drugs proved highly effective when first used against the virus in test tubes. "Prior to the clinical trials going ahead, the medications were given to some of the first patients in Australia infected with COVID-19, and all have completely recovered without any trace of the virus left in their system," he said.

Navy battles growing coronavirus outbreak on hospital ship Mercy as 7 test positive | 14 April 2020 | Naval health officials are fighting an outbreak of the novel coronavirus among the crew of the hospital ship Mercy, where four more sailors tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, bringing the total cases among the crew to seven, a Navy official said Monday. The affected sailors, as well as those with whom they had close contact, have left the ship and are either isolated or quarantined off the ship, according to Cmdr. John Fage, a 3rd Fleet spokesman. The outbreak has not affected Mercy's ability to receive patients, he said.

California governor gives outline for lifting virus closures | 14 April 2020 | California Gov. Gavin Newsom has revealed an outline for lifting coronavirus restrictions in the nation's most populous state. Newsom he wants to see hospitalization numbers flatten and decline before he begins rolling back state-at-home orders. But he said things won't look the same when the state reopens. He said waiters at restaurants will likely be wearing masks and gloves... California has been under a statewide stay-at-home order since March 19. Since then, more than 2 million Californians have filed for unemployment benefits.

Pentagon to extend troop movement freeze past May 11 | 14 April 2020 | The Pentagon will extend the freeze on service member travel and movement domestically and overseas past the current order's May 11 end date, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday. The original 60-day stop movement order -- which applies to all U.S. forces, civilian personnel and families -- was put in place last month to attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus among troops. A new end date has not yet been set.

Trump announces US will halt funding to World Health Organization over coronavirus response | 14 April 2020 | President Trump announced at the White House coronavirus press briefing on Tuesday that the United States will immediately halt all funding for the World Health Organization (WHO), saying it had put "political correctness over lifesaving measures." ....Trump declared that the United States would undertake a 60-to-90 day review into why the "China-centric" WHO had caused "so much death" by "severely mismanaging and covering up" the coronavirus' spread. The United States is the WHO's largest single donor, and the State Department had previously [*insanely*] planned to provide the agency $893 million in the current two-year funding period.

Seattle's Army-built field hospital is coming down without treating a single patient | 09 April 2020 | Even as some questions remain about the extent of the outbreak in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday announced he would return to the federal government the field hospital recently assembled in Seattle's CenturyLink Field Event Center to help the health care system cope with the new coronavirus. With the USNS Comfort still stationed in New York, and the USNS Mercy in Los Angeles, Inslee's decision could mark the first return of hospital beds to the federal government during the pandemic from anywhere in the nation... The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation recently sharply reduced its estimate of how many Washingtonians are likely to die from COVID-19, and it has suggested the state may already have passed its peak for COVID-19 hospitalizations.

Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president | 14 April 2020 | Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, pledging to help him defeat President Donald Trump in the general election as the two agreed to launch a series of task forces to work jointly on policy matters. "We need you in the White House. I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe," Sanders said to Biden during a livestream broadcast by Biden's campaign on his website and on social media. The endorsement of Biden by his leading Democratic rival marks a key moment for Democrats as the party seeks to unify and turn its focus toward a November match-up with President Donald Trump.

Obama endorses Biden for president in video message | 14 April 2020 | Former President Barack Obama offered his formal endorsement of Joe Biden on Tuesday, injecting himself squarely in the presidential race for the first time by urging Democrats across the party's ideological spectrum to rally behind Biden and form a unified front to defeat President Donald Trump and win back the White House. Obama, in a lengthy video taped on Monday and posted on Tuesday, lauds Biden's character and resilience, touting him as the right kind of candidate to lead the country through a crisis like the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

Dow jumps 558+ points, Nasdaq exits bear market as coronavirus concerns ease | 14 April 2020 | U.S. equity markets rallied Tuesday as concerns over the coronavirus ease and early-stage plans of re-opening some pockets of the economy take shape. The Nasdaq, which exited a bear market, surged nearly 4 percent stretching its winning streak to four days, the longest since February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 558 points, or 2.4 percent, while the S&P 500 rose 3.05 percent.

Trump announces new initiative for hospitals to lend unused ventilators to areas of need | 14 April 2020 | President Trump on Tuesday announced a new public-private partnership aimed at allowing hospitals to lend unused ventilators to areas that need them to treat patients who have contracted the novel coronavirus. Trump announced the new initiative, which he called the "Dynamic Ventilator Reserve," during a meeting with health care executives at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. He said there were 60,000 unused ventilators in hospitals across the country and that the new program would help get the critical devices to areas that need them. "Hospitals throughout the country currently have 60,000 unused ventilators," Trump said at the start of the meeting. "Through this initiative, your hospitals are committing to lend unused surplus ventilators to other hospitals if they have an immediate need, and you’ve been doing that. We appreciate it."

John Brennan Is Main Focus of Durham Investigation; Intel Officers Have Already Testified | 14 April 2020 | According to former US Attorney Joe diGenova, current US Attorney John Durham started bringing in witnesses under oath in front of a grand jury. And according to Joe, the key focus of the Durham investigation is currently John Brennan. DiGenova was on the Howie Carr Show. After Carr shared that the Wall Street Journal reported that the Durham investigation was still ongoing, diGenova shared the following about what he knew about the John Durham investigation: "One of the more interesting revelations is what I have confirmed with my sources, is that John Brennan is in fact the focus, the main focus of the investigation. And, a number of former intelligence officers have been interviewed and apparently testified about a series of questions involving the production of the famous assessment done after the election which of course was a phony assessment."

Coronavirus NC: 1 arrested as ReOpenNC protesters violate state's Stay-at-Home order in downtown Raleigh | 14 April 2020 | At least one person was arrested by Raleigh Police on Tuesday after refusing to leave a ReOpenNC demonstration outside the North Carolina legislative building. At its height, an estimated 100-plus people attended the tailgate-style rally, calling for the reopening of the economy following the limits placed by authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Police issued several warnings for the crowd, which included some small-business owners struggling during the shutdown, to disperse as the protesters violated social-distancing guidelines and limits on public gatherings.

Revealed: U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny --The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency [Fauci's agency], awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology --The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak | 12 April 2020 | The Chinese laboratory at the center of scrutiny over a potential coronavirus leak has been using U.S. government money to carry out research on bats from the caves which scientists believe are the original source of the deadly outbreak. The Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which were funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government. Sequencing of the COVID-19 genome has traced it back to bats found in Yunnan caves but it was first thought to have transferred to humans at an animal market in Wuhan. The revelation that the Wuhan Institute was experimenting on bats from the area already known to be the source of COVID-19 - and doing so with American money - has sparked further fears that the lab, and not the market, is the original outbreak source.

Roger Stone: Bill Gates, globalists may have created coronavirus as pathway to mandatory vaccines, microchipping people|13 April 2020 | Roger Stone suggested Monday that Bill Gates may have had a hand in the creation of coronavirus so that he could plant microchips in people's heads to know who has and has not been tested for COVID-19. "Whether Bill Gates played some role in the creation and spread of this virus is open for vigorous debate. I have conservative friends who say it's ridiculous and others say absolutely," Stone told Joe Piscopo, host of the radio program "The Answer" on 970 AM, who had asked about conspiracy theories regarding the pandemic. "He and other globalists are using it for mandatory vaccinations and microchipping people so we know if they’ve been tested. Over my dead body. Mandatory vaccinations? No way, Jose!” Stone told Piscopo, who referred to President Trump's longtime adviser as "a legend." [Gates's deadly mandatory vaccines? *We'll take your shot after you take ours.*]

South Dakota implements statewide hydroxychloroquine clinical trial for potential coronavirus treatment | 13 April 2020 | South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday announced a statewide clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine for the possible treatment of COVID-19, making her state the first in the country to institute a program exploring the potential effectiveness of the drug in treating and preventing coronavirus. "From Day One, I’ve said we’re going to let the science, facts and data drive our decision-making in South Dakota," Noem said in a statement provided to Fox News. Noem, a Republican, announced the comprehensive clinical trial Monday after communicating with White House officials in the last week to "let them know that South Dakota's medical community was ready to step up and lead the way on research efforts."

Trump shares tweet from supporter calling for Fauci to be fired | 12 April 2020 | President Trump on Sunday reposted a tweet from a supporter who called for Anthony Fauci, a top member of the White House coronavirus task force, to be fired. Former congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine in her tweet accused Fauci of reversing his position on the danger posed by the coronavirus, writing that Fauci claimed the virus "posed no threat to the US public at large" on February 29. "Time to #FireFauci," Lorraine added... Trump retweeted the message Sunday evening, along with a message taking aim at the "Fake News." It was one of many tweets from the president on Sunday lashing out at the media over its coverage of his administration's coronavirus response. "Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN," he tweeted, adding praise for One America News Network.

Trump eager to 'reopen' nation but governors will decide when to ease coronavirus lockdown | 12 April 2020 | President Donald Trump is eager to reopen the nation and claims to have "absolute authority" to do so, but experts say the decision on when Americans can ditch coronavirus distancing and return to normal will ultimately be made by governors. Trump is set to announce a new task force Tuesday that will focus solely on whether the administration should extend federal social distancing guidelines past May 1 or attempt to reopen parts of the country to blunt the economic consequences of the pandemic. As U.S. unemployment claims soar because of the coronavirus, the president has indicated a desire to ease guidelines in less hard hit states.

Louisville Mayor: Police will collect license plates of Easter churchgoers | 10 April 2020 | Mayor Greg Fischer said Louisville Metro police will attend known church gatherings this Easter Sunday to collect license plate information so that the Metro government health department can follow up with attendees to share information about the coronavirus and find out with whom they've been in contact, as part of efforts to stop the virus's spread. Fischer said during his daily press briefing that he was "imploring, begging, requesting" the "handful" of churches in Jefferson County known to be planning services not to go forward with those plans, saying they would violate Gov. Andy Beshear's executive order prohibiting gatherings of 10 or more people during the pandemic emergency. "If there are gatherings on Sunday, Louisville Metro Police Department will be there on Sunday handing out information detailing the health risks involved, and I have asked LMPD to record license plates of all vehicles in attendance. We will share that information with our public health department, so they can follow up with the individuals that are out in church and gathering in groups, which is clearly a very, very unsafe practice," Fischer said.

DOJ: 'Expect action' on government regulation of religious services amid COVID-19 outbreak | 11 April 2020 | The Justice Department (DOJ) may take action next week against local governments that have cracked down on religious services as widespread parts of the country are shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, a DOJ spokesperson said Saturday. "While social distancing policies are appropriate during this emergency, they must be applied evenhandedly [and] not single out religious [organizations]," DOJ Director of Communications Kerri Kupec tweeted. She said the Attorney General William Barr is "monitoring" such regulations. The DOJ move would come as some churches are standing up to city governments that have blocked them from holding in-person services during the outbreak -- even in "drive-in" formats that keep people separated and in their own cars.

Kansas Supreme Court upholds order banning religious services of over 10 people | 11 April 2020 | The Kansas Supreme Court late Saturday night upheld Gov. Laura Kelly's (D) executive order banning religious services of more than 10 people on the eve of Easter Sunday, as COVID-19 concerns prohibited in-person services across the country. Kelly filed the lawsuit Thursday after Kansas's Republican-controlled legislature overturned her ruling. The governor appealed to the state's Supreme Court so that a decision could made before Easter Sunday. "The Court ruled swiftly and narrowly, relying on the plain language of House Concurrent Resolution No. 5025," the court said in a release.

Biden and Trump Agreed to Keep Details of Their Call Private. Then Biden Told Us Everything He Said. | 10 April 2020 | Though President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden said they had agreed to keep the details of their Monday phone call private, Biden appears to have reneged on the agreement. The Democratic nominee has now divulged several details about the exchange in media interviews and a meeting with donors. Biden said during his first interview after the call that he and Trump agreed they "wouldn't go into detail" on what was said during the call between the political rivals. Biden in the days since has laid out the specifics of the five suggestions he made to Trump on how the administration could improve its coronavirus response and even began to detail to donors at a fundraiser how Trump responded.

Mississippi city's coronavirus shutdown bans drive-in church services ahead of Easter | 11 April 2020 | Drive-in church services that attempt to adhere to social distancing guidelines by keeping worshipers physically apart from one another in their own cars will not be allowed this Easter Sunday in at least one Mississippi community, as the coronavirus crisis has left wide swaths of the country shut down. The mayor and city council of Greenville, Miss., banned all in-person church services and implemented a citywide 10 p.m. curfew from April 7 until whenever Gov. Tate Reeves's statewide shelter-in-place order is lifted.

California County Fining Residents $1,000 and Threatening Imprisonment for Not Wearing Fask Masks in Public --'We will not be setting up a police state and this is not a declaration of martial law.' | 07 April 2020 | Residents in Riverside County, California, are now required to wear face coverings and could face a fine of $1,000 per violation per day if the mandate, which went into effect Sunday, is ignored. Recent data from the Riverside University Health System indicated 946 confirmed positive cases of coronavirus within the county with 25 deaths attributable to the illness. "This is a valid order and enforceable by fine, imprisonment or both," said Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco in a Monday video statement. "However, I need to make it perfectly clear to all residents of Riverside County we will not be setting up a police state and this is not a declaration of martial law in Riverside County."

Major Disaster Declared in All 50 American States at Once, First Time in History | 12 April 2020 | It is the first time in US history that a major disaster has been declared for the entire country, as the number of confirmed cases in the ongoing deadly coronavirus pandemic tops 530,000 in the US, taking more than 20,000 lives. US President Donald Trump issued a major disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, meaning that now the declaration applies to every state in the country due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. It is the first time in history, according to Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere... This move comes after the governor of Wyoming formally requested the declaration for his state in a letter to Trump on Thursday.

Potential Coronavirus Drugs May Cost as Little as $1, Study Says | 10 April 2020 | Potential coronavirus treatments could be made for as little as $1, well below their typical price tags in pharmacies, according to an analysis of nine drugs in clinical trials. If their promise is confirmed in ongoing studies, medicines for Covid-19, including hydroxychloroquine, which President Donald Trump touted as a treatment, and Gilead Sciences Inc.'s remdesivir could be manufactured from $1 to $29 a course, a study published Friday in the Journal of Virus Eradication found... If the drugs show promise, there is a potential to massively scale up production and provide low-cost generic supplies worldwide, said Andrew Hill, a senior visiting research fellow in the pharmacology department at Liverpool University and a co-author of the paper.