[Mercury News] BAKERSFIELD — A shooting broke out at a party in central California, sending six people to the hospital on Saturday and launching a search for four suspects, authorities said.
The party, happening amid statewide stay-at-home orders intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, may have gone unnoticed until frantic witnesses called 911 shortly after midnight from an apartment complex in Bakersfield, Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Cesa Ollague said.
"Unfortunately it came to a bad end," he said.
Deputies who responded to the scene said the party was large, Ollague said, but he didn’t know exactly how many people were in attendance.
The victims, including one juvenile and five adults, suffered gunshot wounds but they were expected to survive, he said.
Investigators found 94 shell cases and three live rounds at the scene. The partygoers reported seeing four men driving away in a white car, the lieutenant said.
Newspaper headline, front page, above the fold - Cases could come in waves
[Dallas News] On April 30, social distancing guidelines are set to expire in Dallas County, the state of Texas and at the federal level.
As that day nears, politicians and health officials are presenting graphs, each with a single ominous peak in COVID-19 caseloads, followed by a steep decline. Once the downward slope hits zero cases, Americans can ‐ it might seem ‐ start returning to life as it was. Zero cases to start returning to life as is was? And the editor let that slip by?
But the concept of just one wave of infection is almost certainly wrong. If restrictions are lifted too early, there could be a resurgence. I couldn't read any further. Perhaps the writer will propose a permanent lockdown?
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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal government’s outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the $25 billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of low-cost loans.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the airlines on Friday the government would require them to repay 30% of the grants in low-cost loans over 10 years — with the first five years at 1% interest — before the interest rate would rise. The government is also seeking warrants equal to 10% of the loan amount.
U.S. airlines have idled more than 2,200 airplanes, a third of the fleet, canceled hundreds of thousands of flights and sought to shore up their balance sheets as travel demand has fallen by about 95% because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Well, maybe, but let's negotiate some concessions in exchange:
1- No airline industry executive can have a chair more than 17" wide, or with more than 28" of leg room.
2- Any airline industry executive bringing a briefcase to work will be charged $25 per day for the privilege.
3- At random intervals a $17/hr employee will load all executive briefcases onto a cart and dump them in an open field a mile down the road.
4- Internet access for airline industry executives will be $5.95 per day.
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I'm so fooking tired of this airline industry (generally) making "demands". Let them fail/go under. If they are inefficient or make poor business decisions, that's on them, not the American taxpayer or the US Treasury.
I'll never forget years ago being on a United flight dealing with two of the most bitter flight attendants who had to take pay-cuts while the C-Suite pukes got bonuses. The cheek and the gall.
#2
So are the police monitoring the reduced fire code occupancy levels in your Lowes and Kroger? Cops sitting outside stores that are open to prohibit groups of 2 or more? Customer counters at each entry? Cops patrolling the grocery isles?
Coming your way soon!
[Yahoo] The woman was dying. Workers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital were about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poortook a gamble.
With high-stress, high-stakes decisions, doctors around the world are frantically trying to figure out how COVID-19 is killing their patients so they can attempt new ways to fight back. One growing theory: In the sickest of the sick, little blood clots clog the lungs.
Poor couldn’t prove it. The tests required would further endanger his staff, who were already at risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. But the lung specialist saw clues that were "screaming blood clots." So Poor pulled out a drug best known for treating strokes, and he held his breath.
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When I had my heart attack the emergency room doctor offered that " blood-clot buster" pill and I signed the consent form. 30 minutes later the chest pain went away.
I ended up with two stints....
Treating tiny lung clots like that might be hit or miss...or just not enough time to clear them before death hits....??
#2
Gotta wait until the Federal authorities do full evaluations and decide what path is best before doing anything.
Or adopt 'Federalism' and let all manner of subunits try things on local levels and see if anything works.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in #Turkey rose by 5,138 in the last 24 hours after 95 more people died, taking the nationwide death toll from the pandemic to 1,101, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca says.https://t.co/d600gGpVBC
Almost 1 in 10 Theodore Roosevelt sailors tested positive for COVID-19
Almost 10 percent of the crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , while hundreds of test results remain to be reported, the Navy said Friday morning.Of the 92 percent of the crew that has been tested, 447 have tested positive for COVID-19. The Navy is awaiting results for 775 sailors and 339 have yet to be tested, according to a Navy official with knowledge of the tests.
The San Diego-based carrier has a total crew of roughly 4,845 service members, including its embarked air wing and command staff.
City in Germany [Gangelt] shows case fatality rate could be under 0.5% Even though 2% of population of Gangelt (pop ~ 12k) had Wu per throat swab, blood test showed 15% infected. If this is true generally the lethality of the Wu is only a bit more than the seasonal flu, however the rate of infection is much more.
[Land.NRW] Around 2% of individuals exhibited a current SARS-CoV2 infection identified via PCR method. The infection rate (current or past infection) was approx. 15%. The lethality (case fatality rate) based on the total number of infected individuals in the municipality of Gangelt is, with the preliminary data from this study, approx. 0.37%. The current lethality in Germany calculated by Johns Hopkins University is 1.98%, and is thus five times higher. The mortality based on the total population in Gangelt currently amounts to 0.06.
Three shipments of medical gear, experimental drugs arrive in Israel
[IsraelTimes] Three shipments of medical equipment, protective gear and experimental pharmaceuticals have arrived in Israel from three separate countries, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The shipments include 2.5 tons of anesthetics from Italy,
...suggesting Italy is doing much better...
2.4 million doses of the experimental antiviral drug chloroquine from India,
...tell that to those who call President Trump anti-science...
and millions of items of protective equipment including masks and suits from China.
...which if previous trends hold will be at least 80% unusable, although they consider Israel a desirable trading partner and source of future business acquisitions, so perhaps they’ll have been more careful in this case.
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suggesting Italy is doing much better
They still have almost 1/1 death to recovery rate.
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From Fix News - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released Sunday from a London hospital where he has battled coronavirus for nearly a week, according to officials.
Downing Street said the British prime minister will not immediately return to work and will instead recuperate at Chequers, his official country retreat in Buckinghamshire.
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I've been thinking about the number of "recovered" patients who subsequently test positive. Isn't the PCR test (as opposed to the antibody test) performed using a throat swab? Would be easy to miss if there are viral reservoirs elsewhere in the body.
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Yeah, yuk it up. Their political police who keep the others in check are Cubans with a lot of experience. They also provide the party's palace guard to keep the army in place as well.
#6
And, wow, what a success it's been. It sure brought that regime to its knees, didn't it?
For most of this period Cuba was propped up by the Soviet Union and trade with their brotherly Communist countries around the world, which kept them from feeling our embargo, but at least we did not do anything to help them torment their own people and work to undermine innocent bystanders around the world.
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration on Thursday sought to "revoke and terminate" licenses that permit a Chinese company to provide telecommunication services to and from the United States.
The Department of Justice said in a release that it "identified substantial and unacceptable national security and law enforcement risks" associated with China Telecom, the U.S. subsidiary of China's state-owned telecommunications company. It recommended the Federal Communications Commission revoke licenses allowing the company to operate in the United States.
China's communications networks have received increased scrutiny under the Trump administration, which has been pressuring allies to cancel their partnerships with companies tied to the communist regime, including Huawei. The Trump administration said China uses the telecommunication corporations and other state-controlled entities to conduct spy operations aimed at infiltrating U.S. networks.
"Today, more than ever, the life of the nation and its people runs on our telecommunications networks," John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. "The security of our government and professional communications, as well as of our most private data, depends on our use of trusted partners from nations that share our values and our aspirations for humanity. Today's action is but our next step in ensuring the integrity of America's telecommunications systems."
The effort to revoke authorities originally granted by the Federal Communications Commission comes in the wake of repeated efforts by China to conduct hacking operations in the United States.
[AlAhram] The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too.
In reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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[The Hill] Americans who qualified for the $1200 cash payment, a cornerstone of Congress's $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, are starting to receive their money through direct deposit.
Late last month, President Trump signed the CARES Act into law, a coronavirus relief package that promises to provide one-time checks to some, set aside money for small business loans and provides funding for corporations hit hard by the virus, among other provisions.
"#IRS deposited the first Economic Impact Payments into taxpayers’ bank accounts today," The Internal Revenue Service tweeted Saturday evening.
"We know many people are anxious to get their payments; we’ll continue issuing them as fast as we can."
#1
50% of orders shipped being returned due to business closures. Not returned to stock but dumped. The delivery drivers are swamped with returns, Fed X,US Mail, UPS drivers. Hours now being cut for businesses now or still open.
[GatestoneInstitute] In addition to the ethical questions raised by the rationing of healthcare according to age, the denial of medical attention to the elderly, many of whom have paid into the social welfare system all their lives, also casts a spotlight on the shortcomings of socialized medicine in Southern Europe, where austerity measures imposed by the European Central Bank have resulted in massive budget cuts for public healthcare.
In documents leaked to several Spanish media, the Catalan Emergency Medical Service (Servicio de Emergencias Médicas) instructed doctors, nurses and ambulance personnel to inform the families of older patients suffering from coronavirus that "death at home is the best option." ... The protocol also advised medical personnel to avoid referring to the lack of hospital beds in Catalonia.
"My father started working at the age of 14 until he was 65. He never asked for anything. On March 18, he needed a respirator to avoid dying and was denied.... This is the Spain we have. My father's generation built this country, its reservoirs, roads, agriculture, working 14 hours a day, coming out of a postwar period. And they are being left to die." ‐ Óscar Haro, YouTube video, March 20, 2020.
In November 2019, two months before the coronavirus first appeared in Spain, the Spanish government revealed that nearly 700,000 patients were on a waiting list for surgeries. Nationwide, patients had to wait on average 115 days to receive surgery; in Catalonia, patients had to wait nearly six months; in Madrid patients had to wait for six weeks. The severity of the coronavirus crisis in Italy and Spain, where elderly patients are being allowed to die for the benefit of the young, is due in large measure to the austerity measures associated with their membership in the eurozone. The large numbers of dead, especially among the elderly, appears to be the price that Italians and Spaniards are paying to be part of a monetary union which they never should have joined.
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This what the socialized medicine death panels everyone mocked look like. This is exactly what Democrats here are proposing that once the workers have been tax farmed for a lifetime they are due a modest golden age and then discarded.
#2
Remember, a lifetime of productive, non criminal existence does nothing for your social credit score...
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All those years that Italy, Greece, and Spain were spending considerably more than they were taking in, what were they spending the money on? Did the citizenry benefit from that spending in ways that did not end up paying for hospitals and medical staff, as opposed to it all being skimmed off by politicians and senior bureaucrats? Because if so, those now being triaged are the ones who chose this result all along the way.
[Reuters] A group backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that works on India’s immunization programs will now be partially funded by the health ministry, a government official said, a move in part prompted by fears foreign donors could influence policy making.
The decision is seen as part of India’s broader clampdown on non-governmental organizations to assert control over decision making in key policy areas. Last year, India ordered the dismissal of dozens of foreign-funded health experts working on public welfare schemes.
The Gates Foundation has for years funded the Immunization Technical Support Unit (ITSU), which provides strategy and monitoring advice for New Delhi’s massive immunization program that covers about 27 million infants each year.
A key unit of ITSU that assisted the country’s apex body on immunization will now be funded by the government as it felt there was a need to completely manage it on its own, senior health ministry official Soumya Swaminathan told Reuters.
#3
I can't imagine anyone saying "I am so happy to be alive - even if only anecdotally..."
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It’s anecdotal when you and I talk about it. When MDs write up their notes for sharing or publication, they are case studies, a respected tool in the development of medical practice.
#1
Geographic variation in numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, cumulative incidence, and changes in cumulative incidence likely reflects differences in epidemiologic and population factors as well as clinical and public health practices.
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It seems likely to me that there are multiple strains of different morbidity, which when combined with population density and underlying conditions will lead to 'emerging hotspots.'
h/t Instapundit
[UPI] - Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are enrolling patients in an international clinical trial to find out if inhaled nitric oxide benefits those with COVID-19 who have severely damaged lungs.
Right now, there are no approved treatments for the illness caused by the new coronavirus. A severe form of lung failure called acute respiratory distress syndrome is the leading cause of death in COVID-19. Whatever happened to "virus binds to hemoglobin" theory - somebody realized that, if it were true, we'd see effects in extremities first?
When lungs are failing, air is received by some parts of them but not others. Nitric oxide is a gas that improves blood flow in areas of the lungs that are getting air, increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood stream.
Nitric oxide also reduces the workload of the right side of the heart, which is under extreme stress during lung failure. In the end we'll have dozens of treatments. Maybe even be ready the next time Chinese bio-wizards are careless - they're malicious all the time.
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Some pompous "world famous doctor" who evidently needs to show his medical degree on camera recently said in a video that COVID-19 leads to pneumonia. Another "not-so-famous" doctor said people don't die from COVID-19, they die from pneumonia.
So, what am I missing here? Or, is ARDS different than pneumonia? Or, the similar just more nefarious?
#3
Short answer, Clem, from a civil engineer: Pneumonia can lead to ARDS, but other things can cause it, too. COPD, emphysema ...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, and bluish skin coloration. For those who survive, a decreased quality of life is common.Wiki
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I had to look it up. Nitric oxide is used together with a breathing machine (ventilator) and other agents to treat newborn (term and near-term) babies with respiratory failure that is caused by pulmonary hypertension. Mayo Clinic
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Thanks, Bobby.
I know of a person with COPD. Needless to say, this is not a good time. Even before COVID-19, each flu bug had to be treated with much care and urgency.
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Incidentally. The reason formal trials include placebo is to account for "faith healing" (sick people tend to grasp at straws).
Roughly speaking.
(1) Patients on placebo doing as good as patients on medication. Then the medicine is useless but harmless.
(2) Patients on placebo doing better than patients on medication. Then the medicine is useless and harmful.
(3) Patients on placebo doing worse than patients on medication. Then the medicine is useful.
Now this guy used HCQ on everybody, but some of the patients don't know they are given HCQ (cause nursing home, dementia). Lets denote the two groups by Told and Not told, and 0 none given (another nursing home). Let '>=' be greater or equal, and let '=<' be less or equal
(a) T >= N > 0 : the medicine is useful, some faith healing.
(b) T >= N = 0 : the medicine is useless but harmless.
(c) max{T,N} < 0: the medicine is harmful
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You just have to wonder if Big Pharma (and Fauci) is behind this HCQ smear campaign. No money in a 70-year-old drug and too many positive accounts about its use. It's disgusting, quite frankly.
#7
Dr. Fauci doesn't cause me much concern. Appears he has his head in the solutions game. The Chinese, they worry me. What happens at Loews, Home Depot, Best Buy, and Target after CV, that really concerns me.
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Things won't be the same. It's a shame it took something like this crisis to "expose" the PRC, but we let it happen in a sense. The tea leaves have shown more emphasis on Asia/Pacific in recent years. No wonder. Recently re-watched VP Pence's speech at Hudson Institute from 1-2 years ago. Russia who?
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From a western professor currently teaching in Vietnam:
"The only thing better than watching the President talk about chloroquine is listening to reporters who think New Jersey is uncharted wilderness wax poetic about anti-malarial drugs available for pocket change at walk up drug kiosks throughout the developing world"
In other news:
I've been talking a little with an old friend who's convinced that some of the observed racial disparity in how the virus affects its victims is because of vitamin D deficiency.
Based on what I've been reading, zinc may also be a factor.
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Re: Zinc. I've heard good things about it, especially if taken in conjunction with HCQ. I've also read that, by itself, zinc is not efficacious.
Many many people, IMO, are deficient in Vitamin D3. That is an interesting point. Meanwhile, I take D3 supplements everyday; now, they include zinc....just 'cuz.
#11
My doctor told my wife when she went on D3, "Your kidneys process it differently as you get older." Me, being older with damaged kidneys, had started it several years before.
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Armstrong, who is a prominent GOP activist, called Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. He says Patrick reached out to Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, also a Republican, who knew someone on the board of the New Jersey-based company Amneal Pharmaceuticals.
That's why it's "disconcerting" to NPR.
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Fauci: One does not simply try drugs, even when people are dying.
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Well, there was an account that there was a different strain of this virus that seemed to affect only Indians (and Pakistanis?) and lent some credence to more hanky-panky by the PRC.
India does produce the bulk of the world's supply of HCQ, for sure, but I can't see them doing anything nefarious. But, who knows?
[FrontPageMag] Amid lockdowns and “shelter-in-place” orders and social distancing from strangers and even friends, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time, for many of us, of reaffirming the centrality of family in our lives. For utopians of the radical left, though, the pandemic is an opportunity to deconstruct flawed, traditional familial bonds and remake the world along the lines of new-and-improved, collectivist possibilities. As author Sophie Lewis (pictured above) puts it bluntly in a recent opinion piece at Open Democracy: “We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it.”
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On the other hand, we can see who are the would-be authoritarians and would-be dictators over us, and neutralize their influence after ths blows over.
#5
What an absurd creature masquerading as an intellectual. Word salad of every PC trendy bulls•it phrase and concept. One can only imagine the family background this pathetic clown came from.
“focuses on eugenic, bioconservative and imperial feminism, queer and trans social reproduction, Black feminist family abolitionism, hydrofeminism, postgenomics, and Marxist-feminist accounts of care,”
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Ah, Tiger King. Is that the guy someone asked Trump to pardon?
[NYPOST] Following weeks of shortages and red tape, thousands of New York City firefighters with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... symptoms as well as those on medical leave will be tested for the virus over the next week, The Post has learned.
Previously "there was no bonafide way to get it done," a high-ranking FDNY source told The Post, adding that only 50 first responders were being tested on a daily basis.
"What are you going to do with that? By the time you’re on line, they’re out of tests."
Beginning Monday, 2,000 firefighters are scheduled to be tested, the source said, citing an internal FDNY operations bulletin released to the 10,000-member force.
"It falls short of all members being tested," he said, adding that most firefighters also want the CDC-mandated tests which consist of the original test showing a positive result, plus two additional tests to show negative results in a 24-hour period.
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[ZeroHedge] Documentary filmmaker Mike Cernovich looks like he is the latest victim to big tech censorship.
Amazon appears to have banned Cernovich's movie Hoaxed, a film that details the fake news phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation, from its Prime Video service.
As of Thursday, people who search for the video couldn't find it and others who had already downloaded it had reported that it was missing from their libraries. The video had been available on the Amazon service since March and was steadily climbing the ranks, making it into Amazon's Top 50 documentaries, according to Cernovich on Twitter.
Yes, Hoaxed hit the Top 50 in all of Prime Video.
Now it's banned. https://t.co/X5J8uFArtE
‐ Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 9, 2020
Cernovich had his own theories about what happened on Twitter Friday:
"In fact, what got it "flagged" by Amazon was that it sold so well that Amazon's algorithm began recommending it to everyone."
Cernovich also said on Friday:
Amazon told our distributor, "It's not a technical issue. We don't have to tell you why we removed Hoaxed."
No doubt the ban, and the ensuing press that Cernovich has gotten, has likely turned more eyes onto the film, which is now the #1 documentary on iTunes. [Trailer for the flick in the link.]
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Mercury News] BAKERSFIELD — A shooting broke out at a party in central California, sending six people to the hospital on Saturday and launching a search for four suspects, authorities said.
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal government’s outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the $25 billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of low-cost loans.
[Yahoo] The woman was dying. Workers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital were about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poortook a gamble.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[France24] 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[GatestoneInstitute] In addition to the ethical questions raised by the rationing of healthcare according to age, the denial of medical attention to the elderly, many of whom have paid into the social welfare system all their lives, also casts a spotlight on the shortcomings of socialized medicine in Southern Europe,
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[ZeroHedge] Documentary filmmaker Mike Cernovich looks like he is the latest victim to big tech censorship. 
