[Twitter] Chen was known for keeping followers up-to-date with uncensored news direct from Wuhan.
Twitter has suspended the account of @IsChinar (Harry Chen PhD) – a move apparently linked to content tweeted by the account concerning the coronavirus outbreak in China.
@StephaniaBecker (Stephania Becker) broke the news about this development, saying that the suspension came after the user “spent weeks posting insider video from Wuhan about coronavirus & rampant abuses by CCP (Chinese Communist Party).”
#6
I think there's no doubt Cum-oh will run for president at some point down the road. It will be a sure test of the proposition that the electorate has a short memory.
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I have an aunt who's a big lefty and loves Cuomo and had not heard about the Cuomo nursing home decision until I sent her a link.
[FoxNews] Just days after getting conditional approval for its coronavirus drug remdesivir in Europe, Gilead has announced pricing for the U.S. and other developed countries, charging different rates for the U.S. federal government and private insurers.
In an open letter obtained by Fox News, Gilead Sciences CEO and Chairman Daniel O'Day said the price per vial of remdesivir would be $390 for government health care programs in developed countries, such as Medicare, equal to $2,340 per patient on a short, six-vial treatment.
For private insurance companies, the price would be $520 per vial, or $3,120 for a six-vial treatment.
"In normal circumstances, we would price a medicine according to the value it provides. The first results from the NIAID study in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 showed that remdesivir shortened time to recovery by an average of four days," O'Day wrote in the letter, explaining the pricing decisions. "Taking the example of the United States, earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient. Even just considering these immediate savings to the healthcare system alone, we can see the potential value that remdesivir provides. This is before we factor in the direct benefit to those patients who may have a shorter stay in the hospital."
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, O'Day said the U.S. was the only developed country to get two prices.
"Because of the way the U.S. system is set up and the discounts that government healthcare programs expect, the price for U.S. private insurance companies, will be $520 per vial," O'Day explained in his letter. "At the level we have priced remdesivir and with government programs in place, along with additional Gilead assistance as needed, we believe all patients will have access."
In a statement released on Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that it has secured more than 500,000 treatment courses of the drug for American hospitals through September.
The developing world will see treatment "at a substantially lower cost," with O'Day citing "healthcare resources, infrastructure and economics" as the reasons. The company previously announced it had entered into agreements with generic drug makers to produce the drugs for developing countries.
Last week, Reuters reported Indian generic drugmakers could sell treatments for 5,000 to 6,000 rupees ($66.13-$79.35).
O'Day noted that by the end of 2020, Gilead expects to have spent more than $1 billion on research and development on the drug, with its commitment expected to last "through 2021 and beyond."
"As with many other aspects of this pandemic, we are in unchartered territory in pricing remdesivir," O'Day concluded Monday's letter. "Ultimately, we were guided by the need to do things differently. As the world continues to reel from the human, social and economic impact of this pandemic, we believe that pricing remdesivir well below value is the right and responsible thing to do."
Earlier this month, O'Day explained in another open letter that Gilead expects "to have more than two million remdesivir treatment courses manufactured by the end of the year and many millions more by 2021."
Recently, a Phase III trial of remdesivir showed that 65 percent of moderately ill patients had improvement after 11 days.
A separate study from the National Institutes of Health published in late May also showed the median time to recovery was 11 days for patients treated with remdesivir compared with 15 days for those who received the placebo.
Remdesvir is currently only approved for SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and Japan, but the FDA allowed emergency use approval of the experimental drug in early May.
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O'Day wrote in the letter, explaining the pricing decisions. "Taking the example of the United States, earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient. Even just considering these immediate savings to the healthcare system alone, we can see the potential value that remdesivir provides.
So the recovered Georgia patient would conceivably have the potential to win $53 million dollars in the Georgia 'Mega Millions' Lottery. Therefore his Remdesivir treatment should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the potential winnings, or $5.3 million dollars.
Does everyone follow my Gilead logic and math? Big Pharma, don't ya just love'em ?
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So, in exchange for shelling out $3,120 for a six-vial treatment, I could have a 65% chance of shortening my WuFlu recovery time from 15 days to 11 days?
Fantastic. What a deal!
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If anybody needed a reason to understand why HCQ clinical tests were so bad.
#10
Jesse Jackson is a pro at shakedowns. Is he doing any consulting work?
As for the 5¢ fee to cross the bridge, it is basically like each and every tax or fee. It never goes away. For example, I believe the Ohio Turnpike was, once it paid for itself, ultimately to be toll-free. LOL, yeah, right.
#11
Same with PA Turnpike. There's still a tax on every bottle of liquor in PeeAye to defray the cost of the Johnstown Flood. Not the 1977 one, the 1889 one.
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160 million a year for the Golden Gate in tolls alone.
PJ via Instapundit
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani posted an emotional reaction to current events in New York City. Data-driven policing was one of the key tools he used to transform New York City from a dangerous and economically depressed city to a destination that drew business, tourism, and entertainment. He is now watching the police force that was critical to securing and improving the city being demoralized and destroyed.
The trends Guiliani identified, related to the horrible leadership of Mayor Bill de Blasio, are starting to become obvious to everyone. The demoralization of the police department actually started several years ago. It first came to a head in 2014 following the assassination of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. There was such disdain for the mayor and his comments about law enforcement that preceded the shooting that hundreds of officers turned their backs on him at the officers’ funerals.
While never fully repaired, an uneasy truce had evolved between the NYPD and the mayor. That all changed with the moral panic that ravaged cities nationwide in the last several weeks. While de Blasio has indicated he will be reducing funding for the NYPD in the budget due on June 30, his leadership and rhetoric during the recent riots are already having disastrous results.
#5
Where's that New York can-do spirit? You can catch up with Chicongo if you really try...
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Cloward-Piven on morale. just make it so difficult and dangerous that no one in their right mind would want to pursue the career.
in some respects, that's what the entire Deep State is attempting in regards to Trump, and in general any non-deep-state-owned politician.
Who needs the bother? The fact that Trump has not just walked away and seems to actually be thriving is amazing. He is much more a patriot than any of the turds in Congress.
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Who knew that "Escape from New York" was an instructional video.
Snake Plisken to the white courtesy phone...Snake Plisken
#8
But DeBolshevik will cut a billion bucks from the NYPD just for good measure. Why do just one of those things when you can do both with twice the damage resulting?
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As long as DeBlasio's personal protection detail is the first to go, I'm fine with cutting the police budget.
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[AlAhram] Twitch, the gaming platform owned by Amazon, said Trump's channel was suspended over rules violations and that the offending content was removed.
"Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch," a spokesperson said.
"We do not make exceptions for political or newsworthy content, and will take action on content reported to us that violates our rules."
Twitch said the offending comments aired on the channel included Trump's remarks from 2015 saying that Mexicans coming into the United States were "bringing drugs," "bringing crime" and were "rapists."
Also cited were his statements from a recent Tulsa rally that "a very tough hombre is breaking into the window of a young woman whose husband is away."
Also Reddit on Monday said it yanked a forum used by supporters of President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
Again? How boring...
as part of a crackdown on hateful posts at the popular online bulletin board while the game streaming platform Twitch briefly suspended the president.
"r/The_Donald" was among some 2,000 forums or "subreddits" banned as tightening of rules at the news-focused social website, Reddit said.
The move comes with online platforms facing pressure to crack down on hateful content, including from the president, amid a broad movement to address racial equity in the wake of police killings of African-Americans.
Trump has complained that Silicon Valley platforms are biased against conservatives, despite his own large social media following.
#7
If Biden is elected the deep state will run everything and they can just let the media have video of him walking to and from Marine One and maybe a bill signing now and then. He won't be under any stress at all.
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Mr. Wife and I discussed this yesterday. His bottom line is that Donald Trump is such a vile, evil, dangerous man that Joe Biden’s senility is significantly better for the country and the world — though really he’s always been like this, so he isn’t senile at all. Also, the Burisma thing is just business as usual, and since Europe agreed with President Obama’s demand as conveyed to Ukraine by the vice president, all that corruption is no big deal... unlike Trump University.
I just let him run down on the subject, because he is otherwise wonderful. Our votes will cancel each other in November, but our district is strongly Republican, so that’s ok.
One of the most astute things Nancy Pelosi ever said (regarding AOC) was that a glass of water with a D after it could be elected in her district. I'm afraid we're about to find out what else with a D after it can be elected.
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The rest just think he's a moron.
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[THEHILL] New York City Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... (D) is proposing a $1 billion cut to the New York Police Department's annual budget as calls grow across the nation for local governments to divert funding from law enforcement and put it toward other social services.
De Blasio said at a presser Monday that his office presented a budget to City Council over the weekend that would "achieve a billion dollars in savings" for New York police.
He said that the funds will be shifted to programs impacting young people and "communities in a way that would help address a lot of the underlying issues that we know are the cause of so many problems in our society."
"I am excited to say that we have a plan that can achieve real reform, that can achieve real redistribution, and at the same time ensure that we keep our city safe, and we make sure that our officers are on patrol where we need them around this city," de Blasio added.
Calls to defund the police and put government funding toward other social services have gained traction in the weeks since the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Mayors in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and Los Angeles have pledged to cut police budgets, while city councils in places such as Washington, D.C., have passed a slate of reform measures to enhance law enforcement oversight.
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and what Bullshit prograns or whose pocket is it going into?
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what Bullshit prograns or whose pocket is it going into?
#6
Among other things, Warren has been in office for I think 6 years...if these programs are so wonderful, why hasn't he implemented them before?
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Bill de Blasio says layoffs for 20,000 city staff will start in October
Downsizing government the hard way, because they refused to do so without clasping the craziness firmly to their bosoms.
But they are downsizing nonetheless, which is the important thing. And when they finally elect another Republican mayor, the police force will be upsized again. In the meantime, private security companies will no doubt be hiring pink-slipped police as fast as they can sign them up.
#13
according to https://www.unz.com/runz/race-and-crime-in-america/ NYPD does an unusually good job of keeping black crime down despite the density of black people.
Expect crime to explode there unless diluted with other less criminal tolerating races.
[NYPOST] A divided Supreme Court on Monday put the brakes on Congress’ attempt to limit the president’s power to remove executive branch officials in a win for President Trump.
The justices ruled, 5-4, that the Constitution requires the president have unfettered discretion to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the high court rejected arguments that the entire agency should be shut down.
All of the Republican appointees on the high court backed the decision eliminating the restrictions on the firing of leaders of so-called single-member agencies, while all the Democrat-appointed justices said they would have left those limitations in place.
The board was the brainchild of Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... before her days in elected office, and enacted into law by Congress in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.
The White House hailed the ruling.
"Today’s decision represents an important victory for the fundamental principle that government officials should be accountable to the American people," press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.
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Yeah, o.k., but I'd rather have had Quisling Roberts vote differently on other issues. But, at least this is "something".
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The leftist rioters say they are fighting fascism. This should be applauded by the rioters. This forever department whose entire purpose is to exist without change and tell companies what they can and cannot do.
#6
Roberts has become a swing vote (translated as unpredictable flake who is often not guided by the Constitution). He has made some horrible decisions but in this case he voted with the majority. Maybe this will shut up the Dem left about Trump's Constitutional right to fire people.
Time to move to the other one? Or for the Justice Department to get involved...
[WesternJournal] As the Trump administration ratchets up the pressure on big technology, President Donald Trump said he expects that Twitter will strike back.
Trump sounded off about Twitter in the course of an interview Friday with Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist.
In recent weeks, Twitter has become aggressive in its handling of Trump’s tweets, posting warnings on one tweet about rioters breaking the law and on another in which Trump mocked CNN.
That led to Domenech asking the president if he expects Twitter will follow up by placing a ban on his personal Twitter account.
"Yes, I do," the president replied.
Trump said he expects the ax will fall this autumn, as the presidential election nears.
"Some people say I should join Parler," Trump said, referring to the platform that touts itself as "an unbiased social media focused on real user experiences and engagement."
"Maybe. We do have over 194 million followers, though, across multiple sites," the president added.
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Its for the October Surprise from the Russiagate prosecutions. The mainsream will be silent, and now Reddit, Facebook and Twitter have all fallen in line to censor anything that might help trump
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parler.com is where people are going
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All he has to do is move to parler and the press would have to move there to follow him. I would have all the congress that support him do it too.
Twitter is dying anyway. Let the far left have it and it will die even faster.
#5
President Trump’s battle is two-fold. People will follow him to Parler, which will definitely grow that business. But the JournoList types will not follow him there — so he has to continue on Twitter in order to make sure they keep fussing about the things he says. Not to mention the sheer usefulness of Alinskying Twitter, Facebook, et al for their ongoing fascistic actions.
It's as if @WHO knows that the new swine flue strain with "human pandemic potential" in China is about to break out, but he can't bring himself to say it. So he blames "lack of international unity" as a way of making sure nobody holds the Chinese Communist Party responsible. https://t.co/fOwUZ0ALF7
#5
Dendritic cells (DCs) Dendritic cells have the broadest range of antigen presentation and are necessary for activation of naive T cells.[1] DCs present antigen to both helper and cytotoxic T cells. They can also perform cross-presentation, a process by which they present exogenous antigen on MHC class I molecules to cytotoxic T cells. Cross-presentation allows for the activation of these T cells.[2]
In short, you have DC primed with specific antigen - no matter which, you have immune response & (maybe) immune memory.
Lots of major basic science learnings from the current panic that will be applicable to all sorts of infections. I live in hope that the females of the Wife household will see benefits down the line.
#7
Pipe dream stuff. Germs have to survive, too, along with the rest of us. It'll be like fighting the last war. Sure, hope they come up with a vaccine, but, at what cost?
[DanielGreenfield] Boston and Dallas have one each. New York City has not one, but two Malcolm X boulevards, along with a playground. Washington D.C. has Malcolm X Avenue. The Los Angeles City Council renamed the intersection near the Bilal Islamic Center, Malcolm X Way.
These are a few of the hundreds of streets, schools, and assorted other civic infrastructure named after the black supremacist leader who worked together with the KKK and the American Nazi Party.
“I sat at the table myself with the heads of the Ku Klux Klan,” Malcolm X later admitted.
The Postal Service even came out with a stamp for a racial separatist who campaigned for a separate black country, and against racial intermarriage.
"Check up on these integration leaders, and you will find that most of them are either married to or hooked up with some white woman," Malcolm X ranted. “No black person married to a white person can speak for me!"
These racist beliefs made Malcolm X a natural ally of the KKK in fighting against civil rights.
In 1961, Malcolm X met with members of the Klu Klux Klan in Atlanta to work together on an alliance against the civil rights movement. The meeting was the result of secret diplomacy between Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad and Klan leader J.B. Stoner who would later be convicted of the bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham. While Muhammad and Stoner put on a public show of attacking each other to increase their stature, behind the scenes the NOI and KKK were allies.
Even as Klansmen bombed black churches like Bethel, they would leave the NOI’s mosques alone.
While Malcolm X would later blame this “conspiracy” on Elijah Muhammad, the NOI leader, the former Malcolm Little was a child of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which had previously allied with the Klan and praised Hitler.
“Between the Klu Klux Klan and the NAACP group, give me the Klan,” Garvey had once said.
Alliances between white supremacists and black supremacists would continue under Louis Farrakhan’s leadership of the Nation of Islam. These racist alliances now date back for at least a century.
Malcolm X and his Klan counterparts both agreed that there was a superior race that would defeat the inferior race. They both saw integrationists as their enemies and blamed the Jews for everything.
“The Jew is behind the integration movement, using the Negro as a tool,” Malcolm X told the KKK.
The man now honored as a civil rights leader also suggested that the Klan kill white civil rights activists, or as Malcolm X called them, “traitors who assisted integration leaders”
While Malcolm X’s meeting with the KKK was briefly kept secret (though at least one of Little’s fellow Nation of Islam ministers had participated in a Klan rally), his flirtation with the American Nazi Party became very public that same year when Malcolm X delivered a racial separatist speech to an audience that included George Lincoln Rockwell and other members of his American Nazi Party.
Malcolm X introduced George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, on stage, led a round of applause for the Neo-Nazi leader, and called him, “Mr. Rockwell.”
Behind the scenes, the NOI and ANP had worked out an agreement of “mutual assistance”.
Some will protest that Malcolm X rejected his racist views when he traded in the Nation of Islam and adopted mainstream Islam. And yet we are told that we must judge every historical figure, every statue and street name now being denounced as racist, for their worst moments, not their best ones.
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.
[Twitter] Chen was known for keeping followers up-to-date with uncensored news direct from Wuhan.
O'Day wrote in the letter, explaining the pricing decisions. "Taking the example of the United States, earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient. Even just considering these immediate savings to the healthcare system alone, we can see the potential value that remdesivir provides.
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
[NYPOST] A divided Supreme Court on Monday put the brakes on Congress’ attempt to limit the president’s power to remove executive branch officials in a win for President Trump.
...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
