Daily Mail: Boris Johnson was in charge at 5pm... and in intensive care by 7: How PM's breathing deteriorated in just hours – a day after being admitted to hospital following video call that left his Cabinet members shocked at his ailing appearance
* The Prime Minister was transferred to the ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in London at 7pm this evening
* He remains conscious and Number 10 sources stressed he had been moved to intensive care as a precaution
* Mr Johnson has asked foreign secretary Dominic Raab to deputise for him 'where necessary'
* Mr Raab reassured that the premier was 'receiving excellent care' and thanked the NHS medics treating him
* UK declared a further 439 coronavirus deaths, taking the toll to 5,373, while cases rose by 3,802 to 51,608
Boris Johnson was last night moved to intensive care after his coronavirus condition worsened, forcing him to temporarily delegate his responsibilities while he is treated by doctors.
The Prime Minister was transferred to the ICU at St Thomas' Hospital in London at 7pm yesterday - 11 days after testing positive for the deadly disease.
Only two hours earlier, Downing Street were insisting he was still spearheading the government's coronavirus response, despite de facto deputy Dominic Raab chairing the morning crisis meeting.
Yet shortly after the Foreign Secretary left the Number 10 podium following the daily 5pm press briefing, Mr Johnson suffered breathing problems and was given oxygen.
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MIDDLE EAST
The U.S. and Iran inch toward confrontation in Iraq.
US, Iraq to hold talks on troop future.
Syria War: 'Highly probable' Syrian military hit civilian targets - UN.
UN inquiry stops short of directly blaming Russia over Idlib attacks.
Iran reopens parliament as virus infections drop for seventh day.
Houthis launch ballistic missile attack against Yemen’s Saada.
Global rights groups condemn deadly attack on Yemen jail.
ASIA
Afghanistan: Taliban breaks off 'fruitless' prisoner exchange talks.
Asia virus latest: China reports no new deaths, Indonesia issues 'pandemic bonds'.
China reports no new Covid-19 deaths; Japan declares emergency for 7 areas.
Coronavirus: Trump warns India of retaliation over 'game-changer' drug.
US accuses Beijing of using coronavirus as cover for South China Sea activity.
North Korea activity remains low at China border, analysts say.
South Korea's opposition vows to get tough on North Korea.
Cyclone Harold in Vanuatu destroys buildings, raises coronavirus fears.
Killer of Bangladesh independence leader arrested after 45 years on run.
George Pell: Australian Court quashes cardinal's sexual abuse conviction.
AFRICA
Mali gunmen kill 25 soldiers killed in suspected jihadist attack. Up to 20 Malian soldiers killed in attack on military base.
Libya GNA forces destroy military plane, supplies near Tripoli.
Former Libyan PM Mahmoud Jibril dies of COVID-19 in Egypt.
Six killed in quarantined DR Congo region.
Former Chad ruler allowed to leave prison for home confinement.
Measles: In Ebola's shadow, a quiet killer is on a rampage in DRC.
Rwanda discovers mass grave thought to hold the remains of 30,000 genocide victims.
Senegal postpones Independence Day celebrations.
Locust swarm invades eastern Uganda.
EUROPE
Boris Johnson is being treated for coronavirus in intensive care in a London hospital. Here's what we know.
Boris Johnson: World leaders wish speedy recovery from coronavirus.
As rest of Europe battles coronavirus, these three countries plan to ease tough restrictions.
Coronavirus: North-South divide ahead of key EU meeting.
Hungary: Law to fight coronavirus creates 'uncertainty' for journalists.
Poland plans May election despite pandemic.
Kier Starmer becomes Britian's new Labour leader, pledges 'new era.
Wildfire near Chernobyl releases spike in radiation.
A year after blaze, Notre-Dame to hold Good Friday mass amid virus lockdown.
AMERICAS
Trump says WHO is China-centric, 'really blew it' on coronavirus.
Donald Trump says all Americans are praying for 'good friend' Boris Johnson after he was rushed to intensive care with coronavirus and reveals he has asked 'major drug companies' to help with his treatment.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold talks on coronavirus crisis after 2020 Democrat slammed administration's response and offered to call as president calls it a 'really wonderful and warm' conversation.
Gun battle between gang tied to El Chapo's old cartel and rival group leaves 19 dead in Mexico during a bloody weekend in which at least 300 were murdered.
Brazil: Amazon's indigenous tribes brace for coronavirus.
Guatemala asks US to limit deportees on planes.
Poll: U.S. conjures up mostly negative, neutral words in Canada, Mexico.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
U.S. military fears pandemic could lead to ISIS resurgence in Syria.
Police arrest suspect after stabbing in France kills 2, injures others.
The coronavirus won’t kill the Islamic Republic.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
U.S. airlines want a $50 billion bailout. They spent $45 billion buying back their stock.
Saudi to host G20 energy ministers' meeting on Friday.
Samsung, LG, Hyundai restart operations around the world.
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Democrat Party Leadership
Another Elitist Busted: Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Cuts Video About Staying Home Saving Lives, Don't Get Your Hair Done... Then Caught Getting Hair Done
Ditto Mayor De Blasio
Trump has become an avid promoter of the drug from the White House podium. “What really do we have to lose?” he told reporters over the weekend. “It is a very strong, powerful medicine. It does not kill people. We have some very good results and some very good tests,” he added, glossing over concerns from some of his own officials, who fear that the evidence of the drug’s efficacy is anecdotal at best.
The nation’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony Fauci, has repeatedly warned in public and private that no definitive evidence exists about the drug. Behind the scenes, career health officials have raised even stronger warnings about the risk to some Americans’ heart health and other complications, but been warned not to publicly speak out and potentially contradict Trump, said two officials.
TIME LINE by GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
JAN 7:
CDC established a coronavirus incident management system, two days before China announced the outbreak.
Pelosi began Week 3 of withholding her sham impeachment articles. (1/8)
JAN 21:
The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support to confront coronavirus.
What were Congressional Democrats focused on?
Writing their opening arguments for their bogus impeachment trial. (2/8)
JAN 27:
A tale of 2 press conferences.
@Mike_Pence outlined the administration's efforts to work with China to counter coronavirus.
Chuck Schumer demanded that more time be wasted with new impeachment witnesses. (3/8)
JAN 31:
@realDonaldTrump initiated travel restrictions from China, which the experts have praised as a critical decision to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Democrat leaders called him “xenophobic” and “racist.” (4/8)
FEB 9:
The Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force met with governors to coordinate response efforts.
Chuck Schumer was busy soliciting inspectors general to open NEW investigations into @realDonaldTrump. (5/8)
FEB 24:
@realDonaldTrump requested additional funding to fight the coronavirus.
Democrat Jerry Nadler demanded more documents from AG Barr to continue his political vendetta against the Trump administration. (6/8)
HUGE! Covid Tracking Website DELETES Information on Hospitalizations, ICU Patients After TGP Reports Numbers Fall Well Below Model Predictions
– Overestimation of hospitalizations: 8 times
– Overestimation of of ICU beds needed: 6.4 times
– Overestimation of ventilators needed: 40.5 times
via Gateway pundit
and the GOP folks who dols[sic] stoc
You are not going Biden on us are you?
Obviously Biden follows the squirrel!
Queuing theory is the study of congestion and waiting in line. The theory can help with creating an efficient and cost-effective workflow, allowing the user to improve traffic flow. Queuing theory assesses two key aspects—customer arrival at the facility and service requirements.
It amazes me that a science that got its start 15 years before a dude was born, a science that has been around for 100 years, and it is totally foreign to a dude.
A dude must have led the sheltered life of the blissfully ignorant.
DDDDRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!!!!
‘Trump Has Never Lied’: New Press Secretary’s Long History of Bullshit and Lies
Justin BaragonaContributing Editor
8-10 minutes
After just 10 months on the job, and without holding a single press briefing, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham left her post to rejoin First Lady Melania Trump’s staff, opening up the position to former cable-news pundit and current Trump campaign flack Kayleigh McEnany.
The 31-year-old has experienced something of a meteoric rise within MAGA ranks over the past four years. After interning for Republican politicians and working on Mike Huckabee’s Fox News show, McEnany burst onto the public scene as a pro-Trump CNN commentator during the 2016 election. Her unwavering support for Trump and commitment to defending any and every position he took resulted in her gig as the Republican National Committee’s national spokesperson in August 2017 (following a one-day turn as a Trump TV host). And in February 2019, she moved up to the Trump campaign, serving as its national press secretary.
McEnany’s predecessor notably didn’t hold a single press briefing during her tenure but did make dozens of appearances on Trump-friendly Fox News, a habit the new press secretary will almost assuredly continue. If history is any indication, McEnany will be comfortable in the role of appearing regularly on Fox and occasionally getting into bizarro battles with CNN hosts.
Behold, some of McEnany’s greatest hits:
‘We Will Not See Diseases Like Coronavirus Come Here’
Weeks before the United States saw more than 360,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and the U.S. death toll topped 10,000, McEnany confidently declared that the virus would not hit our shores.
Appearing on Trish Regan’s Fox Business show in late February—Regan was later axed by the network after calling the disease an “impeachment scam”—McEnany lauded the president’s partial Chinese travel ban as having stopped the threat of a pandemic in the U.S.
Because of the travel restrictions, “we will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here,” she exclaimed. “And isn’t it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama."
McEnany’s assertion that Americans needn’t worry about the spread of COVID-19 came on the same day that Trump’s chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow now-infamously declared that the outbreak was “contained” in the U.S.
RONAVIRUS 04/07/2020 07:29 am ET Updated 2 hours ago
Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report
The president has repeatedly touted the anti-malaria drug as a coronavirus treatment despite a lack of medical evidence.
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By Ron Dicker
President Donald Trump reportedly owns a stake in a company that produces hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment even though his experts say there’s no strong evidence it works.
Trump “has a small personal financial interest” in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine, The New York Times reported Monday.
In addition, Sanofi’s largest shareholders include a mutual fund company run by major Republican donor Ken Fisher, the paper said. Trump’s three family trusts, as of last year, each had investments in a mutual fund whose largest holding was Sanofi, according to the Times. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross also had ties to the drugmaker, the Times reported.
Trump’s “assertiveness” in promoting the drug contrary to the recommendation of top health experts “has raised questions about his motives,” the Times noted.
The financial news site MarketWatch and The Washington Post later estimated Trump’s stake to be worth between about $100 and $1,500, though the Post noted his trusts may have amassed other investments since his most recent disclosure. “He does look to have more than that modest sum invested in Sanofi, because, unmentioned in the Times report, his trusts also hold broader European stock-market index funds,” MarketWatch pointed out.
A chorus of Trump supporters with no medical expertise have backed the president’s urging of doctors to treat COVID-19 patients with the drug, including his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
In the face of warnings from top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci that the drug’s safety and effectiveness are uncertain in treating COVID-19, Trump has continued to laud its supposed benefits.
“What do you have to lose?” he asked at a press briefing this week urging those sick with the virus to take the drug.
Turns out plenty.
“There could be deaths,” American Medical Association President Dr. Patrice Harris said. “This is a new virus, and so we should not be promoting any medication or drug for any disease that has not been proven and approved by the FDA.”
Generic drugmakers also are gearing up to produce hydroxychloroquine pills. One of those companies was co-founded by Trump golfing buddy Chirag Patel, according to the Times.
The White House didn’t immediately answer HuffPost’s request for comment.
John Dillard, a spokesperson for Fisher Investments, called the Times article a “false report” and said Sanofi “is neither a material holding of Fisher Investments nor of Ken Fisher personally.” He also took issue with the characterization of his boss as a Republican donor, saying Fisher also had contributed to Democrats in the past.
Justin Baragona?
Went to a university and changed his major from physics to photography.
What did the great Fred R. Lapides say in his Rutgers Oral History Archives bit about GI Bill recipients majoring in photography and such majors?
I will say this for Mr. Baragona. He has more real world experience and common sense than Frederick.
do not know. since you are stalking, why not tell us.
hope you enjoyed reading my bio, misfit...or did mommy read it to you?
STALKER STALKER STALKER
Covid Is Forcing the GOP to Admit Its Ideology Is Delusional
ANOTHER Georgia senator faces questions over shares sell-off as it's revealed he dumped 34 stocks worth $825,000 in March after closed-door coronavirus briefings
Sen. David Purdue, a Georgia Republican, is facing questions over a flurry of stock transactions he made in March
Purdue's rate of trading increased threefold in comparison to past months, amid the coronavirus wreaking havoc on the stock market
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on the transactions Monday, with a spokeswoman saying Purdue is not in charge of his profile
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, Georgia's other senator who's also a Republican, has been called on to resign over dumping stocks after a coronavirus briefing
Loeffler is polling behind Rep. Doug Collins and a Democratic contender in the Georgia special election in November
Collins was previously ahead of Loeffler by 8 points, now he's up by 23 points, polling done for his campaign shows
Since you're fascinated by stock why don't you talk about your portfolio? It would make very interesting reading don't you think?
Dem Lawmaker Who Credited Trump For Saving Her Life Says She Had to Beg For Hydroxychloroquine After Michigan Gov Barred the Drug (VIDEO)
BLEXIT is real.
Karen Whitsett (D-Detroit) will become a Republican sometime in her life and we will welcome her.
"Since you're fascinated by stock why don't you talk about your portfolio? It would make very interesting reading don't you think?"
I could be wrong, but what I know of squirrel is that he is a follower not a doer. He goes with the flow. He's said so.
Whatever the university system or the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) offered, he chose form that. I do not know that squirrel is an AAUP member, but I give it greater than a 30% chance, since he is a follower not a thinker. He is the type of fella that, if the herd goes over the cliff, he goes with them.
Why read up on the squirrel. He posted under his real name and his posts were and are real doozies. You think no one could be so dim. So you look and the only thing I can conclude is that he is a follower, not an original thinker, and not that bright.
That is my opinion of the squirrel.
And sometimes I think that maybe some partisan liberal hack could be posting under a person's name, who has ceased to have a web presence. Because like I have said in so many words, the lights are on, but no one is home. How do you explain that?
He gave a public interview about his life and times, which he is somewhat sensitive about. He likes to talk but will never offer proof of anything.
Oooh, somebody's upset and found the all caps. Where's your DD-214? What stocks do you have?
Squirrel's always classy, but won't answer anything.
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