Whistleblower says staff working with corona victims have to protection like masks or training

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A whistleblower is alleging that HHS officials dispatched more than a dozen workers to aid quarantined Americans evacuated from China, without providing proper training or protective gear — a move that potentially exposed them to the coronavirus infection. The complaint from an HHS employee also claims those workers were not consistently tested for the virus, … Read more

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Chinese medical workers seem to be using academic journals as way to route around censorship and get a message out to the world.

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I've never seen an article like this in the Lancet. It's not a study, it's a cry for help. Chinese medical workers seem to be using academic journals as way to route around censorship and get a message out to the world.https://t.co/UOtJebWgQD pic.twitter.com/dtX2TSnLyn — Balaji (@balajis) February 26, 2020 Wow. Looks like the censors got … Read more

Airline Stocks, Battered by Coronavirus & Boeing 737 MAX, Plunge to Four-Year Low

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Boeing got battered too but not nearly enough. Introducing my SADJAUS stock index tracking the 7 largest US airlines. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Boeing shares dropped 5.8% today, to $287.76, below where they’d been on that infamous December 24, 2018, and back to where they’d been on December 12, 2017. My only question to the market … Read more

Story about Trump defunding NIH and CDC bogus

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by Jake Congressional Minority leader Kevin McCarthy discusses how Republicans when they controlled the house created and funded a rapid response pandemic system. It was funded with 20 billion. Trump has held a dozen bipartisan meetings every step of the way with democrats and included them on everything that is happening. Starts at 10:30   … Read more

Fastest correction in S&P history, Junk bond yields are rising more rapidly than Treasury yields are falling…

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Fastest correction in S&P history: correction we have seen in stock market over past 6 trading sessions is fastest 10% decline in S&P500 from a record high, DB says. Speed of the decline over the past week even beats Black Monday episode in Oct1987, where the peak was in Aug1987. pic.twitter.com/Y1SLjnaHkk — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) … Read more

The Economist: A broad guess is that 25-70% of people in any infected country may catch the new coronavirus.

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A broad guess is that 25-70% of people in any infected country may catch the new coronavirus. As it goes global, governments have an enormous amount of work to do. Our cover this week https://t.co/SuIZp1V6UV pic.twitter.com/SHC3W7opAz — The Economist (@TheEconomist) February 27, 2020 WASHINGTON — Federal health employees interacted with Americans quarantined for possible exposure … Read more

The issue with a possible stimulus is that it works on the demand side, not the supply side. The virus outbreak causes both a supply shock and a demand shock…

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The issue with a possible stimulus is that it works on the demand side, not the supply side. The virus outbreak causes both a supply shock and a demand shock (people staying away from cinemas, theaters etc) but the supply side (people working from home, not flying, avoiding 1/2 https://t.co/CAIAdKGH2e — Bert Hofman（郝福满） (@berthofmanecon) February … Read more

Khan Academy has basic explanations on taxes in the U.S. This should help you with understanding tax brackets, deductions, and other related information.

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by The14thScorpion   A reminder that this resource exists. There are some simple explanations of tax law in the U.S. over at Khan Academy. Here are a couple links: Introduction to Tax Brackets Introduction to Deductions A link to all lessons in the Tax Portal And since retirement accounts tie into deductions: Link to the … Read more

Bloomberg says “I bought” 20 Democrats in Congress

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by cydude At this week’s Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, the alpha male candidate Michael Bloomberg bragged about using 100 million dollars to buy 21 Democrat Congressmen. Speaking of his role in the 2018 midterm elections, Bloomberg said, “all of the new Democrats that came in, put Nancy Pelosi in charge, and gave Congress the … Read more

Theory: Coronavirus is already all over Europe

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by SpearOfOrion I’m from southern Spain, and this week like 20% of my classmates report flu/cold symptoms, me included. Important info: I already had the flu in around November or so, so I should be immune to the seasonal flu. Before you call me crazy hear me out: In terms of symptoms, corona virus is … Read more

Dems ‘drumming up panic’ about coronavirus, driving down markets

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney argued on Thursday that the Democrats’ pushback against President Trump for his messaging on the coronavirus outbreak is fueling panic and driving down the stock market. “What some of the leading Democrats have been saying about the president’s performance on the virus, I think … Read more

All Schools In Japan Closed Until Early April, W.H.O Now “Advising” About Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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(Silver Doctors Editors) So far, the Olympics are game on, although now the the World Health Organization is stepping in. From MSNBC: The World Health Organization said Thursday it is advising the organizers of the Tokyo Olympics and that no decision has been made to cancel the major sporting event in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. … Read more