Recovered patients from Coronavirus being re-infected, dying of heart attacks

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https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3876197 “It’s highly possible to get infected a second time. A few people recovered from the first time by their own immune system, but the meds they use are damaging their heart tissue, and when they get it the second time, the antibody doesn’t help but makes it worse, and they die a sudden death … Read more

Deployment of anti-immigration units in large democratic cities that refuse to collaborate with the federal state

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Officers from a special tactical team that normally confronts smugglers at the border are dispatched to “sanctuary cities” across the country. The Trump administration is deploying tactical law enforcement units from the southern border as part of a spiked up operation in the country’s “sanctuary cities”, an escalation in the fight against president against localities … Read more

760 million now in residential lockdown (China)

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To stop the spread of the coronavirus much of China has effectively shut down. What’s not been fully appreciated is how extensive the closures are. By our calculations 760 million are living under some kind of residential lockdown. https://t.co/ZuO31QVi6g — Paul Mozur 孟建國 (@paulmozur) February 15, 2020 It’s one of the largest social control experiments … Read more

Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World

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by visualcapitalist Even though you’re reading this article in English, there’s a good chance it might not be your mother tongue. Of the billion-strong English speakers in the world, only 33% consider it their native language. The popularity of a language depends greatly on utility and geographic location. Additionally, how we measure the spread of world languages can … Read more

Jim Rogers: Where can we go with the West in decline? … Guggenheim on the coming exponential rise in silver …

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BY JOHN RUBINO Jim Rogers: Where can we go with the West in decline? … David Morgan: The economic impact of the coronavirus will be immense … Rick Rule: We’re in a Goldilocks market for gold mining stocks … Guggenheim on the coming exponential rise in silver … Egon von Greyerz: The Dow will crash 95% … Read more

The White House doesn’t trust China’s coronavirus numbers — here’s why

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The coronavirus that emerged from China’s Hubei province over a month ago and has spread to two dozen countries is already fueling mistrust from the U.S. government on whether China can provide accurate information. U.S. mistrust of China goes as far back as the 1950s, when national authorities set unrealistic production quotas that led local … Read more

The U.S. 10 Yr/3 M Spread inverted again

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https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=10Y3MS It means that people are betting the economy is gonna falter in the short term driving the yield for long term bonds down as the price goes up. An inverted yield curve is used as a sign of recession.   AC

If China’s factories remain closed beyond Feb, the US GDP hit would be ~25 bps per month starting in Mar and probably grow exponentially thereafter.

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If China’s factories remain closed beyond Feb, the US GDP hit would be ~25 bps per month starting in Mar and probably grow exponentially thereafter. The Global Value Chain can probably withstand up to a month of Chinese production outages, given the inventory buffers. #economics pic.twitter.com/4xNkCsPpIj — Aneta Markowska (@AnetaBMarkowska) February 13, 2020 Market bulls … Read more

CDC : “Right now there is no evidence to me that this Coronovirus outbreak is at all under control. It is definitely not controlled. And the sooner we can help them get it under control, the better for the whole world.”

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https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1228444174120128512 It's getting serious now…#China #coronavirus Via @VipulV2304 https://t.co/WE2tKN2W8Z — Tuomas Malinen (@mtmalinen) February 15, 2020 NEW: 2nd doctor diagnosed with coronavirus at Japanese hospital – NHK https://t.co/eUoE2b20hL — BNO News (@BNOFeed) February 15, 2020

CDC requisitioning supplies for Coronavirus

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I just heard someone call into a radio show talk about how they went to a medical supplier to buy some face masks today. He was told the CDC has requisitioned all supplies nationwide and there were none available for sale and none in the future until this crisis ends. “In March 2012, Barack Obama … Read more

VIX Check: All of these patterns leave the door open for a much larger $VIX spike to materialize still in 2020

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by northmantrader Time to check in on the good old $VIX. Crushed again on Friday following another week of meaningless chop during trading hours. The broader price ranges continue to be printed in overnight hours, be it magic overnight lows leading to gap ups and ramps, or, as on Friday, seeing highs made during pre-market an … Read more

RESEARCH PAPER:The Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is Highly Contagious and More Infectious Than Initially Estimated , R0: 4.7-6.6

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“Abstract The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. … Read more