Politico: "In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened"

More evidence that the Coronavirus came from a Wuhan lab. From Politico:

 On January 15, in its last days, President Donald Trump’s State Department put out a statement with serious claims about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The statement said the U.S. intelligence community had evidence that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory were sick with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019—implying the Chinese government had hidden crucial information about the outbreak for months—and that the WIV lab, despite “presenting itself as a civilian institution,” was conducting secret research projects with the Chinese military. The State Department alleged a Chinese government cover-up and asserted that “Beijing continues today to withhold vital information that scientists need to protect the world from this deadly virus, and the next one.”

131,000 people of the 220,000 deaths that were classified as Coronavirus deaths already had life ending diseases

 The Coronavirus is rarely the actual cause of death among patients who are classified as Coronavirus deaths. Video from OAN is available here.

Left wing groups brag that "The Coronavirus Bill Contains ‘The Most Significant Climate Legislation’ Ever"

 "The Coronavirus Bill Contains ‘The Most Significant Climate Legislation’ Ever"

The left wing National Resources Defense Council says, “This is perhaps the most significant climate legislation Congress has ever passed.”

Why is this massive environmental regulation in the Covid bill?

Some of the evidence on the hydroxychloroquine and the Coronavirus

Possibly people haven't heard about all the studies showing the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine is because Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are actively taking down statements by doctors about its benefits. They are even censoring academic studies that show the benefits. You will need to use a search tool other than Google to get most studies on the benefits.

Henry Ford

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Yale Medical School Prof

Institute of Infectious Diseases in Marseille

Other studies

three studies here

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation

India

It is amazing that Twitter, FB and other social media outlets have closed accounts if people link to statements by doctors about hydroxychloroquine

It is very hard to find studies that find benefits from hydroxychloroquine because Google censors those searches. Of course, you probably know that Google sensors conservatives generally.

The big Lancet study that everyone in the media was citing about the harm from hydroxychloroquine was obviously bad as anyone with a statistics background could tell because of a self-selection problem, but it was retracted because they had doctored data.

Who is the real Dr. Fauci, he now worries that stay-home orders could cause ‘irreparable damage’

Just 10 days after warning the Senate that he was worried about stay-at-home orders being lifted too quickly, Fauci had a very different message.

Stay-home orders that extend too long could cause the U.S. “irreparable damage,” Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday.Strict crackdowns on large gatherings and other orders, such as for home quarantines, were needed when the coronavirus first hit the nation, but those rules can now begin to be lifted in many parts of the country, Fauci said during an interview on CNBC.
“I don’t want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go,” the member of the White House coronavirus task force said.
“But now is the time, depending upon where you are and what your situation is, to begin to seriously look at reopening the economy, reopening the country to try to get back to some degree of normal.”

This is regarding Fauci's Senate testimony on May 12th.

Fauci warned that prematurely lifting coronavirus restrictions closing schools and businesses and limiting travel would lead to "suffering and death" and "turn the clock back instead of going forward." 

CDC mixes up Coronavirus data: They mistakenly mixed together the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country's disease totals

This is a very big mistake, making it looking like the problems with the disease are much bigger than they actually are.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged Thursday that it is combining the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country's testing totals, despite marked differences between the tests. . . . 

"The viral testing is to understand how many people are getting infected, while antibody testing is like looking in the rearview mirror. The two tests are totally different signals," Jha told The Atlantic. 

In a statement, CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund told The Hill that when the agency began to track coronavirus testing, viral tests were far more commonly used nationwide than serology testing." 

"Now that serology testing is more widely available, CDC is working to differentiate those tests from the viral tests and will report this information, differentiated by test type, publicly on our COVID Data Tracker website in the coming weeks," she said. . . .

Wow!: Leaked ‘Five Eyes’ dossier on alleged Chinese coronavirus coverup consistent with US findings

So it looks like Western intelligence is united on the view that China 

“The 15-page document from the intelligence agencies of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand, . . . . aligns with U.S. intelligence that China knew the spread between humans earlier than it said, that it knew it was a novel coronavirus earlier than it said and that it was spread wider than they reported to the international community in the first weeks of the outbreak. But there are some exceptions. In particular, Australia believes the virus originated in a wet market, as the Chinese have claimed. However,  the U.S. intelligence community has not yet determined this and is still leaning away from that theory.”

Looks like this will be the lead item in a lawsuit against China.

Timeline of actions taken by the Trump administration to combat the Coronavirus

97% of Coronavirus deaths in Louisiana had pre-existing conditions

As of Thursday, April 2nd, 97% of the 310 Coronavirus deaths in Louisiana had pre-existing conditions.

Some 97% of those killed by COVID-19 in Louisiana had a pre-existing condition, according to the state health department. Diabetes was seen in 40% of the deaths, obesity in 25%, chronic kidney disease in 23% and cardiac problems in 21%.  

Orleans Parish, which encompasses the city, reported 125 confirmed coronavirus deaths as of Thursday, the equivalent of 32 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people. That rate for New York City was at 15.9 on Thursday. 

As of Monday, April 6th,

As of Monday, 512 people have died in Louisiana from the new coronavirus. The most common pre-existing conditions in those patients were:
- Hypertension (66.4%)
- Diabetes (43.5%)
- Chronic kidney disease (25.1%)
- Obesity (24.7%)

More info on Louisiana available here and here.

In New York, 86% of Coronavirus deaths were for people with pre-existing illnesses

From USA Today:

86% of deaths involved people with pre-existing illnesses.

And 4,089 of those who died had at least one other chronic disease, the records showed:

• The leading underlying illness was hypertension, which showed up in 55% of the deaths.

• Next was diabetes, which was diagnosed in 1,755 deaths, or about 37% of the cases.

• Other top illnesses found in those who died from coronavirus were hyperlipidemia; coronary artery disease; renal disease and dementia.

Additional info:

Of the 4,758 deaths in New York since the first on March 14, 61% were men and 39% were women, the state Department of Health reportedon its new data portal. 

In addition, 63% of the deaths were among those age 70 and older, while 7% of the cases were those 49 and younger.

96.6% of people in Chicago who died from Coronavirus had pre-existing conditions

The UK Daily Mail has some interesting detailed data for Chicago's deaths from the Coronavirus.

When people complain about Trump changing positions on the danger from the Coronavirus note what the experts were saying

“This is not a major threat for the people in United States, and this is not something the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about” - Dr. Fauci to @gregkellyusa, Jan 21, 2020

OSHA regulations prevent truck driver from having hand sanitizer in his truck

And people really want the federal government to run our response to the Coronavirus?

"Nick Perry, a 32-year-old UPS driver in Columbus, Ohio, said his supervisors had told him that he could not have Lysol wipes or hand sanitizer in his truck without paperwork listing the ingredients, as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Mr. Perry said he feared for his twin boys, who have a history of serious respiratory problems."

Just keeping track of COVID-19 predictions

Some pretty amazing predictions about the death total from the Coronavirus. I am willing to bet that these estimates are massively too high.

From the New York Times:

Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die. . . .

From Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., warned on Thursday that the potential deaths and economic impacts of the coronavirus were "on a scale of a major war." 

"Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible," Sanders, a 2020 presidential candidate, said during a speech from Vermont. 

"But we also have to face the truth and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in World War II. In other words, we have a major, major crisis and we must act accordingly." . . . 

The U.S. military saw more than 400,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 wounded as a result of World War II. . . .

From a former Obama administration official:

Slavitt is the former Medicare, Medicaid & ACA head for Obama.