The number of people that have been killed from the coronavirus inside the Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly exploded as an Iranian member of parliament admitted on Friday that the nation was lying to the world about the “horrific numbers” of deaths the country has suffered.
The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51673053">reported</a>:
<blockquote>At least 210 people in Iran have died as a result of the new coronavirus disease, sources in the country&#8217;s health system have told BBC Persian.
Most of the victims are from the capital, Tehran, and the city of Qom, where cases of Covid-19 first emerged.</blockquote>
Iran&#8217;s Islamic government, which is notoriously dishonest, insisted that the BBC was lying and claimed that only 388 people had been infected and only 34 had died.
New York Times reporter Farnaz Fassihi reported on Friday: &#8220;Real infected numbers about 10,000 to 15,000, says head of health committee of Tehran city council.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iran</a> coronavirus Friday: Tolls climbs 34 dead &amp; 388 infected. Likely spread to 22 provinces. Peak will come next weeks as tests kits are more available, health minister. Real infected numbers about 10,000 to 15,000, says head of health committee of Tehran city council. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#كرونا</a>
&mdash; Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) <a href="https://twitter.com/farnazfassihi/status/1233417739668262912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The BBC&#8217;s numbers were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/middleeast/coronavirus-iran-confusion.html">based</a> on the &#8220;news service’s own survey of Iranian hospitals.&#8221;
“I say this explicitly, the statistics presented so far are not true,” MP Gholamali Jafarzadeh Imenabadi reportedly <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-mp-says-coronavirus-deaths-171743076.html">said</a>. “I have statistics about the number of deaths due to coronavirus from three different cemeteries in Rasht and I have to say that the numbers are much higher than what is being said. It is not as if we can hide the cemeteries.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that the administration has made repeated offers to help Iran deal with the outbreak, but have been rejected.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi falsely accused the U.S. of playing a &#8220;political-psychological game&#8221; on Iran.

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President Trump held a White House roundtable meeting on Thursday to discuss the positive steps the administration has taken toward helping members of the black community.
During the meeting, Jack Brewer, a professor at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and former NFL player, told Trump that the president had inspired him to abandon the Democratic Party. 
“I ran the NFL players for Obama, I’ve been a Democrat all my life &#8230; and you changed me, you changed me, you touched me, and you made my work go to another level, you inspire me,” said Brewer. Later in the meeting, Brewer dropped this line: &#8220;Mr. President, I don&#8217;t mean to interrupt, but I&#8217;ve got to say this because it&#8217;s Black History Month: Man, you the first black president.”
After the remark, the room burst into applause. The remark echoed similar comments made earlier in the meeting, when two different members of the roundtable called Trump the best president since Abraham Lincoln.
According to <a href="https://realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/27/cnns_keith_boykin_man_who_called_trump_first_black_president_an_uncle_tom.html">RealClearPolitics</a>, during an episode of “CNN Tonight” with Don Lemon, commentator Keith Boykin said the event was unserious, and condemned the president’s outreach to the black community.
“He’s been president for almost four years now, and he’s never made a single visit to a black community to attend a black event,” said Boykin. “For g*ds sake, he hasn’t even gone to the black community in Washington D.C., he hasn’t gone to the black community in New York, in Harlem, or in Brooklyn where he lived.”
“The idea that anybody would sit in the room with Donald Trump and call him the first black president, after we had Barack Obama as the president of the United States, shows just what kind of Uncle Toms were sitting in that room in the first place,” Boykin told Lemon, who audibly cringed. “That&#8217;s ridiculous. It’s an outrage that anyone would sit in that room and say something like that.”
During the meeting, Trump offered a story about helping students who attend historically black colleges and universities, a story he said that “the press doesn’t write about.”
“Every year, a group of wonderful people from the Black colleges and universities, would come up to my office – a lot of people, forty, thirty-five, fifty, [during] one year – and after the second year I said, ‘How come you keep coming back,’” asked Trump.
“One of the gentlemen, who is a great guy from one of the schools, good school, very good school, he said ‘we come back because we have to,’” recalled Trump. “‘They want us to come back every single year, they want us to beg.’ He used that word.”
Last year, Trump signed a bill authorizing over $250 million for minority-serving colleges and universities, including $85 million for historically black colleges, reports the <a href="https://apnews.com/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a">Associated Press</a>.
“When I took office, I promised to fight for HBCUs, and my administration continues to deliver,” Trump said at the time. “A few months ago, funding for HBCUs was in jeopardy, but the White House and Congress came together and reached a historic agreement.”

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Next week, the Supreme Court will start to hear oral arguments about a massive government agency (an idea <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/20/20867899/elizabeth-warren-cfpb-founding-plans-obama-president">originally proposed by Elizabeth Warren</a> that now has <a href="https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201905_cfpb_FY-2018_MD-715_annual-report.pdf">roughly 1,500 employees)</a> which can affect thousands of businesses across the country without being accountable to anyone but itself.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in its present form escapes the separation of powers enumerated in the Constitution and holds power to destroy businesses at will. As Oliver Dunford of the Pacific Legal Foundation wrote last October in <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/466347-supreme-court-will-take-on-fourth-branch-of-bureaucracies">The Hill</a>:
<blockquote>The CFPB may prescribe rules and regulations under various consumer-protection laws; enforce conduct that it may define as ‘unfair, deceptive or abusive’; and adjudicate its own enforcement actions and impose legal and equitable remedies. Right away, you’ll notice by that brief description that the CFPB captures the roles and responsibilities of all three branches of government under one roof. So much for separation of powers.
So let’s say your company is accused of violating a CFPB rule. The CFPB can sue you in court or — at its sole discretion — subject you to an administrative-enforcement hearing, administered by the CFPB. If you don’t like the CFPB’s in-house decision, you can appeal — to the CFPB’s director. And only after the director’s decision could you seek review in a court of law.
But the deck is stacked even then, because courts are required to defer to the CFPB’s factual findings and legal conclusions. The ultimate outcome of this concentration of discretionary power, together with its significant independence of the three traditional branches of government, is arbitrary and abusive government.</blockquote>
The Pacific Legal Foundation asked in a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-7/109607/20190729134534667_Seila%20Law%20Amicus%20Brief%20-%20July%2026%202019%20-%20Final.pdf">friend-of-the-court brief</a> in the case of Seila Law v. CFPB, “Whether the vesting of legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director who cannot be removed except for cause, violates the separation of powers.”
The brief continued, “This case presents the Court with a unique and dangerous concentration of the federal government’s legislative, executive, and judicial powers in a single, ‘independent’agency; an agency headed by a lone ‘Director’empowered with vast executive discretion but protected from removal except for cause; an agency whose actions enjoy an unprecedented freedom from oversight by the government’s constitutionally vested powers. The combination of authority, discretion, and impunity in this independent power all but guarantees arbitrary governance. This is, therefore, ‘a case about executive power and individual liberty.’”
The brief added, “Created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and its lone Director were given vast powers—legislative, executive, and judicial—along with substantial protections against interference by the three constitutional powers of government. As then-Judge Kavanaugh noted, with the exception of the President, the CFPB Director &#8216;enjoys more unilateral authority than any other official in any of the three branches of the U.S. Government.&#8217;”
More:
<blockquote>The Bureau was given vast discretion to determine how it may enact these generally applicable rules, and it is not limited to the formal rulemaking process. The CFPB is authorized to “establish the general policies of the [CFPB] with respect to all executive and administrative functions,” including “implementing the Federal consumer financial laws through rules, orders, guidance, interpretations, statements of policy, examinations, and enforcement actions.” Perhaps most troubling, this power allows the CFPB to use administrative-enforcement actions (which, as noted below, are subject to deferential judicial review), not only to enforce existing rules, but also to establish new policies—that is, to punish conduct that was, before an enforcement action, perfectly legal.
The CFPB is also largely free of congressional oversight. Most significantly, the CFPB’s budget does not go through Office of Management and Budget review, and it is not submitted to Congress for annual appropriations subject to the relative priorities of the President and Congress. Instead, the CFPB Director—alone— sets the agency’s budget; and its funds come not from Congress (pursuant to an appropriations bill signed into law by the President), but from the Federal Reserve, which “shall transfer” to the CFPB funds in “the amount [up to 12 percent of the Federal Reserve’s operating budget] determined by the [CFPB] Director to be reasonably necessary” to administer the consumer-protection laws. These funding decisions are effectively unreviewable.</blockquote>
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The Invisible Man?” More like “The Woman Trapped in The Invisible Man’s Mansion.”
Yes, the latest take on the classic monster is oh, so 21st century in its gender swap pitch.
We’re following the woman in the “Man’s” sick orbit, not the title character himself.
The film’s big, bold metaphor doesn’t weigh down the story. Nor does writer/director<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191481/"> Leigh Whannell</a> of “Saw” fame stop to lecture us about toxic masculinity or the patriarchy. There’s no time for that, even though the movie is two full hours long. Instead, the focus is on tension, the unrelenting kind.
It’s ’bout time.
The film opens with a desperate Cecilia Kass (Elizabeth Moss) leaving the bed, and life, of her beau Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). It’s a spellbinding sequence, the kind teeming with screenwriter tics and traps.
We don’t care.
The escape thrusts us directly into Cecilia’s plight. Her boyfriend is a monster, and not the supernatural sort. Her choices are simple. Escape … or die inside.
Except a few days later it’s Adrian who ends up dead. Cecilia looks to restart her shattered life with the help of her sister (Harriet Dyer) and an old friend (Aldis Hodge). Only Cecilia isn’t quite sure Adrian’s actually gone.
He didn’t seem the suicidal type, for starters. Plus, something or someone is sneaking around her temporary home. Could Adrian have gained the power of invisibility in order to get his revenge? Yeah, she makes that leap pretty quickly, one of a dizzying amount of story fragments you’ll mull over later.
Why later?
Well, Whannell’s film is so tightly constructed, so flooded with fear, that audiences are left hoping for a break of some kind, if only to exhale.
It never really arrives.
The biggest fear may be waiting for the inevitable woke wave given Hollywood’s virtue signaling obsession. The closest we get is a male boss complimenting Cecilia’s looks during a job interview. It’s a bit creepy, but the story quickly moves on.
Whannell is a horror veteran with little patience for lectures. We wish his peers felt the same.
Moss is excellent here, clinging to a semblance of sanity despite Cecilia’s ramblings. No one believes her, and why should they? The character could have gone the Full Nic Cage. Instead, Moss grounds the material with subtle, expert shadings.
You can read plenty into “The Invisible Man’s” lived-in script, like how manipulative men keep their women in check through their wealth and mental games.
That paves the way for Cecilia slowly, painfully, regaining her identity, her purpose.
The secondary characters add heft to the proceedings, as does a script which avoids wince-inducing moments. Hodge is particularly strong as an old pal willing to help Cecilia slowly re-enter society. Storm Reid adds more texture as a rising artist, but she isn’t on screen enough to make a definitive impact.
The film’s score and sound effects demand a large, booming theater for maximum goosebumps. It’s half the fun realizing how those audio cues keep us engaged, even in scenes where nothing moves on screen.
The film occasionally resembles the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, where we stare at the screen for any sign of movement.
No score can save us from the final, fatal scene. The filmmaker’s hands are suddenly oh, so visible, pulling strings in ways that are clunky and impure. Had the movie taken another path, any other path, it could have been one of the year’s standout shockers.
As is, “The Invisible Man” reinvents a classic creature via well earned social awareness and old-fashioned thrills.
HiT or Miss: “The Invisible Man” delivers slick, supreme suspense up until its lackluster ending.
A version of this article was also published on <a href="http://hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.

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On Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bernie-sanders-releases-new-proud-to-be-jewish-campaign-video/">boasting recently</a> that he is “proud to be Jewish” despite his constant association with virulent Israel-haters such as Rep. Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour, will skip the AIPAC conference, which is devoted to the support of the state of Israel, and instead hold a rally in Los Angeles, joined by another Israel-hater, Public Enemy’s Chuck D.
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When we fight, we win. Donate any amount to get this new Fight The Power poster to commemorate our upcoming pre-Super Tuesday rally with Public Enemy Radio on Sunday. <a href="https://t.co/EhYK4ztXyq">https://t.co/EhYK4ztXyq</a>
&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1233202297762701312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This Sunday, Bernie is having a rally in my city and he&#39;s brining Public Enemy to perform. Young Sanders voters are probably unaware but Public Enemy are pro Nation of Islam &amp; Farrakhan, and have caused quiet a stir with the Jewish community over controversial lyrics.
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233411682992476160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Out of all people available to perform, the Sanders campaign went with a group that praised Farrakhan. It&#39;s as if he&#39;s trying to tell us something. Just not sure what it is.<a href="https://t.co/TQJqqdaCYr">https://t.co/TQJqqdaCYr</a>
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233411685462888449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&quot;There&#39;s nothin more antisemitic than Zionism&quot;. <a href="https://t.co/pajKZ6Sstv">pic.twitter.com/pajKZ6Sstv</a>
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233427354443141123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Comparing Israelis to Nazis. <a href="https://t.co/z1UtZBmSPr">pic.twitter.com/z1UtZBmSPr</a>
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233427358633353216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&quot;Those shifty Zionists&quot;. <a href="https://t.co/avca2SFhAq">pic.twitter.com/avca2SFhAq</a>
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233427363691712516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1233428976846008320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Last Sunday, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-surrounded-by-anti-semites-attacks-aipac-aipac-responds-in-statement">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Sanders attacked the AIPAC conference, stating, &#8220;The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference.&#8221;
AIPAC fired back:
<blockquote>Senator Sanders has never attended our conference and that is evident from his outrageous comment. In fact, many of his own Senate and House Democratic colleagues and leaders speak from our platform to the over 18,000 Americans from widely diverse backgrounds – Democrats, Republicans, Jews, Christians, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, progressives, Veterans, students, members of the LGBTQ+ community – who participate in the conference to proclaim their support for the U.S.-Israel relationship.
By engaging in such an odious attack on this mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel. Truly shameful.</blockquote>
Sanders bitter hatred of Israel goes back years; in 2016, when he was given an opportunity to add members of his choice to the platform committee; he chose Cornel West. Only a day after Palestinian terrorists disguised as Orthodox Jews murdered four Israelis, West referred to Israeli “occupation,” saying, &#8220;The real question is going to be a commitment to security for precious Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel can never be predicated on an occupation of precious Palestinians. If we&#8217;re concerned about security it seems to me, we&#8217;re going to have to talk seriously about occupation. … Occupation is real, it&#8217;s concrete.&#8221;
In October, speaking at the national conference of the notoriously anti-Israel J Street organization, and interviewed by former Obama officials Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor, both of whom supported the Iran nuclear deal that represented an existential threat to Israel, Sanders curried favor by suggesting that Israel did not respect human rights, snapping, “I would use the leverage of $3.8 billion. It is a lot of money, and we cannot give it carte blanche to the Israeli government, or for that matter to any government at all. We have a right to demand respect for human rights and democracy.” He threatened, “My solution is, to Israel, if you want military aid you’re going to have to fundamentally change your relationship to the people of Gaza. I would say that some of the $3.8 billion should go right now to humanitarian aid in Gaza.”
<a href="https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/04/catering-to-the-democratic-fringe-bernie-sanders-defames-israel-again/">Mosaic Magazine</a> noted last April:
<blockquote>When Sanders wanted to win the Democratic nomination in 2016, he claimed that Israel had killed over 10,000 innocent Palestinians, launched indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip, and shelled hospitals in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The senator not only inflated the numbers by several orders of magnitude, he even outdid the Hamas spokespersons in creating a false narrative that the IDF was intentionally attacking the civilian population.</blockquote>
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A Democratic congressman&#8217;s appearance on MSNBC on Friday resulted in an on-air threat of physical violence against presidential first son Donald Trump Jr. over his comments about the Democrats and coronavirus.
The threat by the congressman came in response to Trump Jr. saying earlier Friday that Democrats are &#8220;seemingly hop[ing]&#8221; that the coronavirus &#8220;kills million&#8221; in the U.S. to end his father&#8217;s &#8220;streak of winning.&#8221;
On &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; Friday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Don Jr. if he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; by how Democrats have been handling the epidemic. &#8220;And so now we&#8217;re getting to sprint towards November &#8230; to see if your dad can get four more years,&#8221; said Kilmeade. &#8220;Are you surprised the way they&#8217;ve been handling the coronavirus situation, meaning Democrats?&#8221;
&#8220;Not at all,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jr-coronavirus-democrats/index.html">said</a> Don Jr. &#8220;&#8230;Like you said, we&#8217;ve seen this play out for four years. Anything that they can use to try to hurt Trump, they will. Anything he does in a positive sense, like you heard from the reporter that was just suspended from ABC, they will not give him credit for. The playbook is old at this point.&#8221;
Don Jr. then offered the comment that would quickly result in a fiery segment on another cable news network. &#8220;But for them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here, and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump&#8217;s streak of winning, is a new level of sickness,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t know if this is coronavirus or Trump derangement syndrome, but these people are infected badly.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/congressman-threatens-don-jr-on-live-tv-for-saying-dems-want-coronavirus-to-spread-if-i-see-him-there-would-be-a-serious-altercation/">Mediaite,</a> California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi appeared on MSNBC afterward to discuss the coronavirus situation and what he said was the Center Disease Control&#8217;s failure to adequately respond to it. Garamendi, as noted by MSNBC&#8217;s Hallie Jackson, was &#8220;angry&#8221; and &#8220;visibly emotional&#8221; about the CDC&#8217;s handling of the situation.
After discussing the CDC&#8217;s response, Jackson highlighted Don Jr.&#8217;s comment and asked for Garamendi&#8217;s reaction.
&#8220;He shouldn’t be near me when he says that,&#8221; Garamendi asserted tensely. &#8220;There would be a serious altercation.&#8221;
&#8220;That is just totally outrageous. That is just totally outrageous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I can assure you that there’s not a Democrat or a Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick. Don Jr. better not get any place close to me. It would not be a healthy situation.&#8221; (<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/congressman-threatens-don-jr-on-live-tv-for-saying-dems-want-coronavirus-to-spread-if-i-see-him-there-would-be-a-serious-altercation/">Watch the moment here</a>.)
While President Trump hasn&#8217;t gone as far as his eldest son with his criticism of the Democrats&#8217; response, he has repeatedly accused them of working — in conjunction with left-wing outlets, like MSNBC — to benefit politically from the crisis.
&#8220;Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) &amp; [CNN] are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!&#8221;
&#8220;So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of &#8216;Trump&#8217;,&#8221; the president wrote Thursday.
&#8220;The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, &amp; anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER &amp; FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus,&#8221; Trump added in a follow-up post. &#8220;Dems called it VERY wrong!&#8221;
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I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232652397325037568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/">press conference</a> on the coronavirus situation Wednesday afternoon, Trump assured Americans that his administration is on top of the issue.
“I have just received another briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going around to various parts of the world,” said the president. “We have, through some very good early decisions — decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning — we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard.  And we did it very early … and it turned out to be a very good thing.”
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“And the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the American people,” he continued. “And that’s the way I viewed it when I made that decision. Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world — really, in the world, right here — people that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-chief-of-staff-expect-disruptions-to-schools-transportation-due-to-coronavirus">White House Chief of Staff: Expect Disruptions To Schools, Transportation Due To Coronavirus</a>
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Don Jr. Slams Democrats On Coronavirus On Fox; Dem Congressman Threatens To Get Physical On MSNBC

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During a House Oversight Committee hearing held Thursday on “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110579/documents/HHRG-116-GO00-20200227-SD002.pdf">The Administration’s Religious Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights</a>,&#8221; far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cited her own personal faith to attack conservative Christians who advocate for religious liberty, comparing them to slave owners and white supremacists and claiming that they lean on the First Amendment only to advance &#8220;bigotry and discrimination.&#8221;
&#8220;I am experiencing this hearing, and I&#8217;m struggling whether I respond or launch into this question as a legislator or from the perspective of a woman of faith,&#8221; stated the radical congresswoman.
&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to sit here and listen to arguments in the long history of this country of using scripture and weaponizing and abusing scripture to justify bigotry,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;White supremacists have done it, those who justified slavery did it, those who fought against integration did it, and we&#8217;re seeing it today.&#8221;
The far-left congresswoman suggested Christ would be against religious liberty; He would be &#8220;maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors,&#8221; she claimed.
&#8220;And sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago, that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is easier for a rich man — it&#8217;s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into a kingdom of heaven, he would be maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors,&#8221; the representative said.
&#8220;And I know, and it is part of my faith, that all people are holy, and all people are sacred, unconditionally,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And that is what makes faith sometimes, that is what what prompts us to transform.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about that it is up to us to love parts of people,&#8221; the pro-abortion congresswoman said. &#8220;We love all people.&#8221;
&#8220;There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital,&#8221; AOC carried on, now pounding her hands against the table. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing holy about about rejecting a child from a family. There&#8217;s nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.&#8221;
&#8220;And I am tired of communities of being of faith being weaponized and being mischaracterized because the only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination,&#8221; accused Ocasio-Cortez. &#8220;I&#8217;m tired of it.&#8221;
&#8220;I just have to get that out ahead of time, because it is deeply disturbing not just what is happening here, but what this administration is advancing is the idea that religion and faith is about exclusion,&#8221; AOC closed. &#8220;It is not up to us, it is not up to us to deny medical care; it is up to us to feed the hungry to clothe the poor to protect children and to love all people as ourselves.&#8221;
As outlined by <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/aoc-invokes-her-faith-and-jesus-christ-in-screed-saying-religious-freedom-is-used-for-discrimination">The Blaze</a>, religious liberty is fundamental to Christian conservatives in modern times:
<blockquote>When a religious hospital says that they cannot conduct a transgender medical procedure that goes against the tenets of their belief, the resistance is to the procedure rather than an active prejudice toward the person asking for it. When a Christian baker or florist can&#8217;t serve as a vendor for a same-sex wedding ceremony, the issue at hand for them is not being able to participate in an action they believe to be sinful, rather than a desire not to associate with a class of people they don&#8217;t like. When a pro-life doctor or hospital won&#8217;t perform an abortion, it&#8217;s not because of some secret desire to control a woman&#8217;s organs, but because their conscience won&#8217;t allow them to facilitate the taking of unborn life.</blockquote>
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On Friday evening, authorities confirmed that two people – a woman from Santa Clara County, California, and a patient from Washington County, Oregon – had contracted coronavirus from unknown sources within the community.
According to The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/28/coronavirus-live-updates/">Washington Post</a>, the woman from Santa Clara County, in Northern California, is 65-years-old and has not recently traveled outside the country. The patient tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, according to “people familiar with the case.&#8221;
The second case, which has occurred in an unknown individual from Washington County, Oregon, was confirmed by state health authorities, reports the news agency. The patient, who is an adult and currently at Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, didn’t have contact with other people known to have the coronavirus, and had not recently traveled outside the country.
The two cases confirmed Friday night represent the second and third community spread cases that have been found in the United States. The first case, a person from Solano County, California, was the first confirmed instance of community-spread coronavirus in the United States, and the patient is currently at the <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/coronavirus-patient-and-precautions-uc-davis-medical-center/">UC Davis Medical Center</a> in Sacramento, California.
The two California cases have occurred within 100 miles of Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, where some of the 400 U.S. citizens aboard the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0215-Diamond-Princess-Repatriation.html">Diamond Princess</a> Cruise Ship were for quarantine. As of Thursday evening, six passengers from the cruise ship out of the 3,711 people on board have died, including five Japanese citizens and a British citizen, reports <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/02/28/six-people-from-the-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-have-now-died-from-covid-19-after-quarantine-failure/#490eb1043654">Forbes</a>.
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2">Business Insider</a>, the Chinese Center for Disease Control has indicated that the virus has a mortality rate of 0.2% for people between the ages of 10-39, 0.4% for people between the ages of 40-49, and 1.3% for people between 50-59.
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/children-faq.html">CDC</a>, reports indicate that young children “generally” present mild symptoms if they do contract the virus. According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2">Business Insider</a>, about 80% of people who contract coronavirus only exhibit mild symptoms. 
However, the mortality rate among individuals older than 60 is higher, but could be due to factors such as pre-existing medical conditions, particularly conditions related to smoking. The news agency reports that people between the ages of 60-69 have a mortality rate of 3.6%, people between 70-79 have a mortality rate of 8%, and people over the age of 80 have a mortality rate of 14.8%.
Nancy Messonier, director of the CDC and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, stated earlier this week that the spread of the coronavirus was inevitable, but the degree to which people will be infected is still an open question.
“It’s not a question of if but rather a question of when and how many people in this country will have severe illness,” said Messonier, reports the <a href="https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-02-25-coronavirus-spread-us-inevitable-cdc-official-says">American Hospital Association</a>.
Vice President Mike Pence, who has been appointed to lead the coronavirus task force, has praised the Trump administration’s response to the outbreak, saying that “we&#8217;re all going to come together as Americans and deal with this issue and put the health and safety of the American people first,” reports <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pence-tells-rush-limbaugh-who-said-coronavirus-has-been-overhyped-n1144976">NBC News</a>.
According to The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/northern-californian-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-first-us-case-with-no-link-to-foreign-travel/2020/02/26/b2088840-58fb-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html">Washington Post</a>, Governor Gavin Newsom indicated Thursday that California has strong procedures for identifying people who have come in contact with coronavirus patients, saying “the protocols have been perfected” through previous public health outbreaks.
The symptoms of coronavirus include coughing, fever, and shortness of breath.

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