<p>On March 23, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order barring pharmacists from filling prescriptions for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, its next-generation derivative, for home treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the cornavirus SARS-CoV-2. But doctors are using the drugs, which are effective for treating such diseases as malaria and lupus, in huge numbers.</p>
<p>As many as 4,000 people in New York are currently being treated with hydroxychloroquine, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/ny-coronavirus-patients-being-treated-with-anti-malarial-drug/">New York Post</a> reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>A state Health Department official said the [Department of Health] has shipped doses of hydroxychloroquine to 56 hospitals across New York, distributing enough &#8220;to treat 4,000 patients to date.” Patients have received doses as part of four- or 10-day regimens, officials said. The University of Albany’s School of Public Health is observing the drug’s impact on the patients, and its preliminary study could come back in weeks instead of the usual months, officials said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Cuomo has been criticized for prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital.</p>
<p>Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday told a story about an elderly man with a high fever arriving at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine.”</p>
<p>“Why is the governor banning it?”  Guiliani said on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.”</p>
<p>“There’s a dispute as to whether it treats symptoms or cures the disease. But it works. And we don’t have the luxury right now for a perfect solution,&#8221; President Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer said.</p>
<p>Fox News host Sean Hannity also questioned why New York doctors can&#8217;t prescribe the drugs outside of a hospital setting.</p>
<p>“I live on Long Island and many doctors are telling me that they want to prescribe this medication to their patients who test positive for COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus – but do NOT need the patient to come to a hospital,” Hannity said in a Saturday op-ed. “However, Cuomo’s executive order forbids pharmacies from filling the prescriptions.”</p>
<p>Cuomo, Hannity said, “is creating a much bigger crisis in his state’s hospital system by denying New Yorkers THE CHOICE (in consultation with their doctors) to take this potentially life-saving medication.”</p>
<p>Trump, who has twice tested negative for COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, told reporters gathered in the White House briefing room on Saturday that he may himself take hydroxychloroquine, which he has called a “game changer” for treating the virus.</p>
<p>“If it were me, in fact, I might do it anyway,” Trump said about the drug, normally used to treat malaria and lupus. “I may take it. OK? I may take it. And I’ll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it.”</p>
<p>Last Monday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the drug emergency-use authorization for the treatment of COVID-19.</p>
<p>Trump again on Sunday touted the drug. &#8220;We have stockpiled 29 million pills of the Hydroxychloroquine &#8230; And they&#8217;re not expensive,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;What do you have to lose?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re just hearing really positive stories, and we’re continuing to collect the data. But I’ll just speak for myself: It’s been out for a long time. It’s a malaria drug. It’s also a drug for lupus. And there’s a — there’s a study out that people with lupus aren’t catching this horrible virus. They’re not — they’re not affected so much by it. Now, maybe that’s correct; maybe it’s false,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You’re going to have to check it out.&#8221;</p>
<p>Health experts have warned that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine can have some serious side effects, and &#8220;may be deadly when combined with a common diabetes drug,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/04/05/researchers-warn-that-covid-19-treatment-touted-by-trump-may-be-toxic-when-combined-with-diabetes-drug/#4795450f55f8">Forbes</a> Sunday.</p>


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<p>Over the last few weeks, many key figures on the left have been outspoken about the danger of the coronavirus and claim that President Trump has done little to address the crisis. Democratic presidential frontrunner <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/biden-offers-to-call-trump-with-coronavirus-advice">Joe Biden</a> has urged the president to be even bolder in his actions to combat the virus and condemned him for “wasting time” when the pandemic first emerged. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made similar comments and has urged drastic action. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/bernie-sanders-wisconsin-primary/index.html">argue</a>d recently that primary elections should be postponed because “people shouldn’t have to put their lives on the line to vote.” An editorial for the Boston Globe has thundered “that President Trump has blood on his hands.”</p>
<p>This level of fear around the coronavirus is understandable — the case for blaming President Trump for a worldwide pandemic is less convincing. Should we really take these angry voices seriously when just a few months ago these same people and institutions were warning that something completely different was an existential threat to mankind and criticized Donald Trump “not caring” and contributing to the disaster?</p>
<p>I know pre-COVID-19 seems like a lifetime ago, but do you all remember the good old days of climate change? You must remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the “world will end” in 12 years if we do not act to stop or slow climate change and Bernie Sander’s warning that “we’re fighting for the survival of the planet.” Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg even said “we’re in the beginning of a mass extinction” because of climate change.</p>
<p>And the “blood on his hands” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/">Boston Globe</a> said then that President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord would lead to “rising seas, higher temperatures, catastrophic loss in wildlife and natural habitats, and the further degradation of the only home the human race will ever know.” The paper said the move “will haunt America and the world for generations to come… imperiling the earth for the narrowest of political advantage.”</p>
<p>It’s quite clear where the liberal left have been focusing in the past few decades and where they have been diverting enormous resources — and it wasn’t the threat of a pandemic. The Boston Globe itself hasn’t shied away from hysterical language when it comes to President Trump and climate change as well. In an opinion piece endorsing left-leaning policies and politicians during the 2020 election cycle, the <em>Globe </em>wrote that both President Trump and the Republican Congress are “reversing progress as the planet careers toward climate catastrophe.”</p>
<p>Spending on energy saving programs and subsidies has matched the increasing hysteria. According to the Government Accountability Office, <a href="https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/climate_change_funding_management/issue_summary">federal funding</a> for “climate change research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation” has increased exponentially over the last three decades. In 1993, the feds spent $2.4 billion on such programs and it keeps increasing. The polling website <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-is-the-government-spending-on-climate-change-we-dont-know-and-neither-do-they/">FiveThirtyEight</a> reported that the federal government has spent $154 billion on “climate change related activities” since 1993. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 tacked on an additional $26.1 billion in spending.</p>
<p>It’s clear that this reckless spending and climate change hysteria were even more damaging to our economy and our nation than opponents claimed. We actually <em>are </em>facing a global crisis that may lead to massive loss of life and a worldwide economic depression. Congress just passed a $2 trillion emergency bill to help address the pandemic and its effects, but Americans continue to suffer. Can you imagine if that $154+ billion in spending on climate change projects was put into virus research or pandemic preparation? How many ventilators can you buy with $154 billion? How many talented researchers were diverted to addressing climate change when they could have worked to prevent pandemics and research vaccines and cures?</p>
<p>There are many loud and vindictive voices telling the world that America is ill-prepared for this event that is threatening lives and our futures. These voices might be more credible if they had not spent the past few decades urging the country to fund and prepare for a completely different scenario. They should apologize for that costly diversion before asking us to listen to them this time.</p>
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<p>Asia analyst Gordon Chang told Fox News on Sunday that there were signs emerging in China that the communist nation might be struggling with a second outbreak after failing to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan last year.</p>
<p>Fox News&#8217;s Jon Scott asked Chang, &#8220;Officially, China is saying that there are no new cases coming out of Wuhan. Should we believe them?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t think so, Jon,&#8221; Chang responded. &#8220;I think Wuhan has — the virus there has burned its way through the population. There are probably a few cases, not meaningful numbers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What’s really of concern, though, is that this is probably jumped to other cities, especially those on the east, so for instance, Shanghai, Beijing, are probably experiencing a substantial number of cases that China’s not talking about,&#8221; Chang continued. &#8220;And the reason why we can suspect that is because in Shanghai, many of the tourist attractions have indeed been shut down in the last three or four days, after being reopened just a week before. So that’s a real indication that there’s a problem in the big cities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2020/03/29/top-shanghai-tourist-attractions-close-again-to-prevent-coronavirus-spread/#14ab2e7e7a25">reported</a> at the end of March that the communist authorities had ordered tourist attractions in Shanghai to close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus after they had been reopened earlier in the month.</p>
<p>Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/chinese-county-coronavirus-lockdown-second-wave-159615">reported</a> last week that hundreds of miles west of Shanghai authorities had placed a county with a population of 600,000 in quarantine after a coronavirus outbreak.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gordon Chang (<a href="https://twitter.com/GordonGChang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GordonGChang</a>): China, WHO &quot;lulled&quot; world into &quot;not taking actions&quot; to stop Coronavirus with false info; evidence shows China may be currently experiencing second wave of Coronavirus infections <a href="https://t.co/AIK1krZvhL">pic.twitter.com/AIK1krZvhL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1247088819523989507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Transcript below:</p>
<blockquote><p>JON SCOTT: Well it is not only China that&#8217;s facing backlash over its handling of the Coronavirus. The World Health Organization stands accused of helping Beijing cover up the true extent of the outbreak. In January, it said, &#8216;preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel Coronavirus identified in Wuhan. Several U.S. Senators are now calling for a top-down investigation into the organization’s handling of the pandemic as well as its ties to China. Here to talk about it the author of “The Coming Collapse Of China” Asia analyst and foreign affairs journalist Gordon Chang. Gordon, unbelievable, what’s happened here. That warning from the World Health Organization, presumably the group that should know how these things ought to be handled was completely wrong. This is one of the most contagious viruses we have seen in a time.</p>
<p>GORDON CHANG: That January 14th tweet, Jon, was really damaging because Chinese authorities knew about human-to-human transmissions in Wuhan about the second week of December. And that January 14th tweet lulled a lot of public health officials in the United States and around the world into not taking actions they otherwise would have adopted. So, China in a very meaningful way hindered the world from actually preventing this virus becoming the pandemic that it eventually became.</p>
<p>SCOTT: Officially China is saying that there are no new cases coming out of Wuhan. Should we believe them?</p>
<p>CHANG: I don’t think so, Jon. I think Wuhan has — the virus there has burned its way through the population. There are probably a few cases, not meaningful numbers. Why’s really of concern, though, is that this is probably jumped to other cities, especially those on the east, so for instance, Shanghai, Beijing, are probably experiencing a substantial number of cases that China’s not talking about. And the reason why we can suspect that is because in Shanghai, many of the tourist attractions have indeed been shut down in the last three or four days, after being reopened just a week before. So that’s a real indication that there’s a problem in the big cities.</p>
<p>SCOTT: And China substantially under counted the number of cases that it had; right? Didn’t that drastically affect the situation in the United States, and frankly the rest of the world?</p>
<p>CHANG: Well, it certainly did. They certainly under counted, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus task force coordinator actually talked about this last week on Tuesday, when she said the United States actually thought that this was serious but that it was small because it looked like SARS, which was the 2002, 2003 epidemic, which was not as contagious. And so China’s under reporting had real consequences in the way that we looked at this, in what we did, and I’m sure that’s the case around the world as well.</p>
<p>SCOTT: Dr. Hahn who is part of the Coronavirus task force spoke about that. I want to play that for you now.</p>
<p>DR. STEPHEN HAHN: This is an area that we identified many months ago as a critical risk factor for the country, and the point that you’re making is excellent, in that we really need redundancy in the medical products supply chain. We cannot be dependent upon any single country, and we need what’s called redundancy, in our manufacturing. There was a lot of interest on The Hill and in the administration on this, and we’ve got additional funds to be able to increase our technical assistance and manufacturing because we believe that domestic advanced manufacturing is one way to provide that redundancy and reduce our dependency on other countries.</p>
<p>SCOTT: Is this pandemic, Gordon, going to change the way U.S. Pharmaceutical companies and others deal with China?</p>
<p>CHANG: I think that it will, Jon. Peter Navarro, the president’s trade advisor has been talking about an Executive Order on this very topic. That E.O. has not been issued yet, and it’s subject of intense dispute and discussion, at the top of the administration, because trade organizations including those in the pharmaceutical industry want to prevent certain aspects of that E.O. from being put in place. I think that the American people are going to demand this. You know, Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business talked about how China actually turned around a ship which had protective gear that was headed to hospitals in New York. That’s completely unacceptable.</p>
<p>SCOTT: Gordon, China has been on something of a good will tour sending doctors, sending medical supplies to other nations around the world. Is that part of an effort to win back, I don&#8217;t know, world confidence, world trust after the initial mishandling of the outbreak by both China, the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party, and the World Health Organization?</p>
<p>CHANG: Well, Jon, it is very much an attempt to win back trust but it&#8217;s also more than that, it&#8217;s an attempt to displace the United States at the center of the international system, to say that the U.S. has handled this terribly, China handled it well, China should be the steward of the international system and so this is really not just a defensive maneuver on the part of Beijing, it&#8217;s an offensive maneuver as well.</p>
<p>SCOTT: What do they get out of this kind of PR campaign?</p>
<p>CHANG: I guess they get a couple of things. First of all, they get to sort of fuzz over where this started. So, for instance, from basically the end of the first week in February, they were tarring the United States and that culminated on March 12th with that infamous tweet from the Foreign Ministry that said that the virus started in the U.S., patient zero was in America, and that the U.S. Army brought the virus to Wuhan. So, they do a little bit of that, but they also get so good will in places where their message is normally resonate, so for instance, in spots of anti-Americanism around the world. But also you see this in places where they need Chinese equipment because they are desperate, so for instance Italy, and so China has been mischaracterizing its transfers of equipment saying that they&#8217;re donations when they&#8217;re really just sales and as we know, a lot of that equipment and those diagnostic kits are ineffective or substandard.</p>
<p>SCOTT: And, as we were mentioning a moment ago Gordon, the Chinese government and the World Health Organization said initially that coronavirus could not be transmitted from human-to-human when, in fact, it is one of the most contagious viruses that history has ever seen.</p>
<p>CHANG: Yes, and this has had consequences because the United States and other countries did not take those precautions that were necessary. You know, it was very good that President Trump imposed travel restrictions and quarantines on arrivals from China on January 31. That was very early. But sometimes, those arrivals were not treated with the same rigor that we needed and that was because China just sort of told everyone &#8216;don&#8217;t worry&#8217; and so the United States didn&#8217;t worry and the result is what we see today, almost 10,000 American deaths and this is going to get much worse as the president&#8217;s coronavirus task force has warned us this last week.</p>
<p>SCOTT: If China wanted deliberately to cripple other nations around the world with the virus that first appeared inside China well they would have done very much like what they did.</p></blockquote>


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<p>As some have warned for weeks, an unintended though anticipated consequence of nationwide shutdown measures is the mass layoffs of tens of thousands of healthcare workers, and that number is climbing.</p>
<p>As highlighted by both The New York Times and The Associated Press, hospitals and healthcare facilities across the nation have delayed so-called elective surgeries and non-COVID-19 related medical actions in preparation for the predicted onslaught of novel coronavirus patients, mostly by state order.</p>
<p>&#8220;Governors in <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.ascassociation.org/asca/resourcecenter/latestnewsresourcecenter/covid-19/covid-19-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dozens of states</a> have delivered executive orders or guidelines directing hospitals to stop nonurgent procedures and surgeries to various degrees,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-health-care-workers-layoffs.html">The New York Times</a> noted. &#8220;Last month, the United States surgeon general, Dr. Jerome M. Adams, also <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1238798972501852160?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">implored</a> hospitals to halt elective procedures.&#8221;</p>
<p>The massive decline in revenue, however, has resulted in at least 42,000 healthcare workers filing for unemployment, Department of Labor numbers revealed last week.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of medical workers across the United States are suddenly out of work as operating rooms and doctor&#8217;s offices go dark, casualties of urgent calls to prioritize coronavirus patients at overwhelmed hospitals and of the economic waves the crisis is churning,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/health-care-jobs-are-a-mounting-casualty-of-coronavirus-crisis/507-d656ba85-b425-49c3-85b5-b325340e3a64">The Associated Press</a> reported Saturday. &#8220;Big-city physician and specialist groups, tiny independent hospitals from Oregon to Connecticut, and big multistate hospital systems such as Steward Health Care are seeing big dropoffs in revenue and laying off or furloughing hundreds of workers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even in coronavirus &#8220;hot spots,&#8221; healthcare workers are having their hours cut or given pink slips, the Times highlighted: &#8220;[T]rained health care workers sidelined, even in areas around Detroit and Washington, where infection rates are climbing, and even as hard-hit hospitals are pleading for help.&#8221;</p>
<p>The cuts to healthcare are expected to continue, and the numbers available currently are seemingly only the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>&#8220;Not all states release that data in real time,&#8221; the AP explained, &#8220;although Minnesota reported that from March 16 through March 31, more than 13,600 health care practitioners or technicians filed unemployment claims in that state alone.&#8221;</p>
<p>While &#8220;[s]ome layoffs, the generally permanent loss of a job, and furloughs, a reduction in hours or a leave of absence with the option to return, are focused on nonclinical staff,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;[e]lsewhere, clinical professionals — specialists, lab techs, operating room staffs, nurse specialists, support staff — suddenly find themselves with a cut in pay or hours, or sitting at home, including some in coronavirus hotspots.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Tennessee, Erlanger Health System said they lost <em>millions</em> of dollars in one week of the shutdown alone, according to AP.</p>
<p>Sarasota Memorial Health Care System in Florida had to drastically cut employees on Friday, after losing an estimated $16 million in expected revenue in March alone.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sarasota Memorial Hospital announced it will furlough some workers and reduce hours for others due to a &#8216;sudden and drastic drop in patient volumes and revenues,'&#8221; an ABC affiliate <a href="https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-sarasota-manatee/sarasota-memorial-hospital-furloughs-employees-due-to-drastic-drop-in-patient-volumes">reported</a> Friday. &#8220;According to officials, Sarasota Memoria Hospital experienced a $16 million reduction in revenue in March. After non-emergency procedures were canceled due to the pandemic, surgery cases fell by more than 50 percent and the hospital saw a 30-percent drop on the number of inpatients, according to the press release.&#8221;</p>
<p>The entire state of Florida has <a href="https://www.bing.com/covid/local/florida_unitedstates">12,350</a> active cases of COVID-19 as of Monday morning, and a total of 221 fatalities associated with the virus.</p>


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<p>As Christians entered Holy Week, actor Mark Wahlberg made sure to wish them all a &#8220;Happy Palm Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nLOe9JeIe/?utm_source=ig_embed">Instagram video</a>, Wahlberg, appearing alongside his wife Rhea, reminded people of the treasures in their lives during this time of crisis: faith and one another.</p>
<p>“Happy Palm Sunday, everybody,” Wahlberg said in the video. “Just thinking about everybody. We still have faith and we have each other, so let’s stay strong. God bless you guys. I love you.”</p>
<p>“God bless you,&#8221; Rhea added as the video concluded.</p>
<p>Wahlberg&#8217;s post below (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-nLOe9JeIe/?utm_source=ig_embed">watch the video on Instagram here</a>):</p>
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<p>Mark Wahlberg has been open about his Catholic faith, routinely sharing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-wahlbergs-ash-wednesday-message-god-bless-you-paul-bois">faithful messages</a> with his social media followers during Lent and other days of liturgical importance.</p>
<p>“Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life,” Wahlberg told the <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2010/12/24/%E2%80%98the-first-thing-i-do-each-day-is-pray%E2%80%99/">Catholic Herald</a> in 2010. “The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The kids will be mad with me. ‘Daddy! It takes too long!’ I’m saying: ‘It’s only 10 minutes and this is something I really need to do.’ Because I do. If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I’m doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.”</p>
<p>In 2018, Wahlberg even went as far to say <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22626/mark-wahlberg-asked-god-forgive-him-boogie-nights-paul-bois">he regrets some past acting roles</a> that did not reflect well on his faith, such as “Boogie Nights.&#8221;</p>
<p>“I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I’ve made some poor choices in my past,” Wahlberg said, adding that “&#8217;Boogie Nights&#8217; is up there at the top of the list.”</p>
<p>During a Facebook video message in 2016, Wahlberg said that his Catholic faith <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/mark-wahlberg-talks-deep-catholic-faith-wants-children-have-good-priests-in-lives-170541/">affects everything he does in life</a> and that he regularly calls upon God to foster more vocations to the priesthood.</p>
<p>“In my daily prayers, I ask for guidance, strength in my vocation as a husband and as a father,” Wahlberg said when addressing the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors in Boston. &#8220;I want you to know my support for your work to foster vocations to the priesthood, because I want my children and future generations to have good priests in their lives, just like I had.”</p>
<p>During an <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45497348">exchange</a> with fans on Instagram in 2019, the actor revealed that he wakes up as early as 2:30 AM for a full half-hour of prayers before launching into his breakfast and exercise routine.</p>
<p>Mark Wahlberg, though reticent in his political beliefs, has also said that celebrities who &#8220;live in a bubble&#8221; should understand that incessantly talking politics only alienates people.</p>
<p>“You know, it just goes to show you that people aren’t listening to that anyway. They might buy your CD or watch your movie, but you don’t put food on their table. You don’t pay their bills,” he said in an <a href="http://taskandpurpose.com/mark-wahlberg-thinks-celebrities-need-shut-politics/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">interview with Task &amp; Purpose.</a> “A lot of Hollywood is living in a bubble. They’re pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family.”</p>
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Catholicism

Hollywood

Mark Wahlberg

<p>Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) said on Sunday that China is trying to leverage its supply of medical safety gear to force other countries to use Huawei for 5G, a company owned by communist China that Attorney General William Barr recently suggested poses perhaps the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-highlights-greatest-threat-to-u-s-should-vastly-outweigh-all-other-priorities">greatest national security threat</a> to the United States and its allies.</p>
<p>At the tail end of a video clip from a Fox News interview that Green posted to his Twitter account over the weekend, Green said, &#8220;In France, we were told yesterday on a conference call that [French President Emanuel] Macron was talking to [Chinese President] Xi and Macron asked for a billion masks, and Xi said, ‘We’ll give them to you if you implement 5G with Huawei.&#8217; That’s who China is and it’s time the world wake up and recognize it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Attorney General Barr said earlier this year that China&#8217;s intent is to &#8220;dominate&#8221; the 5G market with Huawei, which will allow them to gain more influence in the global economy and control the next generation of internet. &#8220;Much of the discussion on the dangers of allowing China to establish dominance in 5G has been focused on the immediate security concern of using communications networks that China can monitor and surveil,&#8221; Barr said during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in early February. &#8220;That is, in fact, a monumental danger.&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Post reported on Sunday that the administration was weighing taking legal action against China after major U.S. manufacturers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-allegedly-blocked-u-s-companies-from-exporting-medical-safety-gear-as-pandemic-exploded-report-says">said</a> that China blocked them from being able to export medical safety gear as the coronavirus pandemic exploded around the world.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We must increase our strategic stockpiles and fix our reliance on China– the country that started this virus– for our Nation&#39;s supply of medications and medical supplies. </p>
<p>Joined <a href="https://twitter.com/LelandVittert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LelandVittert</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/ANHQDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ANHQDC</a> to discuss: <a href="https://t.co/EXqe6C5Jut">pic.twitter.com/EXqe6C5Jut</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1246490279265402882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><strong>Fox News host Leland Vittert:</strong> As always, has this become a national security issue rather than say a commerce and distribution issue?</p>
<p><strong>Rep. Mark Green (R-TN):</strong> Very clearly, the whole issue 0f PPE, our medical supply chain, is a national security issue. You look at right now, we maintain a manufacturing base for let’s say tank barrels. Even though we’re not making a single tank barrel, there’s a plant ready in case of national emergency, in case of war, to build tank barrels. We got to start thinking about PPE, ventilators, public health stuff in that same vain and have at home, you know, the lessons learned from this. We got to increase our strategic stockpiles, we got to disperse them, you know, have more locations for those and we clearly have got to fix this issue of relying on China, the guys who started this whole virus, for our supply for medications and medical supplies. It’s just one of the lessons that we’ve learned out of this.</p>
<p><strong>Vittert:</strong> There’s a joke in business that says, if you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank. It seems like in a way, China owns us because we may have the cash to buy things but they’ve got what we need. Andrew Cuomo was thanking China for donating ventilators.</p>
<p><strong>Green:</strong> Yeah, I think that’s a little bit ridiculous that he would do that because China does have in some cases the whole world over a barrel right now. And again, it’s Xi’s virus, he’s the one who hid this thing from everyone, we told them not to do these wet markets back when SARS came out and they persist, but I digress. Back to the issue you’re raising, in France, we were told yesterday on a conference call that [French President Emanuel] Macron was talking to Xi and Macron asked for a billion masks and Xi said, ‘we’ll give them to you if you implement 5G with Huawei. That’s who China is and it’s time the world wake up and recognize it.</p></blockquote>


Michael Cohen Hearing

Rep. Mark Green: China Trying To Force France Onto Huawei 5G In Exchange For Masks

William Barr

<p>A Los Angeles doctor praised using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 during an interview with a local news station on Sunday, claiming that it has a dramatic effect on patients who are seriously ill when combined with zinc.</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Cardillo, CEO of Mend Urgent Care, made the remarks during an interview with ABC 7 news anchor Jory Rand.</p>
<p>&#8220;What we’re finding clinically with our patients is that it really only works in conjunction with zinc. So the hydroxychloroquine opens the zinc channel, zinc goes into the cell, it then blocks the replication of the cellular machinery,&#8221; Cardillo said. &#8220;So, it has to be used in conjunction with zinc. We are seeing some clinical responses in that regard. There are people that take it regularly for other disease processes, we have to be cautious and mindful that we don’t prescribe for patients who have COVID that are well. It really should be reserved for people that are really sick, in the hospital, or at home very sick that need that medication, otherwise we’re going to blow through our supply for the patients that take it regularly for other disease processes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Every patient I’ve prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8-12 hours they were basically symptom free and so, clinically I am seeing a resolution that mirrors what we saw in the French study and some of the other studies worldwide,&#8221; Cardillo continued. &#8220;But what I am seeing is that people that are taking it alone, by itself, it’s not having efficacy.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">PROMISING NEWS!<br />We asked a local doctor about Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug President Trump has been pushing. He says he has prescribed it along with Zinc to severely ill Covid-19 patients and says they are SYMPTOM FREE in 8-12 hours.<br />WATCH: <a href="https://t.co/tufXbgi21T">https://t.co/tufXbgi21T</a><a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC7</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jory Rand (@ABC7Jory) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7Jory/status/1246950638446981120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>ABC 7 NEWS ANCHOR JORY RAND: Ok, real quick. We have a little bit of time left. I do want to ask you about hydroxychloroquine, the president was pushing it pretty strong again yesterday. You said you have prescribed this, I want to talk to you about the effects you’re seeing and what it might do for people who take it normally outside of coronavirus and a possible shortage of medicine for them.</p>
<p>DR. ANTHONY CARDILLO: Exactly. What we’re finding clinically with our patients is that it really only works in conjunction with zinc. So the hydroxychloroquine opens the zinc channel, zinc goes into the cell, it then blocks the replication of the cellular machinery. So, it has to be used in conjunction with zinc. We are seeing some clinical responses in that regard. There are people that take it regularly for other disease processes, we have to be cautious and mindful that we don’t prescribe for patients who have COVID that are well. It really should be reserved for people that are really sick, in the hospital, or at home very sick that need that medication, otherwise we’re going to blow through our supply for the patients that take it regularly for other disease processes.</p>
<p>RAND: But what you’re saying is, you’re prescribing it and it is working for COVID-19 patients?</p>
<p>CARDILLO: Every patient I’ve prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8-12 hours they were basically symptom free and so, clinically I am seeing a resolution that mirrors what we saw in the French study and some of the other studies worldwide. But what I am seeing is that people that are taking it alone, by itself, it’s not having efficacy.</p></blockquote>


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Dr. Praises Hydroxychloroquine For Coronavirus: ‘Very Ill’ To ‘Basically Symptom Free’ In Hours

COVID-19

<p>A model heavily relied upon by the White House task force responding to the China-originated novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has again been updated.</p>
<p>On Sunday night, a model from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington <a href="https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections">dropped</a> its estimated death projection for the first wave of the pandemic to 81,766 deaths, down from 93,531.</p>
<p>&#8220;The 11,765 fewer deaths would mark a 14% decrease for the model’s target projection, and a 30% decrease for the worst-case scenario,&#8221; <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/06/white-house-coronavirus-projections-model-fatalities-deaths/">The Daily Caller</a> noted Monday.</p>
<p>The estimates are based off the implementation of &#8220;full social distancing through <span class="_2dPspwRD_pEbKGja1xyEPT">May 2020&#8243; and do not factor in another wave of the virus post-August 1. </span></p>
<p>At an impromptu press briefing on Sunday, slightly before the revisions were made public, President Donald Trump told the nation that we are using fewer beds than the relied upon models have projected, specifically highlighting hard-hit New York.</p>
<p>“It’s turning out that we need less hospital beds,” the president said, as reported by The Daily Caller. “We may have models, but we’ve been sort of saying that. In New York, we were saying we think you’re gonna need less.”</p>
<p>The models reflected Trump&#8217;s remarks, dropping estimates on number of hospitalizations and needed ICU beds, too.</p>
<p>&#8220;The model had projected that hospitals across the U.S. would reach an ICU capacity of 39,727 beds by April 15. The revised model now projects that 29,210 ICU beds will be needed at the peak of the pandemic,&#8221; The Daily Caller highlighted.</p>
<p>Based on the IHME model, Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, leaders in the White House coronavirus response task force, earlier this month estimated between <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/02/grim-death-toll-projections-white-house-offered-monday-have-already-been-revised-upward/">100,000-240,000</a> deaths related to COVID-19, The Washington Post reported. (Revisions to the model made on Wednesday dropped the best-estimate to 93,531, and now 81,766.)</p>
<p>&#8220;Our model suggests that, with social distancing, the end of the first wave of the epidemic could occur by early June,&#8221; the government <a href="http://www.healthdata.org/covid/faqs">website</a> for the model explains. &#8220;The question of whether there will be a second wave of the epidemic will depend on what we do to avoid reintroducing COVID-19 into the population.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;By the end of the first wave of the epidemic, an estimated 97% of the population of the United States will still be susceptible to the disease and thus measures to avoid a second wave of the pandemic prior to vaccine availability will be necessary,&#8221; the site continues. &#8220;Maintaining some of the social distancing measures could be supplemented or replaced by nation-wide efforts such as mass screening, contact tracing, and selective quarantine.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aside from the IHME model, Dr. Birx has specifically highlighted a model from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model">Imperial College London</a> as a guide for nationwide policy on fighting the novel coronavirus. The model initially estimated up to a stunning 2.2 million COVID-19 associated deaths in the United States with no mitigation. Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist behind the Imperial model, predicted a whopping 500,000 COVID-19 associated fatalities in the U.K. without mitigation, but now estimates far fewer than 20,000 deaths, citing the nation&#8217;s lockdowns.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coronavirus-hospitals-across-nation-lay-off-tens-of-thousands-of-healthcare-workers">Coronavirus: Hospitals Across Nation Lay Off Tens Of Thousands Of Healthcare Workers</a></strong></p>


Dr. Birx, Dr. Fauci

White House Coronavirus Model Gets Another Update, Downgrading Estimated Deaths

Anthony Fauci

Dr. Deborah Birx