Mulvaney under self-quarantine after niece falls ill…
March 17, 2020
The step is being taken after incoming White House Chief of Staff Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., also self-quarantined last week upon learning he had potential contact with someone who tested positive. He announced he would remain quarantined while preparing to transition into his new role until the end of the 14-day quarantine period.
Facebook announces $100 million program for small businesses impacted by coronavirus…
March 17, 2020
Facebook said the grants will be available for up to 30,000 eligible small businesses in over 30 countries. That would be an average of $3,333 per business.
Fed will help businesses get funding in the short-term borrowing markets amid coronavirus crisis…
March 17, 2020
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it is providing help to companies that are having a hard time getting the short-term funding they need to operate. In a move much anticipated on Wall Street, the bank announced a special credit facility to purchase corporate paper from issuers that have been having a difficult time finding buyers on the open market. Corporate paper involves unsecured short-term lending critical to business funding.
White House eyes massive $850B stimulus package next, as Senate moves on latest coronavirus bill…
March 17, 2020
Roughly $500 billion of this would be tied to a payroll tax cut, while $250 billion would come in the form of Small Business Administration loans and another $58 billion would be directed to the airline industry, among other measures.
Antibiotic kills bacteria that causes Lyme disease. After screening thousands of drugs, researchers have found one that completely eliminates the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, a study with mice shows. “This compound is just amazing, it clears the infection without a lot of side effects.”…
Read the study...
March 17, 2020
Azlocillin is an old antibiotic from the 1970s that's already FDA approved, so this is information that doctors could use immediately instead of waiting for years of human trials first if they could find a source that sells this antibiotic.
Ohio scraps Democratic primary amid virus fears, but other states to vote…
March 17, 2020
Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, defied a court ruling and declared a health emergency late Monday -- hours before residents of the industrial Midwestern battleground were to begin casting ballots... As Arizona, Florida, and Illinois prepare to vote Tuesday, there is confusion over whether polling stations will be safe, given the pandemic...
Israeli govermernt to start tracking citizens phones, in order to find out who were near a tested CoVID-19 patient in public and notify them…
March 17, 2020
A new computer chip mimics the neurocircuitry of our noses to smell. It draws inspiration from the structure and electrical activity of the brain to distinguish between odors…
March 17, 2020
They also designed an algorithm that mirrors the behavior of the electrical signals that pulse through the circuit. When they trained the algorithm on the chip using an existing data set of 10 “smells”—characterized by their measurements from 72 different chemical sensors—it was able to accurately distinguish between them with far fewer training samples than a conventional chip...
Trump Takes a Swing at China’s President Xi By Calling The COVID-19 a “Chinese Virus”…
March 17, 2020
The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2020
Since China is ramping up its propaganda against the U.S. and starting an information war, Trump decided he's not putting up with it now.
Iraq military bases: US pulling out of three key sites…
March 17, 2020
The decision to leave three of its eight bases in Iraq is a sign the US is looking to dramatically reduce its footprint in the country. It comes amid heightened tensions with the Iraqi government and Iran. A ceremony will take place this week at al-Qaim, where the US will formally hand over equipment to the Iraqi army to help it ensure security in the area. It will end any US presence along the Iraqi side of the border with Syria...
Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing
March 17, 2020
U.S. job openings surge in January in the last calm days before the coronavirus storm…
March 17, 2020
The number of job openings in the U.S. surged by 400,000 to 7 million in January, but that might end up being the high-water mark of the longest expansion in American history. Job openings had declined toward the end of the 2019 and the downward trend is expected to resume in February or March as companies across the U.S. shut down or limiting hours to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Amazon is suspending all shipments other than medical supplies and household staples to its warehouses amid coronavirus crisis…
March 17, 2020
That means sellers who use Amazon's storage and delivery network for a fixed fee, through a program called Fulfillment by Amazon, will no longer be able to ship nonessential products to Amazon. It doesn't affect last-mile shipments of those products to consumers.
Puerto Rico Can Help The U.S. End Its Dependence On Chinese Pharmaceutical Ingredients…
March 17, 2020
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, public health officials and policy experts have raised concerns that the U.S. is too dependent on China for critical active pharmaceutical ingredients—the compounds essential to manufacturing common medicines like penicillin, Advil, and Tylenol. The good news is that there are ways for Congress to jump-start American pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing, by reforming the tax code of Puerto Rico.
Ron Paul: The Coronavirus Hoax – OpEd…
March 17, 2020
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back...
France hits Apple with record €1.1 BILLION fine for monopoly practices…
March 17, 2020
The decision comes over Apple’s alleged anti-competitive behavior in its distribution and sales networks.
YouTube will rely more on AI moderation while human reviewers can’t come to the office…
March 17, 2020
This means videos may be taken down from the site purely because they’re flagged by AI as potentially violating a policy, whereas the videos might normally get routed to a human reviewer to confirm that they should be taken down...
To Turbocharge Anti-Aging Treatment, Just Add… a Protein Found in Fruit Flies?…
March 17, 2020
The hunt for the elixir of life is such a universal mythological trope that to talk about it in the context of science seems almost ridiculous. But breakthroughs in the last decade have made the impossible seem possible, and researchers are quickly converging on the consensus that aging may well be a disease that we can treat just as easily as any other...
New York Times editorial board spreads fake news about White House response to COVID-19…
March 17, 2020
The “Times” is a disgrace to journalism! https://t.co/gfMc6fIbfI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2020
Las Vegas Strip Shutting Down: “Hotel Occupancy Will Be In Low Teens” MGM Says…
March 17, 2020
If anyone at this point could possibly still have any doubts the proverbial shit has hit the fan, mass closures and billions lost has come to a place which never shutters day or night... This means closure of Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur, and Park MGM, among others. Wynn Resorts also announced closure of its two luxury-hotel casinos for at least two weeks. This includes all nightclubs, day clubs, spas, salons and gyms on these properties, after by end of last week some properties began taking temperature checks of patrons entering...