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Hmm. Bill Totten's WeblogUS CDC Director Robert Redfield Admitted… that Coronavirus Deaths Have Been Miscategorized as FluLarry Romanoff

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday prepared to weigh a multibillion-dollar emergency spending bill passed by the House of Representatives offering economic relief from the coronavirus pandemic as the Trump administration pressed for $850 billion more.... Reuters Senate weighs emergency coronavirus pandemic funds; Trump seeks $850 billion moreDavid Shepardson, Susan Heavey

Against the background of the previous economic crisis from 2008, and the apparent difficulties that more traditional forms of economic stimulus have faced in trying to help their economies and their people — especially against a background of low wage growth, and actual and perceived rising inequality — other ideas have emerged. Both modern monetary theory and universal basic income essentially owe their roots to the judgement that conventional economic policies have not been helping. At...

Lockdown and testing.ProMarket — The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessWhy Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19Luigi Zingales | Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Not new news. The hybrid war between the US and China as been on for some time. Now it is heating up.The Vineyard of the SakerChina locked in hybrid war with USPepe Escobar

Just in case anyone is in desperate straits for keeping their mind occupied, writing is one possibility. Here is some high level advice. Feel free to ask questions in the comments... Bond EconomicsIn Quarantine And Want To Write A Book? Ask Me AnythingBrian Romanchuk

Vitamin D could stop the worst of COVID-19.Dr. Seheult also discusses compelling evidence about the possible role of Vitamin D (in proper dosage) in fighting acute respiratory infections like COVID-19. [embedded content]

Scientists advising the government say an aggressive new approach adopted to attempt to "suppress" the virus may have to be in place for 18 months. The UK only realised "in the last few days" that attempts to "mitigate" the impact of the coronavirus pandemic would not work, and that it needed to shift to a strategy to "suppress" the outbreak, according to a report by a team of experts who have been advising the government. The report, published by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response...

Cuban doctors and medicine to rescue the world from COVID-19 While the first clinical test for a Coronavirus vaccine started in the United States today, Cuba may have already developed a successful medicine able to cure COVID-19. The western world has been slow to recognize the potential that this small Caribbean nation is contributing to the biggest challenge the world has faced in a very long time. Could Cuba save Italy and the world from Coronavirus?

So much for safe haven.Sputnik InternationalBitcoin Tumbles 15%, Mirroring Slumps of Global Markets