SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm actually working bro.

 

1 minute ago, Jason said:

#MeToo

#MeTree

[RallyMo]

What's work?

[Jason]

1 hour ago, the dude abides said:

In the span of one month, Jason has posted (approvingly) videos of Bill Maher and Chris Hayes.

i think he may have caught “the lib”.

 

[tdawg87]

9 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

What's work?

Ask Blarg.

[St1ck]

@tdawg87 @Jason @Lhalo

I'm working as well guys. Seems like the 4 of us have a lot in common. We should all hang out sometime. I mean, after The Virus. 

[tdawg87]

Oh that'll be easy

[RallyMo]

I am also working. 

[RallyMo]

But what is work?

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, RallyMo said:

But what is work?

What is love?

[Jason]

 

[Lhalo]

26 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

What is love?

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Dammit Larry.

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

Ask Blarg.

It's seven days a week 11 hours a day except for the weekends then it's 16 or more. I have to play with my timsheet to get the hours accounted for without sending red flags to the parent company the doesn't get that I either work these hours or they have no delivery. 

[Lou]

14 minutes ago, Blarg said:

It's seven days a week 11 hours a day except for the weekends then it's 16 or more. I have to play with my timsheet to get the housrs accounted for without sending red flags to the parent company the doesn't get that I either work thses hours or they have no delivery. 

Well said 

[Blarg]

I forgot to mention I'm tired and not getting much sleep. 

[Stradling]

I’m still working.  

[Redondo]

DiFi urges Trump to allow Iran IMF request for $5B aid package to fight coronavirus

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has urged President Trump to reverse a reported plan to block an Iranian request to the IMF for $5 billion in aid to fight the coronavirus crisis -- saying it is in the U.S. national interest to accede to the request.

“I am disappointed to see reports that your administration intends to block Iran from receiving $5 billion in humanitarian aid from the IMF to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” Feinstein wrote in a letter dated Thursday to President Trump. “Providing these funds to Iran would help it respond more effectively to the disease and mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region.”

The administration plans to block the request for an emergency loan, amid concerns that the anti-American regime still has billion-dollar accounts available to it, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Senior officials told the Journal that the loan would allow Tehran to divert the money to its economy -- which has been stunted by the sanctions imposed as part of the U.S. maximum pressure campaign -- or to finance extremist militant groups in the Middle East.

Iranian “officials have a long history of diverting funds allocated for humanitarian goods into their own pockets and to their terrorist proxies,” one of the administration officials told the outlet.

 

[Redondo]

This drug is showing early promise in coronavirus fight, research says

The experimental COVID-19 treatment remdesivir is showing early promise in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak, according to a small research study.

The study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was supported by remdesivir developer Gilead Sciences.

“These are patients who received treatment through the compassionate use program for remdesivir, which is for critically ill patients who are unable to take part in a clinical trial,” said Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day in an open letter released Friday. “The results, which cover 53 of the first patients to have been treated in the program, show that the majority demonstrated clinical improvement after taking remedesivir.”

However, O’Day acknowledged the small scale of the research, which was not the result of a clinical trial.

“We recognize the limitations of these compassionate use data from a purely investigational perspective, while knowing they are of the greatest significance for the patients whose symptoms improved,” he said, in the letter. “These early data from 53 patients have not been generated in a clinical trial and cover only a small portion of the critically ill patients who have been treated with remdesivir.”

The antiviral was previously used to treat Ebola patients and has been garnering massive attention as the world scrambles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Experts, however, have warned that people should not take drugs unless prescribed by a doctor.

Remdesivir is still awaiting regulatory approval as a coronavirus treatment.

“Of the 53 patients whose data were analyzed, 22 were in the United States, 22 in Europe or Canada, and 9 in Japan,” explains an abstract of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine. “In this cohort of patients hospitalized for severe Covid-19 who were treated with compassionate-use remdesivir, clinical improvement was observed in 36 of 53 patients (68%).”

The research is based on data from patients who received remdesivir during the period from Jan. 25, 2020, through March 7, 2020, and have clinical data for at least one subsequent day, according to the abstract.

“At baseline, 30 patients (57%) were receiving mechanical ventilation and 4 (8%) were receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,” the abstract explains. “During a median follow-up of 18 days, 36 patients (68%) had an improvement in oxygen-support class, including 17 of 30 patients (57%) receiving mechanical ventilation who were extubated. A total of 25 patients (47%) were discharged, and 7 patients (13%) died; mortality was 18% (6 of 34) among patients receiving invasive ventilation and 5% (1 of 19) among those not receiving invasive ventilation.”

REMDESIVIR: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT POTENTIAL CORONAVIRUS TREATMENT

[fan_since79]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I’m still working.  

There were at least 25 cars in line at the Signal Hill In-N-Out the other day. Maybe more. Line went all the way out to Atlantic Ave.

[Redondo]

Most Americans will receive coronavirus aid checks by this date

The majority of eligible Americans will receive their coronavirus aid payments no later than April 15, Fox News has learned.

A senior Treasury official told Fox News on Friday that by the middle of next week, tens of millions of eligible Americans will have money from the federal government directly deposited into their bank accounts.

Payments are already hitting some people’s accounts as of Friday evening, Fox News is told.

The official said Treasury is transmitting the batch of payments to the Federal Reserve for distribution to financial institutions across the nation. Those financial institutions will then distribute the payments into Americans’ bank accounts.

The official explained that this first batch of payments will be received by Americans who filed their taxes in 2018 and/or in 2019 and received a refund via direct deposit.

Filers who did not receive a refund electronically in the last tax year will soon be able to expedite their payment by submitting their bank information to the IRS via the “Get My Payment” app, which the federal government is launching next week.

Those who do not file taxes are now able to go to the IRS website and use the “Non-Filers: Enter Payment Info Here” section to enter their bank information in order to receive their payment faster than they would via regular mail.

The official said the Treasury Department is also working around the clock to automatically process payments for Social Security and railroad retirement recipients who did not file a tax return in 2018 or 2019. Those payments, according to the official, are anticipated in the coming weeks and will primarily be issued electronically.

Meanwhile, millions more economic impact payments will be issued via direct deposit in the coming weeks, as the Treasury issues payments to Social Security recipients, and as other taxpayers provide their banking information on the tools provided through the IRS website and the new app.

“We are working to secure the fast, secure and efficient delivery of payments to veterans, disabled, and other vulnerable populations,” the official added.

During the 2008 financial crisis, officials told Fox News that it took the Obama administration “several months” before the first stimulus payments were issued to Americans. The official touted the efficiency of the Trump administration, which is expected to complete this round of payments in weeks.

“This in and of itself is a major achievement,” an official told Fox News.

As part of the CARES Act, people who file their taxes as individuals are eligible for payments up to $1,200, and couples who file jointly are eligible for up to $2,400 plus an additional $500 per child under the age of 17.

The amount decreases for individuals who earn an adjusted gross income of more than $75,000 and couples who earn more than $150,000 a year, by $5 for every $100 in income above those marks. This means the payment is less the higher their earnings are, with it being reduced to zero for individuals who make $99,000 or more and couples who make $198,000 or more.

People who file as heads of household are eligible for payments of up to $1,200 plus $500 per child under 17. That amount is reduced for people who earn an adjusted gross income of more than $112,000 a year. The extent to which it is decreased depends on how many children they have.

Payment amounts may also be offset by any past due child support payments that have been reported to the Treasury Department.

The payments do not count as taxable income. Similarly, they do not count for determining eligibility for federal programs like Supplemental Security Income.

 

Edited April 11, 2020 by Redondo

[tdawg87]

Still haven't got my socialist check.

[JarsOfClay]

Thoughts, Tdawg?

[St1ck]

20 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Still haven't got my socialist check.

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

There were at least 25 cars in line at the Signal Hill In-N-Out the other day. Maybe more. Line went all the way out to Atlantic Ave.

If it was out to Atlantic it was probably closer to 40 cars.  Part of my job is to do mystery shops of my own stores.  Last night I was about 50 cars back in the drive lane.  

[Jason]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

I’m still working.  

You are doing God’s work and we appreciate it