Mayo Clinic Expects To Lose $900 Million In Revenue This Year

With the novel coronavirus placing a hold on elective procedures and procedures deemed “nonessential”, the nation’s leading care clinic says they’re bleeding millions of dollars. The Mayo Clinic, based in Minnesota operating hospitals across the country, says it expects to lose a total of $900 million in revenue this year, according to the New York Times.

The clinic has already furloughed workers and cut their pay, but it hasn’t been enough. According to the Times, Mayo made a net profit of $1 billion last year.

The report states: “The future offers little relief, at least until the pandemic subsides and the economy recovers. The Mayo Clinic will have to rely more heavily on low-income patients enrolled in the Medicaid program, as others will be hesitant to travel across the country, or the world, for care. ‘It’s uncontrollable,’ said Dennis Dahlen, the clinic’s chief financial officer.”

https://saraacarter.com/mayo-clinic-expects-to-lose-900-million-in-revenue-this-year/

Defections in the House: Several Dems to vote 'no' on $3T coronavirus bill

Several Democrats are bucking their party and voting against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill in the House on Friday.

Some moderate members in swing districts including Reps. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Joe Cunningham of South Carolina, Kendra Horn of Oklahoma and Cindy Axne of Iowa ripped the massive measure as a one-sided partisan bill that is going nowhere.

And there's resistance in the most liberal wing of the party, too, where some say the $3 trillion measure isn't big enough. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said her "no" vote was "difficult" but the bill fell short on ensuring Americans continued to get paychecks and had access to health care.

At least one Republican, Rep. Peter King of New York, is bucking the GOP and supporting the legislation that will give nearly $1 trillion to state and local governments reeling from coronavirus budget holes.

“I can be as much a red state person as anyone. But now we're talking about survival. And this is no place for politics. There's a lot in the bill that I disagree with, but Mitch McConnell refuses to bring up aid to state and local governments. New York will absolutely collapse if that aid money is not there,” King told Fox News.

The Democratic Party defectors first appeared during a vote Friday morning when 14 Democrats voted against their party on a procedural resolution, including moderates, progressives and the liberal freshman squad: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defections-in-the-house-several-dems-will-vote-no-on-3t-coronavirus-bill

Qatar Waging Stealth Influence Operations

Across U.S. Academic System, Documents Show

Group urges Trump admin to investigate Doha's funding of propaganda

Qatar is spending billions of dollars to infiltrate the American education system as part of a propaganda effort that legal advocates say violates federal statutes and warrants a full-scale investigation, according to a nonpublic memorandum sent from an investigative group to the State Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Qatar Foundation (QF), a state-controlled entity tasked with promoting the country's interests, has spent at least $1.5 billion since 2012 to fund a range of educational initiatives at 28 universities across America, making it one of the education system's most prolific foreign funders, according to information obtained by the Lawfare Project, a U.S.-based legal group that has been petitioning American universities to turn over information about their financial relationships with Qatar.

Foreign funding of American universities has been a concern for some time, with countries such as Qatar, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and others injecting billions into their budgets. The Education Department found in late 2019 that several schools failed to report more than $1.3 billion in foreign funds. Qatar's emergence as one of the leading foreign funders has generated concerns about anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias working its way into the classroom.

The Lawfare Project's investigation, which has been provided to the Trump administration, "reveals considerable Qatari infiltration in the American education system and the media," according to a copy of the investigative materials viewed by the Free Beacon. "This infiltration, funded and organized through QF and [Qatar Foundation International], has turned American universities and primary and secondary school teachers into de facto agents of the Qatari government, conveying its political (and anti-Semitic) views to students and the general population without any acknowledgment of the origins of these views."

Major universities have declined to provide the Lawfare Project with detailed information about their financial relationships with Qatar, leading the group to call for a Trump administration investigation into these schools—including at the University of North Carolina and Duke University, which have both been at the forefront of controversy over foreign funding. The Lawfare Project maintains Qatar is violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires people and entities acting "as an agent of a foreign principal" to register with the American government and disclose foreign influence in the domestic political process. Legal experts with the group also maintain the schools should be subject to FARA disclosure.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/qatar-waging-stealth-influence-operations-across-u-s-academic-system-documents-show/

State Department: Annexation should be part of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks

After Jordan’s king warns against Israel extending sovereignty in West Bank, spokesperson Morgan Ortagus cites importance of bringing ‘all parties to the table’ for negotiations

Israeli deliberations about annexing parts of the West Bank should be part of discussions between Israel and the Palestinians on the Trump administration’s peace plan, the US State Department’s chief spokesperson said Friday.

The comments by Morgan Ortagus, made during a phone briefing with Israeli reporters, came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a lightning trip to Jerusalem Wednesday for talks with Israeli leaders on a number of issues.

Pompeo did not specifically address questions during the trip about whether the US would support Israel unilaterally advancing annexation after July 1, as the coalition agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz allows the new government to do, but said Jerusalem has “the right and the obligation” to decide if and when it wants to annex.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-department-annexation-should-be-part-of-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks/

President Trump Says Production Will Begin Even Before Final Approvals

14 coronavirus vaccine candidates are being evaluated

130 therapies are in trials with 450 others in the planning stages

Half the country has lifted stay-at-home orders

President Trump said Friday the possible candidates for a coronavirus vaccine have been narrowed to 14 and manufacture will begin before final Food and Drug Administration approvals are given. Trump said he's hoping a viable vaccine will be available before the end of the year.

In addition to vaccine development, some 130 therapies for COVID-19 are undergoing trials, with 450 others in the planning stages.

By early afternoon Friday, the virus had killed more than 86,200 Americans.

"When a vaccine is ready the U.S. government will deploy every soldier and plane available to deploy it," Trump pledged in an announcement in the Rose Garden.

Trump characterized the $10 billion search for a coronavirus vaccine as the "most aggressive in history" and likened it to the Mahnattan Project, which saw the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

"Tremendous strides are being made," Trump said.

Trump hailed Americans for continuing to take precautions against the pandemic, adding that whether or not a vaccine is developed, America has to get back to work.

"Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. We're starting the process," he said.

Trump noted the U.S. now is conducting 350,000 coronavirus tests a day.

The announcement came as states began easing stay-at-home orders with half the country already open for business.

Economic experts have warned Americans likely won't feel comfortable returning to business as usual until effective treatments and a vaccine against COVID-19 are developed, with medical experts warning reopening the economy too rapidly will lead to a spike in cases and deaths.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said earlier this week it was unlikely a vaccine would be available in time for schools to start in the fall while Dr. Richard Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said Thursday even if a vaccine were available, the U.S. is ill-equipped to distribute it.

Trump told Fox Business Thursday he is prepared to use the military to distribute the vaccine once it is available.

"You know, it's a massive job to give this vaccine. Our military is now being mobilized so at the end of the year we're going to be able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly," Trump said.

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-vaccine-president-trump-says-production-will-begin-even-final-approvals-2977072

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Seems to be endless inquiry changes and shit but very little seems to be done in the way of justice

Lockdown Lawsuit: Doctors Hit Gretchen Whitmer With Lawsuit Over Medical 'Time Bomb'

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is having a tough time with the American legal system, which does not take kindly to dictators. Earlier in the week, she appeared to be losing a very public fight with 77-year-old Karl Manke, who continues to defy her orders to shut down his barbershop even after losing his license to operate without a hearing. He’s still cutting hair and the sheriff won’t stop him. A judge also slapped Whitmer down when she tried to get a restraining order against Manke, ruling instead to hear him out in court. She’s not having a good week. I would have paid good money to have been in the room when she was served with a new lawsuit brought by doctors and one patient claiming her draconian lockdown orders have created a medical “time bomb” for patients who were awaiting elective surgeries and now cannot get them.

The Washington Times reports:

The plaintiffs allege in federal court that Ms. Whitmer’s “drastic, unprecedented [and] unilateral executive actions” to cease economic activity that her office deemed nonessential were based on “grossly inaccurate” models that no longer apply and therefore should be lifted.

“Medical providers are on the brink of financial ruin, facing extreme revenue shortages caused by the Governor’s order forcing the postponement or cancellation of so-called ‘non-essential’ procedures,” said the suit filed by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation and a private law firm, Miller Johnson. “Thousands of healthcare workers across Michigan have been furloughed or laid off.”

In addition to the economic devastation, Ms. Whitmer’s order has left hospitals and patients facing a dangerous backlog on procedures that will create a public health catastrophe of its own, said Dr. Randal Baker, a general surgeon and president of Grand Health Partners, a plaintiff based in Grand Rapids.

“This whole ‘elective-procedure’ thing is now a time bomb,” Dr. Baker told The Washington Times. “There is no good reason to have a ban on elective surgery any more. This is now a significant health problem for the people of Michigan and our patients, and I’ve had one patient attempt suicide — a very serious attempt.”

The lawsuit goes onto describe the very serious complications that patients have experienced as a direct result of being denied their elective procedures, including a patient who needed a damaged feeding tube repaired and another who needed gall-bladder surgery and didn’t get it, which led to gangrene. The lockdown has literally sentenced medically fragile people, who would have been fine if they had been able to seek medical care, to life-threatening or even deadly conditions. And there was no good reason not to allow them in the nearly empty hospitals in Michigan. “Graphics depicted that while Governor Whitmer’s administration anticipated 220,000 patients being hospitalized without social distancing efforts, there had only been 3,000 hospitalizations as of April 27,” the lawsuit states. “That is less than 1.4% of the projected COVID-19 hospitalizations underlying the governor’s declared states of emergency and disaster.”

The plaintiffs alleged that Whitmer tried to claim her order never meant to stop elective procedures, but Jordan Warnsholz, a physician’s assistant, told the Washington Times that her order specifically banned them. “She’s backtracking — she says her original order did not imply a complete ban of ‘non-emergency’ medical procedures and she’s right, it explicitly banned them,” he said.

Not only is Whitmer being sued by the medical community but she is also being sued by Michigan’s legislature in an effort to curb her emergency powers.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/05/15/lockdown-lawsuit-doctors-hit-gretchen-whitmer-with-suit-over-medical-time-bomb-n393601

Millions Starving Due to Rothschild's Scamdemic

The poor in Uganda have been hit hard by the lockdown due to Covid19 scamdemic. The Uganda government has tried to distribute some food aid but still millions of Ugandans are starving. They have not received any aid.

The world is undergoing panic and fear due to a Coronavirus hoax designed to enslave humanity.

In my home country, Uganda, very many people have been greatly affected due to the lockdown whereby it is very difficult for them to meet their daily basic needs including food and other life essentials.

The move to Uganda lockdown came after its first confirmed case of Coronavirus on March 22nd. Since then, up to now (May 15th) my homeland has been under lockdown.

Here, there are lots of sufferings among the local people as most of them live in poverty lacking means to fully sustain themselves.

According to the revised Version of the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) report issued on Feb.19th 2017, it is estimated that 21.4% of Ugandans live in poverty. That is 8 Million Ugandans living in poverty.

While the Sept 2017 report indicated that 27.7% of Ugandans live in poverty. That is 10 Million Ugandans living in poverty. The biggest share of Uganda's population is rural based with 76% and as such estimated to account for 89% of the poverty rate in Uganda. Therefore, poverty is at a very higher rate n rural areas than in urban areas.

Also according to the National Food Security Assessment in Jan 2017, 10.9 Million Ugandans were experiencing an acute food insecurity situation of which 1.6 Million Ugandans are in a crisis situation (unable to meet basic dietary needs).

My homeland, Uganda is one of the world's most impoverished and least developed countries. Many Ugandans live in inadequate and over crowded dwellings in slums mostly without clean water, proper sanitation or electricity.

https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/05/Report-from-Uganda-by-James-Mubiru.html