Brent rises more than 30% as US president says he expects agreement for 10m barrel production cut Some market analysts have said the oil demand collapse is so severe, amid global lockdowns and travel bans, that any supply cuts from major producers would have a limited impact Some market analysts say the oil demand collapse is so severe that any supply cuts by major producers would have a limited impact. producers, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, to alleviate a price collapse triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. US President Donald Trump on Thursday said on Twitter that he had spoken with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who in turn had spoken with Russian president Vladimir Putin. “I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!” he said. Nick Note: For the record oil has put in a bottom and will climb from here. In fact it put in a bottom yesterday as we told you. today its up! the rest is up to you! rich or poor its all up to you. the greatest trading banquet ever has been prepaired for you. So kill and eat!
We Are All Ready In Another Great Depression
Let tell you what few people Know and what those in the know are not telling you. Another great depression has started. With crashing GDP and soaring unemployment.
With one critical difference. Government has started the New Deal and the Marshall plan and the WPA (Trumps coming infrastructure deal) BEFORE hand. This time no banks will fail. No major bossiness will close. Workers in lock down will get happy checks. No mortgage payments due (the hook is they will be postponed not forgiven) no foreclosures, no rent payments due. Even credit card payments will be delayed. And even many small businesses will get loans up the ass.
The key thing you must understand the USA will come out of this so deep in debt that eventually their will be double digit negative interest rates. And a debt collapse like the world has never seen before. You will BUY America if you have cash for 2 cents on the dollar.
I wanted to put this critical information in writing so we are crystal clear. I do not want to hear any moaning and groaning when our strategies to make you rich beyond your wildest dreams come to fruition and you lost out because you did not listen.. And if you die no complaining to me because you did not put on your hazmat suit in a bottle.
Strategy FOR wealth building
1. We want to be long the NEW depression stock market bottom now being put in.
2, Free Cheese is at the center of the trap. Talk about a debt orgy. DO NOT NOT NOT partake of the free mony they are throwing around. All these deals are a suspension of debt payment andbail out with loands. These loans will have to be paid back. Not not be tempted!
3. Its ONE, TWO, Three! in the nest 3 months at the most the death rate will plunge. And the infections will drop to nothing. Lock down will be lifted and their will be dancing in the streets. Markets will soar. Specifically the stock market and oil.
4. At this time will be rolling in the cash. Zeroes will come into play.
5. then the next wave will hit. Not now later i will walk you through this next critical phase.
In Closing: Be prepared to hit the reset button early and often!
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: Current evidence for their effectiveness in treating COVID-19
Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service Team
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
University of Oxford
Nick Note: I edited this document. I did not add or subtract from the parts i am reporting. I wanted to get you to the salient parts. If you would like to read the entire article click on this link:
Over twenty in vivo clinical trials have already been registered to test the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19. Contraindications for the use of these drugs must be checked for each individual before treatment. Empirical evidence suggests that hydroxychloroquine has a better safety profile, and it might therefore be preferable to focus research efforts on this less toxic metabolite.
BACKGROUND
Chloroquine (CQ) was first used as prophylaxis and treatment for malaria. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a more soluble and less toxic metabolite of chloroquine, which causes less side effects and is, therefore, safer (1-3). More recently, CQ/HCQ has been used to manage conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. CQ/HCQ has been used in the treatment of HIV with mixed results (4). The ability of CQ/HCQ to inhibit certain coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV-1, has been explored with promising results (5, 6). Both drugs are affordable and widely available internationally. With decades of experience administering these drugs, their safety profiles are well-established. It is likely to take many months for novel, specific treatments of COVID-19 to become available. As a result, there has been growing interest in the use of CQ and HCQ as potential treatments in the interim.
Results from In Vivo Clinical Trials
The empirical evidence for the effectiveness of CQ/HCQ in COVID-19 is currently very limited. First clinical results were reported in a news briefing by the Chinese government in February 2020, revealing that the treatment of over 100 patients with chloroquine phosphate in China had resulted in significant improvements of pneumonia and lung imaging, with reductions in the duration of illness (9). No adverse events were reported. It appears that these findings were a result of combining data from several ongoing trials using a variety of study designs. No empirical data supporting these findings have been published so far.
On the 17th of March 2020, the first clinical trial data were published by Gautret and colleagues in France (2). The researchers conducted an open-label non-randomised controlled trial with 36 patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Six of these patients were asymptomatic, 22 had upper respiratory tract infection symptoms and eight had lower respiratory tract infection symptoms. Twenty patients were assigned to the treatment group, and received HCQ 200mg three times a day for ten days. The control group received usual care. Six of the patients in the treatment group were also prescribed azithromycin to prevent bacterial superinfection.
The main outcome of the trial was SARS-CoV-2 carriage at Day 6, tested using PCR of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from nasopharyngeal swabs. The results showed that patients in the treatment group were significantly more likely to test negative for the virus on Day 6 than patients in the control group (70% vs 12.5% virologically cured, p<0.001). Moreover, all of the six patients who were treated with a combination of HCQ and azithromycin tested negative on Day 6. The authors argue that this finding speaks to the effectiveness of HCQ and a potential synergistic effect of its combined treatment with azithromycin. Following the promising results of these first clinical trials, official guidelines recommending the treatment of COVID-19 using CQ/HCQ were published. The National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China published their recommendation mid-February, suggesting to treat patients with 500mg chloroquine phosphate (300mg for CQ) twice per day, for a maximum of 10 days (10). In Italy, the L. Spallanzani National Institute for the Infectious Disease published their recommendations for treatment on the 17th of March, which included the provision of 400mg of HCQ per day or 500mg CQ per day, in combination with another antiviral agent (11).
A number of potential mechanisms of action of CQ/HCQ against SARS-CoV-2 have been postulated. The virus is believed to enter cells by binding to a cell surface enzyme called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) (16). ACE2 expression is also believed to be upregulated by infection with SARS-CoV-2 (17). Chloroquine may reduce glycosylation of ACE2, thereby preventing COVID-19 from effectively binding to host cells (18). Furthermore, Savarino et al (19) hypothesise that CQ might block the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as interleukin-6), thereby blocking the pathway that subsequently leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).(19). Chloroquine has been found to accumulate in lysosomes, interfering with this process (20). Chloroquine is also believed to raise the pH level of the endosome, which may interfere with virus entry and/or exit from host cells (6).
Side Effects of Chloroquine
Both CQ and HCQ have been in clinical use for several years, thus their safety profile is well established (18). Gastrointestinal upset has been reported with HCQ intake (21). Retinal toxicity has been described with long-term use of CQ and HCQ (22, 23), and may also be related to over-dosage of these medications (23, 24). Isolated reports of cardiomyopathy (25) and heart rhythm disturbances (26) caused by treatment with CQ have been reported. Chloroquine should be avoided in patients with porphyria (27). Both CQ and HCQ are metabolised in the liver with renal excretion of some metabolites, hence they should be prescribed with care in people with liver or renal failure (27, 28). In a letter to the editor, Risambaf et al (27) raise concerns about reports of COVID-19 causing liver and renal impairment, which may increase the risk of toxicity of CQ/HCQ when it is used to treat COVID-19. Nick Note: in my asshole bullshit know nothing approach. I believe this may work and i can tell you for a fact that many health care professionals are taking the better version of this medicine (HCA) profro (prevention). Only use Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). And of course follow the instructions of your health care professional. Please note: we are receiving anecdotal reports that SOME doctors are granting prescriptions. Let suppose you about to traveling to the ropics for voluntary missionary work. If you work really hard you may find a Doctor to give you a prescription. Now you have to find the medicine nice and legal like. I would never ever suggest that you lie to a medical professional. But i have heard of people finding the medicine out of America or on the black market. . Never ever smuggle life saving drugs…. NEVER EVER! I seem to remember when baby boomers went through their druggie stage. At that time many were not concerned about the law and took copious amounts of powerful, dangerous, illegal recreational drugs. I would never ever suggest you do anything illegal to get what some fools regard as life saving drugs. DO NOT DO IT!
Dow falls 400 pts after Fed’s pessimistic forecast
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly claimed on Tuesday that the United States economy will “get worse” before it bounces back after the coronavirus pandemic.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average index dropped 400 points on Tuesday after San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said that the national economy will “get worse” ahead of its recovery from the coronavirus-caused damage. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed earlier in the day that the health authorities registered 332 new deaths due to the coronavirus in the most affected state in the country, adding that he doesn’t expect life to return to normal any time soon in New York. The Dow Jones fell by 1.75%, or 389 points, at 3:31 pm ET. The Nasdaq 100 was 1.18% down at 3:32 pm ET. At the same time, the S&P 500 declined by 1.81%. Nick Note: This is called blood in the streets… time to buy the shit out of this market. grab the bull by the horns
Italy Risks Losing Grip in South With Fear of Looting, Riots
As Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte fights to hold Italian society together through a crippling nationwide lockdown, the depressed south is turning into a powder keg. Police have been deployed on the streets of Sicily’s capital, Palermo, amid reports gangs are using social media to plot attacks on stores. A bankrupt ferry company halted service to the island, including vital supplies of food and medicines. As the state creaks under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic, officials worry the mafia may be preparing to step in. Preventing unrest in the so-called Mezzogiorno, the underdeveloped southern region that’s long lagged behind the wealthy north, has become the government’s top priority, according to Italian officials who asked not to be named discussing the administration’s strategy. With the European Union’s most dangerously indebted state already fighting the Germans over the terms of the financial aid it needs, the fallout may reach far beyond Rome if Conte fails. “We need to act fast, more than fast,” Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando told daily La Stampa. “Distress could turn into violence.” As the lockdown enters its fourth week, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said in a statement late Monday that the government will follow the recommendation of its scientific advicers to extend the lockdown from the current deadline of April 3 until Easter at least. Conte is also working on a new stimulus package for mid-April worth at least 30 billion euros ($33 billion), following initial measures worth 25 billion euros, the officials said. Italy has the highest death toll from the virus, with more than 11,000 fatalities, and almost 102,000 confirmed cases, second only to the U.S. It reported the smallest number of new coronavirus infections in almost two weeks on Monday. Within the aid he’s already announced, Conte is trying to channel funds toward the South. Over the weekend he advanced 4.3 billion euros from a solidarity fund for municipalities and added 400 million euros to mayors that can be converted into coupons for groceries. “No one will be left behind,” the premier said in a televised address. Still, southern leaders are clamoring for more. They say that cash from the solidarity fund was already due to them and the economic damage from the lockdown has brought their region to the verge of a breakdown. That opens another front for Conte, who is already struggling to stop the Italian health system from collapsing and fighting the European Union for joint debt issuance to help relieve the financial pressure on his government. Italy’s economic output is set to shrink by 6.5% in 2020, according to research group Prometeia. The lockdown has hit the 3.7 million Italians working in the underground economy particularly hard since they don’t receive a regular salary and have difficulty accessing unemployment benefits. Many of them are concentrated in the South. In the South, “many people live day-to-day, doing odd jobs, like unloading trucks at markets, and they are in trouble,” Stefano Paoloni, a police union leader, said by phone. “We need to be on the alert to see whether there’s organized crime behind social unrest.” Police have been stationed outside supermarkets in Palermo after at least one group of angry residents refused to pay for their purchases. The private Facebook group National Revolution, which has about 2,600 members, is urging others to stage such raids, according to newspaper la Repubblica. Other social media outlets, including WhatsApp chats, are being monitored, the newspaper said. Adding to the sense of things breaking down, ferry company Tirrenia CIN on Monday decided to halt all its connections with Sicily, Sardinia and other minor islands because of financial difficulties. The government said in a statement it will ensure that vital goods are delivered. Giuseppe Provenzano, who is in charge of the south in Conte’s cabinet, said an emergency handout should also be given to those in the illegal economy. The risk is that organized crime gangs will step in to provide assistance to those in need, filling the gap left by the state. The government needs to move “without hesitation,” said Graziano Delrio, leader of lower-house lawmakers from the Democratic Party, the second-biggest group in Conte’s coalition. Rome needs “to do whatever’s necessary for the essential needs of families,” he said in an interview. Nick Note: the longer this goes on the wore things will get. Desperation is a strange animal. And evil people are working on spreading conspiracy theories to create civil strife.
Dow closes up over 650 pts as Microsoft, J&J lead
United States stock markets finished the trading session on Monday higher despite concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. National guidelines for social distancing were extended last night until April 30 as United States President Donald Trump said: “We shouldn’t declare victory and then not have victory.” Trump also agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that discussions between the two countries about the oil prices will continue at a ministerial level. The Dow Industrial Average was up 3.19% at the closing bell, gaining 690 points. Johnson & Johnson was the best performer with a rise of 7.95%. Microsoft Corp rose over 7% at the close. The Nasdaq 100 increased by 3.96% with Autodesk increasing by 10.13%. The S&P 500 jumped 3.35%. Universal Health Services Inc led the way with the 12.38% rise. Nick Note: Some times when all the bad news is in the markets it gets as bad as it can. Its the old thing you can’t fall off the basement floor. this is the greatest stock market ever to trade on the up side.
Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines
A supervisor urged surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan to volunteer for the front lines because half the intensive-care staff had already been sickened by coronavirus. “ICU is EXPLODING,” she wrote in an email. A doctor at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan described the unnerving experience of walking daily past an intubated, critically ill colleague in her 30s, wondering who would be next. Another doctor at a major New York City hospital described it as “a petri dish,” where more than 200 workers had fallen sick. Two nurses in city hospitals have died. The coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 30,000 people in New York City, is beginning to take a toll on those who are most needed to combat it: the doctors, nurses and other workers at hospitals and clinics. In emergency rooms and intensive care units, typically dispassionate medical professionals are feeling panicked as increasing numbers of colleagues get sick.
“I feel like we’re all just being sent to slaughter,” said Thomas Riley, a nurse a Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, who has contracted the virus, along with his husband.
Medical workers are still showing up day after day to face overflowing emergency rooms, earning them praise as heroes. Thousands of volunteers have signed up to join their colleagues. But doctors and nurses said they can look overseas for a dark glimpse of the risk they are facing, especially when protective gear has been in short supply. In China, more than 3,000 doctors were infected, nearly half of them in Wuhan, where the pandemic began, according to Chinese government statistics. Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who first tried to raise the alarm about Covid-19, eventually died of it. In Italy, the number of infected heath care workers is now twice the Chinese total, and the National Federation of Orders of Surgeons and Dentists has compiled a list of 50 who have died. Nearly 14 percent of Spain’s confirmed coronavirus cases are medical professionals. New York City’s health care system is sprawling and disjointed, making precise infection rates among medical workers difficult to calculate. A spokesman for the Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs New York City’s public hospitals, said the agency would not share data about sick medical workers “at this time.” Nick Note: This is getting personal for me. I have a niece who is a dedicated first responder in the greater New York area. I am outraged. Its the wealthiest part of the entire planet. It has the biggest most over funded medical establishment known to man. And you meant to tell me they were not able to stock up on personal protection equipment. All the managers should be taken out back and shot. Her and her mother are sleeping. Let me see if i can explain this to you. Your a fireman and the fire department has no equipment so they ask you to go fight a fire in your underwear and to make it worse instead of a fire hose they give you a plastic squirt gun. Talk about take this job and stick it up your ass.
Trump: US extends social distancing guidelines until April 30
(CNN)The United States will extend its set of social distancing guidelines until April 30, President Trump said in a coronavirus news briefing at the White House on Sunday. “We will be extending our guidelines to April 30 to slow the spread,” the President said. “On Tuesday, we will be finalizing these plans and providing a summary of our findings, supporting data and strategy to the American people.” As of Sunday evening there are more than 137,000 cases of coronavirus in the United States. At least 2,400 people have died. Trump’s administration issued guidelines on social distancing on March 16 aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak. The guidance, which initially had a 15-day time frame, urged Americans to avoid groups of more than 10 and advised that older people stay home. Trump hopes the country will be on its way to recovery by June 1, he said Sunday. “A lot of great things will be happening,” the President said. Nick Note: Their goes the white house front lawn Easter egg hunt
Fauci says 100,000 to 200,000 Americans could die from coronavirus
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the White House looks for ways to restore normalcy in parts of the U.S., the government’s foremost infection disease expert says the country could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in areas that have not been as hard-hit by the outbreak at the conclusion of the nationwide 15-day effort to slow the spread of the virus.
“I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,” he said, correcting himself to say he meant deaths. “We’re going to have millions of cases.” But he added “I don’t want to be held to that” because the pandemic is “such a moving target.
About 125,000 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. had been recorded as of Sunday morning, with over 2,100 dead. It is certain that many more have the disease but their cases have not been reported. One in three Americans remain under state or local government orders to stay at home to slow the spread of the virus, with schools and businesses closed and public life upended. Dr. Deborah Birx, head of the White House coronavirus task force, said parts of the country with few cases so far must prepare for what’s to come. “No state, no metro area, will be spared,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Fauci said he would only support the rollback in lesser-impacted areas if more testing is in place to monitor those areas. He said “it’s a little iffy there” right now. Most people who contract COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms, which can include fever and cough but also milder cases of pneumonia, sometimes requiring hospitalization. The risk of death is greater for older adults and people with other health problems. Hospitals in the most afflicted areas are straining to handle patients and some are short of critical supplies. Fauci’s prediction would take the death toll well past that of the average seasonal flu. Trump repeatedly cited the flu’s comparatively much higher cost in lives in playing down the severity of this pandemic. Meanwhile, governors in other hotspots across the country were raising alarm that the spread of the virus was threatening their health-care systems. “We remain on a trajectory, really, to overwhelm our capacity to deliver health care,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said on ABC’s “This Week.” “By the end of the first week in April, we think the first real issue is going to be ventilators. And we think it’s about the fourth or fifth of April before, down in the New Orleans area, we’re unable to put people on ventilators who need them. And then several days later, we will be out of beds.” He said officials have orders out for more than 12,000 ventilators through the national stockpile and private vendors, but so far have only been able to get 192. Nick Note: prepare yourselves for more bad news. its a traceable opportunity. What makes it tricky is Trumps total lack of leadership.
The United States now has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, surpassing Italy and China
Donald Trump again struggled to reassure a fearful nation on Thursday as it emerged the US now has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. News that America had surpassed virus hotspots China and Italy with 82,404 cases of infection, according to a tracker run by Johns Hopkins University, broke as the president was holding a press conference at the White House. His instinctive response was to question other countries’ statistics. “It’s a tribute to the amount of testing that we’re doing,” Trump told reporters. “We’re doing tremendous testing, and I’m sure you’re not able to tell what China is testing or not testing. I think that’s a little hard.” Trump later spoke to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, by telephone and had what he described on Twitter as a “very good conversation”. The two leaders discussed the coronavirus in “great detail”, adding that: “China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the Virus. We are working closely together. Much respect!” While the US has increased its testing capacity in recent days the process has been flawed and incoherent, and the country still lags behind leaders such as South Korea in terms of the number of tests administered per-capita.
On a grim day, the death toll in America surpassed 1,000 and it was revealed that last week 3.3 million people filed for unemployment – the biggest single-week jump in history. The president has been widely condemned for failing to act fast enough, misjudging the public mood and seeking to blame others rather than taking personal responsibility. “It’s nobody’s fault,” Trump said of the jobless figure. “Certainly not in this country. Nobody’s fault. We got very lucky when we made a decision not to allow people in from China on a very early date. I say that because some people don’t want to accept it, but this was a great decision made by our country, or the numbers that you’re talking about – we’re a big country – they’d be far greater, far bigger.” He added: “I heard it could be six million, could be seven million. It’s 3.3 or 3.2, but it’s a lot of jobs, but I think we’ll come back very strong. The sooner we get back to work – you know, every day we stay out it gets harder to bring it back very quickly, and our people don’t want to stay out … I think you’ll see a very fast turnaround once we have a victory over the hidden enemy.” Trump told the briefing that dates for reopening sections of the country were under discussion but he notably did not refer to Easter – 12 April – as he has been pushing in recent days. Critics have long accused him of lacking compassion, pointing to examples such as when, in 2017, he lobbed paper towels at hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico. On Thursday he was asked about the thousands of restaurants going out of business, causing personal devastation to owners and staff. “I understand the restaurant business,” he claimed, describing it as “very delicate”. He went on: “You can serve 30 great meals to a person and a family … one bad meal, 31, and they never come back again. It’s a very tough business.” He added: “It may not be the same restaurant, it may not be the same ownership, but they’ll all be back.” Even as New York hospitals become overwhelmed, with doctors complaining of nightmarish conditions, and cases spike in cities such as New Orleans, Trump continued to talk down the threat from the virus. “Many people have it. I just spoke to two people that had it. They never went to a doctor, they didn’t report it … The people that actually die, that percentage is much lower than I actually thought.”
In a tone that again seemed at odds with the gravity of the situation, Trump asked a reporter from Bloomberg News, “How’s Michael doing, good?” – a reference to the failed presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg – and dismissed a state governor who took part in a conference call as a “wise guy”. Vice-President Mike Pence and Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus taskforce, also sought to calm fears about a shortage of ventilators, despite media reports to the contrary. Birx said of New York: “To wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating DNR situations, Do-Not-Resuscitate situations for patients – there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion.” Joe Biden, the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, said: “The president is not responsible for the coronavirus, but he bears full responsibility for the slow and uncoordinated response that has exacerbated both the public health and economic impact on our country. The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don’t have jobs because our president didn’t do his job when it mattered.” Nick Note: This pandemic did not have to create the hell it is in the US. Reality is at the first signs of the pandemic is China they should have shut down those flying aluminum infection carrying giant infection filled testes and the overcrowded oversized cruise ships. It all about money. The pandemic came to America only two ways. 1 The pressurized flying petri dishes and the Barf barges the cruise ships. if those were quarantined you would not have to be. Your entire leadership is to blame. Even now that evidence suggests their are medicines that are a potential cure they are being withheld. Medicines that are FDA approved for other conditions, have been dispensed for over 30 years.. that have limited acceptable side effects. Well you decide. I am not letting the greedy FUCKS kill me or my loved ones. And I’ll even save you if your smart enough to realize big Pharma wants to get paid 100 billion dollars for a vaccine and $1000 a bottle pills. NOT NOT these off patent Generics that can be made for pennies……..