Rashid A. Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM: Dr. Rashid A. Buttar received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Biology and Theology at age 21, and then attended medical school at the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa, graduating with his medical degree at age 25. He trained in General Surgery and Emergency Medicine and served as Brigade Surgeon for 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of South Korea, and later as Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Moncrief Army Community Hospital at Ft. Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina while serving in the US Army.

Who is ELIGIBLE?

In general, all of the following entities that have suffered substantial economic injury caused by a disaster provided they were in existence on January 31, 2020:

• Businesses with 500 or fewer employees
• Cooperatives, ESOPs, and tribal small businesses with fewer than 500 employees
• Sole proprietors
• Independent contractors
• Most private nonprofits

What are the LOAN PARAMETERS?

• The maximum EIDL is a $2 million working capital loan at a rate of 3.75% for businesses and 2.75% for non-profits with up to a 30-year term.
• Payments on Coronavirus EIDL loans are deferred for one year*
• Approval can be based on a credit score and no first-year tax returns are required
• Borrowers do not have to prove they could not get credit elsewhere
• No collateral is required for loans of $25,000 or less. For loans of more than $25,000, general security interest in business assets will be used for collateral instead of real estate
• The borrowers must allow the SBA to review its tax records

NOTE: EIDLs are now capped at $150,000.  source  go to the EIDL page

Here Are All the Companies Working on COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments, and Testing

In the midst of a societal upheaval resulting from the novel coronavirus and the disease that it causes, COVID-19, there are many efforts in progress to find solutions to slow the spread of the disease and treat those who already have it. These efforts include those from governments, nonprofit organizations, and companies both privately held and publicly traded.

To help investors who desire to keep tabs on the publicly traded companies with COVID-19 programs, here are lists of all the companies with market caps of at least $200 million that are developing or have developed COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests.

COVID-19 printed next to plastic balls resembling the coronavirus
IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.

Vaccines
Several companies already had vaccine platforms targeting other coronaviruses such as MERS and SARS. This enabled them to rapidly prototype experimental vaccines for immunizing against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Following are all of the companies that are actively developing COVID-19 vaccines either on their own or in partnership with another drugmaker.

Company
Market Cap

Arcturus Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ARCT) $249.1 million
BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) $12.2 billion
CSL Behring (OTC:CSLLY) $89.8 billion
Dynavax (NASDAQ:DVAX) $293.9 million
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) $93.7 billion
Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) $1.2 billion
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) $357.9 billion
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) $11.4 billion
Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) $821.8 million
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) $190.2 billion
Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) $112.9 billion
TranslateBio (NASDAQ:TBIO) $614.1 million
DATA SOURCES: BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION, COMPANY PRESS RELEASES, YAHOO! FINANCE.

Two of these companies appear to be in the lead right now. In March, Moderna initiated the first clinical testing in humans of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The biotech’s messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine was developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Inovio announced on April 6 that it had begun a phase 1 clinical study of experimental COVID-19 DNA vaccine INO-4800.

Treatments
Several companies already have approved products on the market that could hold potential in treating patients with COVID-19. Others have experimental drugs that have been included in testing for other viruses that could be effective in targeting novel coronavirus infection. Some are scrambling to develop new therapies for COVID-19. Following are the companies that are developing or testing potential COVID-19 therapies.

Company
Market Cap

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) $113.7 billion
Adaptive Biotechnologies (NASDAQ:ADPT) $3.4 billion
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALXN) $21.7 billion
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ALNY) $12.6 billion
Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) $122.9 billion
Bayer (OTC:BAYRY) $60.2 billion
Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) $54.1 billion
CSL Behring $89.8 billion
CytoDyn (NASDAQOTH:CYDY) $1.3 billion
Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE:EBS) $3.1 billion
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) $96.6 billion
Grifols (NASDAQ:GRFS) $19.5 billion
Incyte (NASDAQ:INCY) $18 billion
Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) $135.8 billion
Mesoblast (NASDAQ:MESO) $6.1 billion
Novartis (NYSE:NVS) $193.1 billion
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:REGN) $55.5 billion
Roche Holding (OTC:RHHBY) $286.7 billion
Sanofi $112.9 billion
Takeda Pharmaceutical (NYSE:TAK) $47.6 billion
Vanda Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VNDA) $568.7 million
Vir Biotechnology (NASDAQ:VIR) $3.9 billion
DATA SOURCES: BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION, COMPANY PRESS RELEASES, YAHOO! FINANCE.

Three drugs with the potential to treat COVID-19 have received the most public attention. Gilead’s remdesivir, which was originally developed to treat the Ebola virus, is in late-stage clinical studies and could be the most promising treatment, according to World Health Organization Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward. President Trump has spoken frequently about his view that anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, which are marketed by companies including Sanofi, could be effective in treating COVID-19, although health officials have stressed that the efficacy of the drugs in treating COVID-19 remains unproven at this point.

source: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/07/here-are-all-the-companies-working-on-covid-19-vac.aspx

The Vaccine Page

The President of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina has alleged that the World health organization (WHO) offered $20m bribe to see the Covid-19 cure poisoned.

Rajoelina accused the World Health Organisation of a plot to have its COVID-19 Organics, the local African ‘cure’ for the virus poisoned.

According to his claims, WHO offered a $20 million bribe to poisoned their medicine, Tanzania Perspective reported on the front-page of its 14th May edition.

In an interview with French media, President Rajoelina reportedly said he has noticed what he believes stems from usual condescension toward Africans.

“I think the problem is that (the drink) comes from Africa and they can’t admit… that a country like Madagascar… has come up with this formula to save the world.”

“What is the problem with Covid-Organics, really? Could it be that this product comes from Africa? Could it be that it’s not OK for a country like Madagascar, which is the 63rd poorest country in the world… to have come up with (this formula) that can help save the world?”

“If it wasn’t Madagascar, and if it was a European country that had actually discovered this remedy, would there be so much doubt? I don’t think so,” the President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina asserted.

The remedy, COVID Organics, is made from Artemisia, a plant imported into Madagascar in the 1970s from China to treat malaria. Artemisia has had proven success against malaria and according to President Rajoelina it can cure COVID-19 patients within ten days.

However, the WHO has criticized such natural therapeutic measures against the coronavirus as blind faith. In response to the skepticism with which the WHO is treating the COVID Organics, Rajoelina said, “No country or organisation will keep us from going forward.”

A host of other African countries including, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, DR Congo and Niger, have imported the Madagascan made recipe. source

Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune.Wikipedia

Contact tracing is a little like detective work: Trained staff interview people who have been diagnosed with a contagious disease to figure out who they may have recently been in contact with. Then, they go tell those people they may have been exposed, sometimes encouraging them to quarantine themselves to prevent spreading the disease any further. Think of it as part public health work, and part investigation.

The technique is a “cornerstone” of preventative medicine, says Dr. Laura Breeher, medical director of occupational health services at the Mayo Clinic. “Contact tracing, it’s having a moment of glory right now with COVID because of the crucial importance of identifying those individuals who have been exposed quickly and isolating or quarantining them,” she says.

Contact tracing was used during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak, as well as in the SARS outbreak in 2003. It’s also used to combat sexually transmitted infections and other communicable diseases like tuberculosis. And as COVID-19 has gone global, countries like South Korea and New Zealand have aggressively used contact tracing in an attempt to control outbreaks.

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How does contact tracing work?
Once someone has been confirmed to be infected with a virus, such as through a positive COVID-19 test, contact tracers try to track down others who have had recent prolonged exposure to that person when they may have been infectious. Typically, that exposure means being within 6 feet of the person for more than 10 minutes, says Dr. Breeher, though in a health care setting, such as a hospital, the bar is lowered to five minutes.

Healthcare workers then make an effort to reach out to every one of those contacts, tell them that they may have been exposed, and giving them instructions on what to do next. That may include telling them about possible symptoms or directing them to self-isolate.

What are the limitations of contact tracing?
For one, contact tracing is a laborious process. Interviewing infectious patients and reaching out to dozens of contacts takes time. For that reason, contact tracing works best when there are low levels of infection in a community, says Dr. Frank Esper, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital. “When you get to a point where there is a lot of people who are sickened with a particular disease, it quickly overwhelms the health departments’ response to be able to contact trace all those individuals,” he says. source: https://time.com/5825140/what-is-contact-tracing-coronavirus/

May 14, 2020 – Family practice physician from Newport Beach, California named Dr. Jeff Barke was recently filmed speaking out against the state’s COVID-19 regulations. What if quarantining the healthy doesn’t actually save lives? Attending a Riverside, California demonstration calling for the Golden State to allow businesses to reopen, Dr. Barke said he was representing thousands of physicians around the country who are being silenced for opposing the mainstream narrative surrounding coronavirus safety measures. “What if the experts are wrong?” Dr. Barke asked to begin his speech. “What if quarantining the healthy doesn’t actually save lives? What if wearing a mask in public is not effective?” “My name is Dr. Jeff Barke and I’m here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don’t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do,” he continued. “Never in the history of this great republic have we quarantined the healthy. Never in the history of this great republic did we tell churchgoers that it’s illegal for you to exercise your First Amendment right of freedom of religion yet at the same time it’s essential to keep pot dispensaries open.” Dr. Barke also pointed out the hypocrisy of the state declaring churches non-essential, but claiming abortions are essential as well as not allowing citizens to purchase firearms while freeing violent criminals from jail. “As we see the statistics come in, we’re realizing that the fatality rate of this virus is in the ballpark of a bad seasonal influenza,” he stated. “What we’re also knowing is that just like other respiratory viral illnesses in the past, we get over this virus by achieving herd immunity. We can never achieve herd immunity by keeping the herd quarantined.” Calling for the state to open its economy back up, Dr. Barke declared, “It’s time we protect the vulnerable and most at risk, but we allow the young and healthy to open the doors and get back to work!” Dr. Barke joins thousands of other physicians, including a pair of doctors from Bakersfield, California who went viral online for speaking out against California’s stay-at-home order.

May 14, 2020 – American Cattle Rancher Shad Sullivan has a virtual sit down with Patrick Bet-David to talk about the future of cattle and meat industry. Visit Label Our Beef site bit.ly/2L8clQP About the Guest: Shad Sullivan is the R-CALF USA Private Property Rights Committee Chair. Sullivan is a fifth generation native to southeast, Colorado. Raised in the family stocker operation on Antelope Mesa in northwestern Crowley County, Shad learned early on the importance of hard work, dedication, loyalty and integrity. He is a graduate of Crowley County High school and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture/Animal Science from West Texas A&M University in 1996. After a short stint instructing and coaching equine evaluation at Clarendon College, Shad returned to the family ranching operation to help perpetuate family tradition of land stewardship and beef production. His greatest love is watching the cattle grow.

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A new mandate in Huston, would fine residents $1,000 for not wearing a mask in public.Huston’s police union president is calling the measure, draconian.

In Michigan state law makers trying to restrain the governor’s emergency powers after the governor issued wide-spread bans. Even prohibiting members of the same family from visiting each other.

Trey Gowdy: The greater the freedom you infringe, the more compelling the reason has to be. If I am going to imprison or fine you, then why can I not hold you down and vaccinate you against the flew this fall? You do not want the flue and Covid19 so can I involuntary vaccinate you, can I show up to your house and make sure you are doing you burpees your planks and jumping jacks because obesity and the covid19 don’t go well together? Where does it stop?

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false – CIA Director William Casey from conspiracy

He said: “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”

The Duke made the remarks when speaking to when speaking to German news agency Deutsche Press Agentur.

Prince Philip retired from all public duties in 2017, and now spends most of his time at Sandringham.