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Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day

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(Reuters) - Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. Contributions to the Trump campaign by Jones Day lawyers totaled just $50, records show.

A Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows a wide gulf between individual lawyer donations to the candidates, with nearly $29 million going directly to Biden’s campaign and just under $1.75 million to Trump’s between Jan. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020. Lawyers at several other law firms representing Trump or his campaign also heavily favored Biden.

The figures reflect individual giving, not law firm contributions, and they rely on donors’ self-identification by occupation and employer. Reuters analyzed data on more than 120,000 contributions reported by the candidates’ principal campaign committees to the FEC on Sept. 20, which includes donations made up to Aug. 31. The data doesn’t include donations to political action committees, law firm PAC donations to federal candidates, or giving from lawyers’ spouses or dependents.

Lawyers have long donated more to Democratic presidential candidates than to Republicans, data shows. The profession leans left overall, according to a 2015 report by professors at Stanford University, the University of Chicago and Harvard University, partly because much of Big Law is based in liberal-leaning cities like New York and Los Angeles.

The firms whose lawyers have donated most to Biden’s campaign in the current election cycle, using rounded figures drawn from FEC data, are plaintiff-side giant Morgan & Morgan; the campaign’s outside counsel firm Covington & Burling; and Sidley Austin.
 
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In spite of all the obstacles thrown in it's way by Trump, medical science nonetheless is making progress and is hopefully going to soon make major strides in antiviral treatments too. If you get it, your odds of surviving covid have improved greatly over the past several months, even if your odds of getting it have greatly increased. Overwhelm the medial system and nobody gets treated or the quality of care diminishes.

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Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling, researchers say.
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Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates

Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping patients survive their illness.

"We find that the death rate has gone down substantially," says Leora Horwitz, a doctor who studies population health at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine and an author on one of the studies, which looked at thousands of patients from March to August.

The study, which was of a single health system, finds that mortality has dropped among hospitalized patients by 18 percentage points since the pandemic began. Patients in the study had a 25.6% chance of dying at the start of the pandemic; they now have a 7.6% chance.

That's a big improvement, but 7.6% is still a high risk compared with other diseases, and Horwitz and other researchers caution that COVID-19 remains dangerous.

The death rate "is still higher than many infectious diseases, including the flu," Horwitz says. And those who recover can suffer complications for months or even longer. "It still has the potential to be very harmful in terms of long-term consequences for many people."
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Budzbuddha

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Here is a fucking big xmas gift ... oh rudy

BORAT got you , you fucking idiot ! LOL.

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Hands down, Rudy Giuliani might star in one of the most awkward scenes in Sacha Baron Cohen's new 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,' which will be released on Amazon Prime Friday.

The Guardian reported that Giuliani is interviewed by Borat's 'daughter' Tutar, posing as a conservative reporter, who then brings him to a hotel room, where he reclines on a bed and seemingly puts his hand down his pants, only to be interrupted by Cohen's Borat character.

'She's 15. She's too old for you,' Cohen screams and waves Giuliani off his 'daughter,' played by actress Maria Bakalova.

Too funny.
 
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An angry Azar floats plans to oust FDA’s Hahn

Fights over vaccine standards have created an unbridgeable divide within HHS, officials said, but White House is unlikely to approve any changes until after the election.
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An angry Azar floats plans to oust FDA’s Hahn
Fights over vaccine standards have created an unbridgeable divide within HHS, officials said, but White House is unlikely to approve any changes until after the election.

Infuriated by the FDA’s defiance in a showdown over the Trump administration’s standards for authorizing a coronavirus vaccine, health secretary Alex Azar has spent recent weeks openly plotting the ouster of FDA chief Stephen Hahn.

Azar has vented to allies within the Health and Human Services Department about his unhappiness with the top official in charge of the vaccine process, and discussed the prospect of seeking White House permission to remove him, a half-dozen current and former administration officials said.

During some of those conversations, he’s gone as far as to float potential replacements for Hahn, said one current and two former administration officials familiar with the talks, identifying HHS testing czar Brett Giroir and a pair of career civil servants – FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy and longtime regulator Janet Woodcock – as prime candidates to step in as acting commissioner should Hahn be removed.

The discussions come amid deep frustration with Hahn over his insistence that a Covid-19 vaccine meet stricter-than-normal safety standards — a contentious decision that rendered it impossible for President Donald Trump to fulfill his oft-expressed desire for a vaccine just before Election Day.

Earlier this month, Hahn ended a lengthy standoff over the rules under which the FDA would grant emergency authorization for a vaccine by flouting the White House and ordering their publication. The move won widespread praise from the nation’s public health community.

But it angered Azar and others who viewed it as the latest in a recent pattern of Hahn breaking with the broader administration in an effort to bolster his own reputation, current and former officials said.

White House officials are unlikely to greenlight Hahn’s firing in the next two weeks despite their own reservations about him, five current and former administration officials said, over concerns about the optics of removing an FDA commissioner soon after his agency ruled out a pre-election vaccine.

Still, Hahn — who has endured a turbulent 10-month run — is viewed as a long-shot to return if Trump wins a second term. In a sign of awareness of his rocky standing, Hahn has largely avoided traveling to the White House of late, two administration officials said, preferring to call in to its coronavirus task force meetings.

In the meantime, the last few weeks have marked a new low point in an extraordinary feud between Azar’s health department and its subordinates at the FDA that has played out in the press and behind the scenes during the nation’s worst pandemic in 100 years.

That months-long battle has disrupted efforts to combat the virus by slowing down internal decision-making and sowing confusion, according to 10 current and former administration officials and others with knowledge of the situation. It’s decimated morale and, at various times, forced the White House to intervene.

And at a time when the administration is fighting to develop the therapeutics and vaccines that can curb a disease killing 800 Americans a day, the Azar-Hahn feud has effectively severed the link between the two men at the center of that high-stakes effort.

“It’s broken,” one senior administration official said of the relationship between Azar and Hahn. “There is minimal interaction.”

In response to a series of questions, HHS and FDA spokespeople separately insisted that Azar and Hahn maintain a good relationship and speak regularly. An HHS spokesperson did not directly address whether Azar has discussed firing Hahn, and declined to say whether he still had confidence in his FDA commissioner, citing policy against conducting “personnel reviews in the press.”

But six administration officials said the disintegration of the relationship between Azar and Hahn is the result of a series of disagreements, missteps and slights that began within weeks of Hahn’s arrival in Washington last December and steadily built to a boiling point. A radiation oncologist and longtime academic with no political experience, Hahn was thrust into the middle of a pandemic response just a month after becoming the agency’s latest leader — and the fourth in 2019 alone, after former commissioner Scott Gottlieb and acting heads Ned Sharpless and Giroir.
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hanimmal

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DIY-HP-LED said:
www.politico.com

An angry Azar floats plans to oust FDA’s Hahn

Fights over vaccine standards have created an unbridgeable divide within HHS, officials said, but White House is unlikely to approve any changes until after the election.
www.politico.com www.politico.com

An angry Azar floats plans to oust FDA’s Hahn
Fights over vaccine standards have created an unbridgeable divide within HHS, officials said, but White House is unlikely to approve any changes until after the election.

Infuriated by the FDA’s defiance in a showdown over the Trump administration’s standards for authorizing a coronavirus vaccine, health secretary Alex Azar has spent recent weeks openly plotting the ouster of FDA chief Stephen Hahn.

Azar has vented to allies within the Health and Human Services Department about his unhappiness with the top official in charge of the vaccine process, and discussed the prospect of seeking White House permission to remove him, a half-dozen current and former administration officials said.

During some of those conversations, he’s gone as far as to float potential replacements for Hahn, said one current and two former administration officials familiar with the talks, identifying HHS testing czar Brett Giroir and a pair of career civil servants – FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Amy Abernethy and longtime regulator Janet Woodcock – as prime candidates to step in as acting commissioner should Hahn be removed.

The discussions come amid deep frustration with Hahn over his insistence that a Covid-19 vaccine meet stricter-than-normal safety standards — a contentious decision that rendered it impossible for President Donald Trump to fulfill his oft-expressed desire for a vaccine just before Election Day.

Earlier this month, Hahn ended a lengthy standoff over the rules under which the FDA would grant emergency authorization for a vaccine by flouting the White House and ordering their publication. The move won widespread praise from the nation’s public health community.

But it angered Azar and others who viewed it as the latest in a recent pattern of Hahn breaking with the broader administration in an effort to bolster his own reputation, current and former officials said.

White House officials are unlikely to greenlight Hahn’s firing in the next two weeks despite their own reservations about him, five current and former administration officials said, over concerns about the optics of removing an FDA commissioner soon after his agency ruled out a pre-election vaccine.

Still, Hahn — who has endured a turbulent 10-month run — is viewed as a long-shot to return if Trump wins a second term. In a sign of awareness of his rocky standing, Hahn has largely avoided traveling to the White House of late, two administration officials said, preferring to call in to its coronavirus task force meetings.

In the meantime, the last few weeks have marked a new low point in an extraordinary feud between Azar’s health department and its subordinates at the FDA that has played out in the press and behind the scenes during the nation’s worst pandemic in 100 years.

That months-long battle has disrupted efforts to combat the virus by slowing down internal decision-making and sowing confusion, according to 10 current and former administration officials and others with knowledge of the situation. It’s decimated morale and, at various times, forced the White House to intervene.

And at a time when the administration is fighting to develop the therapeutics and vaccines that can curb a disease killing 800 Americans a day, the Azar-Hahn feud has effectively severed the link between the two men at the center of that high-stakes effort.

“It’s broken,” one senior administration official said of the relationship between Azar and Hahn. “There is minimal interaction.”

In response to a series of questions, HHS and FDA spokespeople separately insisted that Azar and Hahn maintain a good relationship and speak regularly. An HHS spokesperson did not directly address whether Azar has discussed firing Hahn, and declined to say whether he still had confidence in his FDA commissioner, citing policy against conducting “personnel reviews in the press.”

But six administration officials said the disintegration of the relationship between Azar and Hahn is the result of a series of disagreements, missteps and slights that began within weeks of Hahn’s arrival in Washington last December and steadily built to a boiling point. A radiation oncologist and longtime academic with no political experience, Hahn was thrust into the middle of a pandemic response just a month after becoming the agency’s latest leader — and the fourth in 2019 alone, after former commissioner Scott Gottlieb and acting heads Ned Sharpless and Giroir.
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This is why I really appreciate how the Federal Reserve is set up. As a Quasi-government entity, they are really outside the political whims of a dip-shit politician.
 
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Half million COVID-19 deaths possible by February, study says

The COVID-19 death toll could reach a half million in the U.S. by February unless nearly all Americans wear face masks, researchers said, a day after the number of new infections reported across the country approached a record high.
 
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Bad time to deport 12,000 doctors, also other countries like Canada will scoop them up.
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Some doctors fighting the pandemic now have another thing to worry about | CNN

For months Dr. Jinendra Satiya has faced fears on the front lines of a deadly pandemic, treating coronavirus patients.
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Some doctors fighting the pandemic now have another thing to worry about

"What the visa change would do
Satiya is one of about 12,000 doctors who are foreign nationals in the United States on a J-1 visa, according to the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Visitors on J-1 visas are admitted to the US for the length of their training program -- for doctors, it's typically a one-year contract at a hospital, renewed annually for the duration of their residency.
When physicians on J-1 visas complete their competency reviews and get their contracts extended for another year, they then apply for visa renewal through the ECFMG.
But under the proposed rule, the annual visa renewal would require an additional step -- applying through US Customs and Immigration Services. That processing time could take 5 to 19 months, according to the USCIS website, and interrupt doctors' ability to continue working at their hospitals".

"The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of up to 139,000 physicians in the US by 2033"
 
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VILEPLUME said:
Are there any regular RIU posters that stopped posting during Covid? Could they have...you know...?
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Statistically it is very probable among the American users, many in the politics section are seniors or getting close. Covid is spiking in the USA a week before the election with red states getting hammered the most by Trump and republican stupidity, but the vast majority of states are experiencing serious outbreaks now. Way to go stable jenius, imagine if covid never happened, the Americans would have a chain around their necks by now. If Trump went golfing and let the experts handle covid he would be unbeatable now, in spite of everything he has done and said. Thank Jesus he's a fucking moron, if he had a brain he would be truly dangerous, a half a million dead would be nothing.
 
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captainmorgan said:
The number of missing items from grocery store shelves around here has been slowly growing in the last few weeks.
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I've noticed some items seem to be missing myself (made in the states) and it's not surprising given the conditions.

Another four years of Trump and Americans would be starving and wearing rags, the economy collapsed and the banks shut down. Nobody's bank or credit cards would work and even if you had 10K in your checking account the bank would be closed, there is not nearly enough real cash in circulation. Shit it could even happen before the asshole leaves office, especially if he removes his moratorium on eviction that will expire at the end of the year.
 
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captainmorgan said:
We will see over 100,000 new cases a day by election day.
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Donald says you've turned the corner and it's all in the past, it magically went away, like the thousand people a day it's killing. Meanwhile the maskless death cult super spreader rallies continue in covid hotspots as Donald paves the road to Joe's victory with corpses.
 
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