HOW MANY LIVES DID HER POLITICALLY INSPIRED OBSTRUCTION COST? Gov. Whitmer reverses course on coronavirus drugs, is now asking feds for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew fire from some on the right after the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) sent a letter last week threatening ‘administrative action’ against doctors who prescribed two experimental drugs that could potentially help coronavirus patients. The Whitmer administration has since removed the language threatening doctors from the letter and is now asking the federal government to send shipments of the drugs, Bridge magazine reports.”

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FASTER, PLEASE: Stanford researchers turn back the clock on aging cells.

THIS STORY IS GRIM, BUT IT ALSO DISCLOSES THAT FRANCE IS CHEATING ON ITS NUMBERS: Coronavirus: The grim crisis in Europe’s care homes. “More than a third of care homes in the Paris region alone are thought to have been affected by coronavirus. But while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not. . . . Few of the cases in France’s retirement homes are ever tested for the virus, once an initial outbreak has been confirmed. But day after day, stories are emerging of double-digit death tolls inside these institutions, now virtually shuttered from the outside world.”

Well, maybe not cheating, exactly: “France is launching a new app to count coronavirus cases inside care homes, and include them in its national totals. France’s most senior health official has said that numbers could spiral as a result.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: L.A. Bureaucrats Shut Down Restaurants for Selling Groceries Without a Permit. “You cannot just decide you want to sell groceries,” said Barbara Ferrer, the director of L.A. County Public Health.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You say “groceries,” I say groundbreaking “raw, un-handled food restaurant.”

AGUSTIN BLAZQUEZ AT LAURENCE JARVIK’S BLOG: “The secrecy and deception surrounding the spread of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic that led to multiple failures by the World Health Organization is not the fault of China alone.”

BLACKOUT: TV News Is Silent on New Biden Sex Abuse Allegations.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with lavalieres, and it all makes sense.

I LIKE THEIR COFFEE: Black Rifle Coffee Company Steps Up To Help Support Medical Facilities and Military Personnel Battling The Coronavirus.

CONTAGION: Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb.’ “Like the Biogen conference in Boston and a 40th birthday party in Westport, Conn., the funeral of Andrew Jerome Mitchell on Feb. 29 will be recorded as what epidemiologists call a ‘super-spreading event,’ in which a small number of people propagate a huge number of infections. . . . With a population of only 90,000, Dougherty County has registered 24 deaths, far more than any other county in the state, with six more possible coronavirus deaths under investigation, according to Michael L. Fowler, the local coroner. Ninety percent of the people who died were African-American, he said. The region’s hospitals are overloaded with sick and dying patients, having registered nearly 600 positive cases. Last week, Gov. Brian Kemp dispatched the National Guard to help stage additional intensive care beds and relieve exhausted doctors and nurses.”

JIM TREACHER: The First Coronavirus Movie Is Already Here, and You’ll Never Guess What It’s Called!

GOV. CHARLIE BAKER EXTENDS MASSACHUSETTS STAY-AT-HOME ADVISORY, CLOSURE OF NONESSENTIAL BUSINESS TO MAY 4 AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS.

SAMANTHA BEE MAKES SURPRISE IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 REELECTION CAMPAIGN: Full Frontal Host Mocks My Pillow CEO…for Making Life-Saving Masks.

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO. Paper: The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve Is Already Flattening in New York City.

2020 STORIES: We Got Stuck in the North Carolina County Closed for COVID-19: Graham County closed its borders to non-residents on Friday. We wound up on the wrong side of the barriers.

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WITH SEATTLE OVERRUN BY CRIME AND DISEASE, THIS IS A PRIORITY? Seattle Police Chief Tells People To Call 911 If They Hear ‘Racist Name-Calling.’

Racist name-calling isn’t a crime, and can’t be made one.

SHOULD’VE DONE IT LAST WEEK, BUT GOOD: FDA approves use of Battelle’s mask sterilizing technology at full capacity.

SEAFOOD IS DELICIOUS: Neanderthals were eating mussels, fish, seals 80K years ago.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO ISSUE ITS TITLE IX FIX ASAP: Colleges have had 16 months to analyze the planned Title IX reforms and, outrageously, are now trying to stall their final release by citing the coronavirus. Guess what: it doesn’t take more than 16 months to figure out how to write things like “innocent until proven guilty” into your policies, which more than 70% have still failed to do.

WHY A VACCINE WOULD BE NICE: Here’s Why Herd Immunity Won’t Save Us From The COVID-19 Pandemic.

PRIVACY: Zoom macOS install ‘shady,’ plus video chats aren’t end-to-end encrypted.

Increased usage of video conferencing app and service Zoom during the coronavirus outbreak is leading to more security issues being uncovered. As well as previously sending user data to Facebook, which it says it has fixed, it has now been accused of two separate security issues.

Twitter user @c1truz_, technical lead for malware tracker VMRay, reports that Zoom’s Mac app installer uses preinstallation scripts and allegedly displays a faked macOS system message.

“This is not strictly malicious, but very shady and definitely leaves a bitter aftertaste,” continues @c1truz_, “The application is installed without the user giving his [or her] final consent and a highly misleading prompt is used to gain root privileges.”

“[These are the] same tricks that are being used by macOS malware,” he concludes.

Zoom’s product development team is largely located in …wait for it… China.

CBS BLAMES ‘EDITING MISTAKE’ FOR ITALIAN HOSPITAL FOOTAGE IN REPORT ON NYC HOSPITAL CONDITIONS.

As with RatherGate in 2004, viewers were quick to correct CBS after their “editing mistake:”