CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Eli Lilly hopes to start testing coronavirus cure ‘this summer,’ says CEO.

Eli Lilly CEO talks partnering with AbCellera Biologics to co-develop a coronavirus cure.

Coronavirus: Here’s what to expect at the airport – including TSA procedure.

Kentucky’s first confirmed coronavirus patient fully recovered, discharged from hospital.

Coronavirus: From grocery store chains to co-op, how grocers are handling outbreak.

Spain’s Catalonia requests regional lockdown over coronavirus.

Spain’s coronavirus tally jumps to 4,209 cases, 120 dead.

Italian daily coronavirus deaths jump 25% to 1,266.

France reports 3,661 coronavirus cases, death tally 79.

UK coronavirus cases rise 35% to 798 in a day.

In A Breakthrough, Food And Drug Administration Approves New Coronavirus Test.

Hungary will close all schools to slow coronavirus.

MEGALITHIC MAINSTREAM MEDIA HARDEST HIT: Stock Market Posts TREMENDOUS Gains as Trump Announces Coronavirus Emergency Plan.

I’m guessing the next impeachable offense will be that Trump moved the stock market and people he knows made money.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THE CDC SUCKS. Sick People Across the U.S. Say They Are Being Denied the Coronavirus Test. It sucked with swine flu, it sucked with Ebola, and it’s sucking now.

GREENING OUR WAY TO INFECTION.

NICE WORK, GUYS: The FDA is forcing the CDC to waste time double testing some coronavirus cases.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: School Canceled Because of Coronavirus? A Homeschooler Offers Some Tips.

DEMOCRATS: YOU DON’T HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE, YOU JUST HAVE TO FALL IN LINE. “The Biden 2020 campaign isn’t about following its nominal leader, or even listening to him; it’s about the party pushing him over the line collectively…”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Watch: 35 Times The Media Said ‘Wuhan’ Or ‘Chinese Coronavirus’ – But They Blame The GOP.

Related: ‘We’re being gaslit:’ Must-read thread shines glaring spotlight on media’s ‘Wuhan virus’ about-face [screenshots].

UPDATE:

As Stephen Miller tweets, “Media has been calling it Chinese Wuhan virus for weeks, then suddenly decided to call everyone who used the term they themselves used, a bunch of racists. Now it’s being pointed out to them, they suddenly don’t want to talk about it. Enjoy the bed you guys made!”

(Updated and bumped.)

ADVICE TO ACADEMICS: Please do a bad job of putting your courses online. “This advice is very different from that which I would share if you were designing an online course.” Yes, my goal mid-semester is to make the transition as painless for the students as possible, not to suddenly create an entirely different online course to show how brilliant a teacher I am. They’ve already been sent home unexpectedly with an uncertain future. Keep it simple, stupid.

SET ASIDE THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES: Florida Man Friday: Gillum as Charged. “I did not have sexual relations with that man, Mr. Florida.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

But also remember that the threat can both be real, and the subject of media hype, at the same time. What’s happening in Italy, Iran, etc. isn’t part of a get-Trump effort. That said, the press has to be unhappy after Trump’s press conference today.

DOW POPS 1,985 POINTS AS TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY ENLISTS GOOGLE, WALMART IN CORONAVIRUS FIGHT.

More here: Biggest Rally Since 2008, Clawing Back Some Of Their Coronavirus Collapse.

Related: Former New York Times “Reporter” Jim Roberts Tweets, “The Dow Has Fallen 300 points Since Trump Started Speaking,” Then Stealth-Deletes as Down Rises Nearly 10%, Nearly 2000 Points.

TRUMP’S PRESENTATION: Good show with lots of bigshot CEOs and government officials talking about how he’s on the case and how they’re going to help. Plus, likely to be missed by many, his determination to fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with cheap oil will help the domestic industry weather Russia’s price war. This is the presentation that he should have had on Wednesday. I notice the Dow has gone up by over 1000 points since it started.

UPDATE (From Ed): Trump Will Unleash the Power of the Private Sector to Counter the Coronavirus Threat.

THOUGHTS: More Covid-19 speculations and a note on the American response. Too good to excerpt.

NOT A HUGE CONTRACT, I IMAGINE: Vermont State Police Adopts SIG Sauer M400 Pro Rifles.

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P. DAVID HORNIK: Iran’s ‘Worst Nightmare’ Coming True: Middle Eastern Shiites Rise Up Against It. “Shiites in countries that Shiite Iran seeks to dominate are now telling Iran to go home and get off their backs”

BLACK GOLD, TEXAS TEA: How Oil Saves the Whales (and May Save Us All).

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Microbial Life Has Been Found Deep in Earth’s Crust Beneath The Ocean Floor.

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF VOTER SUPPRESSION? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Biden Is Winning Because of ‘Rampant Voter Suppression in This Country.’

WHY AIRLINES ARE FLYING EMPTY GHOST PLANES.

HUFFPO’S GOTTA HUFFPO: Coronavirus Fears Are Decimating The Sex Industry.

THIS IS CNN: Chris Cuomo suggests that people ‘go straight ethnic’ when disinfecting to prevent COVID19 spread (video).