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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting the killing of a black man by a white police officer."

“As of Saturday evening, at least 250 businesses across the Twin Cities had been vandalized, looted or had doors and windows smashed. Some have been reduced to rubble, destroyed completely by fire. Others have reported extensive water damage or severe fire damage.”

“According to a new study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, early outpatient treatment is the most effective for treatment of coronavirus patients. The study, which was led by Dr. Harvey A Risch of Yale University, suggests that late stage studies missed the point about effective usage of hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Risch says immediate and early ramping-up of treatment for high-risk COVID-19 patients is key to controlling the coronavirus pandemic crisis.”

“An Australian study that has been 'touted' around the world as "proving" HCQ is unsafe against COVID-19 is now being questioned openly...

Questions have been raised by Australian infectious disease researchers about a study published in the Lancet which prompted the World Health Organization to halt global trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19.

Specifically, the study, led by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Advanced Heart Disease in Boston, examined patients in hospitals around the world, including in Australia. It said researchers gained access to data from five hospitals recording 600 Australian Covid-19 patients and 73 Australian deaths as of 21 April.

But data from Johns Hopkins University shows only 67 deaths from Covid-19 had been recorded in Australia by 21 April. The number did not rise to 73 until 23 April. The data relied upon by researchers to draw their conclusions in the Lancet is not readily available in Australian clinical databases, leading many to ask where it came from.”

“If they got this wrong, what else could be wrong?” Dr Allen Cheng, an epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor with Alfred Health in Melbourne, said. It was also a “red flag” to him that the paper listed only 4 authors.”

“Alpha News Journalists were live on the group live-streaming the protests and looting happening in Minneapolis on Wednesday, March 27^th.”

“LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus pandemic policies for nursing homes have been “an epic fail,” a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday as state officials disclosed incomplete new data linking 1 in 4 COVID-19 deaths long-term care residents.”

"Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts."

If you are medically inclined, you might find this story disturbing. We should remark that the paper evoking the story has not been peer-reviewed. The story is printed in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and the authors are all from institutions in Guangdong, China.

Here are the key take-a-ways. The virus uses the same strategy as HIV and some other viruses like Hepatitis-B to evade the immune system. The virus apparently causes a downregulation of the MHC-1 which is in all nucleated cells of the body. This downregulation causes MHC-1 to disappear from the surface of the infected cell depriving the immune system of the necessary information to combat the virus, rendering CD-8 T-cells, NK-cells, and macrophages ineffective.

Secondly, any vaccine that wants to use the presence of the upregulated MHC-1 protein as part of their immunization strategy will probably be doomed to failure.

Third, if this virus is successful in escaping immune detection it may well become a chronic condition, especially in asymptomatic carriers.

Forth, the paper reports that chloroquine restores the surface expression (upregulation) of MHC-1.

Fifth, It appears that the virus routes the downregulated MHC-1 molecule to the cell's late endosomes or lysosomes for destruction. So, not only is the MHC-1 not on the surface of the cell but the virus destroys it.

With all this in mind, remember that the paper has not been peer-review and the study needs to be duplicated. Also, remember that this is China and there has been some misinformation before. The paper's link is in the first comment