COVID 19

VIDEO: Comparing COVID-19 to History’s Deadliest Pandemics

 SouthFront reports…

This video visualizes some of history’s most deadly pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the ongoing Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The Novel Coronavirus outbreak started in China in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. The outbreak was officially declared a pandemic on March 11.

UKC News: Coronavirus Fears Grip UK and US, Italy Report Reveals True Nature of Epidemic

As the coronavirus hysteria is ramping-up in North America and Europe, governments in Asia are already getting back to normal. Why? A new official health report from Italy reveals new insights into why the elderly population were afflicted there, proving that the coronavirus may not be quite the “invisible killer” which it’s being hyped as. All this and more.

Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen with this week’s news round-up. Watch:

New York City Calls to Release Prisoners to Halt Spread of Coronavirus in Jails

The global crisis surrounding the coronavirus and COVID-19 disease has created a number of seemingly unforeseen tertiary effects of public services and their institutions, prompting some drastic moves by government and municipal officials across the United States. While officials call to reduce prison numbers on health grounds, what are the political and social costs?