Today's Grassfire COVID-19 "CounterDrudge" Headlines:

April 14

• MORE EVIDENCE lower fatality rate
  • Rise in Influenza-Like Illnesses (ILI) could indicate 28m already have had COVID-19; fatality rate of .1%
    • Tweet
    • Article
    • Actual study: Abstract; .pdf
  • Study suggests just 1.6% of U.S. COVID cases were reported on 3/31
  • 88% of COVID-positive pregnant women were ASYMPTOMATIC (NYC)
    • New England Journal Of Medicine study
• What? U.S. gave $3.7m to Wuhan Lab for Bat/coronavirus study?
• Hospitals and nursing homes have become "ground zero" for transmission
  • Nursing home-related deaths soar past 2,600
• Economic Ramifications
  • U.S. "weeks away" from food shortages
  • Even company that is performing 40% of COVID test is FURLOUGHING employees because of no work
  • Hospital furloughs
    • East Texas (10% of employees)
    • Glens Falls (NY) hospital furloughs 337
    • Trinity Health (New England) furloughs 350
    • Kalispell Regional (MT) furloughs 600
    • (WV) furloughs impact thousands
    • Philadelphia hospitals furlough
  • Could push a HALF BILLION into poverty
• COVID-"1984"
  
  • (MA) Mandatory 9pm curfew
  • Denver Police: Just call 311 and report your neighbors!
• CBS Paula Reid tries to challenge President Trump: