Questions And Answers For 15 June

Question: What do you call a Trump campaign rally? Other than the obvious.
Answer:   A Covid-19 party.

Question: The comment section of a Black Live Matter demonstration article in Japan Today is called?
Answer:    Either a white grievance party or just a whole lot of denial. 

Question: Is there a "miracle" drug for covid-19?
Answer:   Only in the uneducated, science dying  mind of you know who?

Question: How does North Korea act when it feels its being ignored by the world?
Answer:   Like a spoiled petulant child.

Question: Ted Cruz; Is he still relevant?
Answer:   Only when he's being owned on Twitter by Ron Perlman.

WHO pauses hydroxychloroquine trial German government bails out Lufthansa

Evidence has been mounting that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine isn't effective - and may even be dangerous. Now the UN's World Health Organization has paused its trial of the drug. It cited a major study published in last week, which found that hydroxy-chloroquine could lead to arrhythmias - abnormal heart beats - and worsen Covid patients' survival chances. The WHO had already expressed skepticism about hydroxychloroquine. Now it has announced it'll stop its own trial of the drug while it further reviews the drug's safety.

Trump feuds with WHO and China; Brazil now has third highest number of cases

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut funding to the World Health Organization permanently unless it implements what he calls "substantive improvements" over the next 30 days.nIn a letter to the Director General of the WHO, Trump says the organization gives "terrible advice" for fighting the coronavirus and accuses it of beng too close to China. The US President has also said he's currently taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. Trump has repeatedly touted the drug as a treatment for Covid-19, despite warnings from medical experts about its potentially dangerous side effects.

Coronavirus medication: What works, what doesn't

Remdesivir, Leronlimab, Lopinavir, Ritonavir, Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine - just some of the many medications currently being tested as treatments for Covid-19. What they all have in common is that they were originally developed to treat other diseases. As yet there are no reliable studies demonstrating safety and efficacy against the coronavirus disease. Yet politicians such as Donald Trump are hailing them as breakthroughs in treatment.

Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine under scrutiny | Coronavirus Update

Hydroxychloroquin and related drugs have been boosted as a 'game changer' by US President Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro. But doctors aren't so sure. Some patients stricken with COVID-19 have improved after taking the drug, but a recent study suggests the medication could lead to heart problems.