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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 18, 2020
March 18, 2020
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Finally, some good news... if you missed it, the federal government announced yesterday that it was extending the deadline to file your taxes from April 15th to July 15th. Like you have anything more important to do if you're sheltering at home!
Enjoy getting all those deductions together!
Doctors say that rumor about not taking NSAIDs like ibuprofen because they allegedly influence your body's immune response to the coronavirus is non-science.
The rumor apparently began in France, where the health minister, OLIVIER VÉRAN, tweeted that taking even over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen, Advil, and Aleve could be a problem. Trouble is, he did not cite any scientific evidence at all.
CARLOS DEL RIO, a physician and professor of public health and medicine at Emory University, told the news media “I have no data to support this. I don’t know where he’s coming from.”
And while we're at it, don't take the latest “coronovirus challenge" seriously. A 22-year-old so-called TikTok influencer named AVA LOUISE is shown licking a toilet seat inside an aircraft bathroom claiming it's merely a good way to be sanitary on an airplane. See the video here.
She also said that the coronavirus is for poor people and she's glad that "it is taking out all the old people."
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