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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

The year began as 1973 with impeachment. Then it became 1918 with the pandemic.

Then 2008, and hopefully not 1929, with the recession. Followed by 1968 with civil rights protests,

Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash along with

seven others. Wildfires swept Australia. Locusts swarmed East Africa. Earthquake struck

Turkey in the Caribbean. And as of today, the year is officially only half over. Dr. Anthony

Fauci told a Senate committee yesterday that he is very concerned about the surge

of coronavirus infections in many parts of the U.S.

He stated that he would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 cases a day, if this does

not turn around.

On the heels of his sobering warning, this news broke,

a new flu virus in China has the potential to become a pandemic virus. Chinese researchers

discovered a strain of influenza in pigs that has all the essential hallmarks of a candidate

pandemic virus. According to a paper published by the

proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pig farm workers showed elevated levels of the virus in

their blood. As a result, close monitoring in human populations, especially the workers in the swine

industry, should be urgently implemented.

The good news is that scientists say there is no evidence that the virus is circulating among humans.

The bad news is that the World Health Organization made the same statement about COVID-19 last January.

It's easy to become discouraged in discouraging days.

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