“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people…religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” Linus from Peanuts.
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Retired engineer, graduated from Chalmers Technical University a long time ago with a degree in Technical Physics. Career in Aerospace, Analytical Chemistry, computer chip manufacturing and finally adjunct faculty at Pennsylvania State University, taught just one course in Computer Engineering, the Capstone Course.
The COVID-19 vaccine would be the answer to end the pandemic. But even if the vaccine distribution starts today, it won’t be enough for all people who need it worldwide.
A new antiviral drug, Molnupiravir or MK-4482 / EIDD-2801, can manage to “completely” stop the transmission of the virus within 24 hours, as per the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Georgia State University studies.
Researchers explained in the published work in the journal Nature Microbiology that it is the first demonstration of an oral drug available to quickly block the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 that would be a game-changer.
According to Entrepreneur, Emory University in Atlanta developed Molnupiravir through an innovation company Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE), licensed by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, and partnered with Merck & Co. The antiviral drug was initially being made to treat the flu and prevent the coronavirus from duplicating itself and creating errors amid viral RNA replication.
Tests were carried out on ferrets and observed that they reduced the number of viral particles and the experts’ details. Then, ferrets were put to others, which had not been treated. In the second group, none of the ferrets became infected with COVID-19.
Dr. Robert Cox, the co-lead author of the studyand a postdoctoral fellow in the Plumper group, said, “We believe that ferrets are a relevant transmission model. Because they easily spread SARS-CoV-2, but for the most part they do not develop a serious disease, which is very similar to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in young adults.”
Cox added that they observed early that the antiviral drug has a broad-spectrum activity to fight respiratory RNA viruses. Besides, the oral treatment of infected animals with the Mogul Parivar reduced the number of viral particles spread by different magnitude orders, which reduced the transmission. Monulparivir’s properties are a powerful candidate for the pharmacological suppression of COVID-19, the report adds.
COVID-19 patients treated with the antiviral drug could be non-infectious within 24 hours of the initial treatment if the ferret-based data will be translated to humans. Monulparivir can be taken orally, and treatment can start early for a triple potential benefit: shortening the infectious phase to alleviate the emotional, shortening the infectious phase to lessen the emotional and socioeconomic cost of prolonged patient isolation immediately contain local outbreaks.
The antiviral drug is now on an advanced phase II/ III clinical trial and is being tested in three various doses every 12 hours within five days in patients with COVID-19.
Americans are skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccines, with a “warp speed” timeline that blunts confidence and fears political interference in the shots. According to NBC News, two promising vaccines lead the release within weeks; experts in immunization behavior and ethics say they assume attitudes to shift from widespread hesitancy to urgent and heated demand.
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccinologist with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a recent JAMA Network webinar, “People talk about the anti-vaccine people being able to kind of squelch uptake. I don’t see that happening.”
I have a great interest in making sure the elections are free from fraud, so in my view this must be fixed and secured. If the banks can do secure transactions, so can voting transactions be made secure. Without secure votes we will no longer have a country.
Arizona: @JennaEllisEsq “In Arizona we have over 500k ballots that were cast illegally. 11,000 are “over-votes”, meaning more votes cast than they have registered voters in a specific precinct. Just that alone would change the outcome of the election.
Georgia: The big news you need to hear about today is Ware County, Georgia. Dominion machines were seized. Equal number of Trump and Biden votes were forensically analyzed. However, the machines reported 87% for Trump and 113% for Biden. Should be 100% for both.
One snippet from Gateway-pundit: Data Expert Edward Solomon analyzed the 2020 election results in Georgia and identified another pattern in the data showing ultimately 200,000 votes transferred from President Trump to Joe Biden at the precinct level.
Nevada:In his ruling Friday, Judge James Russell said there was no evidence of fraud, writing what was shown to him did not prove any of the allegations.
In the state case that was dismissed, lawyers representing the Republican Party’s electors and the campaign said:
1,506 votes cast in the election came from dead voters
2,468 votes were cast by voters who changed their address to another state or country
42,284 voters voted twice
About 20,000 voters voted in Nevada without a Nevada mailing address.
The evidence, which included 20 binders-worth of materials, was submitted to the court under seal, meaning it could not be viewed publicly. At a news conference on Nov. 5, where surrogates from the Trump campaign announced a federal lawsuit, which was later dropped, speakers told reporters to find the evidence for themselves. That lawsuit was later dismissed voluntarily. During the sole hearing in that case, a lawyer provided no evidence of fraud and did not verbally bring up any evidence to the federal judge.Russell’s 34-page order details the allegations issue-by-issue. This is the first time the public has been able to see the evidence as presented with specific depositions cited.
This is to be continued.
Michigan: ANTRIM COUNTY, MI – A man can examine election equipment by court order in the same northern Michigan county that saw early, but since corrected, issues with vote totals in the presidential election.
Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit Court in Antrim County ordered that William Bailey of Central Lake could take “forensic images” of the 22 tabulators used for a vote on a marijuana retailer proposal he is challenging.
The order makes no mention of Antrim County’s presidential results, where a software issue initially led to an inaccurate vote count that was corrected after a paper ballot recount, which awarded the county to President Donald Trump.
Instead, Bailey wants to overturn a proposal to allow a marijuana retailer in his village that initially resulted in a 262-262 tie, which was considered a loss for the proposal, the order stated. A retabulation saw the proposal pass by one vote, which Bailey alleges didn’t count three damaged ballots.
It is a “greater public interest” right now to confirm “the accuracy, integrity and security of the election process” than potential future misuse of election software discovered during the examination, Elsenheimer wrote.
The forensic examination took place Sunday with Bailey, Antrim County Clerk Sheryl Guy, county administrator Pete Garwood, county attorney Haider Kazim, three county commissioners, a county IT technician and a member of the Sheriff’s department, said county spokesman Jeremy Scott in a release.
Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Trump, told Fox News on Sunday that Elsenheimer “granted our team” access to the tabulating machines.
It is interesting the judge granted examination for the marijuana ballot initiative but not the presidential vote. Yet there has been a 6000 vore “error” in that county alone.
In the days before antibiotics there was a cure for Syphilis: Give the patients malaria.The fever from malaria was so high that it killed the Syphilis bacteria. This was a drastic method but it worked.
Now CDC HAS FOUND THE CURE FOR FLU: CORONAVIRUS
This is a capture of the entirety of flu cases recorded by the CDC for the last 8 weeks.
Influenza Positive Tests Reported to CDC by U.S. Public Health Laboratories
2020-2021 A(H3N2v) A A(H3) A(unable A(Subtyping B BVIC BYAM Total
Season (H1N1) to sub- not # Tested
Week pdm09 type) performed)
202040 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 11433
202041 0 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 11914
202042 0 0 1 0 4 3 0 0 10960
202043 0 1 2 0 8 1 0 2 15307
202044 0 0 2 0 4 11 1 2 19916
202045 0 1 1 0 5 2 1 1 21439
202046 0 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 20001
202047 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 19418
202048 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 10175
Week 48 ended November 29, 2000
We are now in the tenth week of the flu season and still no sign of the flu.
Have nearly all the flu cases been misdiagnosed as coronavirus, since coronavirus is the primary cause of everything found if the patient tests positive, or has all this social distancing and clean your hands prevented the seasonal flu outbreak?
We should all know from history that the major cause of the high death toll in the Spanish flu was not the flu itself but the ensuing pneumonia caused by the mask wearing mandate, masks that were seldom properly sterilized.
Seattle policemen wearing protective gauze face masks during influenza epidemic of 1918 which claimed millions of lives worldwide (Photo by Time Life Pictures/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
In between the letter of Jude and Revelation we read one chapter of Proverbs and the book of Jonah.
December 7: Proverbs 29, Jonah (click on the chapter to begin reading).
Proverbs 29, more proverbs of Solomon; and yes, they still deal with the superiority of wisdom and righteousness over folly and wickedness.
Jonah. The short but great story of Jonah, the famous solar eclipse of 763 B.C. the great solar eclipse of 2017, the coming eclipse of 2024 and the tearing down of statues.