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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 21, 2021, 5:14 pm
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'It's Stunning' As U.S. Nears 500,000 Covid Deaths
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> Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, talks about returning to schools, vaccine
efficacy for pregnant women and the impact of weather on vaccine
distribution, during an interview with Meet the Press.
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 24, 2021, 11:15 am
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'SNL' Joke Exposes Vaccine Inequality Among Israelis and
Palestinians
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> This ‘SNL’ joke is shedding light on the vaccine inequality
among Israelis and Palestinians
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 24, 2021, 9:07 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 25, 2021, 11:49 pm
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Researchers find worrying new coronavirus variant in New York
City
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> Two separate teams of researchers said this week they have
found a worrying new coronavirus variant in New York City and
elsewhere in the Northeast that carries mutations that help it
evade the body's natural immune response -- as well as the
effects of monoclonal antibody treatments.
> Genomics researchers have named the variant B.1.526. It
appears in people affected in diverse neighborhoods of New York
City, they said, and is "scattered in the Northeast."
> One of the mutations in this variant is the same concerning
change found in the variant first seen in South Africa and known
as B.1.351. It appears to evade, somewhat, the body's response
to vaccines, as well. And it's becoming more common.
> "We observed a steady increase in the detection rate from late
December to mid-February, with an alarming rise to 12.7% in the
past two weeks," one team, at Columbia University Medical
Center, write in a report that has yet to be published, although
it is scheduled to appear in pre-print version this week.
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> It's the latest of a growing number of viral variants that
have arisen in the US, which has had more coronavirus cases --
28 million -- than any other country and where spread is still
intense.
> It's "home grown, presumably in New York," Dr. David Ho,
Director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia,
who led the study team, said by email.
> Viruses mutate all the time. The more people who are infected,
and the longer they are infected, the more chance the viruses
have to change. A patient's body will be loaded with billions of
copies of a virus, and may will be slightly changed, or mutated.
Most will come and go.
> But sometimes a mutation or pattern of mutations takes hold
and gets passed along. If viruses with such patterns become more
common, they're called variants. Again, it's not unusual for
variants to arise but if they give the virus worrying
properties, such as better transmissibility or the ability to
evade treatments and vaccines, that's when doctors start to
worry.
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> The mutation in this variant that most concerns researchers is
called E484K and it gives the virus the ability to slip past
some of the body's immune response, as well as the authorized
monoclonal antibody treatments. This mutation is popping up
independently in many different cases but appears in one
particular variant, as well -- the one called B.1.526.
> "It is this novel variant that is surging, alarmingly, in our
patient population over the past few weeks," the Columbia team
wrote in a copy of their report provided to CNN.
> "We find the rate of detection of this new variant is going up
over the past few weeks. A concern is that it might be beginning
to overtake other strains, just like the UK and South African
variants," Ho told CNN.
> "However, we don't have enough data to firm up this point
now."
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 3, 2021, 7:53 pm
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Biden calls it a mistake for states to lift COVID-19
restrictions
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> President Joe Biden called Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to end
the Texas mask mandate “Neanderthal thinking” on Wednesday.
Other states have also begun to relax restrictions.
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>
> Fatigue is winning....
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 3, 2021, 8:12 pm
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‘Insanity’: Texans React To Gov. Abbott Lifting Mask Mandate,
Reopening State
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> “Governor Abbott has lost his mind by doing this,” says
Gilberto Hinojosa on the Texas governor lifting the mask mandate
and announcing the full reopening of the state, "right before
spring break."
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 4, 2021, 8:51 pm
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‘This Has Already Taken Far, Far Too Long': GOP Aims To Delay
Passage Of Covid Relief Bill
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> Republicans are planning to use a number of procedural moves
to delay the passage of the covid relief bill. Congresswoman
Katie Porter says the process already has taken ‘far, far too
long.’
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GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Forces Senate to Read Aloud All 628 Pages
Covid Relief Bill
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> The U.S. Senate voted to take up a $1.9 trillion pandemic
relief bill backed by President Joe Biden, setting off a lengthy
and partisan debate expected to end this weekend with approval
of the nation’s sixth stimulus since the pandemic-triggered lock
downs that began a year ago.
>
> The 51-50 vote Thursday, with Vice President Kamala Harris
providing the tie-breaker, reflected the solid opposition of
Senate Republicans, who say the drive by Democrats to pass it on
their own has resulted in a far-too-costly measure that will
further boost U.S. debt and could spark inflation.
>
> The vote has the Senate considering a bill passed in the House
a week ago, but the chamber will later vote on a package of
changes offered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that are
designed to shore up support among Democrats. That includes
tighter eligibility for $1,400 stimulus checks and subsidies for
health insurance premiums of laid-off workers through September.
>
> A host of other changes could come later in a debate that
Republicans are threatening to stretch out for several days and
that will end in a grueling “vote-a-rama,” when senators can
offer scores of amendments with rapid-fire debate and votes. In
a chamber divided 50-50 between the two parties, with Harris
able to break any ties, Democrats will be challenged to stay
unified over votes that could politically risky or that could
fundamentally alter the legislation.
>
> As an added hurdle, GOP Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is
demanding an entire reading of the 700-page bill -- something
that could take 10 hours. After that, the Senate will have as
many as 20 hours of debate on the relief package. Then comes the
vote-a-rama, which has no set end point under Senate rules.
Democratic leaders have the ability to conclude at some point by
declaring that Republicans are engaging in “dilatory” tactics.
>
> Read More: Here’s What’s in the Senate’s $1.9 Trillion
Stimulus Legislation
>
> “No matter how long it takes, the Senate is going to stay in
session to finish the bill this week,” Schumer said on the
Senate floor. “The American people deserve nothing less.”
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Governor Abbott Lifts All Covid Precautions, Accuses Migrants Of
Bringing Covid To TX
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> Joy’s absolute worst: Texas Governor Abbott for not only
lifting all covid restrictions in his state, but for falsely
blaming migrants for bringing the virus into the state.
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 6, 2021, 12:35 am
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Children burn masks at rally
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> Boise Mayor Lauren McLean reacts to "Burn the Mask" rallies
held in Idaho over the weekend, and the lawmakers who supported
them.
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 10, 2021, 8:05 pm
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In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a
Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.
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> After seeing a risky lab, they wrote a cable warning to
Washington. But it was ignored.
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Entire article:
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> On January 15, in its last days, President Donald Trump’s
State Department put out a statement with serious claims about
the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The statement said the
U.S. intelligence community had evidence that several
researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory were
sick with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019—implying the
Chinese government had hidden crucial information about the
outbreak for months—and that the WIV lab, despite “presenting
itself as a civilian institution,” was conducting secret
research projects with the Chinese military. The State
Department alleged a Chinese government cover-up and asserted
that “Beijing continues today to withhold vital information that
scientists need to protect the world from this deadly virus, and
the next one.”
>
> The exact origin of the new coronavirus remains a mystery to
this day, but the search for answers is not just about assigning
blame. Unless the source is located, the true path of the virus
can’t be traced, and scientists can’t properly study the best
ways to prevent future outbreaks.
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Re: Racist bullying
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 10, 2021, 9:09 pm
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Uber Driver Assaulted Over Face Mask Dispute
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> An Uber driver in San Francisco, CA, was assaulted by
passengers after one of them allegedly refused to wear a mask
(warning: distressing).
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I've had someone lunge and grab at my phone like this as well.
Afterward I made a vow to myself that the next person that tries
something similar is going to get their face blown off. That's
what needs to start happening to these barbarian types on a mass
scale. I have a feeling good people are near their breaking
point with barbarian types. I certainly reached mine a long time
ago.
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