COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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taxslave said:
More likely because all the Trump haters are dickless wonders that can't get it up.
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All? I'm not sure what Trump has done to endear himself to any sane and rational person. His medical skills and bedside manner leave a lot to be desired. :)
 
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China says it began public use of covid-19 vaccine a month ago, bypassing clinical trials

China is claiming the dubious honor of the first nation to roll out an experimental coronavirus vaccine for public use, saying it began inoculating high-risk groups in late July.

For those keeping score, that would put Beijing’s civilian rollout three weeks earlier than Russia’s, with neither vaccine having yet passed standard clinical trials. Beijing health officials said Saturday they began dosing some medical workers and state-owned enterprise employees with an experimental covid-19 vaccine in late July under “urgent use” protocols.

Officials around the world have been debating how far they should suspend ordinary drug-development protocols to get covid-19 vaccines and treatments to market. Many governments declared early on that they would not cut corners in developing a vaccine, but they are proving amenable in practice to corner-cutting as the pandemic’s human and economic tolls mount.

The Beijing announcement followed a diplomatic controversy last week, in which Papua New Guinea said it had turned back a group of Chinese miners who had received an experimental coronavirus vaccine.

There were signs of impatience in the White House as Beijing trumpeted its vaccine rollout over the weekend. President Trump tweeted Saturday alleging that either the Food and Drug Administration or the “deep state” was delaying progress for a U.S. coronavirus vaccine, without providing substantiating detail. On Sunday, Trump touted the FDA’s emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as a treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The standard approval process for a new vaccine takes years and requires the observation of large numbers of patients over time to ensure safety and efficacy. The United States and China have both pledged to bring vaccines to market by the end of this year or early 2021, an unprecedented speed that requires gargantuan factory investments before the vaccines have passed safety tests. Now Beijing and Moscow have pushed the timeline up further, with large numbers of citizens essentially being asked to serve as test subjects as an act of patriotism.

On Chinese state TV on Saturday, Zheng Zhongwei, head of China’s coronavirus vaccine development program, said that “urgent use” of Sinopharm trial vaccines were launched on July 22, with initial use for medical workers and some state-owned enterprises. This came a month after China’s military began inoculating troops with an experimental vaccine.

Authorities are considering expanding the inoculations this fall to employees of food markets, transport systems and service industries, he said.......More
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Who knew that one is some?
Me either.

"I want a scary, fear mongering CV19 story by noon or you're fired. Our rating and ad revenue is dropping."

A man in Hong Kong has become the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong.

The finding suggests that some patients who recover from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, may have only short-lived immunity from reinfection.
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
B.C. tops 5,000 cases of COVID-19, sets new record for daily infections


https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-tops-5-00...ets-new-record-for-daily-infections-1.5076845
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I watched Bonnie Henry's report today. It's getting pretty discouraging, as Saturday saw the worse daily total since it started in March. People just aren't listening or just don't care. Maybe things will start to improve after one of them contracts a fatal dose, but I wouldn't bet on it. There's just no cure for Stupid!
 
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