And what was that I said about half baked apps:
Just in
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ccine-passport-app-hits-problems-after-launch
Well, just another consequence of brexit
And what was that I said about half baked apps:
Just in
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ccine-passport-app-hits-problems-after-launch
'American pill halves deaths and admissions of corona patients'
The American pharmaceutical company Merck says it has developed a pill that reduces the number of hospital admissions and deaths due to corona by half. The pill has been tested on people who had been infected less than five days before. Merck, which operates outside the US and Canada under the name MSD, wants to quickly seek approval to market the drug, in the US but also in the rest of the world. At the moment, corona patients are only given medicines by injection.
The study into the pill, called molnupiravir, included 775 adults with mild to moderate corona symptoms and an increased risk of becoming seriously ill because they were heart, diabetic or obese. Severely ill patients had no benefit from taking the pill. Of the patients who received molnupiravir, 7.3 percent died or died within 30 days. In the control group that received a placebo, this was 14.1 percent. This research has not yet been assessed by independent experts.
Because the drug appears to be so effective, the trial phase has been aborted in order to submit the drug to the US drug regulator more quickly. The US government wants to buy 1.7 million pills once the drug authority approves the pill. Merck says it can produce 10 million pills before the end of the year. Other pharmaceutical companies are also developing a pill against corona.
Done anything to piss Russia off or plain old incompetence?
There's one of those ‘explainer’ articles in the local press.I can't find any news in Russian or in English about alleged vaccine recall. Looks like a hoax.
The only response appropriate.There's one of those ‘explainer’ articles in the local press.
Basically the imbeciles in charge here are trying to pretend it didn't exist and that at the same time it's a normal thing and it happens all the time. The chief of staff at the Ministry of Health says that she's not sure about the reason, but it might be that they had to come in Spanish and the labels were in English. OR that they had to include ‘not for commercial sale’ or something similar to comply with the labelling rules at the purchasing country.
What we do know is that that ‘habitual mistake’ will have to be made up by using the locally-bottled Sputnik V vaccines which were meant to be applied elsewhere.
*facepalm*
I still don't understand, did Russia take those 1.3 million doses back, or they were just lost somewhere in Argentinian vastness?
So, in a state riddled with COVID deaths, the Governor there has decided to use federal COVID relief funds to build prisons instead...
Alabama Governor to Sign Bill to Build Prisons with Covid Relief Funds - Rolling Stone
If this isn't a classic case of misappropriation of funds, I don't know what is... they should throw her in jail.
I suspect that once vaccination became widespread and things started fully opening back up, and especially when the announcements were made that vaccinated people could go maskless, then unvaccinated people started behaving as if the pandemic was pretty much over, which in turn, accelerated the infection rates. Just speculation on my part.The US at over 700,000 Deaths, while is 211 per 100,000. The Daily death count dipping below 2000 as the declining case number start to take effect later. Hospitalised is 79,000 and dropping. Still a lot, but better than when it was over 100,000.
Breakdown of deaths to milestones.
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So many deaths post vaccines being fully available.
And an increasing number of younger people dying of it.
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Mississippi continues to expand its per capita lead, at 324 per 100,000. Louisiana is about to overtake New Jersey for second, Alabama is almost likely to overtake as well, and get to third. All three states have mid 40% vaccination rates, while New Jersey has 64%
Florida also passed New York's total deaths, to the have the third most raw deaths. Per capita it hasn't and it will be a while off. Another wave could push them over. Still leap frogging a bunch of other Northeastern states that got hit hard early.
This time they're taking the doses back.I still don't understand, did Russia take those 1.3 million doses back, or they were just lost somewhere in Argentinian vastness?
In Soviet Russia... vaccine doses take YOU!This time they're taking the doses back.