Coronavirus. The n(in)th sequel.

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From Dutch news efforts being done to develop a medicin for people infected by Covid.
And yes, very much first phase and also not curing the disease, but only helping our body with limited effect.
But my guess is that much effort is being done to develop medicins that decrease the damage up to deaths of Covid infections.

'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.

From this technical article:
https://www.merck.com/news/merck-an...to-placebo-for-patients-with-mild-or-moderat/
 
Oh my goodness, it's a mutagen. That's brave.

You'll never want prophylactic dosing. It will have to be timed perfectly, just at the beginning of symptom onset (probably?). Before you get to the stage where it's the immune system causing damage.
Hahaha. You know all the antivax talk about the vaccines pushing evolution? How about under-dosing on a mutagenic compound? Some cleverly crafted memes could create a firestorm of controversy.

Personally, I got a bit lucky. I had some 'buy the dip' buy orders set in my portfolio. None of them got triggered by this, though I just squeaked by. I got to reset them.

As well, this could be an autoimmunity bomb, unless it basically prevents the proteins from even synthesizing for a day or whatever. I'm not a virologist
 
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Ah... I was actually thinking about possibly generating new virus variants, but yes, if this affects the human cells, then there's no way.
I would think that the virus RNA polymerase is probably sufficiently different that these can be targeted separately from the human one.
 
Oh, I'm not worried about actually creating new variants. But if the antivaxxers are ever afraid of this, they're gonna tell each other about mutation rates. I'd not bet on them misrepresenting this, since it's not a vaccine, but their echochamber definitely has the infrastructure to do so
 
Done anything to piss Russia off or plain old incompetence?
I can't find any news in Russian or in English about alleged vaccine recall. Looks like a hoax.
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*
 
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*
The only response appropriate.
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I love you, Erika.
 
I still don't understand, did Russia take those 1.3 million doses back, or they were just lost somewhere in Argentinian vastness?
 
I still don't understand, did Russia take those 1.3 million doses back, or they were just lost somewhere in Argentinian vastness?

Sounding like Argentinian incompetence vs evil old Russia.
 
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.

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 looked it up and there is no restrictions on spending it on prisons. The restrictions seem to be no using it to pay for tax cuts, or to fund state pension funds. It's just a general fund to cover lost tax receipts, and stimulate the economy. Alabama decides to stimulate their economy be expanding mass incarnation. Morally it's terrible, but legally she's fine.

It's up to the states voters. And they prefer locking people up, to ensuring they don't die of COVID. Or spending money to rescue their states healthcare services. Or get out of any number of indicators, which have Alabama in the bottom 5 states. Or even just send the money in direct checks like California did as part of their budget.
 
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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.
FAtBWR0XsAkT1xW

So many deaths post vaccines being fully available.

And an increasing number of younger people dying of it.
FAtCLtsXoAI69fq


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.
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.
 
I still don't understand, did Russia take those 1.3 million doses back, or they were just lost somewhere in Argentinian vastness?
This time they're taking the doses back.
 

heart inflammation was caused by introducing the vaccine into the blood stream rather than muscle

according to some UK doc aspirating the syringe helps avoid hitting the blood stream. The needle goes in and the plunger is pulled back to see if blood enters the needle. If it doesn't you hit muscle.
 
All your life you worked hard.

You graduated high school with good grades.

Then you went to college, studied hard, maybe worked a job for extra cash, and got your degree in biology or chemistry.

You studied more, fed on cup noodles, and passed the MCAT. After that, you went through years of medical school and finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel when you graduated.

But that wasn't it, then it was time to begin your residency. Maybe you're on call, working 12 hour days and graveyard shifts. Three, four, five years? It's time. Your whole adult life, maybe the last fifteen years, has culminated in this moment.

"Did you aspirate the needle? I heard about it on YouTube."
 
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