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How the US, UK and Canada Will Roll Out the Covid Vaccine - The New York Times

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WaPo really? they have been caught in so many lies the past four years they aren't even credible anymore. They are losing readers as fast as CNN is losing viewers.

no Duck Duck Go doesn't filter the feeds.. maybe you should try it and see what you have been soooo wrong about for sooo long.

but be a sheeple use Goggle... they are filtering the feeds big time..

be a sheep wear a mask.

CNN losing viewers?

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Thursday, Dec. 10 Scoreboard: CNN Is Still No. 1 in A25-54, and Fox News Is No. 1 in Prime Time

By Kelsey Sutton on Dec. 11, 2020

MSNBC was No. 1 in total viewers at 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m

Ratings | TVNewser

... if you are an old white fart you probably do not watch CNN very much but most 25-54 year old people do. This is the demographics that most advertisers see as the most desired to market to.


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Week of Nov. 30 Basic Cable Ranker: Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN Finish No. 1 in Different Measurements

By A.J. Katz on Dec. 8, 2020

The Rachel Maddow Show averaged 3.6 million total viewers last week, making it the No. 1 show on cable news.

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Health 'Experts' February Meeting Caused a String of US Outbreaks, Could Be Responsible for Nearly 2% of Total American Cases

When health experts gathered in Boston in February for a medical conference hosted by the biotechnology multinational Biogen, they had no idea that kind of history they were going to make.
But according to a new study, the conference helped spread the coronavirus across the country to ultimately infect more than 300,000 people. That comes to about 2 percent of the more than 16 million U.S. cases reported so far by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
News that the conference spread the virus was not new. Initially, contact tracing showed about 100 cases were linked to the event, according to CBS. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, researchers found.

A report published in the journal Science that that as of Nov. 1, somewhere between 261,000 and 439,000 cases were linked to the event, with the researchers giving the most likely number of infections as 333,000.
The study came to its conclusions by tracking the genetic code of the virus, according to its lead author.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/09/science.abe3261

South Dakota, he said.
The study noted that not all serious events spread the virus. For example, the study said an outbreak of the virus that killed 24 at a skilled nursing facility was confined to the facility and never spread outside of it.

So what made the conference such a super-spreadervaccineSo who gets the blame for this? Trump wasn't involved.


By Jack Davis
Published December 14, 2020 at 6:46am

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And what did we learn from the above Post?

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Health 'Experts' February Meeting Caused a String of US Outbreaks, Could Be Responsible for Nearly 2% of Total American Cases


When health experts gathered in Boston in February for a medical conference hosted by the biotechnology multinational Biogen, they had no idea that kind of history they were going to make.
But according to a new study, the conference helped spread the coronavirus across the country to ultimately infect more than 300,000 people. That comes to about 2 percent of the more than 16 million U.S. cases reported so far by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
News that the conference spread the virus was not new. Initially, contact tracing showed about 100 cases were linked to the event, according to CBS. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, researchers found.

A report published in the journal Science that that as of Nov. 1, somewhere between 261,000 and 439,000 cases were linked to the event, with the researchers giving the most likely number of infections as 333,000.
The study came to its conclusions by tracking the genetic code of the virus, according to its lead author.

Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Boston highlights the impact of superspreading events | Science


“It’s as if some viruses have polka dots and others don’t, and we follow those polka-dot viruses across time and space,” Jacob Lemieux, an infectious diseases staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, told CBS.
In the Boston region alone, the study estimated that 51,000 cases were linked to the conference. However, the strain of COVID-19 linked to the conference was soon seen elsewhere in the country and abroad, according to CBS.

“That genetic marker started appearing in other states in early March, being especially prevalent in places where conference attendees returned home. Those include Florida, where 29% of the conference-linked cases ended up. was well as Indiana and North Carolina. The strain of virus was also found as far away as Australia and Slovakia,” CBS reported.
Florida ended up with 29 percent of the cases linked to the conference. Cases linked to the conference were also recorded in Australia and Slovakia.

“It’s surprising to the public to realize that a single event can cause so many downstream infections,” Lemieux told CBS.
“These events have been going on since day one — the Wuhan seafood market, ski resorts in Europe, cruise ships, Mardi Gras, a wedding in Maine, the Sturgis motorcycle rally” in South Dakota, he said.
The study noted that not all serious events spread the virus. For example, the study said an outbreak of the virus that killed 24 at a skilled nursing facility was confined to the facility and never spread outside of it.

So what made the conference such a super-spreader event?
Attendees “tended to be younger, healthier, and were traveling more, and we found that they went to a lot of different places,” Lemieux told CBS.

“We don’t think these strains had a propensity to spread more than any other,” Lemieux said, turning to the technical name for COVID-19. “We suspect that these types of events have been happening over and over again, and are major contributors to the propagation and spread of SARS-cov2 throughout the world.”
The report said that it highlighted “the close relationships between seemingly disconnected groups and populations: viruses from international business travel seeded major outbreaks among individuals experiencing homelessness, spread throughout the Boston area including to other higher risk communities, and were exported to other domestic and international sites.”

“It also illustrates the role of chance in the trajectory of an epidemic: a single introduction had an outsize effect on subsequent transmission because it was amplified by superspreading in a highly mobile population very early in the outbreak, before many public health precautions were put in place, and when its effects would be further amplified by exponential growth and subsequent superspreading events (e.g., among the homeless),” the study stated.
The study noted that as society seeks to battle the virus, understanding how it spreads will be important even as a vaccine has emerged to fight off its impacts.
“While superspreading events among medically vulnerable populations, such as nursing home residents, have a larger immediate impact on mortality, our findings raise the possibility that — paradoxically — the implications may be greater, when measured as a cost to society, for superspreading events that involve younger, healthier and more mobile populations because of the increased risk of subsequent transmission,” it stated.
“With the possibility of vaccines that protect against disease but not infection, this consideration may be increasingly important. In summary, this study provides clear evidence that superspreading events may profoundly alter the course of an epidemic and implies that prevention, detection, and mitigation of such events should be a priority for public health efforts,” the study said.

So who gets the blame for this? Trump wasn't involved.


By Jack Davis
Published December 14, 2020 at 6:46am

... back in Feb 2020, I do not think anyone could imagine just how deadly COVID-19 would be 10 months later. A US citizen now dies every minute of every day.

While it may not be fair to blame Trump in the early days for the pandemic, he holds all of the blame for holding many rallies and political events that all turned into super spreader events. The right wing media even blamed the Democrats for holding only a few socially distanced events that minimized the risks to those who attended.

Trumps political posturing was such a failure that he, his family and all of those around him got infected.

Although many of those followers have recovered they will have to live the rest of their lives with a pre-existing condition and a fear that unknown consequences of the virus could reoccur or be transmitted to their loved ones at any time in the future.

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More FAKE NEWS from WaPo!


FDA Chief Shoots Down WaPo's Latest Anti-Trump Report as Fake News



The Washington Post has been diagnosed with a case of fake news by the head of the Food and Drug Administration.
The Postdrug company Pfizeremergency-use authorizationdistributed to AmericansstatementFox Newsthe vaccine through the authorization process quickly was reflected in his Friday tweet calling for speedy action.




Donald J. Trump



@realDonaldTrump



While my pushing the money drenched but heavily bureaucratic @US_FDA saved five years in the approval of NUMEROUS great new vaccines, it is still a big, old, slow turtle. Get the dam vaccines out NOW, Dr. Hahn @SteveFDA. Stop playing games and start saving lives!!!


The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has shown it was 95 percent effective in trials with no major side effects.

Canada and the United Kingdom authorized the vaccine the Pfizer vaccine before the U.S. However, British authorities have recommended that people with a history of severe allergic reactionsCNNWhite House vaccine effortThe Hillvaccine is not the only one making its way to the American people.
According to Fox News, a Dec. 17 FDA meeting is scheduled to consider a request from drug maker Moderna that its vaccine receive fast-track status.

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December 14, 2020 - 09:43 AM EST
White House recommended tighter restrictions in Florida: report
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The White House coronavirus taskforce recommended that Florida take stricter coronavirus measures earlier this month as cases in the state and across the country climbed, according to a report obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

"Florida has seen stability in new cases, an increase in test positivity, and increasing hospitalizations and deaths, indicating unrelenting community spread and inadequate mitigation," said the White House taskforce report dated Dec. 6.

The taskforce recommended requiring that masks be worn in public spaces at all times, limiting gatherings outside of immediate households and closing or reducing capacity in public indoor spaces.

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Billionaire Bill Gates Advocates for Shutdown of Small Businesses, Claims COVID Impact Will Continue Into 2022

How about we just shutdown Microsoft!?


Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he is all in favor of shutting down bars and restaurants to deal with the coronavirus.
Gates was interviewed Sunday on CNN. Host Jake Tapper asked Gates to offer his thoughts on whether strict lockdownssmall businesseslife will returnvaccineUSA Today.

This jerk is NOT a doctor therefore NO ONE should be listening to this fucking globalist!

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This message includes updates on the COVID-19 response from CDC. The COVID-19 Outbreak is a rapidly evolving situation and information will be updated as it becomes available.
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Vaccines
The U.S. vaccine safety system ensures that all vaccines are as safe as possible. On December 11, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in people aged 16 years and older for the prevention of COVID-19. Because the supply of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States will be limited at first, CDC recommends that initial supplies of COVID-19 vaccine be allocated to healthcare personnel and long-term care facility residents. The recommendations were made with the following goals in mind: Decrease death and serious disease as much as possible; Preserve functioning of society; and Reduce the extra burden COVID-19 is having on people already facing disparities.

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Billionaire Bill Gates Advocates for Shutdown of Small Businesses, Claims COVID Impact Will Continue Into 2022


How about we just shutdown Microsoft!?


Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he is all in favor of shutting down bars and restaurants to deal with the coronavirus.
Gates was interviewed Sunday on CNN. Host Jake Tapper asked Gates to offer his thoughts on whether strict lockdownssmall businesseslife will returnvaccineUSA Today.

This jerk is NOT a doctor therefore NO ONE should be listening to this fucking globalist!

Not only is he not a doctor, he can afford to hire top chefs to come to his mansions and prepare him and his family exquisite top quality restaurant type meals everyday. I would love to go to my favorite restaurant for a quality meal but I can't. They are closed, permanently.

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Not only is he not a doctor, he can afford to hire top chefs to come to his mansions and prepare him and his family exquisite top quality restaurant type meals everyday. I would love to go to my favorite restaurant for a quality meal but I can't. They are closed, permanently.

Speaking of closures, any update on Gruesome's recall petition? Last time I heard they are halfway there.

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Speaking of closures, any update on Gruesome's recall petition? Last time I heard they are halfway there.

I haven't heard but will check with a few sources.

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I haven't heard but will check with a few sources.

Gov Whitmer is in trouble also... but I hear she is going to play on Biden's team.

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U.S. death toll hits 300,000