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Willing to bet your life on the Covid vaccine?

55 People Died in US After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccines: Reporting System

Fifty-five people in the United States have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, according to reports submitted to a federal system.
Deaths have occurred among people receiving both the Moderna and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, according to the reports.
The reporting system, the Vaccine

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23 die in Norway after receiving COVID vaccine | WBTW

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5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You’re Vaccinated | Kaiser Health News

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who are you trying to convince on wearing a mask.... yourself or us... you'll have a hard time with the latter.

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who are you trying to convince on wearing a mask.... yourself or us... you'll have a hard time with the latter.

Poor baby still having a Meltdown

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What the hell's the matter with them?': Biden scorches GOP lawmakers who didn't wear masks in secure areas during Capitol riots, saying they need 'to grow up'

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'What the hell's the matter with them?': Biden scorches GOP lawmakers who didn't wear masks in secure areas during Capitol riots, saying they need 'to grow up'
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President-elect Joe Biden. Susan Walsh/AP
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday excoriated Republicans who refused to wear masks while huddled with other lawmakers during the Capitol riots, saying they needed "to grow up."
"Quite frankly, it was shocking to see members of the Congress while the Capitol was under siege by a deadly mob of thugs refuse to wear masks while they were in secure locations," he said.
At least three Democratic House members who were in locations with a select number of maskless Republicans have now tested positive for COVID-19, including Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Brad Schneider of Illinois.
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President-elect Joe Biden on Friday excoriated Republicans who refused to wear masks while huddled with other lawmakers during the Capitol riots, saying they needed "to grow up."

While speaking about his COVID-19 vaccine plan, Biden ripped into the politicization of mask-wearing that has become a flashpoint across the country and on Capitol Hill.

"Wearing a mask from now until April will save as many as 50,000 lives," Biden said. "Quite frankly, it was shocking to see members of the Congress while the Capitol was under siege by a deadly mob of thugs refuse to wear masks while they were in secure locations."

Biden praised Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who represents his home state of Delaware, for passing out masks to members of Congress who were sequestered in a safe area. A now-viral video showed several GOP members laughing and dismissing Blunt Rochester's efforts.

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HILARIOUS the Sleep are T Supporters
Who else could be that dumb not to wear a Mask in a health pandemic.
Finally something at your level

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As US president-elect Joe Biden prepares to be sworn into office next week, he’s assembling a team to lead some of the most important initiatives for the country.

On Jan. 15, Biden tapped David Kessler as the new head of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the federal funding arm that has been working with private companies like Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Novavax to manufacture and test Covid-19 vaccines at a breakneck pace. It’s a choice that could stand to boost public trust in federal vaccination investment and deployment.

Kessler’s got the experience: He’s already been advising Biden on the pandemic since its onset, Anita Dunn, co-chair of the transition team, told the New York Times. And he served as the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the 1990s, at a time where the AIDS epidemic was ravaging the country. Kessler was integral in efforts to bring antiviral HIV drugs to market in a little over a month. Perhaps most importantly, however, Kessler has no ties to big pharma—making him legitimately neutral in his role to support the development, manufacturing, and rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.

Kessler is one of the few FDA commissioners who didn’t go on to work for a drug company after his tenure in the federal regulatory agency.

There is nothing technically wrong with working for pharma after regulating it, Kessler told Quartz in 2019. But the optics aren’t great: When leaders of the regulatory body that approves drugs go on to advise the companies that make them, it gives the illusion of a revolving door—like the FDA’s “authority” is more of a chummy relationship. “[The American people] believe that the FDA is making their decisions in their interest and no one else’s,” Kessler told Quartz.

After his tenure at FDA, Kessler went on to work in academia, and then for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit nutritional science advocacy group. He briefly served on the board of a company that creates transplantation diagnostic products, and in 2020 joined the board of Ellodi Pharmaceuticals, which develops drugs for the digestive system. However, according to the New York Times, he resigned from these boards this week, and does not own stock in any vaccine or pharmaceutical manufacturing company.

That independence is a change of pace from Moncef Slaoui, who led OWS under the Trump administration. Slaoui held shares in Moderna while he funded the company to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. He eventually gave those up, but refused to give up some of his stock options in companies like GlaxoSmithKline, which is working with Sanofi to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and has received money from OWS.

Federal employees are prohibited from such financial conflicts; in order for Slaoui to maintain his holdings, he was allowed to take on his role as a contractor.

Critics maintain that Slaoui’s stock ownership in companies set to gain government investment eroded public trust in the government’s ability to make public health decisions based on the scientific merit of a company’s offerings.

That trust is more important than ever as vaccines are deployed to millions of people. Already, the public is skeptical of the speed with which vaccines were developed—despite the fact that FDA upheld its usual standards before issuing emergency use authorizations.

Kessler’s appointment to the OWS position could manage to restore some faith in the government’s ability to put public health before private profits. To start, Biden’s transition team told the Times, Kessler will focus his efforts on creating larger vaccination sites in places like high school gyms to speed the slow rollout of existing doses.

... and he’ll direct new investments in pharma—this time, focusing on novel antiviral treatments for Covid-19.

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On Jan. 15, Biden tapped David Kessler as the new head of Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the federal funding arm that has been working with private companies like Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Novavaxboost public trust in federal vaccination investment and deployment.


told Quartz in 2019
After his tenure at FDA, Kessler went on to work in academia, and then for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit nutritional science advocacy group. He briefly served on the board of a company that creates transplantation diagnostic products, and in 2020 joined the board of Ellodi Pharmaceuticals, which develops drugs for the digestive system. However, according to the New York Times, he resigned from these boards this week, and does not own stock in any vaccine or pharmaceutical manufacturing company.

That independence is a change of pace from Moncef Slaoui, who led OWS under the Trump administration. Slaoui held shares in Moderna while he funded the company to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. He eventually gave those up, but refused to give up some of his stock options in companies like GlaxoSmithKline, which is working with Sanofi to develop a Covid-19 vaccine and has received money from OWS.

Federal employees are prohibited from such financial conflicts; in order for Slaoui to maintain his holdings, he was allowed to take on his role as a contractor.

upheld its usual standards before issuing emergency use authorizations.

It seems like most people Biden is putting in power have very many questionable past relationships.


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It seems like most people Biden is putting in power have very many questionable past relationships.


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The news article describes just the opposite. The Operation Warp Speed Director has no personal ties to bug pharma. The Trump appointee came from Big Pharma and refused to sell all of his shares to remove any conflict of interest.

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There has been a lot of talk in the United States about how beneficial the economic lock down has been in combating the spread of Covid-19. In a study provided on Yahoo today of ten countries this "mantra" of some state governors (like ours in California) has been refuted. In fact, it is suggested that stay at home orders are harmful.

These 2 COVID Precautions May Not Be Necessary After All, New Study Finds

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There has been a lot of talk in the United States about how beneficial the economic lock down has been in combating the spread of Covid-19. In a study provided on Yahoo today of ten countries this "mantra" of some state governors (like ours in California) has been refuted. In fact, it is suggested that stay at home orders are harmful.

These 2 COVID Precautions May Not Be Necessary After All, New Study Finds

HILARIOUS AS IT ONLY WORKS IF YOU WEAR MASKS and Social Distance.
Thanks for pointing that out

Health measures Only work if EVERYONE Follows the recommendations.