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Pfizer CEO says fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected due to omicron

Spencer Kimball
CNBC
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:51 UTC
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© Brendan McDermid | ReutersA syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Wednesday that people might need a fourth Covid-19 shot sooner than expected after preliminary research shows the new omicron variant can undermine protective antibodies generated by the vaccine the company developed with BioNTech.

Pfizer and BioNTech released results from an initial lab study Wednesday morning that showed a third shot is effective at fighting the omicron variant, while the initial two-dose vaccination series dropped significantly in its ability to protect against the new strain. However, the two-dose series likely still offers protection against getting severely sick from omicron, the companies said.

Bourla noted that a preliminary study by the company was based on a synthetic, lab-created copy of the variant and more data is needed from tests against the real virus. Those real-world results will be more accurate and are expected in the next two weeks, the Pfizer CEO said.

"When we see real-world data, will determine if the omicron is well covered by the third dose and for how long. And the second point, I think we will need a fourth dose," Bourla told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
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Latino rights group wants to drop 'Latinx' term


RT
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:54 UTC
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© Owen Hoffmann / Getty Images via AFPThe Latinx House, a self-described "gathering place for people who appreciate and support the Latinx community and who celebrate Latinx excellence in film and entertainment".
The oldest Latino civil rights group in the US is mulling dropping the word "Latinx" from its official communications. A fresh poll showed the term is perceived negatively by some 40% of Latino voters.

Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), sent an email on Wednesday to other members of the group's management, suggesting that they should stop using "Latinx" because it was "very unliked" by the very people they serve.


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Black Magic

Fauci says families should 'ask,' 'maybe require' COVID vaccine for holiday guests before indoor celebrations

Bailee Hill
Fox News
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:02 UTC
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
© AP Photo/Susan WalshDr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, as press secretary Jen Psaki watches.
Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested American families should consider enforcing a vaccine mandate in their own homes ahead of the holidays as fears mount over spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus across the country.


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Health

Kentucky gov declares an emergency over nursing shortage


MedicalXpress
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:27 UTC
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© AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, FileGov. Beshear declared Kentucky's chronic nursing shortage an emergency Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in taking executive actions aimed at boosting enrollment in nurse-training programs.
Kentucky's governor declared the state's chronic nursing shortage to be an emergency Thursday, taking executive actions amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to boost enrollment in nurse-training programs.

Kentucky is projected to need more than 16,000 additional nurses by 2024, to help fill gaps caused by retirements and people leaving the profession, Gov. Andy Beshear said. His new executive order includes "immediate actions that we believe will provide some relief," the Democratic governor said. "Obviously long term there is a lot to do."

Comment: This is the beginning of a world-wide brain drain from nearly every skilled profession, through firing, if members refuse to buckle under to the mandates, or disability/possible death, if they do.

Well done, psychopaths!









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Number of journalists in jail around the world at a new high


The Guardian
Thu, 09 Dec 2021 01:32 UTC
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The number of journalists who are behind bars worldwide reached a new high point in 2021, according to a study which says that 293 reporters were imprisoned as of 1 December 2021.

At least 24 journalists were killed because of their coverage, and 18 others died in circumstances that make it too difficult to determine whether they were targeted because of their work, the nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday in its annual survey on press freedom and attacks on the media.

The number in jail rose by 15 compared with 2020.

While the reasons for jailing reporters varies between countries, the record number reflects political upheaval around the world and a growing intolerance of independent reporting, according to the US-based nonprofit. CPJ executive director Joel Simon, in a statement, said:
"This is the sixth year in a row that CPJ has documented record numbers of journalists imprisoned around the world. The number reflects two inextricable challenges - governments are determined to control and manage information, and they are increasingly brazen in their efforts to do so."
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FDA official demanded Google censor a YouTube video the agency didn't like

Alex Berenson
alexberenson.substack.com
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00 UTC
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Federal efforts to censor social media extend past discussions with companies like YouTube over broad guidelines about Covid-19 "misinformation" to specific demands for suppression of individual posts, an email from an FDA official reveals.

In the April 30 email, the Food and Drug Administration director of social media, Brad Kimberly, told a Google lobbyist that the agency expected YouTube to pull a video touting the potential of a new monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid. (Google owns YouTube.)

"Overall, the video is very problematic when it comes to COVID misinformation," Kimberly wrote to the lobbyist, Jan Fowler Antonaros. "This video should [emphasis added] be pulled."

YouTube initially declined to remove the video. However, it has since been taken offline.

How often the FDA has made other censorship demands is unknown, because the agency is apparently hiding the existence of its efforts in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Arrow Up

City Council OKs bill allowing nearly 800K non-citizens to vote in local elections

Sam Raskin
New York Post
Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:15 UTC
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© Paul Martinka/Stefan Jeremiah/William Farrington/Dictionary.com/KJNNYC • Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo • Councilman Mark Gjonaj • Councilman Kalman Yeger • Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez
A largely lame-duck group of city elected officials is about to saddle New Yorkers with yet another controversial measure that few have clamored for.

The City Council on Thursday approved a measure to allow non-citizen, but legal, Big Apple residents to vote in municipal elections — despite vocal opposition to the "irresponsible" and "dangerous" legislation, a procedural obstacle and threat of a legal challenge.

After an unsuccessful 11th-hour attempt by more than a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers to send the legislation back to a committee to be adjusted, the bill passed the 51-member body 33-14 with two abstentions, sending it to Mayor Bill de Blasio's desk.

The bill, sponsored by Councilman Ydanis Rodríguez, will allow hundreds of thousands of non-citizens to participate in local elections by expanding voting eligibility to green card holders — about 10 percent of the city's population — and recipients of deferred action.

Comment: It is New York City's business...they will get what they vote for, perhaps. Perhaps more.

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Deadly year in the US: Philadelphia now has MORE murders than NYC and LA

Keith Griffith
The Daily Mail
Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:15 UTC
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At least dozen large mid-tier cities across the country have already broken their annual homicide records this year
Philadelphia has shattered its 30-year-old record for annual murders, surpassing the much larger cities of New York and Los Angeles as a dozen major cities post all-time records for homicides -- all of them with Democratic mayors.

As of December 6, Philadelphia had recorded 521 homicides for the year, surpassing New York's 443 and Los Angeles at 352.

This is despite the fact that with a population of 1.5 million, the City of Brotherly Love is less than half the size of Los Angeles and one-fifth of New York.

Though Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, which leads the nation with 739 murders this year, remain below their murder records set in the 1990s, at least a dozen large mid-tier cities across the country have already broken their annual records.

Comment: Funny how these sad statistics line up with the many of the districts where Soro-backed, soft-on-crime attorneys were elected. He was especially focused on areas where the DA's would be able to impede ICE from carrying out their duties with regard to illegal immigration. A partial list:
  • Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner
  • Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón
  • Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx
  • St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner
  • Austin District Attorney Jose Garza
  • San Antonio District Attorney Joe Gonzales
  • Portland District Attorney Mike Schmidt
  • Contra Costa County, CA., District Attorney Diana Becton
  • Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm
  • Portsmouth, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales
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© Fox NewsSoros spreads the wealth in 2019
Many of his choices then engaged in whole-sale purges of experienced prosecutors from their offices, bringing in 'progressive' underlings.

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'Pharma Bro' Shkreli's firm reaches $40M settlement with price-gouging victims

Lydia Moynihan
New York Post
Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:03 UTC
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© Associated PressMartin Shkreli is serving a seven-year sentence for securities fraud.
A drug company previously run by 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has been ordered to pay up to $40 million to compensate victims after he jacked up the price of life-saving drug Daraprim 4,000 percent.

The Federal Trade Commission filed the order on Tuesday demanding that the pharmaceutical company Vyera and its parent Phoenixus compensate victims and make Daraprim "available to any potential generic competitor at list price."

Vyera and Phoenixus must pay $10 million to victims up front. If the financial conditions of the companies improve, they will be forced to shell out an additional $30 million over the next 10 years. The order also bans Shkreli's associate Kevin Mulleady from the pharmaceutical industry for seven years.

Comment: Some of the time, the scum actually pay.

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Family

Melbourne woman sets herself on fire inside car with sign: "NO ONE CARES, MANDATES ARE KILLING US"


Milne News
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:15 UTC
australia suicide vaccine madate car fire
A despairing Asutralian woman burnt herself alive in protest against draconian vaccine mandate rules.
A woman in Cherry Street, Werribee - a suburb in Victoria Australia - has set herself on fire due to the draconian mandates that is forcing Victorians to get a Covid jab or be locked out of Dictator Dan Andrews' "vaccinated economy."

The unknown woman parked her car and blocked off a road in Cherry street and had four cans of petrol which she poured on herself

The woman placed a sign on her car saying "NO ONE CARES, MANDATES ARE KILLING US". Police attended to find she had 4 cans of petrol in the car. Officers tried to talk with her but she ultimately ended up setting herself on fire after telling police she had nothing left.

Comment: The Covid World reports on public reaction to the tragedy:
The horrific incident is a shocking indictment against "Dictator" Dan Andrew's lockdown policies which have reduced the state of Victoria to an authoritarian hellscape.

Andrews is notorious for his indifference to the suffering of the people he rules over, as evidenced by the fact that he was told back in 2020 that a tenth of all Victorian suicides were a result of his lockdown policies.
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