AD1184
Celestial
I think that is just a start. I expect many are salivating over the idea of rewarding/punishing 'healthy'/'unhealthy' lifestyle choices, carbon positive/neutral/negative purchases or activities, or even politically correct/incorrect opinions expressed on social media.
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Standingstones
Celestial
Here is a novel idea behind being microchipped… you can be scanned in order to prove you had your Covid shots. Where do I sign up?
Covid Microchip Developer explains Why People Want Vaccine Passport Implant – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
Covid Microchip Developer explains Why People Want Vaccine Passport Implant – Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
If you weigh the same as a duck, then, logically, you’re made of wood and must be a witch
Standingstones
Celestial
This is where all the BS starts to accumulate. Does each new strain mean that another booster shot will be needed? Or will a person be covered by previous shots? No one seems to know or say. The populace doesn’t believe the government or the medical officials as is. When the medical establishment begins to roll out the microchipping nonsense, I make sure my backside is towards a wall.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say
Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
Updated on Dec. 22 to add information from Walter Reed officials about testing the vaccine against the Omicron variant.
Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.
The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of its potential variants as well.
Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One on Tuesday. The new vaccine will still need to undergo phase 2 and phase 3 trials.
"We're testing our vaccine against all the different variants, including Omicron," Modjarrad said.
On Wednesday, Walter Reed officials said in a statement that its vaccine “was not tested on the Omicron variant,“ but later clarified in an email to Defense One that while the recently discovered variant was not part of the animal studies, it is being tested in the lab against clinical human trial samples. These "neutralization assays" test whether antibodies can inhibit the growth of a virus.
"We want to wait for those clinical data to be able to kind of make the full public announcements, but so far everything has been moving along exactly as we had hoped,” Modjarrad said.
Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein.
“It's very exciting to get to this point for our entire team and I think for the entire Army as well,” Modjarrad said.
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The vaccine’s human trials took longer than expected, he said, because the lab needed to test the vaccine on subjects who had neither been vaccinated nor previously infected with COVID.
Increasing vaccination rates and the rapid spread of the Delta and Omicron variants made that difficult.
“With Omicron, there's no way really to escape this virus. You're not going to be able to avoid it. So I think pretty soon either the whole world will be vaccinated or have been infected,” Modjarrad said.
The next step is seeing how the new pan-coronavirus vaccine interacts with people who were previously vaccinated or previously sick. Walter Reed is working with a yet-to-be-named industry partner for that wider rollout.
“We need to evaluate it in the real-world setting and try to understand how does the vaccine perform in much larger numbers of individuals who have already been vaccinated with something else initially…or already been sick,” Modjarrad said.
He said nearly all of Walter Reed’s 2,500 staff have had some role in the vaccine’s nearly-two-year development.
“We decided to take a look at the long game rather than just only focusing on the original emergence of SARS, and instead understand that viruses mutate, there will be variants that emerge, future viruses that may emerge in terms of new species. Our platform and approach will equip people to be prepared for that.”
Standingstones
Celestial
Of course the Omicron virus is not the “big one.” Once the ball gets rolling the various companies that produce the vaccines can’t or won’t let the gravy train to ever stop. Quite devious when you think about it.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
There was an NPR story I heard years ago that stuck with me. Something about ancient wells in Inia that people have been using for generations. Very deep and ornately carved, you actually descend some distance down into the things, they're big. A single dixie cup of that nasty water would probably put any of us the hospital for a week yet they can go about their business unaffected.
In the long run a little filth is good for you.
I would have gladly skipped the damned shots as my immune system handled it, so did my wife's. We had a major crisis other than covid going on right then and I still had to function and do quite a bit of manual labor out in the snow and the cold. Alone. Days of it. All while sick as hell with a 102+ fever and all the symptoms. F*** covid - I made IT miserable. No loafing on the coach for me.
I looked at it like the flu shots I never got - you're in a high risk group then go get it if you want. My brother is absolutely in that group and I have been very concerned for him. But now I have the ***ing government making me do something I would not have done otherwise. All for the perceived sake of nursing home access in New York, which is the height of hypocrisy considering how that all turned out. Now we're back to those stupid rags until Jan 15. From what I've seen most correctly ignore that mandate - it's just a political move by the new governor so she can be seen doing something. Anything, whether it makes sense or not. A lot like gun control in this state. We can see how making a bayonet lug illegal has reduced mass killing to virtually zero, right? When was the last time somebody got bayonetted? Pointless legislation designed for feel good, not practical effect.
Sets a dangerous precedent. I wasn't serious about microchipping but can see how it could become a problem if it were allowed to.
Standingstones
Celestial
This didn’t take too long. Major cities will require proof of Covid shots to enter virtually all establishments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/22/dc-covid-vaccine-business-requirement/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/22/dc-covid-vaccine-business-requirement/
nivek
As Above So Below
It seems to me that the immune system would be compromised and weakened by continual shots in such a short time span and especially by a new type of vaccine never before used and never tested for long term use...
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nivek
As Above So Below
Desperate New Yorkers scramble to get their hands on home free Covid testing kits as the state hits record 44,000 daily cases and hospitalizations spike
Desperate New Yorkers spent their Christmas Eve scrambling for COVID tests as infections driven by the Omicron variant surged across the Empire State. Astonishing photos show how police had to keep the peace at a city-sponsored truck in Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, on Friday morning while city officials handed out 2,000 free Binax COVID home testing kits. Scores of frustrated locals were photographed holding their hands out in the hopes of receiving one of the home testing kids, which the US has been slow to approve, and which are now in extremely short supply amid the latest wave of the virus.
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Desperate New Yorkers spent their Christmas Eve scrambling for COVID tests as infections driven by the Omicron variant surged across the Empire State. Astonishing photos show how police had to keep the peace at a city-sponsored truck in Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, on Friday morning while city officials handed out 2,000 free Binax COVID home testing kits. Scores of frustrated locals were photographed holding their hands out in the hopes of receiving one of the home testing kids, which the US has been slow to approve, and which are now in extremely short supply amid the latest wave of the virus.
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nivek
As Above So Below
Covid deaths in the US spike 50% to 3,354 in a day as Omicron cases jump 45% and push COVID infections to near record of 261,339
Omicron continues to drive a surge of new COVID cases across the US, with Christmas Eve seeing total infections edge closer to the all-time record. Figures from Johns Hopkins University published Friday show there were 261,339 new cases in the last 24 hours, up 10 per cent from 238,378 the day before.
The number of deaths caused by the virus have also skyrocketed to 3,354, a 52 per cent increase from 2,204 fatalities on Thursday. That is the highest single-day total since October 13, when 3,054 fatalities were recorded.
And on Friday morning, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Empire State had once again broke its daily COVID infection record, with 44,000 new cases. That was up from 38,600 the day before, and almost 20,000 higher than cases were on Tuesday, with Hochul blaming Omicron for that surge.
Meanwhile, confirmed American Omicron infections rose 45 per cent in a day, from 2,625 to 3,286. Those represent a tiny fraction of the true total, because the US only sequences a very small proportion of positive PCR tests to identify which strain caused a person's infection.
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Omicron continues to drive a surge of new COVID cases across the US, with Christmas Eve seeing total infections edge closer to the all-time record. Figures from Johns Hopkins University published Friday show there were 261,339 new cases in the last 24 hours, up 10 per cent from 238,378 the day before.
The number of deaths caused by the virus have also skyrocketed to 3,354, a 52 per cent increase from 2,204 fatalities on Thursday. That is the highest single-day total since October 13, when 3,054 fatalities were recorded.
And on Friday morning, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Empire State had once again broke its daily COVID infection record, with 44,000 new cases. That was up from 38,600 the day before, and almost 20,000 higher than cases were on Tuesday, with Hochul blaming Omicron for that surge.
Meanwhile, confirmed American Omicron infections rose 45 per cent in a day, from 2,625 to 3,286. Those represent a tiny fraction of the true total, because the US only sequences a very small proportion of positive PCR tests to identify which strain caused a person's infection.
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nivek
As Above So Below
Early-stage research suggests a milk protein combined with Benadryl may help fight COVID-19
Researchers may be in the early stages of discovering an effective strategy for inhibiting the virus that causes COVID-19, according to the results of a recent study. The results of the findings from David A. Ostrov, Ph.D., of the University of Florida, were published in Pathogens in late November.
The report suggested that combining diphenhydramine — an antihistamine sold as Benadryl that is used for allergy symptoms — and lactoferrin — a protein found in cow and human milk — reduced replication of SARS-CoV-2 by 99% in lab tests on human lung and monkey cells.
"We found out why certain drugs are active against the virus that causes COVID-19," Ostrov told the University of Florida Health Newsroom. "Then, we found an antiviral combination that can be effective, economical and has a long history of safety."
Key to the research team’s findings was the focus on sigma receptors, which are proteins expressed in human cells. COVID-19 "hijacks" the body’s stress-response machinery, including these receptors, so it can replicate inside its host. Interfering with that process is key to inhibiting the virus’s potency, according to the researchers.
"We know the detailed mechanism of how certain drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection," Ostrov said.
The research, however, is preliminary, and Ostrov has cautioned against self-medicating with either diphenhydramine or lactoferrin for COVID-19 prevention. Lactoferrin is available commercially to treat stomach and intestinal ulcers but differs slightly from the type used in the experiment, Ostrov said.
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Researchers may be in the early stages of discovering an effective strategy for inhibiting the virus that causes COVID-19, according to the results of a recent study. The results of the findings from David A. Ostrov, Ph.D., of the University of Florida, were published in Pathogens in late November.
The report suggested that combining diphenhydramine — an antihistamine sold as Benadryl that is used for allergy symptoms — and lactoferrin — a protein found in cow and human milk — reduced replication of SARS-CoV-2 by 99% in lab tests on human lung and monkey cells.
"We found out why certain drugs are active against the virus that causes COVID-19," Ostrov told the University of Florida Health Newsroom. "Then, we found an antiviral combination that can be effective, economical and has a long history of safety."
Key to the research team’s findings was the focus on sigma receptors, which are proteins expressed in human cells. COVID-19 "hijacks" the body’s stress-response machinery, including these receptors, so it can replicate inside its host. Interfering with that process is key to inhibiting the virus’s potency, according to the researchers.
"We know the detailed mechanism of how certain drugs inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection," Ostrov said.
The research, however, is preliminary, and Ostrov has cautioned against self-medicating with either diphenhydramine or lactoferrin for COVID-19 prevention. Lactoferrin is available commercially to treat stomach and intestinal ulcers but differs slightly from the type used in the experiment, Ostrov said.
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wwkirk
Divine
I'm not sure, but it doesn't sound very profitable.
nivek
As Above So Below
Scores of Brits say they tested positive at family Christmas gatherings stoking fears Covid infections will rocket when data blackout ends tomorrow - when Boris is set to decide on restrictions after 10% of Londoners were infected last week
Scores of Britons are reporting testing positive for Covid today following family Christmas family gatherings - stoking fears that infections will sky rockets well above 100,000 when data reporting resumes tomorrow. Pictures posted to social media showed the consequences of a positive Covid test, with one person in Sheffield sharing a photograph of them eating their Christmas lunch outside, under a gazebo and next to some bins (bottom right). Another person shared a picture of a positive lateral flow test with antlers and 'Merry Christmas' placed on the image using Instagram filters, writing that three out of four of their household tested positive (top-right).
Meanwhile, hoards of shoppers were seen queuing outside stores in London's Oxford Street today hoping to make the most of Boxing Day sales, despite the rising case numbers in the capital (left). Boris Johnson is understood to be poised to consider new coronavirus restrictions across the country tomorrow after experts from SAGE warned that the Omicron variant could cause a surge of hospitalisations higher than last winter's peak. Figures from the ONS on Friday showed that 1 in 10 Londoners had the virus last week, and there are now fears that millions of Brits will be forced into seven day isolation - crippling essential services such as police and public transport.
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Scores of Britons are reporting testing positive for Covid today following family Christmas family gatherings - stoking fears that infections will sky rockets well above 100,000 when data reporting resumes tomorrow. Pictures posted to social media showed the consequences of a positive Covid test, with one person in Sheffield sharing a photograph of them eating their Christmas lunch outside, under a gazebo and next to some bins (bottom right). Another person shared a picture of a positive lateral flow test with antlers and 'Merry Christmas' placed on the image using Instagram filters, writing that three out of four of their household tested positive (top-right).
Meanwhile, hoards of shoppers were seen queuing outside stores in London's Oxford Street today hoping to make the most of Boxing Day sales, despite the rising case numbers in the capital (left). Boris Johnson is understood to be poised to consider new coronavirus restrictions across the country tomorrow after experts from SAGE warned that the Omicron variant could cause a surge of hospitalisations higher than last winter's peak. Figures from the ONS on Friday showed that 1 in 10 Londoners had the virus last week, and there are now fears that millions of Brits will be forced into seven day isolation - crippling essential services such as police and public transport.
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michael59
Celestial
Latest COVID19 incarnation "Omicron" seem more in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
"Omicron" more in the vaccinated than UNvaccinated
"Omicron" more in the vaccinated than UNvaccinated