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'Anti-Mask Karen' fired over viral grocery store coughing video
Im not sure how to react to this.
Im not sure how to react to this.
They know much more than the publicFDA panel votes 16-2 AGAINST recommending to approve Pfizer booster shots to healthy people under 65 because there is not enough evidence they are safe and effective
An independent panel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted to not recommend approval of booster doses for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) said there was not enough evidence that a third dose was safe and effective for use at least six months after the final dose. The FDA is not bound to follow the advisory group's recommendations but the panel advising against approval makes it harder for the agency to justify moving forward.
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All The Lions And Tigers At D.C.’s National Zoo Have Tested Positive For COVID-19
Six African lions, a Sumatran tiger and two Amur tigers all received “presumptive positive” results for the coronavirus, the zoo announced in a Friday press release. That means the animals had positive laboratory test results, but they need to be confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the big cats are also displaying symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, decreased appetite and lethargy, so zookeepers believe they are most likely infected.
“Because the test results are presumptive positive and we are observing symptoms in the animals, we are treating all animals as positive,” zoo spokesperson Pamela Baker-Masson told DCist.
It’s unclear how the lions and tigers got infected. The cats remain under “close observation” and are still able to access their outdoor areas, the zoo said. It noted in the press release that the animals pose no risk to the public because of the physical distance between them and visitors. (There’s also no evidence at this point that felines can pass COVID-19 to humans.)
Testing was conducted via fecal samples, so no nose swabbing of the big cats was required.
The lions and tigers are the latest in a long line of zoo residents to contract the coronavirus since the pandemic began. Other animals have included tigers and lions in New York City (all of them fully recovered), snow leopards in Kentucky and San Diego, and otters in Georgia, among others. And just last week, 19 gorillas at Georgia’s Zoo Atlanta tested positive and exhibited symptoms such as coughing and runny noses.
Some zoos have begun inoculating animals using a vaccine called Zoetis, which was specially developed for animals. In March, the San Diego Zoo vaccinated several orangutans and bonobos. California’s Oakland Zoo began vaccinating big cats, bears, ferrets and primates in July.
A lot of zoo animals are already trained to accept vaccines, since they need to get vaccinated against other diseases like rabies. That training can involve rewarding them after they get a shot. At the Oakland Zoo, for example, mountain lions were rewarded with goat milk, a chimpanzee received M&Ms and bears got to enjoy ice cream off a spoon, PBS reported.
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FDA-approved gout drug shows promise in fighting COVID-19 by preventing the virus from multiplying in cells, study finds
A drug used to treat gout could also help combat COVID-19, a new study has found. Probenecid is medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating the condition that causes tenderness and pain at the joints.
Research published by a team from the University of Georgia finds the drug may also be able to inhibit the replication of virus cells like SARS-CoV-2 - which causes Covid - and prevent infection.
There are currently limited treatments available for the virus, and many non-virus treating drugs have been studied as potential treatments.
The drug works by preventing virus cells from taking over a person's cells and using them to replicate. This prevents the virus from being able to spread throughout the body and therefore limits the odds of a person falling severely ill.
There are not many drugs on the market with the ability to do this, with the ones that are currently used for Covid more effective after infection.
Researchers, who published their findings in the journal Nature, believe probenecid can combat other viruses, such the common flu, as well.
'There's really nothing out there to safely fight these viruses,' said lead author Dr Ralph Tripp, a professor in the department of infectious diseases at the University of Georgia, in a statement.
'This antiviral works for all RNA respiratory viruses we tested, including SARS-CoV-2. RSV, coronavirus and flu all circulate in the same season. Bottom line is you can potentially reduce infection and disease using this one oral drug.'
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Patients on Uloric, a gout drug, suffered more heart attacks, strokes and heart failure in two out of three trials than did their counterparts on standard or no medication.
Nevertheless, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved both of these drugs — with a deadly aftermath. Uloric’s manufacturer reported last November that patients on the drug were 34 percent more likely to die from heart disease than people taking an alternative gout medication. And since the FDA fast-tracked approval of Nuplazid and it went on the market in 2016 at a price of $24,000 a year, there have been 6,800 reports of adverse events for patients on the drug, including 887 deaths as of this past March 31.
The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease. Once widely assailed for moving slowly, today the FDA reviews and approves drugs faster than any other regulatory agency in the world. Between 2011 and 2015, the FDA reviewed new drug applications more than 60 days faster on average than did the European Medicines Agency.
Is this a over the counter or prescription? There have been some studies done on Famotidine that seem like it may help in covid recovery time.Its found in pepcid ac.
Famotidine (Pepcid AC) May Curb COVID-19 Symptoms – Effects Felt Within 1–2 Days
Impact of Famotidine Use on Clinical Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 - PubMed
In china they found out that people who where taking pepcid ac faired much better with covid than those who werent. They looked also at other acid reducers people were taking but those people didnt do well. From the test that has been done it seems to help give much needed relief if taken in the early stages of covid.I use pepcid ac at least 3 times a week. Maybe that's why I didn't die.lol