For some reason, the word 'amorphous' comes to mind.
Good for her for making an effort. But based on the 2nd pic at the link, Lena is looking a bit butch these days. More Len than Lena, if you know what I'm saying.
#8
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.
Winston Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.
#13
According to Lena's custodian,
Miss Dunham's surprisingly Protean,
Resembling a sack,
From the front or the back,
Of exceedingly hangry Cambodians.
[BBC] President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has revealed in a call to his own radio show that he is being treated for coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... with the same drug cocktail his boss received when he was ill with Covid-19.
He was admitted to hospital on Sunday after becoming the latest official close to Mr Trump to test positive.
Giuliani, 76, told the show he expects to leave hospital on Wednesday.
Mr Giuliani, 76, told the show he expects to leave hospital on Wednesday.
He has been treated with Remdesivir and Dexamethasone, he explained.
Mr Trump tweeted on Sunday that his ally, who has been leading the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the November election outcome, had been diagnosed with the virus.
"I am doing fine. Pretty much all the symptoms are gone. The minute I took the cocktail I felt 100% better. It works very quickly, wow," he told his colleagues on his weekly show with 77 WABC radio from the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington DC.
Mr Trump has strongly praised the experimental combination of drugs he received when he spent three nights in hospital with Covid-19 in October
Dozens of people in Mr Trump's orbit are said to have tested positive for Covid-19 since October..
Referring to his prior diagnosis of prostate cancer, Rudy Giuliani suggested "You don't screw around your whole life because of an illness. I'd rather face risks than live in a basement my whole life."
TRUMP'S COVID TREATMENT:
Dexamethasone is a tried-and-tested steroid that saves lives by calming the immune system, but it needs to be used at the right time. It is not a drug normally given in a "mild" stage of coronavirus
Remdesivir is a more experimental drug. First developed as treatment for Ebola, it works by confusing the virus as it looks chemically similar to some of the raw materials the virus needs to replicate. There is no evidence that lives have been saved with this drug
Mr Trump also took monoclonal antibody therapy made by the company Regeneron. The antibodies physically stick to the coronavirus so they can't get inside the body's cells
#1
Rudy Giuliani spotted leaving hospital 1700 on 9 Dec. 2020 (CNN)
So much disinformation and agenda-pushing in MSM coverage about the pandemic, it is hard to keep one's head on straight. TRUMP'S COVID TREATMENT: Dexamethasone is a tried-and-tested steroid Trump doesn't own the treatment. He got no special favoritism when he received it in Oct. It has not been declared "safe and effective" for COVID by the FDA. "Experts" still waffle and weasel about its use and what the threshold for giving it might be. My own sister was hospitalized the day after Thanksgiving with a urinary tract infection and with COVID-19 which she contracted while she was locked down for most of 2020 at her assisted living facility. She got a 6-day course of dexamethasone despite (AFAICT) not having the most common COVID symptoms. She got antibiotics for the UTI including a Z-pack which might also have been aimed at the COVID. She got better quickly is still very weak. Onn her 8th day she was transferred to a SNF combined with a rehab hospital to see if she regain her ability to walk. 8 days of bedrest when you're 78 is no way to retain your muscle strength and agility.
It is wrong to call Veklury (R), remdesevir, an experimental drug, since on 22 Oct 2020 the FDA approved is use for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Per FDA website it is the first treatment for COVID-19 to receive FDA approval, this despite controversy among the experts that it really reduces the mortality among the sickest patients. New England Journal of Medicine 2 Dec 2020 article "These remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir, and interferon regimens had little or no effect on hospitalized patients with Covid-19"
It is unclear whether Rudy received any of the monoclonal antibody infusions given EUA by the FDA 9 Nov. 2020. Scattered TV and newspaper reports nationwide now have many accounts of high risk patients rapidly recovering from COVID-19 after receiving these treatments. In my sister's case, myself and her doctor have been unable to find any nearby place that offers this therapy. 100,000 doses of one of them, bamlanivimab, have been allocated nationwide, but there is no coherent program publicizing its availability. 900,000 more doses are in the pipeline for outpatient use by the end of Jan. 2021. See this inspiring story about a 103 year old veteran who was stricken with COVID-19 and quickly got a great deal better after. He was given bamlanivimab. He turned 104 as he was recovering at home.
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#2
Thank you, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843. I hope your sister continues recovering well.
The breadth and depth of knowledge around here is simply amazing.
#4
The monoclonal antibodies start inactivating infectious COVID-19 virions as soon as they make contact with them. Probably they don't affect cells that have been taken over by the virions. When I've had a severe cold and start recovering, I swear I could feel my new antibodies cancelling out by virions hour by hour. So I'm not surprised to read that.
Google "outpatient monoclonal antibody infusion" "bamlanivimab infusion" "outpatient bamlanivimab" Set the time search function for the last month or two to snag all the news reports about other patients who have been getting monoclonal antibody infusions.
By the way, if you or any of your friends or loved ones are high risk for severe COVID-19 infections (e.g. >= age 65, for starters) use the same search terms I just listed, and ask your doctor or primary care practitioner[PCP] about them. If they don't know, they are bloody ignorant. If they don't care or fob you off, it is time for you to find another PCP. Time is critical: wait too long and the virus will take over and it may be too late for the infusion to really help.
#5
Nebraska is far more proactive in outpatient monoclonal antibody infusions than Cleveland Ohio which has no news coverage as good as this:
https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2020/12/03/mary-lanning-keeping-pace-with-covid-19-treatments/
Cyberattack Hits EU Vaccine Regulator as West Grapples with Virus Surge
[AnNahar] An EU regulator considering the rapid approval of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccines said Wednesday it had been the target of a cyberattack, as Germany and other northern hemisphere countries grappled with a winter surge in the pandemic.
The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) reported the cyberattack as European countries eagerly await a vaccine, including Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... is pushing for tougher action against a second wave that is proving deadlier than the first there.
The attack comes after Britannia accused Kremlin-linked hackers in July of targeting labs researching coronavirus vaccines and after a U.S. newspaper reported that cybercriminals had tried to attack several pharmaceutical firms developing vaccines. They included Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, AstraZeneca and South Korean laboratories.
The EMA has said it will give a decision on conditional approval for Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine at a meeting that will be held by December 29 at the latest. A ruling on Moderna's version should follow by January 12.
Canada regulator approves Pfizer’s COVID vaccine
[IsraelTimes] Canada’s health regulator on Wednesday approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Health Canada posts on its website that the vaccine made by US drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech is authorized.
Canada is set to receive up to 249,000 doses this month and 4 million doses of the vaccine by March. The Canadian government has purchased 20 million doses of that vaccine, which requires people to receive two doses each, and it has the option to buy 56 million more.
Health Canada is reviewing three other vaccine candidates, including one from Moderna.
Netanyahu: First vaccines will be administered on December 27
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu, in a live statement, says: “It’s not to be taken for granted that Israel, which is… a small country with 9 million citizens should receive the vaccines at the same time as Britain and the leading countries in the world.”
“I ask all Israelis to get vaccinated,” says Netanyahu, adding that he’ll do it first.
Netanyahu says the first vaccines will be administered on December 27 and Israel will able to vaccinate 60,000 a day.
Netanyahu repeats that those vaccinated will be given privileges, such as access to malls and other sites.
#3
#1 Funny, when I type "Covid 19 genetic structure", I get thousands peer reviewed papers by people who isolated the virus and even decoded it's genetic structure and working on genotype to function relation.
I guess Jack Kerwick - author of the "magnificent" paper, which you cite, doesn't know how to use scientific databases. Or, in common with certain other conservatives, he believes that ignorance & stupidity are a state of grace.
Another anti-China screw turning. And President Trump still has forty days and forty nights, if Joe Biden ends up getting sworn in.
[Bloomberg] Prime Minister Scott Morrison
... Australian Liberal prime minister since 2018. In Australia, Liberal is defined as classical liberalism, what we in America would call conservative...
has new powers to veto or scrap agreements that state governments reach with foreign powers under laws that could stymie China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia and further inflame tensions between the trading partners.
The laws passed by Parliament on Tuesday will give the foreign minister the ability to stop new and previously signed agreements between overseas governments and Australia’s eight states and territories, and with bodies such as local authorities and universities.
[Jpost] In several fights over these documents, the prosecution said that an additional police review led to the discovery of the six documents in question.
Quoting the CDC site:
"Note: Provisional death counts are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics as of December 10, 2020.
The last time we had that many deaths was April 18th the peak of Season #1 and then it started declining until October 10th, 2020. Which I call the start of C-19 Season #2, by using the typical CDC Flu infection / mortality pattern cycle.
But using the CDC's own 10 to 14 day infection cycle process. It looks like we'll be hearing the up tick is to be blamed on Halloween, Nov. elections, Turkey day (14 days ago) Black Friday, and related travel/return travel (10-16 days).
#8
Remember when the hospitals were suffering financially from people staying away? I cannot but wonder who looked at the funding streams fir private health insurance and discovered the gold mine that is an open spigot of government covid medical care and saw the fix for the bottom lines? Noble medical ethics meet the bottom line! That it reinforces a political agenda for many is a feature, ot a bug.
#9
Bobby
to answer your question:"Is Australia's death toll going down, as they head into summer down under?"
I googled "Australia's covid-19 death toll"
and Google showed it has greatly declined as they enter into their WARM SEASON. Wanting more official source data I dug a little.
#12
I have friends and elations working in hospitals, though none like Woodrow’s cousin. NPR has a pretty little tool to discover how the hospitals in one’s area are doing, broken down by the hospitals in each county.
[Jpost] An experimental coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) has 86% efficacy, the health ministry of the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
While the positive data comes soon after last month's upbeat results from Western rivals, such as Pfizer Inc, Moderna , AstraZeneca Plc and from Russia, neither the UAE nor Sinopharm have released detailed data from the pivotal study.
In July, the Gulf Arab state started Phase III clinical trials of the vaccine, developed by Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
In September, it authorised emergency use of the vaccine for certain groups, the first such international clearance for a vaccine developed in China.
The analysis also shows "99% seroconversion rate of neutralizing antibody and 100% effectiveness in preventing moderate and severe cases of the disease", the ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
"The analysis shows no serious safety concerns," it said.
It also said it had officially registered the vaccine, without elaborating, and that 31,000 volunteers across 125 nationalities participated in the UAE trial. It did not say what, if any, side effects it identified, how many participants have become ill or how many volunteers were given the vaccine or a placebo.
CNBG could not be immediately reached for comment.
The vaccine, which uses an inactivated virus unable to replicate human cells to trigger immune responses, requires two doses, past trial data has showed.
The UAE trial is a partnership between CNBG, Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company Group 42 (G42) and the Abu Dhabi Department of Health.
Sinopharm and G42 have also expanded the trial to Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain.
Abu Dhabi, the UAE's capital, this week said it was seeking volunteers to take part in clinical trials of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, known as Sputnik V.
The UAE, with a population of around 9 million, has recorded 178,837 infections and 596 deaths from the disease.
The vaccine is among the three most advanced candidates from China in terms of development and has been used to vaccinate around one million people in the country under its emergency use programme.
#1
86% - that's good! It's large, mostly all of something, AND it is specific. Not just "around 80 percent or so" which is vague, it's 86 exactly. Yes, I totally believe this number.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
I continue to remain masked, and patiently await the Amazon delivery of my 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
