The COVID-2019 Thread

[harrybarracuda]

Stoopid Republican retards in Florida:

Florida governor's office says state could withhold salaries of officials who enact school mask mandates

Also Florida:

Florida requests 300 ventilators from federal government as COVID cases keep rising

[Takeovers]

A huge scandal is brewing about Covid vaccinations in one german region. A nurse administering shots was observed using water instead of vaccine. She claimed she had spoiled a bottle of vaccine, so 8 or 10 people affected. Turned out she is anti vaxxer and has probably injected thousands of people at least with water instead of vaccine. They now scramble to get everybody to administer real vaccine of their choice ASAP.

I hope she will be charged with no less than attempted murder. If anyone died with murder.

Edit: Just saw it is already in the bat shit crazy thread. While it is bat shit crazy I think this deserves a post here too.

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Have you considered selecting "Full Size" to ensure the complete image fits on the screen?

The images I post fit on my screen. But I will certainly try the option you suggest.

[cyrille]

A huge scandal is brewing about Covid vaccinations in one german region. A nurse administering shots was observed using water instead of vaccine. She claimed she had spoiled a bottle of vaccine, so 8 or 10 people affected. Turned out she is anti vaxxer and has probably injected thousands of people at least with water instead of vaccine. They now scramble to get everybody to administer real vaccine of their choice ASAP.

I hope she will be charged with no less than attempted murder. If anyone died with murder.

Edit: Just saw it is already in the bat shit crazy thread. While it is bat shit crazy I think this deserves a post here too.

Well dying with murder isn't good, so why not in the news section 10 hours after being batshit crazy.

[OhOh]

t said in its latest report outlining the social-media giant's actions against inauthentic behavior,

SOP worldwide for any site, for inauthentic/illegal/unacceptable behaviour, as defined by a countries laws, no?

Sen. Rand Paul suspended from YouTube for making false COVID claims, per report

[harrybarracuda]

The images I post fit on my screen. But I will certainly try the option you suggest.

It looks like this:

[misskit]

Melbourne extends COVID lockdown; 'no jab, no job' in Sydney

Melbourne extends COVID lockdown; 'no jab, no job' in Sydney


So much for 'post-pandemic' travel. E.U. weighs restrictions on American tourists, while U.S. says avoid Europe.

So much for 'post-pandemic' travel. E.U. weighs restrictions on American tourists, while U.S. says avoid Europe.

[Klondyke]

I hope she will be charged with no less than attempted murder. If anyone died with murder.

Edit: Just saw it is already in the bat shit crazy thread. While it is bat shit crazy I think this deserves a post here too.

Actually, as per few German news I could look through she is not detained, even allegedly she is not cooperative.

And as far as it is known, nobody from those people (70+) "vaccinated" by her in March and April is not showing any problem...

Further investigation is ongoing...

[Klondyke]

Russia’s Vaccine Diplomacy Is Mostly Smoke and Mirrors - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Here another fresh account about the "Smoke and Mirrors. However, it is not from an unbiased and independent source as above but from the state (Vlad) controlled media :

69 countries & millions of jabs later, Sputnik V is a year old: Russia marks milestone for world’s 1st registered Covid-19 vaccine
11 Aug, 2021

On August 11, 2020, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had become the first country in the world to register a Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V. One year later, the pioneering jab has inoculated millions around the world.

Knowingly named after Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite, the Russian-made shot has now been approved in 69 different countries and has shown up to 97.8% efficacy in real-world studies, making it one of the most reliable Covid-19 formulas on the planet. It has also received international praise, with reputable Western scientific journals like The Lancet and Nature determining it to be both safe and effective.

In addition, the fact that doses do not need to be kept in deep-freeze storage has made Sputnik V a popular choice around the world.

Speaking on Sputnik V's anniversary, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), praised the vaccine for “saving millions of Russians' lives.” The RDIF bankrolled the jab's development and is responsible for its marketing abroad.

“One year ago, the world's first Sputnik V vaccine was registered. This was, undoubtedly, an important event for the whole world,” Dmitriev said. “Sputnik V has become the backbone of vaccination in Russia.”

However, despite the vaccine appearing to be reliable, the international rollout hasn’t been a complete success, with some countries waiting months for delayed deliveries of doses, and others canceling orders altogether. Sputnik V is also yet to be approved by either the World Health Organization (WHO) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA), despite applying for registration months ago.

Like the Western-made AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson jabs, Sputnik V is an adenoviral vector vaccine, meaning it works by injecting a harmless virus designed to deliver a spike in proteins. However, unlike most other Covid-19 shots, Sputnik V is a ‘vaccine cocktail’ made up of two separate vectors, meaning the initial and booster injections are entirely different. According to the creators, this approach “generates a more sustainable immunity compared to vaccines that use the same delivery mechanism for both shots.”

With Sputnik V now in use around the world, many countries have produced their own research into the efficacy of Moscow's jab. In Russia itself, analysis of 3.8 million vaccinated individuals revealed that the shot has 97.6% efficacy, with no serious adverse events or vaccination-related deaths. Russia’s Ministry of Health also announced that it is 94.4% effective at preventing hospitalization.

Other countries have posted similar numbers, with the UAE Ministry of Health finding Sputnik V to have an efficacy of 97.8%, with efficacy against severe cases of Covid-19 at 100%.

In Hungary, the first EU country to approve Sputnik V, official government research, albeit based on a relatively small sample, showed that the Russian jab had the best safety and efficacy record of all five vaccines registered by the authorities.

The shot also appears to be effective against all strains of Covid-19, including the Delta variant.

According to Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya Center, where Sputnik V was developed, over 40 million doses have been produced and released. Most of the jabs have stayed within Russia.

However, despite at least four separate facilities producing the shots, the distribution of Sputnik V has been marred by missed deliveries caused by the country’s limited pharmaceutical production capacity, itself a legacy of Soviet-era manufacturing conventions. This has caused the country’s program of vaccine diplomacy to stutter, with the producers failing to meet the terms of contracts with other nations.

For example, in Argentina several million people have been waiting months for their second Sputnik V dose. In July, Russia’s failure to deliver the vaccine on time caused Cecilia Nicolini, an adviser to the Argentinian president, to write to the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), threatening to cancel the contract altogether. Because of the delay in delivery of doses, the gap between the first and second shots had to be increased to three months rather than three weeks.

The vaccine rollout hasn’t gone particularly well at home, either, with many Russians still refusing to be inoculated. While take-up has increased in recent months, encouragement from government officials seems to have gone ignored, to varying degrees. Vaccine skepticism in Russia is still a big problem, and many citizens believe they lack an incentive to be jabbed while the country operates as normal, with very few restrictions affecting daily life.

The future of Sputnik V may be somewhat brighter, however. In November last year, the vaccine’s creators offered to mix the first dose of the Russian shot with the jab developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca in the UK. Since February 2021, joint trials have been ongoing in the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. The same trial is also being conducted in Argentina, where the Russian jab is also being tested in conjunction with the Chinese Sinopharm and the American Moderna vaccines. Once complete, these trials should show a pathway for Sputnik V as part of a cocktail with other jabs from around the world.

69 countries & millions of jabs later, Sputnik V is a year old: Russia marks milestone for world’s 1st registered Covid-19 vaccine — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

[harrybarracuda]

Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) made the announcement on Wednesday.

The therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab — will be tested on hospitalised COVID-19 patients in 52 countries under the Solidarity PLUS programme.

There have been over 203 million cases of the disease recorded globally as of Wednesday, according to WHO.
The world hit the 200 million mark last week, just six months after cases passed 100 million.

Speaking during a press conference in Geneva, WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, underscored the vital need to find more effective and accessible coronavirus therapeutics.

He said, “We already have many tools to prevent, test for and treat COVID-19, including oxygen, dexamethasone and IL-6 blockers.

“But we need more, for patients at all ends of the clinical spectrum, from mild to severe disease. And we need health workers that are trained to use them in a safe environment.”

The three drugs were chosen by an independent panel for their potential in reducing the risk of death in people hospitalised for coronavirus.

WHO announces three new drugs for COVID-19 clinical trials - Daily Post Nigeria

[harrybarracuda]

Delta. What a c u n t.

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[harrybarracuda]

Some good news about potentially calming the cytokine storm...

Some 93% of 90 coronavirus serious patients treated in several Greek hospitals with a new drug developed by a team at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center as part of the Phase II trial of the treatment were discharged in five days or fewer.

The Phase II trial confirmed the results of Phase I, which was conducted in Israel last winter and saw 29 out of 30 patients in moderate to serious condition recover within days.

“The main goal of this study was to verify that the drug is safe,” Prof. Nadir Arber said. “To this day we have not registered any significant side effect in any patient from both groups.”

The trial was conducted in Athens because Israel did not have enough relevant patients. The principal investigator was Greece’s coronavirus commissioner, Prof. Sotiris Tsiodras.

Arber and his team, including Dr. Shiran Shapira, developed the drug based on a molecule that the professor has been studying for 25 years called CD24, which is naturally present in the body.

“It is important to remember that 19 out of 20 COVID-19 patients do not need any therapy,” Arber said. “After a window of five to 12 days, some 5% of the patients start to deteriorate.”

The main cause of the clinical deterioration is an over activation of the immune system, also known as a cytokine storm. In case of COVID-19 patients, the system starts attacking healthy cells in the lungs.

“This is exactly the problem that our drug targets,” he said.

CD24 is a small protein that is anchored to the membrane of the cells and it serves many functions including regulating the mechanism responsible for the cytokine storm.

Arber stressed that their treatment, EXO-CD24, does not affect the immune system as a whole, but only targets this specific mechanism, helping find again its correct balance.

“This is precision medicine,” he said. “We are very happy that we have found a tool to tackle the physiology of the disease.”

“Steroids for example shut down the entire immune system,” he further explained. “We are balancing the part responsible for the cytokine storms using the endogenous mechanism of the body, meaning tools offered by the body itself.”

Arber noted that another breakthrough element of this treatment is its delivery.

“We are employing exosomes, very small vesicles derived from the membrane of the cells which are responsible for the exchange of information between them,” he said.

“By managing to deliver them exactly where they are needed, we avoid many side effects,” he added.

The team is now ready to launch the last phase of the study.

“As promising as the findings of the first phases of a treatment can be, no one can be sure of anything until results are compared to the ones of patients who receive a placebo,” he said.

Some 155 coronavirus patients will take part in the study. Two-thirds of them will be administered the drug, and one-third a placebo.

The study will be conducted in Israel and it might be also carried out in other places if the number of patients in the country will not suffice.

“We hope to complete it by the end of the year,” Arber said.

If the results are confirmed, he vowed that the treatment can be made available relatively quickly and at a low cost.

“In addition, a success could pave the wave to treat many other diseases,” he concluded.

COVID: 90% of patients treated with new Israeli drug discharged in 5 days - The Jerusalem Post

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[HermantheGerman]

I did not read the interesting report, however, does it say why the Russian vaccine is still not recognized in the just EU agency?

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been testing the vaccine since March. Just a few days ago, EU Commission President von der Leyen said that the manufacturer had not yet been able to provide enough valid data to prove the safety of Sputnik V.

Some poor European low Life countries have allowed Sputnik. O.K. they are usually countries with lots of corruption and low education.

But why does Moscow itself not allow any foreign vaccines in its own country? Because then NO RUSSIAN would be using Sputnik and Putin would look like a jerk. Remember Russians don't trust their government and vaccine.
Do you think you can grasp this little bit of "TRUTHFUL" information and put the numbers together without reading up on some communist BS site?

[Klondyke]

But why does Moscow itself not allow any foreign vaccines in its own country?

It seems that your eyes full of hatred do not see clearly that:

In November last year, the vaccine’s creators offered to mix the first dose of the Russian shot with the jab developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca in the UK. Since February 2021, joint trials have been ongoing in the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. The same trial is also being conducted in Argentina, where the Russian jab is also being tested in conjunction with the Chinese Sinopharm and the American Moderna vaccines.

Besides, there are countries that has ordered the Sputnik, however, they were forced to cancel the orders (please no names here)...

Besides,
Italians & Sammarineses Vaccinated With Sputnik V in San Marino Ineligible for EU COVD-19 Passport
Thousands of people in San Marino and Italy who have been vaccinated with the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, are unable to obtain an EU Digital Vaccination Passport issued by the Italian authorities, as the same vaccine is still not approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

According to local media, a total of 90 per cent of the population in San Marino have been vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine, up to this point, which has been rolled out in this territory since March, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

In addition, there are about 15 thousand Italians engaged in San Marino’s tourism sector, who cross the border between Italy and San Marino daily and who have received the same vaccine in the European microstate.

While there have been some speculations that the vaccine would be approved for use in Italy and other European countries within few months, such a thing has not happened yet; therefore, all persons who have taken such a vaccine are not able to benefit from the EU COVID-19 Vaccination Passports, launched to facilitate the travel process.

Italians & Sammarineses Vaccinated With Sputnik V in San Marino Ineligible for EU COVD-19 Passport - SchengenVisaInfo.com

At present, the following vaccines are approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA): BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. As a result, only people who have been fully vaccinated with one of these vaccines can travel within the block without being subject to travel restrictions. According to authorities in Rome and Moscow, Sputnik is still under review by EMA.

Actually, all the vaccines around the world are still "emergency".
But as certain Eric Blair found many years ago it seems that some vaccines are more emergency than the others...

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Actually, all the vaccines around the world are still "emergency"

They were approved for emergency use after various approval agencies in the world had verified the trial data acquired from the manufacturer.
Now if only the manufacturer of Sputnik V could produce the requested data then they would also have a chance to be an approved covid-19 vaccine but there is obviously other problems with Sputnik V than the approval.

[harrybarracuda]

They were approved for emergency use after various approval agencies in the world had verified the trial data acquired from the manufacturer.
Now if only the manufacturer of Sputnik V could produce the requested data then they would also have a chance to be an approved covid-19 vaccine but their is obviously other problems with Sputnik V than the approval.

That's why Slovenia sent it back and other countries have cancelled their orders.

[baldrick]

Actually

turds have an olfactory aroma

[Klondyke]

but there is obviously other problems with Sputnik V than the approval.

Yes, it seems so. Similarly as in other affairs...

[Klondyke]

That's why Slovenia sent it back and other countries have cancelled their orders.

Actually, you have meant Slovakia, haven't you?
Speaking about cancellations, the North Stream 2 was also to be cancelled, wasn't it? (Obviously unambiguously...)

[lom]

but there is obviously other problems with Sputnik V than the approval.

Yes, it seems so. Similarly as in other affairs...

Yes Putin should rid himself of the middle-men oligarchs, one would think they've been allowed to siphon enough now.

[Klondyke]

What we know about India's new Covid vaccines
Published3 days ago

What do we know about Sputnik V?
The vaccine, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, initially generated some controversy after being rolled out before the final trial data had been released. But scientists say its benefits have now been demonstrated.

India received its first batch of 125 million doses of the vaccine in May
It uses a cold-type virus, engineered to be harmless, as a carrier to deliver a small fragment of the coronavirus to the body. After being vaccinated, the body starts to produce antibodies especially tailored to the virus.

It can be stored at temperatures of between 2 and 8C degrees (a standard fridge is roughly 3-5C degrees) making it easier to transport and store.

But unlike other similar jabs, the Sputnik jab uses two slightly different versions of the vaccine for the first and the second dose - given 21 days apart.

They both target the coronavirus's distinctive "spike", but use different vectors - the neutralised virus that carries the spike to the body.

The idea is that using two different formulas boosts the immune system even more than using the same version twice - and may give longer-lasting protection.

India received its first batch of 125 million doses of the vaccine in May. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which is marketing the vaccine, has signed deals to produce more than 750 million doses of the vaccine with six more domestic vaccine makers, according to reports.

Sputnik V has been approved so far in 60 countries, including Argentina, Palestinian territories, Venezuela, Hungary, UAE and Iran.

Johnson & Johnson: What we know about India'''s new Covid vaccines - BBC News

[Klondyke]

Now if only the manufacturer of Sputnik V could produce the requested data then they would also have a chance to be an approved covid-19 vaccine

(This reminds me when Saddam Hussein had invited many inspections in his country, all they were happy, but we still had heard from GWB, he does not do enough...)


Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective

Russia’s vaccine is in use in nearly 70 nations, but its adoption has been slowed by controversies and questions over rare side effects, and it has yet to garner World Health Organization approval.

Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik, has been the subject of fascination and controversy since the Russian government authorized its use last year, before early-stage trial results were even published. Evidence from Russia and many other countries now suggests it is safe and effective — but questions remain about the quality of surveillance for possible rare side effects.

Sputnik V — also known as Gam-COVID-Vac — was the first COVID-19 vaccine to be registered for use in any nation, and it has since been approved in 67 countries, including Brazil, Hungary, India and the Philippines. But the vaccine — and its one-dose sibling Sputnik Light — has yet to receive approval for emergency use from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the World Health Organization (WHO). Approval by the WHO is crucial for widespread distribution through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) initiative, which is providing doses for lower-income nations.

Developed by scientists at the Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, the vaccine was authorized for use by the Russian Ministry of Health on 11 August 2020, more than a month before phase I and II trial results were published, and before the phase III trial had even begun.

The scientific community greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the vaccine’s registration with outrage. “If the government’s going to approve a vaccine before they even know the results of the trial, that does not build confidence,” said epidemiologist Michael Toole at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

Access to full data
Some of that concern was allayed when the phase III trial results1, published in February by the vaccine’s developers, suggested that it is 91.6% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infection and 100% effective at preventing severe infection. However, some scientists criticized the authors for failing to provide access to the full raw data from the early-stage trials, and also voiced concerns about changes in the vaccine’s administration protocol and inconsistencies in the data.


Researchers highlight ‘questionable’ data in Russian coronavirus vaccine trial results

The authors responded by saying that they had provided the regulatory authorities with all the data necessary for obtaining approval, and that the data included with the paper2 were enough for readers to confirm the reported vaccine efficacy. They also addressed the protocol queries, and said numerical inconsistencies were “simple typing errors that were formally corrected”.

Despite the absence of approval from the EMA or the WHO, several countries, including South Korea, Argentina and India, are already manufacturing Sputnik V. And India plans to pump out at least 850 million doses, to help speed up the vaccination of its embattled population. Many other countries, such as Hungary and Iran, are importing Sputnik V, and it has become a key plank of their vaccination campaigns.

But it hasn’t all been plain sailing. Brazil’s health regulator rejected an application to import Sputnik V in April over concerns at a lack of data on safety, quality and effectiveness. That decision was reversed in June, but the vaccine has been approved only for healthy adults.

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In the randomized phase III trial, published in interim form in February, 14,964 adults received the two-dose vaccine and 4,902 received two doses of placebo. Only 16 subjects in the vaccine group developed symptomatic COVID-19, compared with 62 in the placebo group, representing a vaccine efficacy of 91.6%. Furthermore, there were no cases of moderate to severe disease in the vaccine group, but 20 in the placebo group.

Unpublished data on 3.8 million Russians vaccinated with two doses also point to an efficacy of 97.6%, according to an April press release from the Gamaleya Institute. Figures released by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health, on some 81,000 individuals who had received two doses of the vaccine, suggested 97.8% efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100% efficacy in preventing severe disease.

Russia’s phase III study also found that even one dose was 73.6% effective at preventing moderate to severe disease. This led the Russian health authorities to approve the one-dose Sputnik Light — which uses the rAd26 vector — in May, on the basis of data from the country’s own vaccination programme, which suggested that it was 79.4% effective at preventing symptomatic disease.

Since then, an as-yet unpublished study from the Buenos Aires health ministry in Argentina, involving 40,387 vaccinated and 146,194 unvaccinated people aged 60–79, found that a single dose of Sputnik Light reduced symptomatic infections by 78.6%, hospitalizations by 87.6% and deaths by 84.7%.

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Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective

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and now the good news

Although vaccine technology will need to be continually updated to keep up with the variants, eventually science is expected to catch up with the virus.

"There are of course limits to viral evolution, so we can expect the virus to eventually reach peak fitness, and new vaccines can be formulated," wrote the researchers.

We should not dismiss the possibility of eradicating COVID-19: comparisons with smallpox and polio | BMJ Global Health

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"There are of course limits to viral evolution, so we can expect the virus to eventually reach peak fitness, and new vaccines can be formulated," wrote the researchers.

The peak fitness is when the virus is as most contagious and at the same time is least lethal.
The strains which kills their carrier does not survive long themselves. Survival of the fittest.