Covid/2022

[Dervish]

“The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence,” according to people who have read the classified report.”

And:

“The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory.

…Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.”

 

[Olsonist]

Sounds like we know fuck all.

 

[Raz'r]

The Energy Department. I’ll ask them about nukes. Viruses, not so much.

 

[badlatitude]

The Energy Department. I’ll ask them about nukes. Viruses, not so much.

"The conclusion from the energy department – which oversees a network of 17 US laboratories, including areas of advanced biology – is considered significant despite the fact that, as the report said, the agency made its updated judgment with “low confidence”.

 

[veni vidi vici]

"The conclusion from the energy department – which oversees a network of 17 US laboratories, including areas of advanced biology – is considered significant despite the fact that, as the report said, the agency made its updated judgment with “low confidence”.

 

[Lark]

The Energy Department. I’ll ask them about nukes. Viruses, not so much.

They run the US national labs, so they were one of various agencies judged competent to create a report. Odd how government works.

I’m surprised by the possibility. I think this was entertained mostly because China won’t provide the genomes of viruses they were studying, so an escape can’t be ruled out. I guess a wild strain endemic in a vector was never identified, to disprove this,

I still doubt it was a chimera or manufactured virus. It was sequenced in the first months. I think the virologists would have recognized any genome swapped from another known virus. It’s not like the Chinese are famous for their new creations, they are the world’s best counterfeiters and copiers.

 

[badlatitude]

 

[badlatitude]

Paving the way for the world's first RSV vaccine, FDA advisers recommend shot from Pfizer​

In a narrow vote, Food and Drug Administration advisers on Tuesday recommended that the agency approve the country's first RSV vaccine for older people, a shot from Pfizer for adults ages 60 and up. The FDA's independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 7-4 in favor of recommending the vaccine based on its efficacy, with one abstention. The single-dose shot was shown to reduce the risk of illness from respiratory syncytial virus by as much as 86%, according to Pfizer.

The next step is for the FDA to approve the vaccine, which could take several months, though the agency usually follows the advisory committee’s recommendations. After FDA approval, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must recommend the shot before it becomes available to the public. If all of that happens, this would be the first RSV vaccine to get approved in the U.S.

The second may be close on its heels. The advisory committee will meet again Wednesday to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a similar RSV vaccine for older adults, this one from GlaxoSmithKline. Trial data published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the shot lowered the risk of symptomatic illness by 83% and of severe illness by 94% in adults ages 60 and up.

RSV causes lower respiratory illness, though for most healthy adults the symptoms are mild. In serious cases, however, RSV can lead to bronchiolitis, which causes airways to become inflamed and clogged with mucus, or pneumonia. Older people and infants are particularly vulnerable to such outcomes. RSV kills more than 10,000 adults ages 65 or older and around 300 children under 5 each year in the U.S. Cases spiked dramatically among infants earlier this winter, which overwhelmed children’s hospitals — a reminder of the virus’s threat.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-advisers-recommend-first-rsv-vaccine-rcna72535

 

[hobie1616]

Paving the way for the world's first RSV vaccine, FDA advisers recommend shot from Pfizer​

In a narrow vote, Food and Drug Administration advisers on Tuesday recommended that the agency approve the country's first RSV vaccine for older people, a shot from Pfizer for adults ages 60 and up. The FDA's independent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 7-4 in favor of recommending the vaccine based on its efficacy, with one abstention. The single-dose shot was shown to reduce the risk of illness from respiratory syncytial virus by as much as 86%, according to Pfizer.

The next step is for the FDA to approve the vaccine, which could take several months, though the agency usually follows the advisory committee’s recommendations. After FDA approval, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must recommend the shot before it becomes available to the public. If all of that happens, this would be the first RSV vaccine to get approved in the U.S.

The second may be close on its heels. The advisory committee will meet again Wednesday to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a similar RSV vaccine for older adults, this one from GlaxoSmithKline. Trial data published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the shot lowered the risk of symptomatic illness by 83% and of severe illness by 94% in adults ages 60 and up.

RSV causes lower respiratory illness, though for most healthy adults the symptoms are mild. In serious cases, however, RSV can lead to bronchiolitis, which causes airways to become inflamed and clogged with mucus, or pneumonia. Older people and infants are particularly vulnerable to such outcomes. RSV kills more than 10,000 adults ages 65 or older and around 300 children under 5 each year in the U.S. Cases spiked dramatically among infants earlier this winter, which overwhelmed children’s hospitals — a reminder of the virus’s threat.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-advisers-recommend-first-rsv-vaccine-rcna72535

But, but, but Ivermectin!!

 

[Ishmael]

But, but, but Ivermectin!!

What am I going to do with all these UV emitting dildos?

 

[Gouvernail]

What am I going to do with all these UV emitting dildos?

Put in fresh batteries, write “anti Ukraine pleasure machines” and drop them near crazy Greene’s offices.