NEWS on SARS-CoV-2 - Post-21-09-2020 Edition

[FRESH NEWS LOG]
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/%22latest%20news%22/country/ua/type/posts

Tracker for US adverse events and deaths "with" vaccine
https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?EVENTS=on&VAX=(COVID19)&VAXTYPES=(COVID-19)
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>fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported
https://censored.vaxcalc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf

SARS-CoV-2 Mutation/Strain Tracker Systems
https://www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/covmt
https://covariants.org/variants
https://cov-lineages.org/index.html

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Tracker
https://covid19.trackvaccines.org

International monitor: vaccine passports and SARS-2 status apps
https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/project/international-monitor-vaccine-passports-covid-status-apps

[29-01-2021 Update]

>Merck Stops Developing Both Of Its SARS-2 Vaccine Candidates
>" while the drugs seemed to be safe, they didn't generate enough of an immune response to effectively protect people against the coronavirus."
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/25/960294852/merck-stops-developing-both-of-its-covid-19-vaccine-candidates

Moderna vaccine: "A six-fold reduction in neutralizing titers was observed with the B.1.351 variant relative to prior variants. Despite this reduction, neutralizing titer levels with B.1.351 remain above levels that are expected to be protective.“ Crucial data here on Moderna vaccine and variants"
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-retains-neutralizing-activity-against

[03-01-2021 Update]

All Major Western Media Outlets Take ‘Private Dinners’, ‘Sponsored Trips’ From Chinese Communist Propaganda Front
>A host of corporate media outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC have participated in private dinners and sponsored trips with the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a Chinese Communist Party-funded group seeking to garner “favorable coverage” and “disseminate positive messages” regarding China, The National Pulse can reveal.
https://archive.vn/z3POh

Top UK Pandemic Scientist Admits Emulating Communist chinese Model
https://archive.vn/b0v9H

Trump spy chief labels China biggest threat to freedom since World War Two
>The top U.S. intelligence official stepped up the Trump administration’s harsh attacks on Beijing on Thursday, labeling China the biggest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War Two and saying it was bent on global domination.

>“The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically,” Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in an opinion article on the Wall Street Journal website.

>Ratcliffe, a former Republican congressman appointed by Trump to the top U.S. spy job last spring, said China posed “the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War Two.”

>He said he had shifted resources within the $85 billion annual federal budget allocated to intelligence to increase the focus on China.

>Ratcliffe said China’s economic espionage approach was threefold: “Rob, Replicate and Replace.”

>He said the strategy was for Chinese entities to steal American companies’ intellectual property, copy it and then supplant U.S. companies in the global market place.
https://archive.vn/n43rG

US ends China-funded exchange programs, calls them 'propaganda tools'
https://archive.vn/LJMab

China building villages near disputed India border, report says
https://archive.vn/cx50L

China’s foreign minister calls for less U.S. ‘interference’ in domestic affairs
>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U.S. business leaders Monday he hoped for more cooperation with the U.S., while pointing out ways in which America could change its approach.

>“The most urgent task at the moment is that both sides should work together and remove all kinds of interference, to achieve a smooth transition of China-U.S. relations,” Wang said, according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese text posted on the foreign ministry’s website.

>Executives from General Motors, Caterpillar, Visa and other U.S. companies joined the call, according to the foreign ministry.
https://archive.vn/fF42Q

Canadian-made SARS-CoV-2 air detector set to ship worldwide
>BioCloud is a real-time analyzer designed to detect airborne viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, by continuously sampling air quality and triggering a silent, cloud-based alert to facility managers

>The Company estimates a $12,000 USD per unit sale price for BioCloud based on current supply chain components. However, the Company offers volume discounts for aggregate purchases and further, the Company will offer a financing plan should customers require it
https://archive.vn/aYIR3

Denmark: Mink variant of SARS-CoV-2 affects more of community, Less in mink farmers [read the full]
>In a follow-up on the SARS-CoV-2 mink-associated variant strain in Denmark, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) reports there has been a marked decrease in the number of persons residing on mink farms infected with SARS-CoV-2, while at the same time, the strain is infecting more of society in the general community.

>According to SSI, the number of new infected persons associated with mink production fell to 28 in week 48 against 138 in week 47. Of the 28 infected, 3 were in the North Jutland Region, 10 in the Central Jutland Region and 12 in the Southern Denmark Region.

>“However, the proportion of mink-related cases of covid-19 is probably underestimated in the region, as there have been examples of infection with new virus types that are not closely related to the mink variant. We do not yet know the extent of these types, because we are currently working to include these in our analyzes, ”says Tyra Grove Krause.
https://archive.vn/LP23p

No one will be forced to receive a coronavirus jab, but people who refuse to get vaccinated could be deprived of certain freedoms, Ontario’s Health Minister Christine Elliott has cautioned.
>The senior health official acknowledged that inoculation would be voluntary, but encouraged “everyone who is able to, to have the vaccination,” noting that there could be consequences for those who forgo the procedure.
>There may be some restrictions in terms of travel or other restrictions that may arise as a result of not having a vaccination, but that’s going to be up to the person themselves to make that decision on the basis of what’s most important to them.
>The remarks were made on Monday in response to a question from a journalist about whether schools, businesses, and other institutions could ask people for proof of vaccination.
https://archive.vn/th0hj

Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built SARS-2 dashboard
>"FDLE began an investigation November 10, 2020 after receiving a complaint from the Department of Health regarding unauthorized access to a Department of Health messaging system which is part of an emergency alert system, to be used for emergencies only,"

>Jones was fired for insubordination in May after being reprimanded several times, state officials said. Her paperwork doesn't state a cause for her being fired. But she claims she was fired for refusing to manipulate health data to cast Florida in a more favorable light.
https://archive.vn/HOzTY

WHO Envoy: Life Won't Return To Normal For At Least 2 Years
https://archive.vn/XBJrm

‘china does not honor its agreements,’ U.S. admiral says after meeting no-show
>The U.S. military on Wednesday slammed China for failing to appear at virtual, senior-level meetings slated for this week, with the top U.S. admiral for the Asia-Pacific saying it was “another example that China does not honor its agreements.”
https://archive.vn/8nKNU

Study uncovers two phases of infection in patients with severe SARS-2 pneumonia
>The early phase is defined by high levels of virus in the lungs that trigger patients' cells to express genes involved with the interferon pathway, a critical part of the immune response. In the later phase, virus is no longer present, but the damage to the lungs is too severe for recovery.

>"The interferon response to SARS-CoV-2 indicates that people's immune systems are able to attack SARS-CoV-2, but the response is variable between patients and even in different parts of the lung of the same patient, making a 'one drug fits all' therapy approach difficult," says Ting. Also, treatments that target viral replication, such as remdesivir, may only be effective in the early phase of infection.

>The team also found that there is surprisingly very little viral replication in the lungs, which suggests that the virus is mostly replicating in the nasal passages and then dropping into the lungs, where it can cause pneumonia and other complications.
https://archive.vn/Tlf2o

Oxygen supply issues forced five Los Angeles-area hospitals to declare an 'internal disaster'
https://archive.vn/mYSme

>Mink infected with the coronavirus escapes Oregon fur farm
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/29/coronavirus-mink-oregon/

Non-judicious use of therapies for SARS-2 leads to virus mutations: ICMR chief [don't worry, any pressure will lead to it]
https://archive.vn/PBEwo

Mouthwash Recalled Over Concerns It's 'Particularly Unsafe' for SARS-2 Patients
https://archive.vn/7E2HM

U.S.-China Relations Haven’t Been This Toxic Since Vietnam
https://archive.vn/0BTfZ

Changes in how screening of mink farms for SARS-2 should happen in this furring season
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/regelingen/2020/11/27/regeling-tot-wijziging-van-de-regeling-maatregelen-sars-cov-2-bij-nertsen-in-verband-met-wijziging-van-de-onderzoeksmaatregelen

Pompeo Urges U.S. Campuses to Track China-Related Activities
>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said American academic institutions should do more to combat Chinese government influence and activities.

>In a speech Wednesday at Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Pompeo said schools should make a “rigorous evaluation” of prospective students from China, work to prevent foreign intellectual-property theft, disclose foreign funding and monitor student activities on campus.

>“We have a responsibility to police this,” Mr. Pompeo said. “Some of that is the responsibility of the United States government to undertake, and we have to do a better job of doing that, but we need institutions, too, that are transparent, that are clear, that are following the requirements of the U.S. Department of Education.”
https://archive.vn/fBQkX

SARS-CoV-2: 'Combine AstraZeneca And Sputnik V To Boost Efficacy', Say Russian Developers
>On November 26, the Russian Gamaleya research institute suggested that the pharmaceutical firm of UK AstraZeneca should mix a dose of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine to enhance the experimental candidate’s efficacy.

>While Russia announced that its Sputnik V vaccine is 92 percent effective against the novel coronavirus on the basis of the interim trial results, University of Oxford’s and AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate, now fourth to announce preliminary results, showed only 70% efficacy.
https://archive.vn/svGjE

Decomposing mink in Denmark 'may have contaminated groundwater'
https://archive.vn/hGnnb

Leaked files expose mass infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party including AstraZeneca, Rolls Royce, HSBC and Jaguar Land Rover (lmaoooo)
>As well as the names of members, the database has places, dates of birth, Chinese ethnicity and in some cases addresses and telephone numbers.
https://archive.vn/8cGql

china's crackdown on its tiny congregation of jews (lmaooooo)
>~100 practising in a community of ~1,000
https://archive.vn/pESNp

Shanghai Chinese Communist Party Member list (lmaooo)
https://github.com/ccpdata/ShanghaiCCPMember

china warns of interference over Bloomberg journalist arrest
>China has said the arrest of a journalist working for the newswire Bloomberg is an "internal affair", warning others not to interfere.

>Chinese citizen Haze Fan was detained last week, accused of endangering national security by authorities.
>It is the latest in a string of arrests or expulsions of journalists in China.

>The European Union (EU) responded by urging China to release all journalists held in connection with their reporting.
>In a statement released on Saturday, the EU said it expected Chinese authorities to grant Ms Fan "medical assistance if needed, prompt access to a lawyer of her choice, and contacts with her family".
https://archive.vn/Kaqta

SARS-CoV-2: WHO accused of conspiring with Italy to suppress damning report
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liberation.fr%2Famphtml%2Fplanete%2F2020%2F12%2F12%2Fcovid-19-l-oms-accusee-d-avoir-conspire-avec-l-italie-pour-supprimer-un-rapport-accablant_1808494

Vids on chinks living in a totally virus-free country, totally no lockdowns or tests needed
https://twitter.com/BPDFUdgHOJfbZhE/status/1338004490356543489
https://twitter.com/MgOqkzLBRPLCHyN/status/1327442159167934464
https://twitter.com/MgOqkzLBRPLCHyN/status/1330530761120821255
https://twitter.com/MgOqkzLBRPLCHyN/status/1330530106373238788
https://twitter.com/MgOqkzLBRPLCHyN/status/1330527766152929280
https://twitter.com/L0gg0l/status/1337438871538241538

Mexico City residents defy coronavirus warnings amid Christmas shopping spree
>Tired of months of confinement, Christmas shoppers have been crowding stores in Mexico City this week despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases that has strained hospitals in the capital.
>Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pleaded with Mexico City residents to avoid being out in the streets as much as possible during the normally festive holiday season.

>“There have been more hospitalizations, more spread of the virus, and together we can control this situation,” he said.
>Despite the warnings, people have flooded the city’s shopping districts, buying Christmas gifts from street vendors or waiting in long lines to enter stores.

>“People are very stubborn, they don’t follow orders and they don’t know how to take care of themselves,” lamented Patricia Cárdenas, a vendor of artisanal handicrafts.
https://archive.vn/2eAhK

Video shows mishap during SARS-2 vaccination of El Paso nurses
>You see the nurse is being prepped for the vaccine, but the syringe appears to be empty and the plunger has already been depressed.

>Once the needle appears to go into his arm, the person giving the vaccine does not appear to push the plunger down.
>It’s unclear if the nurse was vaccinated or why the syringe appears to have already been depressed.

>The issue appears to only have applied to the second nurse.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/coronavirus/video-shows-mishap-during-covid-19-vaccination-of-el-paso-nurses

"Su Jia Ye, Jinzhou District, Dalian City, closed for management December 18, 2020"
https://twitter.com/tw_tomy_/status/1339851272975863808

>WHO says china welcomes SARS-2 investigators, but unclear if they will go to Wuhan (reminder - last time, to "open" their "investigation", they did not even enter Wuhan)
https://archive.is/RVnA3

The WHO went to china to open its coronavirus origin investigation – and didn’t even visit Wuhan once
>An international team is expected to visit China, including Wuhan, later this year, WHO sources told The Telegraph. It’s unclear how long it’ll take to actually get the investigation underway
>The paper learned that the two officials who traveled from Geneva to Beijing spent the better part of two weeks quarantined in a hotel outside Beijing, where they conducted multiple calls every day with Chinese counterparts. That’s the kind of call you could make from anywhere else in the world, given that many people still work from home because of the pandemic. The WHO officials also had video conversations with senior scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
>The WHO researchers also spent time in meetings in Beijing with their counterparts, though it’s unclear what they accomplished. It’s unlikely that a team of two people would have gotten to the bottom of the novel coronavirus’s origin, even assuming full cooperation from China
>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters, per The New Zealand Herald. “...it wasn’t to start the study, but rather to develop the terms of reference and to prepare the conditions so that the international group can have … the things it needs to start the study.” It’s unclear how well they could have prepared without setting foot in Wuhan
>WHO officials did little to explain what was actually discussed and decided during the visit. There's no idea when the actual investigation will start, and the continued evolution of the pandemic could further hinder plans to look for Patient Zero
>A senior US official told the paper. “Any chance of finding a smoking gun is now gone.”
https://archive.is/U2G1Y

"WHO Director Tedros Adhanom is sued before the International Tribunal in The Hague"
https://trikooba.com/2020/12/15/denuncian-ante-el-tribunal-internacional-de-la-haya-al-director-de-la-oms-tedros-adhanom/

[December 21, 2020] Dalian city is in 'wartime mode' and the CCP is locking people in their homes with no way to leave, even for food. There are bars on the windows, so people can't escape if there is a fire. Buildings in lower-class parts of town are more likely to be locked.
https://twitter.com/TruthAbtChina/status/1341195010079862784

Roche receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for new test to measure the level of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
>Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S test specifically detects antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
>The spike protein is the target of many COVID-19 vaccines in development
>This test may help identify recovering patients who could potentially be serum and plasma donors for developing treatments for COVID-19
https://archive.vn/AJqzY

Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab by the end of 2019, months before RCMP asked to investigate
>[!!!] CBC News has not been provided with some of the paperwork involved with the transfer, as information was redacted under sections of the Access to Information Act dealing with international affairs, national security and other issues. [!!!]

>"We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military."

>In Canada, gain of function experiments to create more dangerous pathogens in humans are not prohibited, but are not done because they're considered too dangerous

>"The Wuhan lab does them and we have now supplied them with Ebola and Nipah viruses. It does not take a genius to understand that this is an unwise decision," he said. "I am extremely unhappy to see that the Canadian government shared that genetic material."

>Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before RCMP asked to investigate. The ATIP documents identify for the first time exactly what was shipped to China. The list includes two vials each of 15 strains of virus:
>Ebola Makona (three different varieties)
>Mayinga.
>Kikwit.
>Ivory Coast.
>Bundibugyo.
>Sudan Boniface.
>Sudan Gulu.
>MA-Ebov.
>GP-Ebov.
>GP-Sudan.
>Hendra.
>Nipah Malaysia.
>Nipah Bangladesh.
https://archive.vn/pUQ1n

[June 29, 2020] RSF has registered violations of the media’s right to cover the coronavirus crisis in no fewer than 90 of the 193 UN member countries since the start of the pandemic
https://archive.vn/Pv9yu

Founder of vaccine safety website, ex-pharma insider found dead on December 8
>'If something were to happen to me,' Brandy Vaughan wrote in late 2019, 'it’s foul play and you know exactly who and why.'
https://archive.is/k4M3C

Founder of vaccine safety website, ex-pharma insider found dead
[Weird occurences long before her death, weirdest one being this:]
>She was later informed by her alarm company that someone had set off her alarm at 3:45 in the morning and immediately disarmed it with the master code, which Vaughan said no one had but her. Whoever entered proceeded to walk down her hallway, setting off the monitor sensor, and opened and shut her dining room window before leaving the house at 3:49 a.m.

>“After the incident I talked to some security experts who have actually done intimidation for corporations, and they said, they were probably tapping your place.”
[...]
https://archive.vn/c9FSt

Another crematorium is incapable of handling more than 100 bodies a month.
https://archive.is/m47NL

Coronavirus, a case of the English variant in Loreto with no contacts with Great Britain
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/12/23/news/coronavirus_un_caso_della_variante_inglese_a_loreto_senza_contatti_con_la_gran_bretagna-279583655/

Updates on Dalian, shit is bad in china
https://twitter.com/RebeccaRambar/status/1339849632319500288

Cardinals positive to the SARS-CoV-2, even Pope Francis has undergone the swab
https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Papa-Francesco-tampone-covid-cardinali-positivi-vaticano-2c730a05-aafc-468f-9f64-ae298a0e4625.html

China reportedly demanded that big Chinese tech companies like Alibaba and Tencent process stolen US data for the nation's top spies
>China has demanded that the nation's tech companies process stolen data for Chinese intelligence agencies upon request, according to a Wednesday report from Foreign Policy.
>The outlet spoke to 36 US officials who said the arrangement represents the "commercial wing" of the Communist Party. Authorities are able to view data stolen in breaches like the 2015 attack on the US Office of Personnel Management, as well as the attacks on Marriot, Equifax, and Anthem.
>One source told the outlet that it would be like if the CIA stole data for insight into the Chinese government and gave it to "Google or Amazon or Microsoft" to process before handing it off to US officials.
>The stolen data processing gives China an edge against competitors on the world stage and could potentially aid the eastern nation in targeting foreign governments, as well as getting ahead in industries like defense contracting and hotel operations.
>The companies that are reportedly required to process data for Chinese spy services include e-commerce giant Alibaba and gaming powerhouse Tencent.
https://archive.vn/UMx6Q
https://archive.vn/JeeUj

Did Fauci’s NIH Institute Financially Assist China’s Military?
>U.S. patent number 8933106 entitled “2-(4-substituted phenylamino) polysubstituted pyridine compounds as inhibitors of non-nucleoside HIV reverse transcriptase, preparation methods and uses thereof” is assigned to the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences of China’s People’s Liberation Army.
>One of the inventors of that patent, Shibo Jiang, is a graduate of the First and Fourth Medical University of the People’s Liberation Army, Xi’an, China.
>Since 2004, Shibo Jiang has had scientific collaboration with Yusen Zhou, who was a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing.
>It is unclear whether Yusen Zhou also received his education at one of China’s military medical universities, but his early scientific work was associated with the Department of Infectious Disease, 81st Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army, Nanjing Military Command and the Fourth Medical University of People’s Liberation Army, Xi’an, Shibo Jiang’s alma mater.
>Shibo Jiang and Yusen Zhou are listed as co-inventors on at least eight U.S. patents, the references supporting those patents, for example, 9889194, was research funded by NIAID.
https://archive.vn/2r6x8

(((fauci))) and other health officials switch herd immunity goalpost from initial 60% to 90%
https://archive.is/Vr3ax

"Boston Doctor Reports Serious Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna’s Covid Vaccine"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine-allergies.html

SARS-CoV-2. Dongning, Chinese city of 200,000 inhabitants, in confinement after a positive case
https://archive.vn/SjoGQ

Snow leopard at Louisville Zoo tests positive for SARS-CoV-2
https://archive.vn/8f2VB

FDA Authorizes SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine For Emergency Use In U.S.
>Federal officials have authorized emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech in a landmark decision that promises to alter the fight against the coronavirus radically in the United States.

>The Food and Drug Administration released its letter to Pfizer granting the authorization Friday evening.

"It is nothing short of a medical miracle to have FDA authorization of a vaccine for COVID-19 just over 11 months since the virus was made known to the world," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a statement. "Vaccines will help bring this pandemic to an end, which is all the more reason to double down on the public health measures we need to stay safe in the coming months."

>The FDA's decision, which comes just one day after an advisory panel overwhelmingly offered its endorsement, makes the vaccine the first to obtain a green light for widespread distribution in the United States.
Several other countries have previously granted such an authorization to the Pfizer vaccine — including the U.K., where a sweeping immunization program kicked off earlier this week.
https://archive.vn/YDSQ7

Over 100 Infected Danish Mink Have Escaped And Could Spread SARS-CoV-2 to Wildlife
>"Every year, a few thousand mink escape," and this year, an estimated 5 percent of these escaped animals may have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, Sten Mortensen, veterinary research manager at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, told The Guardian.
>Susceptible animals, such as free-roaming cats and members of the weasel family, would be most likely to catch the virus by eating infected mink or coming into contact with their feces, he said.
https://archive.vn/9q5KK

[12-12-2020]

SADS-chan joins the battlefield!
https://www.firstpost.com/health/sads-cov-swine-acute-diarrhea-syndrome-coronavirus-could-spread-from-pigs-to-humans-claims-study-8912941.html

Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson: Side Effects of Top Coronavirus Vaccines in Pipeline
>Moderna
A 44-year-old volunteer in Moderna's phase 3 trial, Luke Hutchison said that he developed a mild fever after taking the first shot of the mRNA-1273 vaccine. In a Tweet, he also explained that 12 hours after the second shot he noticed "full-on COVID-like symptoms".
As reported, there were other participants who also experienced similar side-effects after taking the potential Coronavirus vaccine.
>Pfizer
As per a report, some of the volunteers in Pfizer's late-stage trials had developed mild side effects after getting the first shot of the vaccine, while some reported side-effects after taking the second jab. A few participants from the younger group of volunteers reported redness and swelling at the site where they received the injection.
>AstraZeneca
During the phase 3 trial, at least two participants experienced transverse myelitis, which is an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord.
The company then paused the testing, all around the world last month. Later, on September 11, AstraZeneca published a report in which the company noted that there was not enough evidence "to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine." However, the company resumed phase 3 trials in the UK, South Africa, Brazil, and India, but not in the US.
>Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson paused its phase 3 trial. As per the reports, the trial was stopped after a volunteer experienced unexplained illness after taking the injection. It cannot disclose the details due to a privacy agreement with the participant. At this point, it is unclear whether the volunteer was in the actual vaccine group or in the placebo group.
https://archive.vn/ZaDka

U.S. pauses Eli Lilly trial of antibody drug Trump touted as SARS-2 'cure' over safety concern
https://archive.vn/Od082

china Acceleration May Not Rescue World From Coronavirus Slowdown
>China reported that its economy grew by 4.9% in the three months ended Sept. 30 from a year earlier, accelerating from the second quarter’s 3.2%. Accompanied by separate data on Monday showing better-than-expected growth in retail sales, hiring and industrial production, that bolsters China’s case for being the only major world economy likely to expand this year.

>The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to contract by 4.4%, with the U.S. and eurozone shrinking by 4.3% and 8.3% respectively.
>As China’s domestic economy rebounds and demand picks up, our demand for imports is also growing. The current rebound in China’s economy is not only conducive to China’s own growth but also plays a positive role in promoting a global economic recovery.

>For the rest of the year, China has the foundation, the conditions and the confidence to maintain current growth momentum.
>For European exporters, China has been one of the strongest overseas markets this year. Sales in the first eight months of 2020 were down 1.1% in euro terms from a year earlier, but that is far better than the declines of 10.7% in exports to the U.S. and 12.7% in exports to Japan.

>But some economists warn that expecting China to continue spending, producing and exporting at these levels is wishful thinking—especially as the government clamps down on debt and global uncertainties pile up.
https://archive.vn/QoYPr

>The Food and Drug Administration released its letter to Pfizer granting the authorization Friday evening.

Decomposing mink in Denmark 'may have contaminated groundwater'
https://archive.vn/hGnnb

Moderna chief medical officer: Vaccinated adults could still infect the unvaccinated
https://archive.vn/tQFFk

Pompeo Urges U.S. Campuses to Track China-Related Activities
>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said American academic institutions should do more to combat Chinese government influence and activities.

WHO Envoy: Life Won't Return To Normal For At Least 2 Years
https://archive.vn/XBJrm

>Canadian-made SARS-CoV-2 air detector set to ship worldwide
>BioCloud is a real-time analyzer designed to detect airborne viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, by continuously sampling air quality and triggering a silent, cloud-based alert to facility managers

>Executives from General Motors, Caterpillar, Visa and other U.S. companies joined the call, according to the foreign ministry.
https://archive.vn/fF42Q

China building villages near disputed India border, report says
https://archive.vn/cx50L

US ends China-funded exchange programs, calls them 'propaganda tools'
https://archive.vn/LJMab

>He said he had shifted resources within the $85 billion annual federal budget allocated to intelligence to increase the focus on China.

>Ratcliffe said China’s economic espionage approach was threefold: “Rob, Replicate and Replace.”

>He said the strategy was for Chinese entities to steal American companies’ intellectual property, copy it and then supplant U.S. companies in the global market place.
https://archive.vn/n43rG

UK: Coronavirus vaccine won't free you from self-isolation, says Government
https://archive.is/pxC2o

Philadelphia Priest Dies After Participating In Moderna COVID Vaccine Trial
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/philadelphia-priest-dies-after-participating-moderna-covid-vaccine-trial

[24-11-2020]

Validity of key studies on origin of coronavirus in doubt; science journals investigating
>The four papers in question are Liu et al., Xiao et al. , Lam et al. and Zhang et al. The two that are currently being investigated by the journal editors are Liu et al and Xiao et al. In communications with the authors and journal editors of those two papers, USRTK has learned of serious problems with the publication of those studies, including the following:

>Liu et al. did not publish or share (upon being asked) raw and/or missing data that would allow experts to independently verify their genomic analyses.

>Editors at both Nature and PLoS Pathogens, as well as Professor Stanley Perlman, the editor of Liu et al., have acknowledged in email communications that they are aware of serious issues with these papers and that the journals are investigating them. Yet, they have made no public disclosure of the potential problems with the papers.

>The silence of the journals regarding their ongoing investigations means that wider communities of scientists, policymakers and the public impacted by COVID-19 are unaware of the problems associated with the research papers, said Dr. Suryanarayanan.
https://usrtk.org/biohazards/coronavirus-origin-in-doubt/

New corona variant discovered in Trondheim
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/ny-koronavariant-oppdaget-i-trondheim-1.15206064

World-first mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 detected on Sofrana Surville ship off Queensland coast
https://archive.vn/gM1FL

China to provide SARS-2 vaccines to Africa to support virus control
https://archive.vn/hOKpV

Scientists claim to have successfully reversed the biological aging process in a group of elderly adults
>researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Shamir Medical Center used a form of oxygen therapy to reverse two key indicators of biological aging: Telomere length and senescent cells accumulation

>At the end of the trial, the scientists reported that the participants’ telomeres had increased in length by an average of 20 per cent, while their senescent cells had been reduced by up to 37 per cent.

>This is the equivalent to how their bodies were at a cellular level 25 years earlier, the researchers reported.
https://archive.vn/6gJhB

Russia says coronavirus mutations appearing in Siberia as deaths hit record daily high
>“We see certain changes...in Siberia which allow us to assume that in this region it is forming its own version with specific mutations,” Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, was quoted as saying by news agencies.

>Popova did not give details on how contagious or deadly the mutation was considered to be but said it would not make the virus more dangerous.
https://archive.vn/psDXy

SARS-2 pandemic “golden opportunity” for terror groups to fuel schemes: Study
>Lead author Professor of Psychology Arie Kruglanski from the University of Maryland explained: "Despite the overriding media attention to the Covid-19 pandemic and its near-total eclipse of security issues, the terrorism milieu has hardly taken a pause from its deadly pursuits or suspended the execution of its plans."

>The researchers noted that "far from uniting humanity against a common threat," this pandemic has enabled - or at least not stopped - a vast range of terror incidents.

>These include: ISIS attacks in seven countries in March alone; the Islamic State Khorasan Province carrying out a "devastating" attack in a funeral parlor in Afghanistan (24 killed, 68 wounded); Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabab organization reporting 37 attacks in Somalia and Kenya (52 dead, 35 wounded); and in Mali, al Qaeda-linked Jama'at Nasr al-Islam kidnapping a high-profile opposition leader.

>Also, there have been concerted cyberattacks, especially targeting hospitals.
>Professor Kruglanski said in a statement, “Terror organizations have used the pandemic as a golden opportunity to tie their messaging to information about the disease and intensify their propaganda for purposes of recruitment and incitement to violence."

>He believes that the terror groups are exploiting gaps in security, and the general burdens on societies that the pandemic imposes and are pushing forward their ideologies as a cure for fear, frustration, and panic.

>The researchers further added that the groups are encouraging violence-justifying narratives. These included: conspiracy theories, claims of God's vengeance against its enemies, exhortation to weaponise the virus, and taking advantage of society's weakness by "launching widespread attacks wherever and whenever possible."
https://archive.vn/cECzl

A quirk in human psychology that helps spread SARS-2
>Feeling the threat of contagion may not be as palpable when we're with the people we know and like. That's not just because we prefer to spend time with them than strangers, but also because we are wired to assume our friends are less threatening.

>As social creatures, when we identify with people and see them as being part of our community — "one of us" — we have a sense that they are trustworthy and will act in our best interests.

>That means we are less likely to perceive them as contagious, and we will be more tolerant of any symptoms they may have. As a result, we're more likely to take risks around them — sit close together, share food, or hug them.

>But just because we think like that doesn't necessarily mean the people closest to us are less risky when it comes to disease transmission, contagious diseases don't respect those group boundaries.

>Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's federal disease control body, says the new outbreaks don't appear to be occurring in public spaces, such as at workplaces or on public transport. Instead, the main source of infection, he says, are private gatherings.

>"It's mostly coming together in private — at parties and [church] services and weddings," Wieler told DW. "We shouldn't have too many of these events," he said.

>Not only do parties and weddings attract larger crowds, but crowds of people who have a shared social identity — who know each other and want to spend time together.

>Research suggests that it is in these more intimate settings, or so-called "psychological crowds," that our perception of potential health risks is lowered — meaning we tend to accept riskier behavior from others and engage in it ourselves.
https://archive.vn/GJyCJ

China-US rivalry is main challenge to Asian giant’s development
>The compendium provides the detailed thinking of how Beijing sees China's increasing confrontation with the US and its impact on the Chinese economy, as well as the country's rejuvenation.

>Party elites will close their annual plenary meeting in Beijing on Thursday and are expected to approve the outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the country's long-term development goals, through 2035. Both documents are expected to be released soon.

>The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to affect the global economy for "a considerable time", exacerbating the already rising protectionism and shortening of global production chains, potentially weakening China's status as the world's factory, the NDRC assessment said.

>Despite Washington rolling out its full-scale strategic competition with Beijing, which analysts expect to continue irrespective of the outcome of the presidential election next week, the NDRC assessment presents a cautiously upbeat picture of China's rise. It suggests leaders are convinced that the trend of the post-pandemic ascent of East Asia and the relative decline of the West are clear, globalisation will not fundamentally reverse, and China could still be able to enjoy a largely peaceful international environment for its development.

>New game-changing technologies and the vast potential of China's market have also added to Beijing's confidence in spite of the turbulent times, it says.

>That confidence was underlined in remarks by Liu He, Chinese President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, who said Chinese businesses and technological communities had geared up to improve their innovation capacity and were working on core technologies their foreign rivals have a stranglehold on.
https://archive.vn/oeZjb

>The U.S. economy grew at a historic pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than $3 trillion worth of pandemic relief which fueled consumer spending, but the deep scars from the SARS-2 recession could take a year or more to heal
https://archive.vn/76FSs

China shows off rapid lockdown system after latest outbreak
>Days after a 17-year-old girl tested positive for COVID-19 in a remote part of western China last week, health authorities said they had tested over 4.7 million people in the region.

>China’s strict formula of immediate lockdowns and mass testing even at the first signs of infection has been vital to its success in controlling the disease, allowing its economy to quickly recover from the crisis, officials say.

>The highly orchestrated strategy - described as “overkill” even by its own proponents - is unique among major economies at a time when Europe and the United States are facing a massive surge of new cases and often chaotic policies.

>At the time the girl was diagnosed, the Kashgar region of Xinjiang had reported no new cases for almost 70 days.

>“China has taken the most comprehensive, strictest and most thorough control and prevention measures since the COVID-19 pandemic started,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday.

>“The facts show China’s measures are effective.”

>Key to the programme are factors unique to China, including the Communist Party’s tight grip on all aspects of society.

>Authorities have unimpeded access to personal information as part of an expansive surveillance network, which has played a major role in tracing infections.

>The government has also quickly enlisted the help of businesses, which are churning out tens of millions of test kits, and tightly controls their pricing and distribution, issues which have severely set back efforts to contain the disease in other countries.
https://archive.vn/OqV0L

Almost 30% of British Jews say they lost money amid SARS-2
https://archive.vn/8LKaP

(((Gilead))) sold $873 million worth of its antiviral SARS-2 treatment even though data on its success remains mixed
https://archive.vn/HfLlg

This AI-based app will detect if you are asymptomatic
>Scientists have found a way to distinguish between an asymptomatic coronavirus person and a healthy individual. A team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has developed an Artificial intelligence (AI) model that will record coughing and show results on smartphones.

>According to scientists people who are asymptomatic, cough in a different way than healthy individuals.

>A user could log in daily and cough into their phone. The user will instantly receive information on whether they are infected from COVID-19 or not and then confirm it with a formal test. Scientists are working on incorporating the model into a user-friendly app, which if approved and adopted, could identify people who are likely to be asymptomatic for COVID-19.

>Researchers collected more than 70,000 recordings, each containing several coughs, amounting to some 200,000 forced-cough audio samples. The team used 2,500 COVID-associated recordings, along with 2,500 more recordings that they randomly selected from the collection to balance the dataset.

>They used 4,000 of these samples to train the AI model. The remaining 1,000 recordings were then fed into the model to see if it could accurately discern coughs from COVID patients versus healthy individuals.

>The researchers were able to pick up patterns in the four biomarkers -- vocal cord strength, sentiment, lung and respiratory performance, and muscular degradation -- that are specific to COVID-19.
https://archive.vn/NvJpq

HOT TODDY DIED
https://archive.vn/lCYTB

China's Media Turns on the Charm Towards Joe Biden As Donald Trump's Election Prospects Diminish
>China's tightly-controlled state media has given the clearest indication yet that Beijing favors Joe Biden as the next American leader after a high-ranking newspaper editor tweeted a joke about the former vice president on Thursday.

>Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the hawkish Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times, shared a screenshot of a Twitter user's observation that the Democratic presidential candidate could "normalize" relations between the world's top two economies.
https://archive.vn/8t9lm

>China has barred non-Chinese travellers from Britain, France, Belgium, the Philippines and India, imposing some of the most stringent entry curbs of any country as coronavirus cases surge around the world.
>China also plans to impose dual-test requirements on travellers from Australia, Singapore and Japan from Nov. 8.
>On Tuesday, China Southern Airlines, the country’s biggest carrier by passenger load, said it would suspend transit services for passengers embarking from 21 countries, mostly African and Asian countries and including India and the Philippines.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-travel/in-covid-19-clampdown-china-bars-travellers-from-britain-france-india-idUSKBN27L0FQ?il=0

Two Taylor County mink farms under quarantine after more than 5,000 animals died from COVID-19
Strain was identified in EARLY OCTOBER
https://archive.vn/aLFBl

214 people in Denmark infected with mink-related SARS-CoV-2 since June, with mutated strain found in 12 people and on five farms that is sufficiently different to raise concerns about what it might mean for future vaccines
>new danish corona mutation jeopardizes global vaccine efforts
>Health authorities have also concluded that the mutated virus "is not inhibited by antibodies to the same degree as the normal virus".
>The new infection was found among 207 mink farms in the country, and the authorities said the minks on 67 of them had already been killed.
>Danish press reports cited police estimating that around 15-17 million minks must be killed.
>Prime minister says all Denmark’s mink must be killed for sake of vaccine development
>Denmark’s armed forces, the Danish Emergency Management Agency, and its Home Guard, have been deployed to kill the country’s minks.
>The Danish government said the virus had been transmitted from minks to humans, with 12 people so far diagnosed with the mutated virus.
https://archive.vn/S1jev
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-denmark-cull-millions-minks-mutated.html
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/mutated-variety-of-coronavirus-found-in-danish-mink/2032390
https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-11-04-muteret-mink-virus-i-danmark-kan-true-vaccine-i-hele-verden
https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Daenemark-laesst-alle-Nerze-notschlachten-article22147665.html

>WHO downplays coronavirus mink mutation risk after Denmark orders massive cull
https://archive.vn/y51GN

[10-11-2020]

New corona variant discovered in Trondheim
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/ny-koronavariant-oppdaget-i-trondheim-1.15206064

World-first mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 detected on Sofrana Surville ship off Queensland coast
https://archive.vn/gM1FL

Pfizer SARS-2 Vaccine "More Than 90% Effective"
https://archive.vn/qToTE

Ben Carson Latest Top Trump Official To Test Positive For SARS-2
https://archive.vn/TuaZ9

S&P Futures, Global Stocks Soar To All Time High, Russell Limit Up On Covid Vaccine News
https://archive.vn/h4QoO

Super-Spreaders? Biden Campaign Urges People To Wear Masks, Social Distance Amid Packed Celebrations
https://archive.vn/huqTF

US SARS-2 Cases Top 10MN, Nebraska Issues Mandatory Mask Order; Italy Tightens Restrictions: Live Updates
https://archive.vn/7lvdw

President-elect Joe Biden is planning to move quickly to rebuild ties with longstanding U.S. allies and use those ties to coordinate international efforts to deal with Covid-19 and its economic and humanitarian consequences.
>Early steps will include rejoining and trying to reform the WHO while using international venues such as the Group of Seven nations and Group of 20 major economies to focus on the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences, including a potential debt crisis in emerging markets and food insecurity in impoverished nations
>Mr. Biden’s plan to make the coronavirus crisis a top diplomatic priority—one that could also involve efforts to work though international financial institutions like the World Bank—would complement his domestic political agenda to overcome the pandemic and pull the U.S. economy out of its recession.
>“There is a strong case for seeing Covid-19 through the lens of national security and making it a priority”
>“If we don’t get on top of Covid[-19], we won’t have the bandwidth socially, politically or economically to tackle traditional foreign-policy challenges.”
https://archive.is/YznxF

Study comparing age matched COVID-19 +ve & -ve men (N=181, median age 38) found +ve men had ~half the ratio of testosterone:LH (p<0.0001), an indicator of early stage hypogonadism.
>"Testes may run high risk of damage and dysregulation under COVID-19."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.21.20037267v1

Two Taylor County mink farms under quarantine after more than 5,000 animals died from COVID-19
Strain was identified in EARLY OCTOBER
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/11/06/two-taylor-county-mink-farms-under-quarantine-after-over-5-000-animals-died-from-covid-19/6174241002/

>WHO downplays coronavirus mink mutation risk after Denmark orders massive cull
https://archive.vn/y51GN

The mink mutation Y453F (encoded by A22920T) increases affinity of the RBD for human ACE2 (mutation seems to have arisen multiple times in mink in NL since April, & is not commonly found in humans)
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1324139464818479105
https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/

>Baum et al Science paper reports Y453F being an escape mutation from REGN10933, which is one of the two antibodies in the Regeneron cocktail
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1324409358944407554
https://archive.is/dx4EK

>Y453F mutation may help the virus infect mink. Mink have a slightly different ACE2 than humans; this mutation may help binding easier. It may not impact infection in humans
https://twitter.com/jpglmrodrigues/status/1324514230389805057

Denmark's measures to prevent and reduce the spread of SARS-2 between humans and mink
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ssi.dk%2F-%2Fmedia%2Farkiv%2Fdk%2Faktuelt%2Fsygdomsudbrud%2Fcovid19%2Fbesvarelse-virkemidler-til-at-forebygge-smitte-mink-menneske.pdf%3Fla%3Dda
https://archive.vn/3vt1s
>page 8, the document describes 2 variants, defined by mutations A22920T & a 2 amino-acid deletion from 21766-21771. Both are changes in the Spike protein.
>N439K has been reported to confer partial resistance to some antibodies
SSI may have found similar outcomes in their research, if the variant they characterise by the deletions carries N439K, as almost all those we see do
>Very important to highlight here that N439K conferring some level of resistance to an antibody is *not* necessarily the same as influencing the efficacy of a vaccine. The two should *not* be conflated
>It could also be that the deletion itself may have an effect

The circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike variant N439K maintains fitness while evading antibody-mediated immunity
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.04.355842v1
[bonus]
https://elifesciences.org/articles/61312
http://www.freezepage.com/1604682097HYDDSRVOLW

18-10-2020

4Swiss Guards infected, Vatican Panicked
https://archive.vn/vbtxb

Sverige's latest /HERD/ strategy: Fully-booked ski resort
https://archive.vn/eDm9I

and Stockholm's night club
https://archive.vn/hsC7r

Lancet's latest shilling point: immunity passport
https://archive.vn/EpbmH

Wear the mask : Christ Christy, after temporarily healthy
https://archive.vn/r1I10

Small town of 28K struggled, try to entice customer by experimenting with market on street
https://archive.vn/Csk8W

The importance of random testing, 'murican town hindsight
https://archive.vn/QTl1V

Brother of Liverpool's Mayor died because corona
https://archive.vn/aHVe6

PH lift ban on west pinoy sea ZEE exploration
https://archive.vn/FfPDz

17-10-2020

Far-Right Spreads SARS-2 "Disinformation Epidemic" Online
>COVID-19 is becoming an increasingly important topic among far-right groups and individuals, the ISD researchers found. For example, mentions of "corona-chan" -- a slang term popular with the extreme right -- are increasing significantly across mainstream and fringe social media platforms.

>Between February and March, "corona-chan" was used 13,000 times on 4Chan, an imageboard website that attracts far-right types, according to the report. It jumped 375 percent in interactions with corona-chan related posts on Reddit.

>Meanwhile, Facebook saw a 1,920 percent increase in interactions using the term during March, while "corona-chan" mentions on Instagram climbed 21.5 percent.
https://archive.vn/lBvG7

Austrian Foreign Minister is infected by Coronavirus
https://archive.vn/JTNzh

860K Quids for neuro researchs
https://archive.vn/X0jUO

Berliner restaurateur saga, asking for proof that dining-in spread the virus
https://archive.vn/jBt4

chinks paying premium ($60/£45) for experimental """vaccine""" in yiwu, queue in hundreds
https://archive.vn/xJLTE

US election, corona spreading
https://archive.vn/jVYCt

Feds unveil plan to get SARS2 shots to nursing homes
>Essentially, national pharmacies are being told they can give free vaccines to the elderly as a higher priority recipient, though at the moment no vaccines are currently approved. In addition, there's no telling when that is even a possibility unless governments want to send out rushed, obviously unsafe vaccines.
>There are many unanswered questions about the vaccines now undergoing clinical trials, including how well they will work to prevent infection. It’s also not known whether they will be equally protective for older adults, as pharmaceutical companies generally test their products on younger people.
>Dr. Christian Bergman, medical director of a nursing home in Richmond, Va., said he is pleased the government has a plan for rapid deployment of vaccines, but he needs to see clinical data before any of his patients get shots.
>“I await public release of all data concerning safety and efficacy,” Bergman said. "Without this data, I will not be able to ethically endorse this vaccine and promote it within my nursing home.”
>It's implied an effective vaccine may not be available until next year, which is logical and reasonable-though a pipedream to some lel
https://archive.is/r7hLG

First SARS2 case in Wallis and Futuna
>Until today, Wallis and Futuna was the only French-administered area without the coronavirus.
https://archive.is/DU1GW

NZ to Australia - "No Quarantine" flight
https://archive.vn/a9tEW

07-10-2020

Small Gyms Devastated by Coronavirus Fear, Restrictions
https://archive.vn/EXTsE

mainland china's global reputation plunges in the wake of coronavirus pandemic
>Global perceptions of China have turned increasingly negative in recent months, according to a new survey released by Pew Research on Tuesday, with the majority of countries polled saying that Beijing has done a bad job of handling the coronavirus pandemic.

>Trust in Chinese President Xi Jinping has also plunged over the past 12 months, with more than 77% of people surveyed in the United States saying they had no confidence in Xi to "do the right thing" in global affairs.
>Non-partisan American "fact-tank" Pew Research surveyed 14,276 adults in 14 countries between June and August, primarily by telephone due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Among the countries surveyed were the US, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

>"The major finding is that unfavorable views of China are rising precipitately and this is tied to the fact that China has not done a good job handling the coronavirus," said Laura Silver, senior researcher at Pew and co-author of the report.
>The first cases of the virus were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. China has since faced criticism for its initial handling of the pandemic, with numerous Western politicians blaming the early spread of the virus on the country's inflexible political system. However, China has since managed to contain the outbreak, with life largely returning to normal in recent months.
https://archive.vn/nCkcE

Pentagon Chiefs Enter Quarantine after Coronavirus Exposure
https://archive.vn/qBPq6

Pompeo Rails Against china At 'Quad' Meeting With Foreign Ministers In Tokyo
>In a meeting with foreign ministers from Japan, India and Australia in Tokyo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged on Tuesday that they strengthen their quartet of democracies to resist an increasingly assertive China.

>It was the second ministerial meeting of an informal grouping known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad. Pompeo's Tokyo visit — which took place as Washington still reeled from news of President Trump's coronavirus infection — also marked his first meeting with Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who took over from Shinzo Abe last month. The two men greeted each other with bows and a fist bump.
>If, as it appeared, Pompeo was pushing other members of the Quad to take the U.S. side in a confrontation with China, he did not score any ringing public endorsements, and his remarks clashed with those of his host.

>Pompeo aimed straight at the Chinese Communist Party in remarks before the four nations' top diplomats sat down to talk.
>"As partners in this Quad, it is more critical now than ever that we collaborate to protect our people and partners from the CCP's exploitation, corruption and coercion," he said.

>But Japan's chief government spokesman Katsunobu Kato insisted at a press briefing Tuesday: "This Quad meeting is not being held with any particular country in mind."
>A State Department readout said that Pompeo discussed concerns over China's "malign activity" in the region with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, but Payne made no public mention of such concerns.

>"Even a country like Australia, which has had a pretty rocky time with Beijing over the last few months in particular, is reluctant to even seriously acknowledge what the true purpose of the Quad is," comments Hugh White, an emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra.
>"And that makes you doubtful about whether that true purpose can actually be very significantly achieved," he adds, referring to the U.S. intention to confront China.

>Beijing panned the meeting even before it began.
https://archive.vn/zthf4

05-10-2020

New SARS-CoV-2 test doesn't use scarce reagents, catches all but the least infectious
>a method of testing for the COVID-19 virus that doesn't make use of these chemicals but still delivers an accurate result, paving the way for inexpensive, widely available testing in both developing countries and industrialized nations like the United States, where reagent supplies are again in short supply.
>The method for the test, published Oct. 2 in PLOS Biology, omits the step in the widely used reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test where the scarce reagents are needed.

>"It takes a sample of the medium that held the nasal swab and goes directly to the third, amplification step," Botten said, removing the need for scarce RNA extraction reagents as well as significantly reducing the time, labor and costs required to extract viral RNA from the medium in step 2.
>It correctly identified 92% of the positive samples and 100% of the negatives.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201005021243/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201002153615.htm

pissrael: Rabbi Kanievsky, who has SARS-2, always put Torah study before regulations
>Kanievsky has from the onset placed an emphasis on keeping ultra-Orthodox educational institutions open and allowing communal prayer to continue over combatting the public health crisis.

>On Friday, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 93, the most senior and revered rabbinic leader of the non-hassidic, ultra-Orthodox community, was diagnosed with COVID-19.
>Kanievsky, whose instructions and rulings are closely followed by hundreds of thousands of haredi Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, as well as four members of Knesset, has from the outset placed an emphasis on keeping ultra-Orthodox educational institutions open and allowing communal prayer to continue over combating the public health crisis.

>Indeed, he has frequently repeated the mantra that “the Torah protects and saves” people from ill health, and therefore insisted ever more strongly on the importance of allowing schools and yeshivas to remain open, despite the risks.
http://www.freezepage.com/1601846332AAXYOPSQSI

10-4-2020

Germany: Thousands protest for and against SARS2 measures
>Police fired tear gas once to keep opposing groups away from each other.
>Police, who were deployed to ensure participants adhered to coronavirus rules, clashed with protesters at the church after most failed to wear a face mask, Germany's DPA news agency reported.
https://archive.is/wip/IoXMV

Paris was preparing on Sunday to be placed under maximum coronavirus alert as alarming SARS2 infection numbers appeared to leave the French government little choice but to tighten restrictions in and around the capital.

>Paris's trademark bars and cafes are threatened with complete closure as early as Monday after Health Minister Olivier Veran announced that only improved SARS2 infection rates could prevent such a step.
>If recent trends were confirmed "we'll have no choice", he warned on Thursday, saying new restrictions would mean "no more family gatherings, no more evenings out, and a total closure of bars".
>But a reprieve looks unlikely after France reported a 16,972 new coronavirus cases on Saturday alone, the highest daily number since the country began widespread testing.
https://archive.is/wip/KVuGi

New York
>Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday he wants the state to help shut down nine SARS2 hot-spot neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens starting Wednesday — closing all of their non-essential businesses, public and private schools and restaurant dining.
>Kids in the areas with spiking SARS2 numbers could still go to school for the next 2 days before going all remote Wednesday, de Blasio said — while houses of worship will remain open.
>“We’re having an extraordinary problem — something we haven’t seen since spring,’’ de Blasio told reporters on a conference call, referring to the uptick in SARS2 in those areas.
About a half-million people would be affected by the return to the kind of drastic shut-down that the city hasn’t seen since mid-March.
>“This can only happen with state approval,’’ the mayor said. “We’ll be working to get approval.
>“We understand this is unchartered territory,’’ de Blasio said.
>He said he hopes to keep the lockdown to a “brief duration, a matter of weeks … two to four weeks.’’
>The move was prompted by the fact that the nine zip codes showed virus infection rates at 3 percent or above for at least seven consecutive days, the mayor said.
https://archive.is/wip/J6BSw

The Pasta Situation
>Italy set to toughen SARS2 restrictions
>New rules under consideration include mandatory mask-wearing outdoors and limiting social gatherings.
>But Speranza ruled out the possibility of a new country-wide lockdown: “A generalized lockdown would have a cultural, economic and social cost the country cannot afford,” he said.
>The Italian cabinet will meet on Tuesday to discuss the new possible measures.
>Italy was among the worst hit by the pandemic in Europe in the spring, but began to ease its lockdown in May as infection rates began to improve.
https://archive.is/wip/XfLCE

New York's Cuomo: “It is alive and it is well and it is strong"
>He said state officials would start targeting businesses in areas with growing cases of SARS2 to ensure people are complying with mask wearing, social distancing and other tactics meant to stop transmissions.
>"And it’s no time for Covid fatigue. Because the Covid virus is strong.”

>None of New York’s current hotspots are in the Syracuse area. The hotspots are 20 zip codes areas in and around New York City.
>But, Cuomo said, when warranted he would use state resources to fine and even shut down businesses that ignore orders meant to ensure public safety.
>“Local businesses that are in violation of the law will be fined and can be closed, just like the bars and restaurants”

>He also urged private and public schools in those Downstate areas to ramp up testing. If those schools fail to do more testing, Cuomo said he would shut them down.

>He also cautioned about assuming all outdoor activities are automatically safe. He pointed to the recent gathering in the Rose Garden at the White House.
>“We’ve always said outdoor gatherings are better than indoor gatherings,” he said. “But just because it’s outdoors doesn’t mean it’s fine.”

>It’s unclear exactly how the virus has spread at the White House. Several people who were at the Sept. 26 Rose Garden gathering have tested positive.
>“We wish the president and the First Lady, and his family, well," Cuomo said. “It’s a stark reminder of the reality and the danger,” he said.
https://archive.is/wip/7faRB

Kenzo founder Kenzo Takada dies of SARS2 aged 81
>Takada was the first Japanese designer to make a mark on the Paris fashion scene
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The Israel Defense Force reported that 1,135 servicemembers and civilian employees have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
>Additionally, about 10,867 servicemembers are being isolated at home.
https://archive.is/wip/vZ5wZ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the coronavirus cabinet will only decide on the next stage of the lockdown on Thursday and not at Monday’s cabinet meeting.
>In a video message he said he is “more cautious than the cautious” and he would like to wait at least 10 days from the start of the stricter lockdown to make any decisions.He said on Tuesday, the cabinet will discuss the preliminary data, how to move from stage-to-stage, best practices for protecting the country’s senior citizens, increasing fines and improving enforcement.
>“I ask all of you to act like the four species - for the good of the nation and all the citizens of Israel,” he said.
>The four Sukkot species symbolize unity.
https://archive.is/wip/bz4a6

Plump Trump
>Trump doctors say he had two oxygen dips but is ‘improving’ and may return to White House tomorrow

>An odd quote from Sean Conley during his update on Donald Trump’s health. “I didn’t want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction,” Conley said when explaining his reluctance to say Trump had been on oxygen earlier this week. I assume Conley means coverage of Trump’s illness, rather than the illness itself.

>Dr Brian Garibaldi’s statement that Trump may be OK to return home to the White House may come back to haunt the administration. If Trump isn’t released tomorrow, it will appear his condition has worsened. There is speculation it is Trump himself who is pushing for an early release.
https://archive.is/wip/sTRX0

Florida officials report over 200 new deaths, 86 new hospitalizations related to SARS2
>SARS2 deaths continue to rise in the Sunshine State as more and more restrictions are relaxed.
>State health officials have always maintained that virus fatalities are often delayed in being reported to the DOH, but according to a new Miami Herald Investigation, some deaths are not reported for a month or more.

>The percent of positive results in Florida ranged from 3.74% to 5.86% over the past two weeks, according to the department of health.
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>We're paying a lot of attention to Trump, but the US just recorded the most daily SARS2 infections in 2 months
>54,441 positive cases of SARS2 reported on Friday, highest single-day case count since Aug.14
>Country's daily cases peaked July 16, when 77k positive tests were reported.
https://archive.is/wip/Z5XgE

>Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko has been hospitalized in Kiev with double pneumonia, days after he tested positive for Covid-19

To add:
>France reports record 16,972 new infections in one day
>The rate of positive tests in France rose to 7.9% from 7.7% on Friday.

Ireland
>is seeing a “significant escalation” in SARS2 infections, the acting chief medical officer said on Saturday after reporting the highest daily death toll since May and the third-highest number of daily cases recorded to date.

>Like most of Europe, Ireland has seen a steady increase in infections since the end of July and has tightened restrictions as a result, including banning all indoor restaurant dining and most trips in and out of the capital, Dublin, Reuters reports.

>The 613 new cases on Saturday was the highest daily total since late April, when the country was still in a full lockdown.

Pope Francis on Saturday made his first trip since the Vatican’s SARS2 lockdown, though it was a solitary affair for the crowd-loving Argentine due to pandemic precautions.
>“Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities,” he said in the historic March address, describing the coronavirus “tempest” as having put everyone “in the same boat”.

Thousands of Israelis protested again across the country on Saturday

Reminder:
UK reports staggering 12,872 new infections in one day
>A government website blamed a “technical issue”, which has now been resolved, for “a delay in publishing a number of SARS2 cases. This means the total reported over the coming days will include some additional cases from the period between 24 September and 1 October, increasing the number of cases reported.”

A few minutes later:

>A spokesperson for the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care has told the Guardian that the government currently does not know exactly how many new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours.

Tunisian authorities will ban all gatherings and reduce working hours for employees in the public sector in order to stop the rapid spread of SAR2, prime minister Hichem Mechichi said on Saturday.
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Corona-chan hitting pause on the US government:
>The Senate announced Saturday that it will go into a recess until Oct 19 after 3 Republican lawmakers tested positive
https://archive.is/wip/8u7Qf

>NY's Cuomo sends Trump supportive chicken wings from Dinosaur BBQ in SARS2 care package
Circus Virus World
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CDC identifies (((new))) SARS2 syndrome in adults similar to MIS-C in kids
>Adults can sometimes suffer from dangerous symptoms that resemble a coronavirus-linked syndrome in children, researchers with the CDC said Friday. They're calling it multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults, similar to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

>But MIS-A has killed at the least (((3))) sufferers and, similar to SARS2, disproportionately hits racial and ethnic minorities
>One Black man residing in Florida suffered ringing in his ears, vomiting and chest ache. He was admitted to the hospital, however died regardless of remedy. He was 46.
https://archive.is/wip/OuxTf

SARS2 expert in Texas warns of third massive Fall wave

>"The big issue is where we’re headed this fall. I’m concerned because we’re seeing an uptick in the numbers again"

>"I’m worried that we’re starting to see the third peak. A number of people have predicted a rise this fall. And I’m especially worried about that third peak because, even more than the first two, we’ll be starting it from a much higher place"

>"That’s scary. I’m worried about what will happen in the fall"

>"If it is happening, I can identify several reasons, and there may be others. One is the K-12 surge because we’re opening up schools in areas where there’s transmission. Second is the college-associated surge."

>"Some people will call it COVID burnout."

>"And I worry about voting in places where they’re not allowing mail-in ballots. That could cause a surge."

>"The combination of all those things portends something very ominous this fall."
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Growing number of top Republicans diagnosed with SARS2
>Chris Christie and Ron Johnson join the SARS2 club
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Mixed statements on Plump Trump's (((condition)))
>The president, at the Walter Reed military hospital, is “improving,” Dr. Conley said. But his chief of staff said Mr. Trump’s symptoms were “very concerning.”
https://archive.is/vRs2f
Another Bolsonaro/Boris situation?

No escape from Corona-chan

>Cam Newton tests positive for SARS2, will miss Patriots game vs. Chiefs
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Parts of the U.S. are experiencing spikes in SARS2 cases over the last several weeks, and experts fear it will only get worse as flu season begins.
>“It almost certainly is driven more by our behaviors and how we’re interacting with others.”
>Several states are seeing a new rise in cases.
>“This is really troubling, but unfortunately, it’s not really unexpected. What we’re seeing is a combination of a number of things. As weather gets colder, people are going to spend more time inside, and we know that indoors transmission is certainly higher than outdoors, especially as people spend more time with each other.”

>“This is hard for all of us. We’ve been doing this for months. And it’s really easy to let things slide. It’s really easy for that fatigue to set in.'Do I really need to wear my mask?’ We’ve been doing this for so long. ‘Is it time to have my kids do play dates? Is it time to go out to bars?’”

>Many schools shifted to online-only learning after outbreaks among teachers and students. However, as some students struggle obtaining reliable internet access.

>“Everyone wants to reopen; go back to normal. Everyone wants to have people employed and go into work and have kids in school and doing well. But it really doesn’t look like that’s going to be safe. And we’re going to pay the price for this down the road.”
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>President Donald Trump said from his hospital room on Saturday that he felt “much better” but the next few days will be “the real test” of his treatment for COVID-19, capping a day of contradictory messages from the White House about his condition.
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>Amazon says nearly 20,000 US employees have contracted COVID-19
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Pence Tests Negative for Virus and Will Debate With Harris Next Week
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Donald Trump begins treatment amid reports of breathing difficulty
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Poroshenko was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia due to coronavirus
https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/politics/poroshenka-gospitalizuvali-z-koronavirusom-i-zapalennyam-legen-novini-ukrajini-50115744.html

Trump visited seven states in week before novel coronavirus diagnosis
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Children will not likely see a coronavirus vaccine until late 2021
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“Three journalists, including New York Times correspondent Michael D. Shear, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, as did a White House staffer who works with the press.”
>Journalists who work at the White House have been on high alert about the coronavirus since March, but the issue took on even greater urgency Friday with a mini-outbreak in the press room following President Trump’s crowded events and his own positive test for the virus.

>Three journalists, including New York Times correspondent Michael D. Shear, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, as did a White House staffer who works with the press. The new infections prompted another round of anxiety and cautionary notes among those who cover the president.
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Trump’s debate guests refused to wear masks, flouting rules
>first lady Melania Trump — as well as the president’s sons, daughters and several guests — violated safety protocols at the first presidential debate by taking off their masks after being seated in a live studio audience in Cleveland.

>Several in the president’s entourage continued without masks after an official from the Cleveland Clinic, which co-hosted the debate, offered them masks in case they didn’t have any, according to debate moderator Chris Wallace. “They waved them away,” Wallace said on Fox News on Friday morning.
>It was a violation of rules that both campaigns agreed to, Frank Fahrenkopf, head of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said in an interview with The Washington Post.

>“The first family came in wearing masks, but they took them off. The rules said you had to wear a mask,” Fahrenkopf said. “Everyone in that hall was supposed to keep the mask on, other than the president, Biden and Chris Wallace.”
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'Don't wait on west': MP from Ukraine's largest opposition party urges Kiev to swallow pride & buy Russian coronavirus vaccine
>A Ukrainian opposition MP has called for Kiev to start a dialogue with Moscow to purchase the Russian Covid-19 vaccine. Viktor Medvedchuk is an influential member of the pro-Russia and eurosceptic 'Opposition Platform' group.

>Writing on the party website, Medvedchuk said he believes the country should buy the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, instead of making deals with Western companies for vaccines which don't exist yet.

>"Russia has already received applications from 50 countries, including from the CIS, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America," Medvedchuk wrote. "If the Ukrainian government is going to save the citizens of our country, we need to negotiate with the manufacturers of this vaccine."
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Domestic-violence deaths rise in year of SARS-2, Jacksonville study shows
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Remdesivir may not cure coronavirus, but it’s on track to make billions for Gilead
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HHS says Gilead, distributor can directly sell SARS-2 drug in U.S.
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CDC was pushed to play down the risks of SARS-2 in reopening schools, former Pence staffer says
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In a SARS-2-ravaged economy, some Bay Area tenants organize to withhold rent
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UK economy shows signs of faltering before second SARS-2 wave
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4 million more Americans turn to Medicaid as coronavirus roils economy
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UK economy slump not as bad as feared but still a record
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CDC Extends ‘No Sail’ Order for Cruises Through October Due to Coronavirus Concerns
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As colleges reopened, many more young people got SARS-2
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W.H.O. Workers Are Accused of Sex Abuse During Ebola Response in Congo
>The New Humanitarian, a nonprofit news organization based in Geneva, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation published on Tuesday the findings of a yearlong investigation in which 30 of 51 women interviewed reported exploitation by men identified as working for the W.H.O. on the Ebola outbreak starting in 2018.

>The W.H.O., a United Nations agency which says it has a policy of zero-tolerance toward sexual abuse, said its leadership and staff were outraged by the reports and promised a “robust” investigation.
>“The betrayal of people in the communities we serve is reprehensible,” the W.H.O. said in a statement on Tuesday about the report. “We do not tolerate such behavior in any of our staff, contractors or partners,” it added. “Anyone identified as being involved will be held to account and face serious consequences, including immediate dismissal.”

>The allegations also brought fresh scrutiny to the United Nations’ struggles with the decades-old problem of sexual exploitation by peacekeeping troops, which surfaced in conflicts in Bosnia in the 1990s and in more recent emergencies in places such as the Central African Republic and Haiti.
>The 51 women interviewed all told investigating journalists that they had been pressured to provide sex to employees of the W.H.O. and of other international aid organizations as well as of Congo’s Health Ministry. They faced the pressure when they were seeking jobs and, on occasion, the men terminated the contracts of those who refused, the women said.

>Eight women said they were exploited by employees of the Health Ministry. Others reported encounters with men from charity groups including World Vision, UNICEF and the medical organization ALIMA.
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>Experts warn of 'huge surge' in SARS-2 cases in fall, winter
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Models predict SARS-2 cases will surge during fall, winter
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Coronavirus likely to be more lethal as winter approaches
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Americans are drinking more alcohol than in 2019
>Excessive alcohol consumption may cause or worsen mental health problems, such as anxiety or depression. Experts have also warned the stress of the pandemic has fomented alcohol and drug abuse.

>By the numbers: The greatest changes were among women and people 30 to 59 years old.
>On average, alcohol was consumed one day more per month by three of four adults.

>Frequency of alcohol consumption for women increased by 17%. Heavy drinking among women — four or more drinks within a few hours — spiked 41% since 2019.
>Adults aged 30 to 59 years increased their drinking by 19% since last year.
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Spanish flu vs SARS-2: how the global pandemics compare including death toll, number of cases and symptoms
>Why was Spanish flu so bad?
>As mentioned, Spanish flu made its appearance at the tail end of World War I, when many country’s economies and resources had been pounded by the global conflict.

>That meant medical camps and hospitals – already crowded following the war – were unable to reach their usual standards of hygiene and patient care, which promoted the spread of the virus beyond what would normally be expected.
>Coupled with less than adequate conditions on the front line of the war for military personnel, and the high level of troop movement around the world, the circumstances were perfect for the virus to spread.
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New diagnostic tool helps identify more serious SARS-2 cases
>Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare have come up with a new diagnostic score to help identify COVID-19 patients who may end up with the worst cases of the virus.

>The new criteria should enable doctors to tailor treatments for specific patients, and save lives.
>Doctors have recently learned about an acute inflammatory syndrome that occurs in some COVID-19 patients. That inflammation can damage the lungs and other organs, and send the patient to the ICU.

>They now have a set of standardized criteria to identify that syndrome, before the illness worsens.
>Intermountain Healthcare researchers have developed an important new diagnostic tool to help clinicians diagnose hyperinflammatory syndrome.
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Millions will need mental health support in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn
>Around 8.5 million adults and 1.5 million children in England will need mental health support in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, predicts new analysis from the Centre For Mental Health, which consulted experts from NHS England and NHS trusts.

>They warn that many will have lost jobs, lost loved ones, or will be dealing with the long-term effects of having Covid-19.
>Add in the general rise of issues such as health anxiety and agoraphobia due to Covid-19, and it’s clear to see that we’re heading for trouble.

>From the total number of people needing support, researchers estimate more than 230,000 NHS workers may need treatment, including for post-traumatic distress (36,996), high psychological distress (120,372) and burnout (81,499).
>Among patients recovering from severe Covid-19, an estimated 630 will need mental health support for anxiety, 454 for depression and 354 for PTSD, according to the report.
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Coronavirus detected in lake water, researchers find. Experts say don't panic.
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Oxford to study anti-inflammatory drug Humira as potential SARS-2 treatment
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israel’s move to limit protests in new coronavirus lockdown law triggers more mass demonstrations
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Mexico virus data may not be available for years
>Mexico’s top coronavirus official said Sunday that definitive data on the country’s death toll from COVID-19 won’t be available for “a couple of years.”

>“When will the final statistics on deaths from COVID-19 be ready? Certainly, a couple of years after the first year of the pandemic,” López-Gatell said, adding that work would be left to the country’s statistics institute.
>Officials have acknowledged in the past that the figure is a significant undercount, because it includes only those who died after a positive test result, almost always at a hospital. Mexico does very little testing, and many people die without a test.
>But the Mexican government has avoided adjusting its death toll upward to account for people who died at home or weren’t tested.

>Some parts of the country like Mexico City have begun conducting their own recalculations, finding “excess deaths” likely caused by coronavirus were at least double official figures.
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U.S. intel agencies failing to counter threat from china, says House Intelligence Committee report
>"Absent a significant realignment, [the] intelligence community will fail [to enable] U.S. competition with China on the global stage," says the report.

>After two decades of prioritizing counterterrorism, U.S. intelligence agencies are failing to sufficiently understand and counter the national security threat posed by China, the House Intelligence Committee concludes in a new report issued Wednesday.
>The report, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with intelligence officers and thousands of analytic assessments, finds that the intelligence community must change how it does business — not only to improve its insights into China, but also to better address "the growing importance of interlocking non-military transnational threats, such as global health, economic security, and climate change."

>The report recommends that spy agencies make better use of open source data, modernize hiring practices and reorient spending priorities. Although the committee's Democratic majority wrote the report, the full committee approved it Wednesday morning in a bipartisan voice vote.
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Moderna says seeking approval for SARS-2 vaccine not possible before U.S. elections
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FDA widens U.S. safety inquiry into AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has broadened its investigation of a serious illness in AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine study and will look at data from earlier trials of similar vaccines developed by the same scientists, three sources familiar with the details told Reuters.

>AstraZeneca’s large, late-stage U.S. trial has remained on hold since Sept. 6, after a study participant in Britain fell ill with what was believed to be a rare spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis.

>The widened scope of the FDA probe raises the likelihood of additional delays for what has been one of the most advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development. The requested data was expected to arrive this week, after which the FDA would need time to analyze it, two of the sources said.
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Anti-maskers gather in Montreal after mayor tells them to protest in potato field
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Parents, Teachers Protest Outside Baltimore City Schools Headquarters; Call For Virtual Learning All Year
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7 key points from Boris Johnson's coronavirus press conference
>7. Numbers are still going in the wrong direction
>6. Another national lockdown could happen
>5. Deaths and ICU admissions are rising
>4. Some places much worse than others
>3. Letting the virus run riot won't help other treatments
>Boris Johnson said tonight that the argument from some people about letting the virus run through the country are simply not viable.
>He said: "Some suggest that we should perhaps now let the virus take its course, despite the huge numbers of deaths it would bring.
>"I profoundly disagree with this and I think most people would disagree with this and want to fight and defeat the virus."
>He added: "If the NHS is overwhelmed because of Covid, then no one will be able to get care for other illnesses."
>2. The country is 'better prepared'
>1. More regular updates
>Boris Johnson said he will now be holding much more regular televised briefings - perhaps showing how serious the situation now is
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UK: Police raid happy couple's wedding reception packed with 170 guests - before council closes venue and fines manager £10,000
>The venue is the latest in a string of coronavirus-defying parties to be shut down by police - including a 120-person strong wedding party in Telford and a 70-person event in Manchester last week.
>Grand Park Hall in Luton hosted a wedding reception with more than 100 people

>Raided by police on September 23 following reports of crowds breaching rules
>At the time, weddings were allowed just 30 guests - number is now just 15

>Bedfordshire Police issued £10,000 fixed penalty notice to the manager on duty
>The venue has now been ordered to close indefinitely by Luton Council
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SARS-2 Vaccine Trial Shows Promise for Elderly
>An experimental vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19 appears to generate more antibodies in people over the age of 70 than it does in even middle-aged adults.

>If the antibody responses seen in the study translate into protection against the infection, the results could mean the elderly -- the population that has been hardest hit by COVID -- could receive strong protection from the shot. According to the CDC, eight out of 10 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have been in adults over age 65.
>The vaccine, mRNA-1273, is made by the drug company Moderna, and it uses a new type of technology to coax the body to produce an immune response to the virus.

>Basically, instructions for making the spike protein on the new coronavirus are injected into the body, where they are taken up by our cells. Cells then use those instructions to make the protein, which is released by the cells and recognized by the immune system. The immune system then makes weapons -- including antibodies -- against it. The hope is that when the real virus comes along, our bodies will have a jump-start and be ready to fight.
>The study was small, with just 10 people included in each group, for a total of 40 people in the study. Results from the phase I trial of the vaccine show that adults over the age of 70 made roughly 3 times as many antibodies after their second dose, compared to adults ages 56 to 70.
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Investigational SARS-2 vaccine well-tolerated, generates immune response in older adults
>A Phase 1 trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection has shown that the vaccine is well-tolerated and generates a strong immune response in older adults. A report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the findings from the study, which was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19 disease.

>The experimental vaccine, mRNA-1273, was co-developed by researchers at NIAID and Moderna, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Phase 1 trial began on March 16, 2020, and was expanded to enroll older adults about one month later. Older adults are more vulnerable to complications of COVID-19 and are an important population for vaccination. Understanding how the vaccine affects older adults is a critical part of measuring its safety and efficacy.
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More Than 60 Million Indians May Have Caught Coronavirus: Study
>More than 60 million people in India -- 10 times the official figure -- could have contracted the novel coronavirus, the country's lead pandemic agency said Tuesday, citing a nationwide study measuring antibodies.

>According to official data India, home to 1.3 billion people, is the world's second most infected nation, with more than 6.1 million cases, just behind the United States.
>But the real figure could be much higher, according to the latest serological survey -- a study testing blood for certain antibodies to estimate the proportion of a population that has fought off the virus.
>"The main conclusions from this sero-survey are that one in 15 individuals aged more than 10 have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 by August," Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director-general Balram Bhargava said at a health ministry press conference.

>Bhargava said evidence of virus exposure was more prevalent among people tested in urban slums (15.6 percent) and non-slum urban areas (8.2 percent), than in rural areas, where 4.4 percent of those surveyed had antibodies.
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Regeneron says its SARS-2 treatment reduces viral levels, improves symptoms
>experimental two-antibody cocktail reduced viral levels and improved symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients, enhancing its chances of becoming a treatment for the disease that has killed over a million people worldwide.

>"We hope these data will support an EUA" (emergency use authorization) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Regeneron Chief Scientific Officer George Yancopoulos said on a conference call.
>The FDA can authorize emergency use of a drug before completing its review for a formal approval.
>The treatment, REGN-COV2, is also being studied for use in hospitalized patients, and for prevention of infection in people who have been exposed to COVID-19. Regeneron declined to comment on when those trial results are expected.

>"It is unclear, though possible, that the Regeneron cocktail could work in a hospital setting where the patient is already severely ill and has a high viral load," Jefferies analyst Michael Yee said in a research note.
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SARS-2 could undo 6 years of gains for women in the workplace: Study
>At least one in four women are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce because of COVID-19, according to the annual Women in the Workplace study from LeanIn.org and consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The study involved 317 companies representing over 12 million employees.

>This marks the first time in six years of the annual report that the researchers found evidence of women intending to leave their jobs at higher rates than men. Researchers also warned this exodus could possibly undo all the gains women have made in management and senior leadership roles over those past six years.

>"The report is really showing the true scale of the problem of what COVID-19 is doing to women," co-author Rachel Thomas, LeanIn.org's co-founder and CEO, told ABC News.
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Italian firm developing AstraZeneca's SARS-CoV-2 vaccine might go public -CEO
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Anti-Asian bias rose after media, officials used 'China virus,' report shows
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Cepheid's SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV Test Receives Emergency Use Authorization
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New Yorkers face fines for refusing to mask up after coronavirus uptick
>The new rule extends across the city a similar policy imposed earlier this month by the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority under which commuters who refuse to wear a mask on public transit face a $50 fine. De Blasio's office did not respond to questions about who would enforce the new fines and how much they would be.
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U.N. chief warns that ‘misinformation kills’ as global coronavirus death toll tops 1 million
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Montreal heads into partial lockdown after coronavirus surge
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Spain to unveil new national rules for imposing coronavirus controls
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SARS-2's Psychological Impact Gets a Name of "Coronaphobia"
>The mental distress and long-term symptoms caused by the pandemic have patients suffering from a 'coronaphobia.'
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Taiwan Tech Firm: Robot Capable of Processing 2,000 Coronavirus Tests Results Per Day
>The Taipei-based TCI company says its QVS-96 robot is the first fully automated virus scanner. It uses three robotic arms to manipulate large amounts of test specimens usually handled by multiple laboratory technicians.

>TCI chief supervisor Arvin Chen says the machine can process an initial round of 96 specimens in three-and-a-half hours, and, thereafter, can process 96 specimens every 60 to 70 minutes. The company says the QVS-96 achieves the same safety and quality standards as any laboratory.
>Chen suggests the QVS-96 could be deployed in major metropolitan airports, in places such as New York City or Singapore. He says with 100 of the robotic testing machines operating, “These airports can fully resume their flights and let the passengers travel safely and bring back the country's economy.”

>TCI says the QVS-96 has also been programmed to detect the flu and differentiate it from the coronavirus which could be crucial in northern hemisphere nations in the coming months.
>The company recently announced a global distribution agreement to make the QVS-96 available worldwide. Earlier this year, the machine was officially registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

>The company says QVS-96 is currently being used in a selection of government agencies, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control and three hospitals in northern and central Taiwan.
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India: Urban areas had higher SARS-CoV-2 infection than rural areas: ICMR
>Indian Council of Medical Research Director General Balram Bhargava on September 29 said that urban slum and urban non-slum areas had higher SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence than that of rural areas. “As per ICMR’s (Indian Council of Medical Research) second sero survey report, urban slum and urban non-slum areas had higher SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence than that of rural areas,” Bhargava added.
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NYC warns several neighborhoods could be put on strict lockdown TODAY with all non-essential businesses closed, a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people and schools shut down amid 'deeply concerning' surge in SARS-2 cases
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Burials surge as SARS-2 cases spike in Indonesia’s capital
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china asks frozen food importers to shun countries with severe coronavirus
>China's capital called on importers on Monday to shun frozen food from countries suffering from severe novel coronavirus outbreaks after several cases of imported seafood products testing positive for the virus.
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Doctors in Indonesia experiencing burnout
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Brazilian soccer game goes ahead despite SARS-2 outbreak
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A potentially overlooked factor in Sweden's coronavirus strategy: more than half of households consist of just 1 person
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Spain government to do 'whatever it takes' to curb Madrid coronavirus surge
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Medical historian compares the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic: Both were highly political
>The 1918 virus was also a “novel” virus, meaning it was brand new.
>Like Covid-19, no one had immunity to it, and it was highly infectious, spreading through respiratory droplets that pass when an infected person coughed or sneezed.
>Several cities implemented mask mandates, describing them as a symbol of “wartime patriotism,” but some people refused to comply or take them seriously.

>But the thing that really drew public backlash were mask recommendations. As it turns out, resistance to wearing the face coverings isn’t new. People during the 1918 pandemic called them dirt traps and some clipped holes so they could smoke cigars.
>In Europe, the Italian Supreme Command asked residents not to fail their cities by not wearing a mask. Several U.S. cities implemented mandates, describing them as a symbol of “wartime patriotism.” In San Francisco, Mayor James Rolph said, “conscience, patriotism and self-protection demand immediate and rigid compliance,” according to influenzaarchive.org. But some people refused to comply or take them seriously, Markel said.

>San Francisco residents considered masks a nuisance while others harbored resentment for being forced to wear them, he said. Some of them were arrested.
>“One woman, a downtown attorney, argued to Mayor Rolph that the mask ordinance was ‘absolutely unconstitutional’ because it was not legally enacted, and that as a result, every police officer who had arrested a mask scofflaw was personally liable,” according to influenzaarchive.org.
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'It’s human beings': 1 million dead worldwide from SARS-2
>“It’s not just a number. It’s human beings. It’s people we love,” said Dr. Howard Markel, a professor of medical history at the University of Michigan who has advised government officials on containing pandemics and lost his 84-year-old mother to COVID-19 in February.

>“It’s our brothers, our sisters. It’s people we know,” he added. “And if you don’t have that human factor right in your face, it’s very easy to make it abstract.”
>The bleak milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Jerusalem or Austin, Texas. It is 2 1/2 times the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969. It is more than four times the number killed in the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

>Even then, the figure is almost certainly a vast undercount because of inadequate or inconsistent testing and reporting and suspected concealment by some countries.
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Pence tells Americans to 'anticipate that cases will rise' with more coronavirus testing
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Trump announces plan to distribute 100M rapid SARS-2 tests to states
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Putin to take Russian coronavirus vaccine dubbed Sputnik V
>Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will take the Sputnik V vaccine, though he hasn't specified a timeline on when.

>Putin reportedly told South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a phone call that he would take the shot before he goes to see him in Seoul, according to Newsweek, who cited Russian state media.

>"I will come to South Korea ... I will personally take the Russian vaccine and go," Putin said, responding to Moon's invitation to visit his country.
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In Ukraine’s Odessa, summer crowds ditched their masks. It’s now a hot spot in Europe’s ‘second wave.’
>Health officials have traced some of the new outbreaks back to summer holiday spots where pandemic precautions were often cast aside. But few have produced such a worrisome ripple as Odessa, where vacationers have flocked since Soviet times for beaches, lively cafes along cobbled Derybasivska Street and nighttime parties in the Arcadia district.

>More than 12,000 coronavirus cases have been registered in the Odessa region, two-thirds of them tourists and visitors, some of whom took the virus back to the capital, Kyiv, and other places.
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Religious leadership is also to blame for SARS-2 crisis in israel
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‘It’s Not in My Head’: They Survived the Coronavirus, but They Never Got Well
>As the coronavirus has spread through the United States over seven months, infecting at least 7 million people, some subset of them are now suffering from serious, debilitating and mysterious effects of Covid-19 that last far longer than a few days or weeks.

>This group of patients wrestling with an array of alarming symptoms many months after first getting ill — they have come to call themselves “long-haulers” — are believed to number in the thousands. Their circumstances, still little understood by the medical community, may play a significant role in shaping the country’s ability to recover from the pandemic.
>By some estimates, as many as one in three Covid-19 patients will develop symptoms that linger. The symptoms can span a wide range — piercing chest pain, deep exhaustion, a racing heart. Those affected include young and otherwise healthy people. One theory is that an overzealous immune system plays a role.
>Some are unable to work. Many may need long-term medical care.

>Still, many say their biggest challenge is getting other people simply to believe them.
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SARS-2 tests that give results in minutes to be rolled out across world
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Bereaved relatives of SARS-2 victims in Wuhan accuse authorities of blocking lawsuits
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CDC’s credibility is eroded by internal blunders and external attacks as coronavirus vaccine campaigns loom
>The agency’s response to the worst public health crisis in a century — the coronavirus pandemic — has been marked by technical blunders and botched messaging. The agency has endured false accusations and interference by Trump administration political appointees. Worst of all, the CDC has experienced a loss of institutional credibility at a time when the nation desperately needs to know whom to trust.

>“Since late February, the CDC has lost massive amounts of credibility,” said Jody Lanard, a physician who worked for nearly two decades as a pandemic communications adviser consulting with the World Health Organization.
>With a budget just under $8 billion, the nation’s chief public health agency is responsible for everything from investigating disease outbreaks to figuring out how best to prevent the leading causes of death in the United States, such as heart disease and cancer.

>“There’s no question that their credibility and effectiveness have been damaged by a combination of external threats, leadership that has been perceived to be ineffective and mistakes they have made internally.”
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Trump coronavirus adviser slammed by CDC director for spreading false information
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>CDC Publishes — Then Withdraws — Guidance On Aerosol Spread Of Coronavirus
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Might common colds explain a great deal of preexisting immunity, and if so, could the responsible virus help save lives during the current pandemic?
>Just as Efiguredward Jenner observed that cowpox exposure seemed to protect against smallpox and leveraged that discovery to save lives, future studies demonstrating even a small reduction in clinical severity of COVID-19 could enable safe, highly scalable, community-driven shCoV transmission programs (Fig. 1). Many people would welcome common cold symptoms from a virus they have previously endured in exchange for even a 10–20 percent reduction in the risk of severe illness or death.
>while acquired immunity to shCoVs is short-lived, allowing them to infect us again and again, it can protect against related coronaviruses
>hundreds of shCoV components detected by T cells are similar to those of SARS-CoV-2. Indeed, studies by immunologists such as Daniela Weiskopf and colleagues Alessandro Sette and Shane Crotty, the Karolinska COVID-19 study group and many others have identified T cells that react to SARS-CoV-2 in samples from people never exposed to the virus; many of these respond to components matching shCoVs.
>Third, the strength of T cell reactivity in people recovering from COVID-19 appears to be inversely proportional to disease severity; while there are exceptions, most people with a strong T cell response experience mild symptoms or none at all.
>Finally, common cold shCoVs are considered among the safest of viruses; as annoying as a stuffy nose can be, reports of serious complications appear rare, even though just about everyone has been infected.
>Today, we know that recent exposure to common-cold coronaviruses confers T cell cross-reactivity against components of SARS-CoV-2, and that people with stronger T cell responses tend to experience fewer COVID-19 symptoms. To repeat, we lack direct evidence that recent shCoV exposure can reduce disease severity.
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US: Yale’s SARS-2 Saliva Test Starts Roll Out to External Labs
>Yale has designated independent laboratories in FL, NY and MN to perform the university-developed SalivaDirect™ COVID-19 test.

>Along with Yale Pathology Labs — the first to offer the test — Access Medical Laboratories, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), and Mirimus, Inc., represent the initial wave of providers for the innovative testing method. They will make SalivaDirect available to people in Florida, Minnesota and New York by late September.
>SalivaDirect was developed by a Yale School of Public Health research team led by Nathan Grubaugh, assistant professor, and Anne Wyllie, associate research scientist. Their method is less prone to supply chain bottlenecks, more economical, and less invasive than nasopharyngeal (NP) swabbing, the most common form of testing available currently. The test received FDA Emergency Use Authorization on Aug. 15.

>“After discovering saliva is a promising sample type for SARS-CoV-2 detection, we have made it our mission to develop a testing method that is accurate, affordable, and accessible to all,” said Wyllie. “Our hope is that eventually every person that needs a COVID-19 test will be able to get one. Our laboratory partners are instrumental in ensuring schools and other essential institutions can remain open and healthy.”
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Professor Philip Nolan explains how tests sometimes fail to detect SARS-2
>the chair of NPHET's Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group said: "First, at any given time, about 30% of infected people are in the latent period, the three to five days after they have been infected, where the virus is multiplying inside their cells and is not yet detectable.
>"Second, even when they start to shed the virus, a sensitivity of 70% to 90% means the test will fail to detect the virus in somewhere between 10% and 30% of cases.

>"This is why close contacts of a confirmed case are tested twice, and why we must restrict our movements even if the first test is negative.
>"A close contact has about a one in 10 chance of being infected.
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Oil falls on mounting SARS-2 cases, supply concerns
>Oil edged lower on Friday, falling more than 2% on the week as COVID-19 cases surged globally and oil supply is set to rise in coming weeks.
>Brent crude futures <LCOc1> settled at $41.92 a barrel, down 2 cents, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures <CLc1> lost 6 cents to $40.25 a barrel.
>Brent dropped 2.9% for the week and WTI sunk 2.1%
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UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms
>The coronavirus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it, prompting renewed calls to reform the world body so that it can meet challenges far different — and more daunting — than those it faced at its birth.

>As U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week, “The pandemic is a clear test of international cooperation – a test we have essentially failed.” There is a “disconnect between leadership and power,” he said, warning that in the 21st century’s interconnected world, “solidarity is self-interest,” and “if we fail to grasp that fact, everyone loses.”
>The first-ever virtual meeting of world leaders at the General Assembly, highlighted increasing tensions among major powers, the growing inequality between rich and poor countries, and the escalating difficulty of getting the U.N.’s 193 member nations to agree on major issues — let alone unite on reforms.
>Tensions were on display at a Security Council meeting when the United States and China — two of the council's five veto-wielding permanent members — accused each other of mishandling and politicizing the coronavirus.

>Russia backed Beijing, a close ally, as it has in recent years, leaving the U.N.’s most powerful body charged with maintaining international peace and security more deeply divided and unable to address major issues, including conflicts like the one in Syria.
>The U.N. has had “such a hard time agreeing on so little” that it “ran the risk of impotence,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said.
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UK: University demands freshers remove 'send drink' and 'f*** Boris' signs from their windows
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'New Cold War with China' demands US-Europe united front: Germany
>Europe and the United States need to face up to a "new Cold War with China" together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany's point man on transatlantic ties told AFP.

>With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government's coordinator for relations with the United States and Canada, Peter Beyer, insisted there were more shared interests than differences.

>"Europe has got to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the US to face the huge challenge of China," he said.

>"The new Cold War between the United States and China has already begun and will shape this century."

>After four years of frequent friction between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel on issues including Iran, trade, NATO and the climate, Beyer said it was no secret that Germany would find it easier to work with Joe Biden.

>"I'm the last person who's so naive to say 'If Biden wins, everything will be super, it's the beginning of a golden age'," he said.

>"The controversial issues won't go away overnight but with Biden the transatlantic friendship would become more reasonable, calculable and reliable again."
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Oxford moves to protect students from china's Hong Kong security law
>Students at Oxford University specialising in the study of China are being asked to submit some papers anonymously to protect them from the possibility of retribution under the sweeping new security law introduced three months ago in Hong Kong.

>The anonymity ruling is to be applied in classes, and group tutorials are to be replaced by one-to-ones. Students are also to be warned it will be viewed as a disciplinary offence if they tape classes or share them with outside groups.

>The Hong Kong security law was imposed on 30 June by Beijing after more than a year of pro-democracy protests, and had an immediately corrosive impact on political freedoms in the territory. Its provisions also give the Chinese government powers to arrest individuals who are not Hong Kong residents, for actions or comments made outside the territory.
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US: Pennsylvania’s failure to mandate quicker death reporting before the coronavirus fueled wild data fluctuations, mistrust
>Death reporting delays can have serious consequences. For example, they can hinder the ability to get protective equipment to communities in need of help. The sooner health officials can analyze death certificates and identify trends, the sooner they can take action and respond to deadly outbreaks of disease – a necessity made all too clear by the COVID-19 pandemic.

>It wasn’t until March 2020 that state officials abruptly mandated use of the electronic system for the reporting of COVID-19 deaths, leading to confusion, delays, and crossed wires at a time when public officials were relying on fast data to inform their pandemic response.
>As a result, the state’s official death count unexpectedly fluctuated during the pandemic’s deadliest months, fueling conspiracy theories and undermining public trust in the numbers. Even now, six months into the crisis, the state is continuing to add months-old deaths to its official tally, skewing a real-time view of the virus.

>Dan Weinberger, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said death statistics submitted by Pennsylvania officials to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for January through April of this year were national outliers – showing such steep declines in deaths amid flu season and a pandemic that the data strained credulity.
>“There are no other states in which we see declines quite this dramatic,” he said. “When it’s that obvious and abrupt, it’s usually an indication that the data hadn’t been fully reported.”
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Trump tells UN to hold China to account for SARS-2
>US President Donald Trump told the UN on Tuesday to hold China accountable for a slew of alleged offenses, particularly the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has claimed nearly 1 million lives worldwide.

>Trump said China misled the international community as it locked down domestic travel while allowing flights to freely leave the country as the virus spread.
>“We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world: China,” Trump said during a virtual address to the 75th UN General Assembly.

>“The Chinese government, and the World Health Organization – which is virtually controlled by China – falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease. The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions,” he added.
>Trump also accused China of dumping plastic waste into the ocean, overfishing in other nations’ maritime zones and rampant carbon emissions.
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Canadian Technology to Detect SARS-2 In The Air
>Kontrol Energy Corporation, a Canadian public Company (CSE: KNR) (OTCQB: KNRLF), has launched BioCloud, an unobtrusive wall-mounted technology which detects the presence of COVID-19 in the air and triggers an alert system to provide real time notifications of the pathogen's presence to facility managers, with the aim of allowing outbreaks to be contained before they occur.
>Immediate applications in schools, hospitals, long term care facilities and mass transit vehicles including planes, trains and buses represent a game changer in the fight against COVID-19.

>"There is a critical need for technology that can provide us with assurances that the workplaces, schools, healthcare environments and other spaces we physically occupy are safe and free of infectious disease. Today, we have that in BioCloud," said Paul Ghezzi, Chief Executive Officer of Kontrol. "Our team has been working day and night since the onset of the pandemic to bring this exciting technology to market. It will be an invaluable tool to enhance the existing system of individual testing and contact tracing."
>This breakthrough announcement comes after extensive and independent lab testing in tandem with some of the country's foremost experts in the field, including Dr. David Heinrichs, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Western University.

>"There's no doubt in my mind that this technology can quickly and effectively detect an array of airborne pathogens, including the virus that causes COVID-19. Our results are absolutely conclusive," confirmed Dr. Heinrichs.
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Odds of coronavirus infection greatly increase with poverty, CDC says
>Poverty can vastly increase a person’s chances of contracting the coronavirus, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which looked at income-based disparities in Utah, found that the risk of becoming ill with the disease in a low-income community could be three times greater than in a high-income one.

>“Extreme deprivation could compound transmission,” the CDC concluded.
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How Many Have Died From Coronavirus? 8 Problems With SARS-2 Death Counts
>1. The lack of a coordinated national surveillance program.
>2. The lack of testing and lack of a coordinated national testing program.
>3. Lack of resources and an adequate public health infrastructure.
>4. Delays in or even absence of reporting.
>5. Doctors being unfamiliar with the Covid-19 coronavirus.
>6. The virus, the diseases that it causes, and death are complex.
>7. The lack of a clear national definition of Covid-19 death.
>8. Conspiracy theories and political motivations have been clouding the discussion.
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65 firefighters exposed to coronavirus and Atlantic City’s protocol made it worse, union says
>The union representing Atlantic City firefighters has filed a complaint against the city contending its procedures for stopping the spread of COVID-19 aren’t adequate and resulted in 65 members being exposed to the virus.

>Six firefighters tested positive for coronavirus recently and the city arranged rapid tests for those directly exposed to the infected individuals, according to the filing in Atlantic County Superior Court. Those who test negative are directed to return to work.
>“Unsurprisingly, this ineffective approach has resulted in further spread of COVID-19… In doing so, the City has jeopardized the health and safety of all firefighters, their families, and the general public,” the complaint reads.

>The complaint, first reported by The Press of Atlantic City, says some firefighters who tested negative are now showing symptoms, the filing says.
>Atlantic City and the fire department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Sourdough baking during coronavirus lockdown sparks bakery business in Jackson
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Don't Mess Around with Homemade SARS-2 Vaccines, Scientists Plead
>Medical researchers and medical legality scholars have joined forces on a new paper debunking homemade kinds of COVID-19 vaccine research. In a regular section in the journal Science reserved for discussing medical policy, these researchers underline the medical and legal risks of different home remedy concoctions.
>Yes, the idea of people inoculating themselves sounds absurd. And thankfully, there’s no reason to automatically think people trying these recipes are very widespread. But part of the point of the paper is to remind people that conducting medical experiments and even ordering certain components from other states can get someone into legal hot water very quickly.

>"Just because it’s self-experimentation doesn’t give you carte blanche,” University of Illinois law professor Jacob Sherkow said in a statement. Regulations on everything associated with developing new medications, from the ingredients like chemical reagents all the way to how you handle or distribute any “finished” product, are extremely strict.
>That’s on top of strict regulations on approved drugs, like a recent Amazon recall of drugs that were sold in individual packets—normal in office settings where just adults work and don’t require child-safe packaging, but not approved for use in home settings that could include children.
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28-09-2020
US: SARS2 found in Lake Superior at Duluth beaches
>The source of the virus is unknown.
>Researchers have been testing water samples every weekend since July at eight Duluth beaches. The goal is to further scientific understanding of how the virus acts in the water and whether it can spread there.
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>Florida police dissolve 1,000-person party as state SARS2 cases pass 700,000
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>27 more SARS2 outbreaks reported at Michigan schools, colleges
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>Facing a surge of new SARS2 cases far higher than in other parts of Belgium, Brussels authorities are closing bars early in the EU institutions capital city.
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Gov. Newsom warned Monday that the rate of transmission of SARS2 is creeping back up in the most populous regions of the state, putting at risk the decline in new cases that California has seen in recent weeks.

>The effective reproduction number-which represents the average number of people to whom each infected person spreads SARS2-is near or above 1 in the Bay Area and Southern California, Newsom said, meaning the number of new cases could soon begin rising again there.
>A reproduction rate of 1 means every person will infect one other, and a disease outbreak will neither grow nor decline. To slow down spread, the rate needs to stay below 1.

>“This is again what science had predicted if we go back to our original form,” Newsom said. “If we’re not cautious, if we’re not vigilant, if we’re not wearing our masks, if we’re not practicing social distancing, physical distancing and hand washing and hygiene, these numbers can start to tip back up.”
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In a month, India’s Official SARS2 cases double from 3 million to 6 million

>New infections in India are currently being reported faster than anywhere else in the world, in part because of expanded testing. The world’s second-most-populous country is expected to become the pandemic’s worst-hit country in coming weeks, surpassing the U.S., where more than 7.1 million infections have been reported.
>India is about to pass 100,000 deaths also
>In the last week, nearly 1 in every 3 new reported coronavirus infections in the world and 1 in every 5 reported deaths occurred in India, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Although most of India’s deaths remain concentrated in large cities, smaller urban centers across the country’s vast landscape are also reporting a surge in infections.
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Mexico’s top SARS2 official said Sunday that definitive data on the country’s death toll from the virus won’t be available for “a couple of years.”

>Officials have acknowledged in the past that the figure is a significant undercount, because it includes only those who died after a positive test result, almost always at a hospital. Mexico does very little testing, and many people die without a test.
>But the Mexican government has avoided adjusting its death toll upward to account for people who died at home or weren’t tested.
>Some parts of the country like Mexico City have begun conducting their own recalculations, finding “excess deaths” likely caused by coronavirus were at least double official figures.
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’We need to get to the bottom of these clusters,’ Cuomo warns as SARS2 cases increase throughout state and New York City

>SARS2 is rising fast again in New York — and a handful of neighborhoods are by far getting hit the hardest.
>Gov. Cuomo announced a sharp increase in positive tests for SARS2, especially in hotspots in Brooklyn, Orange County, Rockland County and the Southern Tier.
>The governor said 834 New Yorkers in all tested positive for SARS2 on Sunday. That number came with a relatively modest 52,000 tests, suggesting the virus is spreading much faster than it had in recent weeks and months.
>11 people died in the state, following a long period of single-digit fatalities.

>The governor sternly warned New Yorkers to redouble their efforts to keep a lid on the pandemic or prepare to pay a heavy price.
>“It’s no time to get tired, because the virus is not getting tired,” he said.
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Health Ministry chief: Lockdown to continue, Israel near ‘point of no return’
>Chezy Levy says he believes Israel won’t roll back closure immediately after holidays; positive test results, currently nearing 15%, have to first go below 10%
>The Health Ministry director-general said Sunday that he believed the country would not return to its pre-lockdown state immediately after the end of the Jewish holiday period, warning that Israel is “almost at the point of no return.”
>Speaking to Army Radio, Chezy Levy slammed participants in Saturday night’s rallies in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying they didn’t adhere to the ministry’s restrictions on gatherings.
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Thousands of Israelis protest in Jerusalem, despite lockdown
>Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night to demand his resignation, pressing ahead with weeks of protests against the embattled Israeli leader despite a strict new lockdown order.
>With Israel facing one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, the tough lockdown rules went into effect Friday, closing many businesses, banning large gatherings and ordering people to stay close to home. But Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, was unable to agree on proposed legislation that would ban the right to protest.
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Israelis protest against Netanyahu despite coronavirus lockdown
>Protesters say attempt to block them was one motivation for them coming out on the streets for the 14th week in a row.
>Thousands of Israelis have gathered anew in Jerusalem to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after the country tightened its lockdown aimed at stemming surging coronavirus cases.
>Long processions of cars carrying people from throughout the country caused traffic jams in the city, with hundreds of small protests held at bridges and junctions nationwide.
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Israelis mark Yom Kippur under 'painful' virus lockdown
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Health Ministry concerned over coronavirus spike ahead of Yom Kippur
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>Coronavirus: Black light photos show importance of washing hands amid outbreak
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England's SARS-2 app does not accept a third of test results
>England’s COVID-19 smartphone app launched to curb the spread of the virus does not accept test results processed in the country’s state-run laboratories, hospitals or as part of an official survey, it said on Saturday.

>The App’s official account said on Twitter it could not link to test results taken in Public Health England (PHE) laboratories, at the National Health Service (NHS) or as part of a survey run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
>On Friday, 210,375 tests were taken, with 61,481 handled by PHE and the NHS, or 29%. That does not include tests taken as part of the ONS surveys because they are counted on a UK basis.

>Tests taken in hospitals includes patients and health care staff.
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US: Military suicides up 20% this year as the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest add stress to an already strained force
>Military suicides have increased by as much as 20% this year compared to the same period in 2019, and some incidents of violent behavior have spiked as service members struggle under COVID-19, war-zone deployments, national disasters and civil unrest.

>While the data is incomplete and causes of suicide are complex, Army and Air Force officials say they believe the pandemic is adding stress to an already strained force.
>And senior Army leaders — who say they’ve seen about a 30% jump in active duty suicides so far this year — told The Associated Press that they are looking at shortening combat deployments. Such a move would be part of a broader effort to make the wellbeing of soldiers and their families the Army’s top priority, overtaking combat readiness and weapons modernization.

>The Pentagon refused to provide 2020 data or discuss the issue, but Army officials said discussions in Defense Department briefings indicate there has been up to a 20% jump in overall military suicides this year. The numbers vary by service. The active Army’s 30% spike — from 88 last year to 114 this year — pushes the total up because it’s the largest service. The Army Guard is up about 10%, going from 78 last year to 86 this year. The Navy total is believed to be lower this year.
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UK: Thousands of university students told to self-isolate due to coronavirus
>It comes after cases have been found at hundreds of other universities, with many in Scotland, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

>Universities UK, the organisation that represents universities, have said the wellbeing of students was "the first priority".
>Students at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.

>The action was taken because 127 students at the University tested positive for coronavirus.
>Meanwhile in Scotland, hundreds of university students have tested positive at campuses across the country, with many more having to self-isolate.

>At Glasgow University, 120 students tested positive for the virus, with around 600 people self-isolating there.
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'So many bodies,' says ambulance driver as India struggles to stem SARS-2 death toll
>With the windows of his ambulance rolled down and the siren blaring, Mohsin Khan, 41, told his attendant why he drives ambulances.

>"I lost my mother because no ambulance came on time to attend to her," he said. "The helplessness I felt, I don't wish that on my worst enemy."
>On COVID-19 duty since the beginning of the pandemic in India, Khan has seen and done it all: from rushing patients to hospitals across Delhi to being the sole witness to last rites being performed. But this particular trip to the cremation ground brought him a sense of complete helplessness, as it involved him shifting the body of a 3-year-old COVID-19 victim, the youngest he has ever carried.

>"She just reminds me of my daughter, she is somebody's child," he said tearfully.
>"Sometimes I end up spending my entire day in cremation grounds and cemeteries. There are just too many bodies," he said as he waited to hand over the stretcher at the crematorium.

>Since April 17, when Khan picked up his first COVID-19 patient, he has seen the numbers in cases and deaths rise consistently.
>"My ambulance was the only one in the fleet until then," he said. "But with an increase in the number of cases and deaths, we now have 17 ambulances."

>Some days, death is the only thing he sees.
>"There are so many bodies and so many patients," he said. "On some days, we don't even have time to eat. There have been times when I have had to take six patients at once."
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Minnesota SARS-2 survey halted after team members report racial slurs, state officials say
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Coronavirus Could Overwhelm France, Top Doctor Warns
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UK: Boris Johnson under pressure over handling of coronavirus crisis as London 'likely' to see household mixing ban
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China pushes emergency coronavirus vaccine despite safety concerns
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26-09-2020

As debate over Sweden’s SARS2 response continues, cases in the country are on the rise
>The country’s state epidemiologist warning this week that it was heading in the “wrong direction” as winter approaches.
>Sweden’s public health body recorded 554 new SARS2 cases Thursday — the highest since early July
>Only last week, a World Health Organization official praised Sweden’s unorthodox handling of the outbreak.
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>Boris Johnson took advice from Sweden's no-lockdown scientist before rejecting tougher SARS2 restrictions
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>As the number of SARS2 deaths worldwide looked set to pass a million within days, Rio de Janeiro delayed its annual Carnival parade for the first time in a century because of Brazil’s continued vulnerability in the pandemic.

>In Europe, the pandemic is worse now than at the March peak in several member countries, the European Union warned, as governments reimpose drastic measures.

>France set a new record for daily new cases. Health authorities reported 16,096 new confirmed cases on Thursday, a significant increase on the previous record of 13,498 and setting a fourth all-time high of daily additional infections in eight days.
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>China will stop accepting import applications from Brazilian company Monteiro Industria de Pescados Ltda for a week starting Saturday after a package of frozen hairtail fish tested positive for the coronavirus, the customs office said on Friday
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/cVg/ Report #88: I Need Help-I Feel Like I'm Dying Edition

San Diego Woman Shares SARS2 Story

>“I kind of started preparing myself mentally for the possibility that this might be it for me, like I might die in my bed,” Elisa Ortiz said.
>Ortiz, 37, was an essential worker at a grocery store. On March 28th, she remembers "feeling off" and trying to fight off what we now know as obvious SARS2 symptoms. But at the time, testing wasn’t as robust and readily available as it is today, and she was unable to get tested.
>“It gets to a point. as your symptoms get worse and worse, you just feel, well, Who’s going to help me if the doctors aren’t going to help me?" Ortiz said. "It’s scary to just feel no one is there for you.”

>Ortiz was forced to recover at home but developed gastrointestinal issues, fever and nausea. She wasn’t able to hold down food and lost 16 pounds. On April 12, her fiancé finally rushed her to an Urgent Care, where she tested positive.
>“It’s probably the scariest experience I’ve had being sick in my life," Ortiz said. "I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. It’s horrible,"

>Six months after her original symptoms, Ortiz has made a slow, difficult recovery. But she still is still dealing with the after effects of combatting the virus.
>“I’d say the hardest part of the recovery has been the depression that I’ve gone through, difficulty finding support and talking to people that have had the same experience as me, Ortiz said.

>She says, without question, people should wear masks and social distance, she’s disappointed at how the topic has been politicized.
“I kind of struggle with how much energy I should put in telling people who don’t believe in science to wear a mask," Ortiz said. "And I just say to the people who aren’t really sure about what’s going on: "Just practice basic human empathy and the smallest bit will get us through."
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/cVg/ Report #89: Israel: a heavy target of SARS2

Israel under lockdown as SARS2 cases top 8,000 in a single day

>Among the newly diagnosed: Some 400 Jerusalem yeshiva students who had attended Rosh Hashanah prayers together. The students - married and single - were transferred to coronavirus hotels.

>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement shortly before the start of Shabbat. "It is not easy, neither in Israel nor in European countries, where the disease is also gaining tremendous momentum."

>Public transportation will operate in a limited format, mainly to allow essential and approved workers to get to and from their jobs.
>In general, people are being asked not to leave their homes at a distance of more than one kilometer unless for an approved reason, such as to purchase food or obtain medicine.

>Upon arrival at the airport, travelers will be asked to present documentation of the date of purchase of their ticket, a valid ticket and possibly a negative coronavirus test, depending on their destination.

>The closure, which is expected to last two weeks or more, involves a number of restrictions on the public, including that people are prohibited from traveling more than one kilometer from their homes.
>Only those stores that provide essential products (food, pharmaceuticals, hygiene, optics, home maintenance, electrical or communication) can stay opened.
>Swimming pools and gyms are closed, as our hairdressers and beauty salons. Hanging out at the beach is also forbidden, unless for sport, and only then if the beach is within one kilometer from home.
>People cannot visit each other’s homes, unless for an approved purpose.

>Police said they would be stepping up enforcement during this closure.
>On Thursday, police had already increased their efforts. The police said they issued some 4,239 tickets for people violating Health Ministry restrictions over the last day.
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U.K. reports record number of new SARS2 cases as cities lock down
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>UK scientists begin study of how long SARS2 can survive in the air
>On Monday, they will start launching tiny droplets of live Sars-CoV-2 and levitating them between two electric rings to test how long the airborne virus remains infectious under different environmental conditions.
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California SARS2 Update: State Estimates SARS2-Related Hospitalizations Will Rise 89% In The Next Month
>State and local health experts have been warning for weeks about a potential rise in cases after Labor Day, as people gathered for parties and barbecues. Ghaly said Friday’s numbers could be the first indication of that trend.

>In the state’s largest county, Los Angeles, health officials there reported this week that the transmission rate — the number of new cases seen for every current case — had risen above 1 for the first time in weeks. When that rate is above 1 said Ghaly, SARS2 will spread “exponentially.”

Australia says world needs to know origins of SARS-2
>The world's nations must do all they can to understand the origins of Covid-19, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, comments that could worsen tensions with China.

>Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Morrison said an inquiry into the roots of the virus would minimise the threat of another global pandemic, Reuters reported.
>“This virus has inflicted a calamity on our world and its peoples. We must do all we can to understand what happened for no other purpose than to prevent it from happening again,” Morrison said via a teleconference video link.

>“There is a clear mandate to identify the zoonotic source of the Covid-19 virus and how it was transmitted to humans.”
>Morrison's comments came after similar comments by the prime minister earlier in the year soured ties between Australia and China.
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World leaders criticize haphazard response to pandemic
>World leaders gathering remotely Wednesday criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstan’s president, it was “a critical collapse of global co-operation.”

>“Our world has been turned upside down,” said Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo. “We all fell together and looked into the abyss together.”
>The coronavirus pandemic and its consequences topped the list of concerns on the second day of prerecorded speeches by world leaders at the General Assembly’s first virtual high-level meeting. Countries large and small spoke about struggling to deal with its impact without international co-ordination.

>Pleas for the world to work together to combat the scourge and other global problems have taken the forefront at this week’s U.N. gathering that itself was altered by the virus.
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Coronavirus restrictions leave Australian cruise industry and businesses who rely on it in limbo
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Forty percent of SARS-2 deaths in U.S. linked to nursing homes, new Senate report finds
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US, Iowa: Fans may attend Oct. 3 home football game
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Ames, Iowa City SARS-2 Outbreaks Are Worst In The World
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UK: Coronavirus leaves army ranks a battalion weaker
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UK: Army on standby to help emergency ‘door-to-door’ coronavirus testing after infections spike in Birmingham
>Birmingham City Council and the Ministry of Defence are expected to finalise the deal next week, reports The Birmingham Mail.
>Soldiers will be drafted in to help assist the council's "drop-and-collect" door-to-door testing service.

>Council leader Brigid Jones told a meeting of the West Midlands Combined Authority on Friday that the plan will involve going to people's homes in high risk areas.
>Ms Jones said army staff will not be acting in a "military" capacity or carrying out "enforcement".

>The troops will be there as "boots on the ground" bridging any gaps needed in services carried out by civilian staff.
>Army personnel and council workers will offer up home tests to people even if they don't have symptoms in an aggressive bid to control the virus.

>She said: "We have been in talks with the military about them giving us some extra capacity for drop-and-collect.
>"It's very much in an extra capacity, feet-on-the-ground sense. It's literally just to support the civilian effort side of things and we'll be in a position next week to confirm whether or not they will be providing extra capacity and how that might be working."
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Algorithm Spots SARS-2 Cases from Eye Images
>A small study shows artificial intelligence can pick out individuals with coronavirus infections, but ophthalmologists and AI experts say the approach is far from proven to be capable of distinguishing infections with SARS-CoV-2 from other ills.
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Coronavirus: London anti-lockdown protests see 16 arrests as police left in hospital after clashes
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US: Two SARS-2 cases force shutdown of another N.J. athletic program
>St. Augustine Prep is the latest school to have its athletic program shut down over circumstances related to COVID-19.

>Shorty after its football scrimmage Friday night, the school was notified by the New Jersey Department of Health of two unrelated cases of COVID-19. In a message from Head of School Fr. Robert J. Murray released Saturday afternoon, St. Augustine has suspended in-person instruction until Monday, Oct. 12.

>As a result, athletic director Mike Rizzo confirmed that all fall sports will be shut down for two weeks.
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Man gets 1 year in jail for holding 2 large parties against SARS-2 rules
>Myers also allegedly told "his guests to stay in defiance of Governor Hogan’s Orders and the officers’ lawful orders to disband the party," prosecutors said.
>"Officers tried to reason with Myers and obtain his cooperation to no avail," prosecutors said.

>Myers was then arrested.
>After Myers is released from jail, he will be on unsupervised probation for three years, prosecutors said.
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Indonesia's real coronavirus death toll may be 3 times reported figure: Epidemiologist
>The actual Covid-19 death toll in Indonesia could be three times the reported figure, which reached 10,218
>Dr Dicky said Indonesia's more than 10,000 deaths were ones those that were confirmed. "Meanwhile, we do not count (the deaths of people with) probable or suspected statuses.
>"If we count them all, we might see three times as many," he added.
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Coronavirus: Two million deaths 'very likely' even with vaccine, WHO warns
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'Everything Is Uncertain' in Argentina With Coronavirus Hitting Top Five Globally
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‘I feel sorry for Americans’: A baffled world watches the US
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>A Brooklyn press conference about recent coronavirus upticks was shut down Friday after an unmasked former City Council candidate began heckling the city's top health officials
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US: Anti-mask lawmaker dies of SARS-2 after mocking the pandemic on social media
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Vaccines overview
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Over 80% of Britons not heeding SARS-2 self-isolation rules, study finds
>Over 80% of people in Britain are not adhering to self-isolation guidelines when they have COVID-19 symptoms or had contact with someone who has tested positive, a study has found.

>A majority were also unable to identify the symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
>The research raises major questions about the effectiveness of England’s Test and Trace programme as Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to keep a lid on rising infection numbers with new restrictions.

>The research, led by King’s College London, found that only 18.2% of people who reported having symptoms of COVID-19 in the last seven days had not left home since the symptoms developed, and only 11.9% requested a COVID-19 test.
>It also found that only 10.9% of people told by the NHS Test and Trace scheme to self-isolate after close contact with a COVID-19 case had done so for 14 days as required.
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FBI director warns Chinese hackers are targeting U.S. SARS-2 research
>FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday warned that Chinese hackers have been persistently targeting U.S. companies conducting research related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

>In a hearing before the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, Wray described China as the "greatest counterintelligence threat" to the United States, describing "aggressive activity" to target research on vaccines, treatments, testing technology and other coronavirus matters.
>Wray said in his opening statement that the FBI has opened a new China-related counterintelligence case "approximately every 10 hours" and that nearly half of the 5,000 active counterintelligence cases underway are related to China.

>"Sometimes, without being too descriptive in an open setting, we can almost track a news report form some company or research institution that is announcing or revealing some progress ... and then almost within days we will see cyber targeting that ties back to Chinese actors focusing on those institutions," Wray said.
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>Coronavirus: Tens of thousands ‘wrongly given’ all clear by Lighthouse laboratories
>Software chosen by Covid-19 mega-labs allegedly failed to spot dozens of positive test samples
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Autistic people left completely stranded during pandemic
>The disruption, uncertainty and change of pace during the pandemic triggered huge levels of anxiety for many autistic people in the UK
>Autistic people and their families have been left "completely stranded" during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report which describes the impact as "devastating".

>The National Autistic Society said the responses they received from 4,232 autistic people and their family members shows that Covid-19 and the lockdown deepened well-established existing inequalities.
>Autistic people in June and July were six times more likely to have low life satisfaction and seven times more likely to be chronically lonely compared to the general public, the report said.

>It found that nine out of 10 autistic people worried about their mental health during lockdown and one in five family members had to reduce work due to caring responsibilities.
>The disruption, uncertainty and change of pace triggered huge levels of anxiety and for some was made worse by the withdrawal of support from social care, education and mental health services.
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Philippines: DOH "confirms" SARS-CoV-2 reinfection
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SARS-CoV-2 reportedly reinfecting some people in Colorado
>Denver Health Medical Center has discovered at least four people who appear to have been reinfected with the coronavirus, more than four months after contracting the respiratory disease the first time.

>The patients all had fairly mild symptoms of the disease when they originally contracted it. They recovered and eventually tested negative for the virus. More than four months later – for one reason or another – they needed to get tested again, even though they showed no symptoms. All of their COVID-19 tests came back positive.

>“It’s alarming in the sense that they can possibly propagate the infection,” said Denver Health infectious disease expert, Dr. Cory Hussain. “(This means) you’re probably not immune to begin with…and we don’t know if you’re infective or not. And there’s a good possibility you are.”
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>positive test result rate in israel - 11.3%
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>israel has tightened restrictions on its population in the fight against coronavirus, one week after a second lockdown came into effect
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Russia Doesn't Plan Lockdowns Despite Increase in Coronavirus Cases: Kremlin
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Moscow mayor urges more home-working as Russia's new SARS-2 cases hit three-month high
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25-09-2020

>Ghaly and other health officials across the country are worried about a “twindemic” in which a hospital system already taxed with COVID patients is overwhelmed when flu season hits and some of those patients also need ICU care.
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SARS2 Antibodies Found in Small Portion of Americans, Study Says
>Less than 10% of 28,000 dialysis patients in the U.S. had pathogen-fighting antibodies as of July, researchers found
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>Experts say we’re nowhere close to achieving herd immunity against SARS2 in the United States.
>To get there, we would need 60 to 70% of the population to get an infection.
>"What we do know is that the majority of Americans have not been infected. We’re very, very far from the majority"
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>2 former leaders of a state-run veterans home in Massachusetts where dozens of residents died in a SARS2 outbreak were indicted on criminal charges and face possible jail time, the state’s top law enforcement official said Friday.
>At least 76 veterans in the home died of SARS2 as the novel coronavirus swept through the institution, and an additional 84 residents and 80 staff members tested positive.

>“We believe this is the first criminal case in the country brought against those involved in nursing homes during the covid-19 pandemic"
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So, New York's Cuomo when?

>The U.S. has reported more than 7 million cases of SARS2 as of Friday, a milestone that comes days after leading experts projected the virus' spread was set to rapidly increase in coming months.
>But the U.S. death toll from the virus may almost double by Jan. 1 amid a "major winter surge," according to a projection by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington

>Researchers warned states would likely need to reenact restrictions to combat the virus' spread. That recommendation came the same week as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted all virus restrictions on restaurants and businesses, saying "We’re not closing anything going forward."
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United Airlines to make SARS2 rapid tests available to passengers, starting on Hawaii route due to higher flight traffic
>Passengers will have the choice of taking a rapid test from Abbott Labs at the airport the day of their flight with results available in about 15 minutes or using a mail-in test at home prior to travel. Those opting for the at-home test are advised to request the test kit 10 days prior to travel and submit their sample within 72 hours of their flight.
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New wave of SARS2 cases builds in US
>Meanwhile
Florida to lift all SARS2 restrictions on restaurants, bars

>Virginia Gov. Northam and first lady Pamela have tested positive for SARS2, announced Friday.
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SARS2 cases rising in 5 N.J. counties, and Ocean is the biggest concern, officials say
>“Folks, this is clear evidence we are not out of the woods,” Gov. Phil Murphy said during his latest SARS2 briefing
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>Murphy extends N.J.’s SARS2 public-health emergency another 30 days. State of emergency stays in effect.
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21 yr oldHealthy College Student Fighting for His Life After Contracting SARS2
>Chris Miller was diagnosed with the virus last month and has since developed a cascade of complications that his family said have left him unconscious and reliant on a ventilator to breathe.

>“It is so bad right now that they are talking about removing a portion of his right lung,” said his sister Honoria Bush. “We are talking about someone who is 21 who is about to go through a lobectomy if this(lung complication) continues to happen.”

>As of Friday, he has now been unconscious for almost three weeks and doctors have told the family he has a 50-50 chance of survival.
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Texas: State officials are investigating the county judge in Hays County after information surfaced, among other allegations, that he promoted questionable coronavirus antibody tests.

>The letter says Becerra may have committed several offenses, including abuse of official capacity, official oppression, misuse of official information, theft, misapplication of fiduciary property, tampering with a government record and election code laws.

>"I firmly believe this is not about testing," Smith told the Tribune. "This is about a company who saw an opportunity to build their telemedicine business."
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literally WHO warns two million virus deaths possible as Europe clamps down
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Germany to take on €96bn in new debt next year to weather SARS-2 crisis
>The German government will suspend its constitutional debt brake for the second year in a row in 2021, in its ongoing efforts to help the economy weather the worst of the COVID-19 crisis.

>On Wednesday, the cabinet signed off on a draft 2021 budget, that will enable the government to borrow up to around €96bn (£88bn, $112bn).

>The government is borrowing around €218bn this year to finance major stimulus measures to support the economy, after waiving the law that forbade it from taking on new debt in March this year to launch the first of a number of rescue and stimulus packages
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Czech Republic to limit public events as SARS-2 cases spike
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Congress Will Not Investigate Pentagon SARS-2 Spending
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First people to get SARS-2 vaccinations also will get daily health check-in text messages from the CDC
>As the United States gears up for a massive immunization effort to begin as soon as a coronavirus vaccine is available, health officials are planning the details of the rollout.

>While all new vaccines are closely followed once they enter the market, because a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be released under an Emergency Use Authorization, safety considerations are front and center.
>To track reactions in real time, the first people to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will get daily email and text messages the first week after their shot asking how they're feeling. After that first week, they'll continue to get weekly messages for the next month and a half.

>The first wave of immunizations are expected to go to up to 20 million Americans classified as essential workers. These include frontline health care workers, police, firefighters and paramedics, critical food and industry workers and potentially teachers. At least one of several candidate vaccines may be available by the end of the year.
>The emails and texts will come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Dr. Tom Shimabukuro of the CDC's COVID-19 Vaccine Planning Unit. He spoke at a meeting Tuesday of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

>The first texts will ask four questions:
>>Any pain, redness, swelling or itching at the injection site?
>>Any chills, headaches, joint pains, muscle or body aches, fatigue or tiredness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or rash?
>>Any other symptoms or health conditions to report?
>>Did any of the symptoms cause them to:
>>>Miss work?
>>>Be unable to do their normal daily activities?
>>>Get care from a doctor or other health care professional?
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South Africa’s Promise of "Racial Equality" Falters Under Pandemic
>Coronavirus outbreak drives up deaths, poverty and hunger for nigger majority; ‘From the first house to the last one, no one is working’

>Two out of five nigger workers have lost their income during a monthslong coronavirus lockdown. Police are tearing down shacks built on public land by people who can no longer pay rent on their previous homes. And senior government officials are accused of stealing funds meant for the fight against the pandemic.
>A quarter-century after Nelson Mandela became president with a promise to empower South Africa’s Black majority, the world’s most unequal society is cracking under the weight of a coronavirus outbreak that has ripped through impoverished townships and informal settlements where people can’t socially distance.

>In April, the most recent month for which data is available, some 43% of nigger workers were laid off or furloughed, compared with 17% of White workers, according to nationally-representative a survey of 7,000 South Africans conducted by a group of academics. Forty-seven percent of all households said they ran out of money to buy food.
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Madrid at 'Serious Risk' Without Tougher SARS-2 Rules, Health Minister Warns
>Spain's health minister urged authorities in Madrid on Saturday to tighten restrictions in the coronavirus hotspot, warning that the capital's residents and surrounding regions were at "serious risk" without tougher curbs.

>Madrid extended a partial lockdown on Friday in several dozen districts with high infection rates, rejecting national government recommendations for a city-wide lockdown as cases continue to surge in the capital.
>"Madrid is in a situation of serious risk and it's time to act with determination," Health Minister Salvador Illa told a news conference.

>"There is a serious risk for inhabitants, for the neighbouring regions," he said, calling on the capital's regional authorities to "put the health of citizens first".
>Spain's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 12,272 on Friday from the previous day to 716,481, the highest number in Western Europe. More than 31,000 people have died from COVID-19.

>Spaniards endured one of Europe's strictest lockdowns from March until May, when they were not allowed to leave their homes. But after restrictions were totally lifted on June 21, the pandemic has surged again.
>Most of the 45 Madrid districts covered by the new restrictions are high-density, low-income areas, triggering complaints about "class confinement", including during a protest outside the city assembly late on Friday.
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24-09-2020 News
Parents Knowingly Sent Kids With SARS2 to School, Wisconsin Officials Say
>“A handful of irresponsible parents could be responsible for closing down entire school districts,” public health director said
>“Never in a million years did we imagine or think to account for parents deliberately sending their sick or symptomatic child to school.”

>More than two dozen schools in the counties are under investigation where at least 1 student or staff member has tested positive. Out of the 15 school districts, 11 are currently under investigation.
>There has been at least 1 positive or suspected case in all school districts
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>Israel on Thursday moved to further tighten its second countrywide lockdown as SARS2 cases continued to soar, ordering all nonessential businesses to close and requiring people to stay within 1,000 meters (yards) of their homes.
>Comparing the situation to a war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the measures would save lives. “Wake up. Enough is enough. We are in a new reality,” he said.
>The limits on both prayers and protests could spark a backlash.
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The latest SARS2 update we have thanks to data from Johns Hopkins University shows that new SARS2 infections are increasing again in almost half of the US.

>According to Mikkelsen: “While the 17% increase in daily new cases over the past week (7-day average) is getting a lot of attention, this can be explained completely by more testing as the number of daily new tests is up 23% over the past week (7-day average).”

>Dr. Anthony "manlet" Fauci have been warning repeatedly that the US is not getting its number of daily new infections down far enough to be best-prepared for the fall and winter.
>That’s because we’re expected to be hit with the double whammy of flu season mixed with the continued presence of SARS2, both of which involve respiratory illnesses with similar symptoms.
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The French government has imposed new restrictions in major cities after France reported a new record surge in daily cases

>President Emmanuel Macron announced a series of measures to curb the spread, including the closure of all bars and restaurants in Marseille, and shorter opening hours for Paris and other cities
>Public gatherings in a few cities have been limited to 10 people, and sports events or concerts can only host up to 1,000 people.
>The measures have been met with opposition from several business owners and local politicians. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said, "It is hard to understand: How will it prevent the spread of the virus? How will the fact that we can no longer exercise help us, while sport is an important part of keeping us healthy with strong immune systems?"

Austria

>They have announced new measures ahead of the start of the ski season, including a 10 p.m. curfew in the tourist states of Tirol, Vorarlberg and Salzburg. Kurz pointed out that skiing, shopping, dining, wellness and culture events would still be available despite the pandemic.
>However, visitors would not be able to take part in the popular apres-ski parties, which involve dancing, drinking, and socializing once skiing is done.

Britain

>They recorded a record number of daily infections, with 6,634 new cases on Thursday. A second wave of infections has gripped the country, but officials said the level of testing is much higher than the first wave.

Brazil

>A Brazilian football club, Flamengo, is trying to postpone a league game after 16 players tested positive for SARS2. The club was previously pushing for an early reopening.

Flamengo's vice president for legal affairs, Rodrigo Dunshee, said he hoped the Brazilian football confederation will agree to postpone Sunday's Brazilian championship game against Palmeiras. In June, Flamengo had joined President Jair Bolsonaro in reopening local football leagues.
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Blood-based test accurately identifies viral infection before symptoms develop

>A team of Duke Health scientists have identified biomarkers that accurately identify numerous viral infections across the clinical stages of disease, advancing a potential new way to guide treatment, quarantine decisions, and other clinical and public health interventions in the setting of endemic and pandemic infectious diseases.
>The blood-based test uses a gene expression assay to correctly predict nine different respiratory viral infections—including influenza, enterovirus, adenovirus and coronaviruses known to cause common colds. It shows the body's genes responding to a pathogen before symptoms are present.
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Canada concerned about second wave of SARS2 as cases spike

>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warns Canada is at crossroads
>“In our four biggest provinces, the second wave isn’t just starting, it’s already underway,” Trudeau said. “The numbers are clear.
>Canada’s numbers show a recent rapid growth in coronavirus cases after a summer of consistently low numbers. As is the case in many countries, the virus is spreading amongst young people.

>“We’re on the brink of a fall that could be much worse than the spring,” Trudeau said. “I know this isn’t the news that any of us wanted to hear, and we can’t change today’s numbers, or even tomorrow’s. Those were already decided by what we did or didn’t do two weeks ago.”

>“It’s all too likely we won’t be gathering for Thanksgiving,” Trudeau said. “But we still have a shot at Christmas.”
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Member of health secretary's security detail tests positive for SARS2

>It is the first known instance of a staffer with regular proximity to the health secretary testing positive for SARS2
>Azar, who is typically flanked by a security detail in his role as a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet, had to undergo testing for SARS2 as a result of the security agent's positive diagnosis, one person said. HHS has taken other steps to prevent the spread of the virus, such as additional cleaning in the headquarters.
https://archive.is/nrCk3

There may be a more infectious SARS2 strain in Houston, Texas

>A new preprint study from Houston suggests a more infectious strain may exist there.
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Gov. Gary Herbert announced that Utah was reporting a one-day record of 1,198 new SARS2 cases during his monthly meeting with journalists. He expressed concern that so many people are not taking the virus threat seriously.

>He once again pleaded with people to follow the rules for their community to slow the spread of the virus.
>“All of us have a role to play,” he said in a remote press conference. “We need to change our behaviors. We, in fact, control our own destiny.
>“We have a serious problem, and it’s not fictional, it’s real,” he said. “We have people who are getting sick and we have people who have died.”

>Herbert worried about the record number of SARS2 cases, and the substantial surge in hospitalizations, which he said creates as much trouble for health care staffing as it does for the number of beds.
>The inconvenience and sacrifice will be temporary for most, he said, while those who get sick may have long-term impacts and may even die.
https://archive.is/tP4cQ

'Sewer sludge' detects SARS2 outbreaks days faster than contact tracing, study finds
>The recent Yale study finds wastewater testing gives up to an eight day head start in curbing potential SARS2 spread.
>The science of studying human fecal waste as a way of predicting a population’s risk for viral spread, also known as wastewater epidemiology, has been successfully used by the global community in the fight against polio.

>Wastewater, or sewage from households or buildings, can harbor viruses like coronavirus regardless of whether a person is symptomatic. When scientists extract human waste from municipal sewage systems, then analyze it for dead virus particles, they’re given clear indication of the number of infected individuals in that area.
>“In communities where test reporting is delayed,” the researchers wrote, “sludge results, if analyzed and reported on the same day as sampling, can provide substantial advance notice of infection dynamics."
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>On Thursday, a Los Angeles superior court judge again ruled against LA County, delaying a decision on whether or not to find Grace Community Church (GCC) and Senior Pastor John MacArthur in contempt of court and declaring that the church and the pastor deserve a trial for their lawsuit against Gov. Newson’s and LA’s SARS2 restrictions preventing indoor church services.
>Since LA’s superior court will not hold civil trials until January 2021, this decision effectively allows GCC to keep holding church services until next year.
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>College enrollment has declined during pandemic, especially for international students and at community colleges, a report finds.

>California set a new national record on Thursday when it reported its 800,000th SARS2 case since the start of the pandemic.
https://archive.is/MKscX

J&J kicks off study of single-shot SARS-2 vaccine in 60,000 volunteers
>Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N> on Wednesday began a 60,000-person trial of an experimental single-shot COVID-19 vaccine that, if proven effective, could simplify distribution of millions of doses compared with leading rivals requiring two doses.

>The company expects results of the Phase III trial by year end or early next year, Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J's chief scientific officer, said in a joint news conference with officials from the National Institutes of Health and the Trump administration.

>J&J plans to manufacture as many as 1 billion doses in 2021, and more after that, Stoffels said.
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More than 90% of Americans are still susceptible to SARS-2, CDC director says
https://archive.vn/4sN8h

>But Horovitz and other experts said the jury's still out on how many COVID-19 patients truly remain asymptomatic throughout their infection.
>But after more widespread testing over a greater period of time in the United States, Horovitz believes that "the asymptomatic rate seems to be more like 40% than 20%."
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>Boris Johnson apologetically took a hammer to Britons' social lives today as he reintroduced lockdown measures in England to last possibly six months to see off a second wave of coronavirus.
>Pubs and other leisure and hospitality businesses like restaurants will face a 10pm curfew from Thursday.
>People working in retail, those travelling in taxis, and staff and customers in indoor hospitality will also have to wear face coverings - except while seated at a table to eat or drink.
>And in a dramatic reversal of the Government's recent drive to get people back to workplaces, all office workers will be advised to work from home where they can as soon as possible.
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>Has Sweden's second wave begun? Cases rise in Stockholm prompting concerns over supposed 'herd immunity'
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Putin offers UN staff FREE DOSE (thanks doc) of Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V jab as he calls for global conference on SARS-2 vaccine
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More Contagious Coronavirus Strain Now Dominates
>The first study to analyze the structure of the novel coronavirus from two waves of infection in a major city found that a more contagious strain dominates recent samples, researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital said on Wednesday.

>They examined more than 5,000 genomes from viruses recovered in the earliest phase of the pandemic in Houston, an ethnically diverse city of 7 million, and from an ongoing more recent wave of infections.

>The study, which has not yet been reviewed by outside experts, found that nearly all strains in the second wave had a mutation, known as D614G, which has been shown to increase the number of “spikes” on the crown-shaped virus.
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Thousands of American Troops to Take Part in SARS-2 Early-Detection Study
>Thousands of Defense Department personnel are slated to take part in a Covid-19 early-detection study that looks to identify troops with barely perceptible symptoms and quarantine them early.

>If successful, the study, which will collect data on the troops, could point the way to a widely used, noninvasive method of detecting Covid-19 symptoms even before a patient feels sick. Researchers said they hope to learn more through the study about what it means to be asymptomatic.
>Officials plan for more than 5,000 largely U.S.-based troops in coming weeks to join a joint study between the Defense Department and Koninklijke Philips NV, a global health technology company, to use bio-measuring devices like smartwatches that identify people infected with Covid-19, quarantine them and treat the illness.

>For more than two years, Department of Defense research units have been collaborating on software developed by Philips that closely monitors a variety of biomarkers like pulse, temperature and oxygen saturation to look for barely recognizable symptoms of illness, sometimes before a person sees any changes.
https://archive.vn/Gsl30

22-09-2020
Britain could face 50,000 coronavirus cases per day by mid-October, top government scientists warn
>In a rare televised address from 10 Downing Street, Patrick Vallance, the British government’s chief scientific adviser, and Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical officer, said the number of covid-19 cases is doubling roughly every seven days.
>“If, and that’s quite a big if, but if that continues unabated . . . you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October, per day,” said Vallance. A month later, this could result in more than 200 deaths a day, he said.
>The ominous warning comes amid speculation that the British government is set to introduce fresh nationwide restrictions this week as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise sharply.
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As SARS-2 skyrocketed in the US, so did stress and depression
>as the pandemic goes on, many people are experiencing more stress and depression, researchers reported in the journal Science Advances Friday.
>The study of more than 6,500 people found that several factors may have worsened people's stress, the researchers reported in the journal Science Advances.

>The biggest risk for symptoms of depression was having had a mental health diagnosis before the pandemic, they found.
>Stress and depression symptoms were also associated more with personal exposure than public spread, suggesting "concerns about contracting the disease outweighed concerns about pandemic-related disruptions in daily life," researchers said.

>Employment also made a big impact, with those who lost their jobs suffering most and those who kept their jobs and those who felt purpose as essential workers at a lower risk for emotional symptoms — even though they were at a greater risk for contracting the virus, researchers said.
>Another significant factor in pandemic-related stress, they found, is the frequency with which participants were exposed to conflicting information from the media.
>People were immersed in news an average of seven hours a day, they found. Acute stress increased as time went on, the surveys showed.
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Canadian SARS-2 gargle test ‘one of the first of its kind’ in the world, doctor says
>“This is a new saline gargle where you put a little bit of normal saline, so sterile water, in your mouth and you swish it around a little bit and you spit it into a little tube and that’s an easier way to collect it for young people,” said Dr. Henry.

>B.C. public health officials say they compared test results in both children and adults and found the rate of COVID-19 detection was very similar between the nasal swab and the new gargle test.
>B.C. is prioritizing children for the new test but hopes to expand to adults in the coming weeks.

>While the sample will still have to be taken to a lab for processing the test does not have to be administered by a healthcare professional.
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SARS-2 less deadly thanks to doctors gaining practice and drugs improving
>For those who develop dangerous cases of the infection, advances in medical care and the growing experience of doctors are improving the chances of survival.
>“Health-care preparedness today is much better than it was in February and March,” Badley said in an interview. “We have better and more rapid access to diagnosis. We have more knowledge about what drugs to use and what drugs not to use. We have more experimental treatments available. All of those contribute to possible improvements in the mortality rate.”
>One study looked at 4,689 Covid-19 hospitalizations from March to June in New York, adjusting patients’ mortality rate for factors such as age, race, obesity and any underlying illnesses they might have had. In the first half of March, the mortality rate for hospitalized patients was 23%. By June, it had fallen to 8%. The research hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed
>“Even with these improvements, this is not a benign disease,” said Leora Horwitz, an associate professor of population health and medicine at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine who conducted the New York study of Covid-19 hospitalizations. “This does not mean that coronavirus is now a non-dangerous disease. It remains a very serious threat to public health.”
>Even looking at deaths per the number of confirmed cases can be misleading as the result is largely a function of testing, experts say. If many mild or asymptomatic cases are captured, mortality rates will be skewed lower. In Europe, for example, there are anecdotal signs of a similar trend, though much of the lower death rate may be because of more cases being found in younger, healthier people. More infections in young people are being found in the U.S., as well.
>“You have to understand who you’re testing and then what the real fatality rate is for that demographic,” said Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital.
>There is even a hypothesis that public health-measures like mask-wearing and distancing can help decrease the amount of virus people are getting infected with, leading to less severe cases because the body isn’t overwhelmed with a large dose of virus at once.
>“Even though they’re getting infected with the virus, perhaps they are getting less of a dose of the virus and so they’re just getting less sick from it,” Horwitz said.
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After Criticism, C.D.C. Reverses Covid-19 Guidelines on Testing People Who Were Exposed
>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reversed a recommendation that people who have had close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus did not need to get tested unless they had symptoms.

>The change came after widespread criticism of the earlier guideline, as well as reporting from The New York Times that the recommendation had come from political appointees in the Trump administration and skipped the agency’s usual, rigorous scientific review.

>The Times reported Thursday that the guideline was posted on the C.D.C. website despite strenuous objections from the agency’s scientists.
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Korea reports suspected case of coronavirus reinfection
>South Korean heath authorities are studying what may be the nation's first case of a coronavirus reinfection, found in a woman in her 20s, officials said Saturday.

>"Research on a suspected reinfection case is under way in the country," Kwon Joon-wook, deputy director of the Central Disease Control Headquarters, said in a press briefing.

>The patient was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March and released from isolation after recovery, but was confirmed to be infected again in early April. he said.

>The authorities believe the woman was likely infected through different routes, but more study is needed to reach a conclusion, Kwon said.

>"We believe that each infection came from a different cluster, as have happened in other reinfection cases in foreign countries," he said.

>There have been hundreds of Korean patients who tested positive a second time after recovery. Experts did not regard them as reinfections, saying dead virus fragments remaining in the patients' bodies were likely detected in the tests.
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Gorgas Institute monitoring four SARS-2 possible reinfections
>The Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies (Icges) is monitoring four possible cases of reinfection by Covid-19.

>"So far we have four subjects under investigation, two of them we are sequencing and we hope that next week we will have results to know if it was really reinfection or critical relapses," Gorgas director, Juan Miguel Pascale. said on Friday, September 18
>He stressed that there is a situation and that to be able to determine if a person was reinfected; first he had to give a positive by the PCR test, then in a period of time register a negative result and wait another 30 days to do another test; and that the first two have to be sequenced, and this is not so easy.

>“What made the health system see the suspicion is because patients came back with symptoms; some with more severe symptoms and others with mild symptoms. The idea is to see if there is an association or not with a viral presence, first, and see if that virus is the same as it was previously, ”Pascale said on TVN news.
>Pascale said that the cases of reinfection are not usual or frequent, otherwise, the health system would collapse.
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Terry Branstad blames Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic, tells CNN China covered it up
>Outgoing U.S. ambassador to China and former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad blamed Beijing for the coronavirus pandemic

>Branstad, 73, accused China of covering up the pandemic and creating tensions between the United States and China, telling CNN that the "Chinese system was such that they covered it up and even penalized the doctors who pointed it out at the beginning."
>He also claimed, "what could have been contained in Wuhan ended up becoming a worldwide pandemic."

>Branstad previously advocated for China after rumors that Beijing was deliberately blocking exports of masks and other medical supplies to fight the coronavirus, saying the shipment of 1,200 tons of such products to the U.S. could not have been possible without Chinese support.
>“Now, with domestic Chinese demand for personal protective equipment receding to more normal levels, our mission’s most urgent priority is to help get (personal protective equipment) and medical equipment to the United States as quickly as possible," Branstad said in April.

>Branstad announced he will be stepping down from his position as the country's ambassador to China. He was appointed ambassador by Trump in late 2016— partly due to his close relationship with Chinese President Xi.
>He has not publicly given a reason for his departure.
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china at risk of a winter spike in coronavirus infections: experts
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Researchers made a breakthrough drug that can completely neutralize the coronavirus
>Researchers recently isolated a molecule that could help create a drug capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.
>Clinical trials involving the drug are set to begin on humans next year.
>Even if a coronavirus vaccine is approved later this year, it may only work 50% of the time.
>Ab8 not only has potential as therapy for COVID-19, but it also could be used to keep people from getting SARS-CoV-2 infections. Antibodies of larger size have worked against other infectious diseases and have been well tolerated, giving us hope that it could be an effective treatment for patients with COVID-19 and for protection of those who have never had the infection and are not immune.
>To date, Ab8 has only been tested on mice so it remains to be seen if it proves to be as effective on humans. To this end, clinical trials are set to begin early next year, but the scientists seem confident based on early results that they’re on to something big.
https://archive.vn/9pcGh
High Potency of a Bivalent Human VH Domain in SARS-CoV-2 Animal Models
>A high-affinity human antibody domain, VH ab8, specific for SARS-CoV-2 was selected
>VH ab8 bound to all three S protomers competing with ACE2
>Bivalent VH, VH-Fc ab8, potently neutralized SARS-CoV-2 in vitro and in animals
>Small size and bivalency contribute to the high ab8 SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing potency
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31148-X

Anecdotal story on ‘Long-haul’ SARS-2 complications with comparisons to Ebola.
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Mexico’s Sept. 16 Independence Day celebrations were muted by the coronavirus pandemic, with a small, symbolic gathering replacing the usual massive military parade Wednesday.
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SARS-2 news: UK government won’t rule out second national lockdown
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-uk-government-wont-rule-out-second-national-lockdown/

Lancet Medical Journal Changes Peer-Review Process Amid Flurry of SARS-2 Research
>The Lancet, a nearly-century old medical journal, announced changes to its peer-review process because of a retraction in June of a large study involving the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment after the article’s underlying data came under question.
>The British journal said Thursday that the changes were intended to reduce the risk of misconduct in research. They include a new requirement that more than one author of a paper has direct access to raw data used in an article and can verify its authenticity.
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Coronavirus vaccine trials still struggling for diversity
>Earlier this month, ads from the National Institutes of Health began airing asking Black people and Latinos to volunteer for the coronavirus vaccine trials.
>The nigger community has been hesitant to take part in medical research and clinical trial
>A recent Pew study found that nigger *mericans are still more skeptical of experimental treatments and a potential SARS-2 vaccine than spic and white adults.
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SARS-2’s Other Unnecessary Death Toll
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SARS-2 related death claims life of two-month-old in Michigan
>The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately give specific details about what led up to the child’s death because of confidentiality concerns.
>This latest death of a two-month-old girl further dispels common misconceptions that children cannot contract the coronavirus.
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Moderna and Pfizer Reveal Secret Blueprints for Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
https://archive.vn/NXWUV
http://web.archive.org/web/20200917125542/https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/mRNA-1273-P301-Protocol.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/aw8854.pdf
https://pdfhost.io/v/S20usAfAM_Microsoft_Word_mRNA1273P301_Protocoldocx.pdf