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In other words, Trump is a sociopath. The POTUS is a sociopath! Wow, just wow.
Situation in the U.S. on May 28:
Situation in China on May 28, excluding HK, Macau, and TW:
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Situation in the U.S. on May 28:
Situation in China on May 28, excluding HK, Macau, and TW:
Dang so he is a nyt reporter. I see his tweets bring retweeted but no idea who he is
More and more scientific research are emerging that point towards the high US infection and fatality numbers are preventable.
New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 took off in the U.S. — and points to missed chances to stop it
New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 took off in the U.S. — and points to missed chances to stop it
- New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state — the country’s first — was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country. Instead, it suggests the person who ignited the first chain of sustained transmission in the United States probably returned to the country in mid-February, a month later.
- Worobey and his co-authors estimated that the infection that started the Seattle area outbreak arrived in the country around Feb. 13, shortly after President Trump’s ban on travel from China went into effect on Feb. 2.
- “Our finding that the virus associated with the first known transmission network in the U.S. did not enter the country until mid-February is sobering, since it demonstrates that the window of opportunity to block sustained transmission of the virus stretched all the way until that point,”
- “I’m convinced by the Worobey study,” Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research, an expert on viral genomes, told STAT.
China has 5 Covid-19 vaccines under human clinical trial. Most of the news you can find on English media are about either CanSino Biologics and Sinovac.
But the China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has quietly completed Phase 2 trial. CNBG is the vaccine development subsidiary of China's pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, and has two inactivated vaccines under trial. It is not clear from the news that just one or both vaccines have completed the Phase 2 trial.
If you have difficulty accessing the Bloomberg article, you can try this from Hindustan Times
or you can read the news from the company's own web site. But it is in Chinese. With the help of Google Translate :
But the China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has quietly completed Phase 2 trial. CNBG is the vaccine development subsidiary of China's pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm, and has two inactivated vaccines under trial. It is not clear from the news that just one or both vaccines have completed the Phase 2 trial.
If you have difficulty accessing the Bloomberg article, you can try this from Hindustan Times
or you can read the news from the company's own web site. But it is in Chinese. With the help of Google Translate :
- On May 29, the reporter learned from Sinopharm Group, the first to develop the world's first new coronavirus inactivated vaccine, that as of now, more than 2,000 people have participated in the clinical trial of the new crown inactivated vaccine developed by the company, of which Wuhan Institute of Biology (Jiaozuo) Wuzhi County CDC) has completed more than 1,000 people in phase I / II. The Beijing Institute of Biology (Shangqiuliang Park CDC) has completed the enrollment of more than 1,000 people in Phase I / II. At present, more than 2,000 clinical data show that the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine have been fully verified, and there is no obvious adverse reaction in one case.
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I hope you are right. Can you enlighten those of us without biomedical expertise why this is so ?
Thank you in advance.
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Because it most resembles the original virus with its motifs in native conformations.
The other one is live attenuated vaccine which is live viruses modified to be less virulent and dangerous. However, in some cases, they mutate and become dangerous again. Experts avoid this method nowadays.
All the hype on mRNA or Adenovirus vaccines is just hype. They're all startups whose executives want to dump stocks.
The big players like Merck are all working on inactivated or subunit vaccines. The latter of which is more difficult but safer as it only uses a small portion of the virus.
An inactivated vaccine is the quickest way to get to a working vaccine, usually.
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