Those Religious Hypocrites — In Saner Thought

I seldom write on religion….for one I do not care much for organized religion….butt mostly because most of the leaders are outright hypocrites….they rail about everything from protesters to fornicators to gays to Muslims…..and only the weak minded believe their babbling…..for most prove over time that they are NO better than the rest of us […]

Those Religious Hypocrites — In Saner Thought

CENSORED NEWS: A Time of Monsters: Coronavirus spreads through schools, as Navajo Vice President joins Trump regime of genocide and terror

Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer expressed his support for President Donald Trump during his speech on the second night of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. Lizer said Trump delivered the $8 billion in CARES Act relief to Indian country.
However, Lizer did not point out that Indian country had to go to court and sue to get the CARES Act funds released, which were approved by the U.S. Congress. Lizer failed to reveal that the Navajo tribal government has stalled emergency relief to the most desperate Navajos, after receiving $714 million in federal CARES Act relief funds three months ago.
Very little of the relief received three months ago has reached the most desperate Navajos. There is no uniform emergency food and water home delivery to those in quarantine; no visiting home health care for the dying. Water sources are damaged, broken and expensive, say Navajos as they search for water.

Source: CENSORED NEWS: A Time of Monsters: Coronavirus spreads through schools, as Navajo Vice President joins Trump regime of genocide and terror

Two Killed and One Injured on Third Night of Unrest in Kenosha, Wis. – The New York Times

The violence occurred early Wednesday during a confrontation between demonstrators and a group of men armed with guns as protests continued over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/kenosha-shooting-protests-jacob-blake.html

Proud Boys and white militia on the attack?

C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing – The New York Times (CDC has totally caved to political pressure to make Trump look good)

At a moment when experts have almost universally come forward to encourage more frequent and widespread testing, especially to reach vulnerable and marginalized sectors of the population, the C.D.C.’s update appears counterintuitive and “very strange,” said Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Just weeks ago, the National Institutes of Health announced the first round of grant recipients for its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program, or RADx, to scale up coronavirus testing in the coming weeks and months. On the agency’s RADx website, officials underscore the importance of prioritizing tests that can “detect people who are asymptomatic.”

A more lax approach to testing, experts said, could delay crucial treatments, as well as obscure, or even hasten, the coronavirus’s spread in the community.

“I think it’s bizarre,” said Daniel Larremore, a mathematician and infectious diseases modeler at the University of Colorado Boulder. “Any move right now to reduce levels of testing by changing guidelines is a step in the wrong direction.”

Prior iterations of the C.D.C.’s testing guidelines struck a markedly different tone, explicitly stating that “testing is recommended for all close contacts” of people infected with the coronavirus, regardless of symptoms. The agency also specifically emphasized “the potential for asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission” as an important factor in the spread of the virus.

Approval of a Coronavirus Vaccine Would Be Just the Beginning – Huge Production Challenges Could Cause Long Delays | Inter Press Service

People’s lives, and life as we know it, are on the line. All of the complexities of producing a vaccine need to be addressed through open worldwide discussions and extensive mapping and modeling of these scenarios. Without proper planning and preparation, society may be left in a situation where production cannot meet demand or vaccines are shoddily produced.

And even when enough vaccines are manufactured, there’s still the challenge of actually getting them into hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and billions around the world. There are worries that there won’t be enough glass vials to store the vaccines or syringes to administer them, as well as concerns about the temperature controlled supply chain.

These challenges of production and distribution, though large, are not insurmountable. The more planning governments and businesses do now, the better they will be able to deliver the vaccines the world so desperately needs.The Conversation

 

Source: Approval of a Coronavirus Vaccine Would Be Just the Beginning – Huge Production Challenges Could Cause Long Delays | Inter Press Service

Covid-19 vaccine triggers immune response ‘better than expected’ in pre-clinical trials | RNZ News

Magdalena Plebanski, a professor of Immunology at RMIT University, said the development was exciting and showed the UQ team was a potential contender in the race to find an effective and safe vaccine.

“But it’s early days and we still don’t know whether it will induce an immune response in humans,” she said.

What impressed her about the UQ study was that the team were looking to accelerate the process of getting a viable vaccine into the community.

“They are thinking about the next step, about scale-up and production and they have shown scale-up is possible,” Plebanski said.

She also said demonstrating hamsters could be used as animal models was an exciting new development.

Plebanski said the researchers had shown the pathology in the hamster lungs was similar to that in human patients, and the animals could be used to test new interventions and vaccines.

“It looks promising. Thus far, all the signs are good,” she said.

“As to which is going to offer the best protection, it’s still too early to know.”

 

Source: Covid-19 vaccine triggers immune response ‘better than expected’ in pre-clinical trials | RNZ News

Kids represent 9.3% of US COVID cases but few serious ones | CIDRAP – (a “few” word diminishes the very real pain for the families of the children who become very ill and/or die…)

Children were 0.4% to 4.6% of total reported hospitalizations, and between 0.2% and 8.6% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization, the report said. And in states reporting mortality information, children represented 0% to 0.7% of fatalities.

Wyoming, Tennessee, New Mexico, Arkansas, and North Dakota reported the most pediatric infections, with 29 states total reporting that 10% or more cases in the past 2 weeks were in kids. New Jersey and New York City had the lowest rate of pediatric infections: 3.2% or less.

“At this time, it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children. However, states should continue to provide detailed reports on COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalizations, and mortality by age so that the effects of COVID-19 on children’s health can be documented and monitored,” the AAP said.

 

Source: Kids represent 9.3% of US COVID cases but few serious ones | CIDRAP