US military accused of flouting Guam’s lockdown

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With Guam in lockdown after a surge of coronavirus cases, there’s anger that the US military is flouting restrictions.

Video captures jaw-dropping moment whale jumps out of water in Newfoundland | Globalnews.ca wait for it – wow

Then, all of a sudden, a whale jumped out of the water, rolled over and “flapped his arms together … like clapping,” he said.

Sarah said that she couldn’t believe what just happened.

“It was mind-blowing,” Sarah said in a phone interview. “I didn’t know they could do that.”

Source: Video captures jaw-dropping moment whale jumps out of water in Newfoundland | Globalnews.ca

Jumblat Holds Talks with Hariri at Center House

Politics as usual after game changer blast and economic meltdown will not work. W140

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Monday evening at the Center House with Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat.

“The meeting dealt with the latest political developments and the general situation,” Hariri’s press office said in a terse statement.

Remdesivir of scant benefit in hospitalized COVID patients, study finds | CIDRAP

The antiviral drug remdesivir had little effect in patients with moderate COVID-19 in 105 hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Asia in a randomized, controlled, open-label trial published late last week in JAMA, adding to a mixed picture of the drug in randomized clinical trials (RCTs), which are considered the gold standard for gauging interventions.

Source: Remdesivir of scant benefit in hospitalized COVID patients, study finds | CIDRAP

FDA OKs use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 | CIDRAP – (caving to pressure for President’s hoed for political gain)

Hahn’s interpretation of the 35% reduction in mortality was widely disputed by scientists on Twitter, who used the same data from the Mayo Clinic to show that 3.2 people out of 100—not 35—would be saved by the administration of convalescent plasma. The difference is in relative versus absolute risk, with 35% being the percent improvement but, because the rate of those seeing improvement was so low—8.7% to 11.9%—the absolute reduction is much smaller.

Also, even for that small absolute improvement, the plasma would need to be administered within 3 days versus 7, according to the Mayo data. (problem – who gets test results back within 3 days?)

 

Source: FDA OKs use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 | CIDRAP