Pfizer to ask US to authorize third Covid vaccine shot as booster | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Pfizer plans to ask US regulators to authorize a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker’s top scientist said on Thursday.

The announcement was based on evidence of greater risk of reinfection six months after inoculation and due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus.

And the US pharmaceutical company and its German partner BioNTech have started designing a version of their vaccine specifically to combat the highly-contagious Delta variant, Pfizer’s chief scientific officer, Mikael Dolsten, said.

However, the companies do not think they will need to replace the current version of their highly-successful shot.

Source: Pfizer to ask US to authorize third Covid vaccine shot as booster | Coronavirus | The Guardian

UPDATE: Toyota reverses course, says it will stop donating to Republican objectors – by Judd Legum – Popular Information

Toyota announced on Thursday afternoon that it would “stop contributing to those members of Congress who contested the certification of certain states in the 2020 election.” Source: UPDATE: Toyota reverses course, says it will stop donating to Republican objectors – by Judd Legum – Popular Information

Bamlanivimab prevents COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in nursing-home setting | Topics in Antiviral Medicine; 29(1):32-33, 2021. | EMBASE

Bamlanivimab was highly effective in reducing the incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection and was well tolerated. These findings demonstrate the potential beneficial impact of bamlanivimab use on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality among skilled nursing facility residents. Source: Bamlanivimab prevents COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in nursing-home setting | Topics in Antiviral Medicine; 29(1):32-33, 2021. | EMBASE

If You Don’t Plan to Recycle More How will you have a Future that is Secure? — FunWritings

More recycling is the solution for plastic pollution Let us change the bad situation

If You Don’t Plan to Recycle More How will you have a Future that is Secure? — FunWritings

Quedamos en medio de la travesía

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Quedamos en medio de la travesía, entre imágenes difusas de rostros que partieron con sus nombres, sus apellidos y sus biografías, inscritos, quizá, en lápidas abandonadas y frías, y la gente que no estaba con nosotros en aquellos minutos y años infantiles y juveniles, y que ahora escribe sus historias en un mundo que parece roto e inmejorable y que, no obstante, le pertenece durante su fugaz existencia. Quedamos en medio de la travesía, mientras pensábamos que el mundo era nuestro. Era lo que teníamos. Se iban los días sin darnos cuenta. Acaso éramos tan felices que no contabilizábamos los instantes, probablemente estábamos inmersos en un ambiente que creíamos duradero y nuestro, quizá las personas que permanecían con nosotros significaban tanto, o tal vez, enamorados, planeábamos construir un hogar y ser intensamente dichosos. Quedamos en medio de la travesía…

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