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Study: Remdesivir offers no clinical benefit for COVID-19, extends hospital stay for many – UPI.com

Treatment with the the antiviral drug remdesivir offered no clinical benefit to patients hospitalized with COVID-19, even prolonging their stay in healthcare facilities, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. Patients treated with the drug, which originally was developed to treat the Ebola virus, stayed in the hospital an average of roughly six days, while those who did not receive it were discharged after about three days, the data showed.

Source: Study: Remdesivir offers no clinical benefit for COVID-19, extends hospital stay for many – UPI.com

Israeli spyware firm linked to fake Black Lives Matter and Amnesty websites – report | Hacking | The Guardian

The findings suggest that a secretive and little-known company with a wide global reach could be helping governments hack and monitor people in civil society. The report comes amid growing concerns about surveillance technologies that can aid human rights abuses and law enforcement monitoring and crackdowns on Black Lives Matter and related activist groups. Microsoft’s threat intelligence center, which tracks security threats and cyberweapons, conducted its own analysis and said it found at least 100 targets of malware linked to Candiru, including politicians, human rights activists, journalists, academics, embassy workers and political dissidents. Microsoft found targets in the UK, Palestine, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Spain, Turkey, Armenia and Singapore, the report said. Microsoft said in a blogpost on Thursday that it had disabled the “cyberweapons” of Candiru and built protections against the malware, including issuing a Windows software update. There are no legitimate reasons for intelligence firms or their government customers to create websites that impersonate high-profile activist groups and not-for-profit organizations, said Bill Marczak, a co-author of the report,

Source: Israeli spyware firm linked to fake Black Lives Matter and Amnesty websites – report | Hacking | The Guardian

Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns | Medical research | The Guardian

The Elgazzar study was one of the the largest and most promising showing the drug may help Covid patients, and has often been cited by proponents of the drug as evidence of its effectiveness. This is despite a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in June finding ivermectin is “not a viable option to treat COVID-19 patients”.

Meyerowitz-Katz told the Guardian that “this is one of the biggest ivermectin studies out there”, and it appeared to him the data was “just totally faked”. This was concerning because two meta-analyses of ivermectin for treating Covid-19 had included the Elgazzar study in the results. A meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies to determine what the overall scientific literature has found about a treatment or intervention.

“Because the Elgazzar study is so large, and so massively positive – showing a 90% reduction in mortality – it hugely skews the evidence in favour of ivermectin,” Meyerowitz-Katz said.

“If you remove this one study from the scientific literature, suddenly there are very few positive randomised control trials of ivermectin for Covid-19. Indeed, if you get rid of just this research, most meta-analyses that have found positive results would have their conclusions entirely reversed.”

Source: Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns | Medical research | The Guardian

COVID-19 sniffing dogs being deployed in Massachusetts | TheHill

COVID-19 sniffing dogs being deployed in Massachusetts Starting today, a Massachusetts county will be turning to dogs to help fight COVID-19. The Bristol County Sheriff’s office is adding a team of COVID-19 sniffing dogs to its force, a first for the country, CBS 4 WBZ reports. The K-9s have been specifically trained to detect the coronavirus, which has a certain scent, in a way that mirrors how they sniff out drugs or bombs, the outlet notes. ADVERTISEMENT “It’s best to think of it as a decontamination tool,” Bristol County Capt. Paul Douglas told WBZ. “The dogs can detect the COVID odor on a counter or table if it was recently touched by a COVID-positive individual, or even detect the odor on a tissue used by someone with COVID.”

Source: COVID-19 sniffing dogs being deployed in Massachusetts | TheHill

2 Ingredient Nutella Pastry!

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It was ‘WORLD CHOCOLATE DAY’ on July 7th !!!

Who doesn’t love this holiday day??? But Wait…..

Forget the same boring simple chocolate, bring out Fancy without much Wancy work.

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All you need are Puff Pastry sheets and Chocolate spread – Anything you like – Nutella, Cocoa Almond spread, Hazelnut spread, Cashew spread – heck even Chocolate Sesame spread. As long as you see Chocolate in its words, you can pick it.

To be very frank, its not even a recipe! So, don’t quote me on the recipe on this yummy day. I am just trying to make your life easy! I hope we are still Friends????

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Follow the instructions on the package of Puff Pastry sheet and thaw it correctly. (The glorious layers either puff or huff depending on this step). – So, don’t get them directly from Freezer to counter. They don’t puff up properly…

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Hanging Gardens II

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Effects of these dual waterfalls is deeply refreshing for the people on the narrow walkway underneath.

Photograph two of this Hanging Garden series has the aspect shifted slightly to include the sheer cliff hovering over the waterfalls. A low ISO and tamped down diaphragm (f/8) resulting in longer exposure (1.3 sec) impart a presence for two low volume waterfalls.

Captured with a Kodak DCS Pro SLE/c dslr and a Canon EF 50 mm f/1.4 lens stabilized with the Manfrotto Studio Tripod model 475 and the 468 Hydrostatic ball head.

Copyright 2021 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved

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Seducție

Vivaldi translation:
Château de la Bastie d’Urfé, 2015

Coordinates: Saint-Etienne-le-Molard, Loire department, in the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region. Here is the massif from which the Loire River springs, away from the famous castles.

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Château de la Bastie d’Urfé, 2015

Coordonate: Saint-Etienne-le-Molard, departamentul Loire, în regiunea Auvergne Rhône Alpes. Aici se află masivul de unde izvorăște fluviul Loara, departe de salba celebrelor castele.

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Loc liniștit și provincial în sensul bun, nealterat de industrie, poluare, zgomot și alte disonanțe turistice. Ideal ca să citești sau să scrii, după cum se va vedea.

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Istoria castelului nu este nici ea deosebit de spectaculoasă și nu implică intrigi, trădari, adultere, abuzuri fiscale.

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A fost edificat de către un nobil local care s-a remarcat prin fapte de arme în timpul campaniei din Italia purtată de regele François I și, mai târziu, ca ambasador și diplomat. Fermecat de arhitectura italiană, eroul nostru a modificat major conacul de familie în stilul Renașterii italiene din secolul 16.

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Familia d’Urfé este mai cunoscută datorită lui Honoré d’Urfé (nepotul fondatorului), autor al romanului Astrée, primul roman-fluviu din literatura franceză, publicat pe durata a…

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Climate Change Disasters, not a Future Threat- They are here Now

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If we could do more to protect the environment, maybe we could see less disasters

And our economies could be growing much faster

When we spend less on restoring damaged places

Poverty might one day be replaced

We will be making 2 steps forward and 10 steps backward when disasters strike

If we keep on looking at change as something we don’t like

Our children will be looking forward to a future that is bleak

If our plans to have a great future is built on a foundation that is weak

But now that building environmental protection awareness is being done in a new and better way

You can simply support the eco friendly project online, as you help the children to work towards having a brighter day

I’m sure a lot of hurricanes, floods, wild fires and terrible heat waves are not what you want to see in…

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