Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP

…Most patients can continue taking immunosuppressants

The authors said that patients taking immunosuppressive drugs can safely continue, but that those on rituximab should talk with their physician about their options.

“At a minimum, people who take rituximab should continue to protect themselves from developing COVID-19,” lead author Kayte Andersen, MSc, a doctoral candidate, said in a Johns Hopkins University press release. “It also makes it all the more important that people around those taking rituximab get vaccinated.”

In a related commentary, David Liew, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Melbourne and Philip Robinson, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Queensland School of Clinical Medicine, both in Australia, said that patients taking rituximab can either continue taking it and use post-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) with monoclonal antibodies or new small-molecule antiviral treatments or pre-exposure prophylaxis with long-acting monoclonal antibodies.

Alternatively, Liew and Robinson said, physicians might prescribe other therapies, which they acknowledged is difficult in the treatment of some indications for which rituximab is first-line therapy.

“The detriment from choosing an inferior option…will need to be balanced against potentially improved outcomes with COVID-19,” they wrote. “This equation will vary with new SARS-CoV-2 variants, changing epidemiology, and between individual patients; currently, such a complex decision lacks data to inform it…”

Source: Study: Immune-suppressed not at higher risk of poor COVID outcomes | CIDRAP

The worst of the worst…

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So I was just reading some comments of why people didn’t want to get the COVID vaccine, and most of them…were pretty pathetic to be hones with you, lol.

Like one person was saying how they would get the vaccine, but they just didn’t want to have to take continual boosters…Once a year, and how much they were annoyed that they might have to get two jabs if they want to travel overseas. Sorry, but, there are ALREADY countries where you have to do this anyway. I am also coming from a place though where, I know people and myself. Who take medication every single day to keep them alive, in pill and/or syringe type form.

One of the others was because they “heard” that they were using crushed up fetuses’ …

Now, my mum and I have actually dealt with this “theory” before, lol. A family friend is one…

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Post-COP26: Where are we going now? — The World is On Fire

Barbara Crane Navarro

The graph above displays our choices for the future. Do we keep the planet within livable space for everyone or not? Since the beginning of COP 26 years ago, our paths have never been so clear. More than ever, the science can tell us what different socioeconomic-emissions paths will mean in terms of future temperature.[…]

Post-COP26: Where are we going now? — The World is On Fire

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Climate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26 — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch By Navdanya International (Vandana Shiva) – TRANSCEND Media Service* The climate emergency we face today is part of several interlocking crises involving our health, our soils, and the biodiversity on the planet. The same line of thinking and actions that are driving climate change is leading to biodiversity loss and extinction of[…]

Climate Change Is Ecological Destruction: Greenwashing and False Solutions at COP 26 — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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Muitos compradores de ouro estabelecidos em países ricos; Suíça, Canadá e Reino Unido compraram 72% das exportações de ouro do Brasil e contribuem para a violência, desmatamento, poluição e contaminação mortal por mercúrio associada à mineração ilegal de ouro! – Se você compra ou usa ouro, isso também pode estar relacionado a você! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Casa comunal Yanomami

«Meus ancestrais morreram da mesma coisa que estou enfrentando agora; mineração ilegal de ouro e epidemias espalhadas pelos garimpeiros. Mineiros de ouro trazem Covid-19 xawara e violência.»

  • Dario Kopenawa Yanomami

Desmatamento e contaminação por garimpeiros em território indígena

No início de novembro de 2021, Dario Kopenawa Yanomami soube do recente assassinato de três de seus parentes em uma comunidade remota, Moxihatëtëa, por garimpeiros ilegais. Sua preocupação é que à medida que os garimpeiros e os criminosos que os apóiam se tornem cada vez mais violentos, possa haver outro incidente como o massacre de Haximu em 1993, no qual dezesseis Yanomami foram massacrados por pesquisadores. Os sobreviventes de Haximu lembram: «Os garimpeiros mataram nossos irmãos e irmãs e também mataram nosso pai com facões; alguns, eles morreram de armas de fogo.»

Sobreviventes do massacre de Haximu segurando os restos mortais cremados de seus parentes assassinados

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U.S. Plans to Spend Billions to Increase Covid Vaccine Supplies – The New York Times

…“This is about assuring expanded capacity against Covid variants and also preparing for the next pandemic,” Dr. Kessler said. “The goal, in the case of a future pandemic, a future virus, is to have vaccine capability within six to nine months of identification of that pandemic pathogen, and to have enough vaccines for all Americans.”

The move comes as the Biden administration also plans to buy enough of Pfizer’s new Covid-19 pill for about 10 million courses of treatment to be delivered in the next 10 months, paying over $5 billion, according to people familiar with the agreement. The government has also pledged $3 billion for rapid over-the-counter tests, which are needed to detect the virus before the Pfizer drug can be prescribed.

Taken together, the investments amount to an aggressive effort to vanquish a pandemic that is heading into its third year. When given promptly to trial groups of high-risk unvaccinated people who developed symptoms of the disease, the Pfizer drug sharply reduced the risk of hospitalization and death. Pfizer applied on Tuesday for federal authorization of the drug on an emergency basis…

As Gas Prices Surge, Biden Asks F.T.C. to Investigate – The New York Times

President Biden asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to consider whether “illegal conduct” by large oil and gas companies is pushing up gasoline prices for American consumers, the latest effort by the administration to target concentration in the energy industry in a bid to bring down prices at the pump.

The move is unlikely to spur immediate action by the F.T.C., which has the power to break up large industry players, and it is unlikely to affect gasoline prices materially any time soon.

But it could spur the commission to open an investigation to gather data on how companies set gasoline prices, which could be used in future enforcement actions.

Mr. Biden’s letter to Lina Khan, the antitrust champion he appointed as chair of the commission, claims “mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies.” The president noted that prices at the pump have risen even as the costs of refined fuel have fallen and industry profits have gone up. The two largest players in the industry, ExxonMobil and Chevron, have doubled their net income since 2019, he wrote, while announcing billions of dollars in plans to issue dividends and buy back stock…

Iowa Guv Used COVID Money To Pay Her Own Staff, Audit Reveals | Talking Points Memo

Iowa’s governor used federal COVID relief funds to pay her own staff’s salaries and cover a pre-existing budget shortfall, the state’s auditor said in a report released Monday.

The report accused Gov. Kim Reynolds’ (R) office of using nearly $450,000 from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund — part of the CARES Act meant to help local governments deal with COVID — to pay the salaries and benefits of 21 staffers from mid-March through June 2020.

Though the money was used to pay staff in the governor’s office, it was taken from the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s COVID response funds — even though the staffers paid with the money didn’t qualify for the COVID money, state auditor Rob Sand found. The blog Bleeding Heartland first reported the payments in September.

A spokesperson for Reynolds told auditors that during the time period in question, the governor’s office was focused on COVID response — but, “Documentation to support this conclusion was never provided,” the report noted. Reynolds’ office also has not provided documentation describing how the money was allocated, nor anything describing the time each staffer spent on COVID, the report said…

Source: Iowa Guv Used COVID Money To Pay Her Own Staff, Audit Reveals | Talking Points Memo

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