The Globe tucked it into this bu$ine$$ lead:
"Most PPP money in Mass. went to a small number of companies" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, December 2, 2020
More than half the money that Massachusetts companies received as part of the federal Paycheck Protection Program went to fewer than 5 percent of the loan recipients, according to data released Tuesday night by the Small Business Administration.
Details on the Treasury Department’s $525 billion lending program, which was designed to help small businesses withstand the pandemic, show that a relatively small number of companies — and some well-known chains — received most of the funds, nationally and locally.
The SBA previously released data on PPP loans, but just on recipients of $150,000 or more, and it only showed ranges for loan amounts. By contrast, the new release — which follows a legal case between the SBA and news organizations — includes all of the more than 5 million loan recipients in the United States, and the exact amount each was awarded. The SBA said the data only include active loans, meaning it excludes any that “were canceled for any reason.”
Roger Berkowitz, chief executive of Legal Sea Foods, said in a statement that the restaurant has used its loan to get “as many employees back to work as possible,” in addition to paying for employee benefits and using the balance for utilities and rent.
He is literally going fishing if Globe reporting is to be believed.
Most companies on the list did not disclose the race or gender of their owners. For those that did, 84 percent classified them as white, and about 78 percent identified as male. Among this group, about 91 percent of the funds were awarded to white owners, and 84 percent went to men. While the majority of dollars distributed in Massachusetts went to a small number of companies, the largest volume of loans was concentrated in smaller amounts.
The SBA release still leaves questions. Some companies, including more than 23,500 in Massachusetts, either didn’t report the number of jobs they retained using the loan or listed it as zero. The goal of the PPP program is to incentivize small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.
It is also unclear at this point which loans will be forgiven. Businesses can apply to have 100 percent of their loan forgiven up to 10 months after the funds are spent, as long as the money is spent on eligible expenses, such as payroll costs, rent, mortgage interest, and utilities. The SBA stopped taking loan applications in August.
I hate to tell you this, but the banks kept the money and are getting rich.
A Bank of America survey of 300 businesses owners in Greater Boston, released Wednesday, found that 36 percent took part in the Paycheck Protection Program. The survey also found the local business community’s outlook is cautious.
Other Massachusetts companies listed as receiving $10 million loans include the security company Northeast Security and dairy cooperative Agri-Mark, which makes Cabot cheese. Tom Brady’s health and performance company, TB12, was awarded a loan of about $961,000.
They $nuck it in there, didn't they?
Related: "LeBron James agreed to a two-year, $85 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers through the 2022-23 season, which will coincide with James’ 20th NBA season. James’ agency, Klutch Sports, confirmed the deal during the first week of training camp for the NBA champions....."
The great influencer and hypocrite who is in on the looting.
With the vast economic collapse, one may wonder how can teams afford such salaries.
Well, with the uber-rich gobbling up all the money, they intend to either print the money or pay these modern-day gladiators to continue to play in front of empty stadiums while the population is under house arrest and watching from home (they hope). That's who$e tune they will be dancing to as high-priced $laves.
Several small colleges and universities were granted multimillion-dollar loans, according to the SBA data. Assumption College in Worcester received a $7.5 million loan, and Wheaton College in Norton received a $6.5 million loan. Pine Manor College, which Boston College agreed to acquire earlier this year, was awarded $1.4 million. Becker College, Fisher College, Gordon College, and Nichols College also received aid.
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Oddly enough, the Globe featured small colleges at the bottom of their front page today:
"Pandemic is just the latest blow for small colleges" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, December 2, 2020
Even before the pandemic shut its South End campus in March, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology was in trouble. With little new revenue to offset mounting debt, the institution was in the midst of selling its historic building on Berkeley Street and exploring a merger with another local college.
Now, nine months into the economic devastation the pandemic has wrought, Benjamin Franklin’s financial situation is even more precarious. Like other small, private colleges that depend almost entirely on tuition to survive, it has struggled to attract and retain students. The institution, which prepares graduates for careers in the local economy’s technical fields, has worked hard to keep student costs low, but in this economy, fewer are able to pay.
Last month accreditors cited Benjamin Franklin for its shaky finances and gave it two years to correct its problems or risk losing accreditation, a blow that could force closure. The pandemic has dramatically intensified those pressures. Fewer students and their families have the means to cover tuition. Doubts about the value of remote learning have prompted some to put off college temporarily, and international enrollment has plummeted.
In New England, the loss of small colleges can have profound consequences. They are the economic and social lifeblood of some towns and rural hamlets, and some small colleges play crucial roles in the higher education ecosystem. Experts say it will be crucial for schools like Benjamin Franklin to have a strong business plan coming out of the pandemic.
The switch to online has only renewed the debate over the cost of college, and whether it is worth it. Institutions like Southern New Hampshire University have honed an online model at a fraction of the cost of in-person education, and during the pandemic many more families are questioning whether the high costs of a traditional campus experience are worth it.
“The mindset is changing,” said Joseph Chillo, the former president of Newbury College in Brookline who oversaw its closure in 2019. “Institutions have to understand the stressors and the challenges that their students and families are going through, and how [so] do you begin to think through the business model?”
It's not $u$tainable in the New World Order being brought to us, and that's the problem!
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Related:
"Boston University has started buying electricity from a wind farm in South Dakota, living up to a pledge it made in 2018. BU began this week to procure up to 205,000 megawatt hours of electricity each year from French energy giant Engie; the school will resell that electricity for use in the Midwest and get renewable energy credits that it can count against its own carbon emissions in Boston. The amount of power that BU is buying is the equivalent to what the university used last year. BU’s commitment was crucial to the financing of Engie’s Triple H Wind Project, which is supplying the energy. BU said in 2018 that it is having a bigger impact on the environment by picking South Dakota over a project in New England, because a larger percentage of green power already exists in New England’s grid."
PFFFFFFT!
Also see:
"About 100 parents and children rallied Wednesday at Boston City Hall calling for schools to reopen. Chanting “schools are essential,” the families waved signs pointing to what they called the state’s misguided priorities since the coronavirus pandemic forced shutdowns in March, with restaurants, bars, and salons now open. One man’s sign read “Casinos = Safe, Schools = Not safe. Cool.”
That was buried back in the middle of page B4, and it turns out that Fraudci is under some fire now for basically admitting that the kids should never have been pulled from the schools to begin with as they don't seem to get sick or pass it on.
Timing sure is grand, huh?
Meanwhile, the Globe carried this confirmation on the front page (below the fold, of course):
"In the 10th month of the pandemic, officials responsible for educating Massachusetts’ 911,432 public school students are grappling with two competing and wildly conflicting narratives: The hopeful one presented by Governor Charlie Baker and by a growing global consensus of scientists that COVID-19 has not spread widely in schools, especially at the elementary level, and the alarming one of a surging second wave that seems bound to test the limits of that understanding. Superintendents are facing pressure from frayed parents on both sides of the argument, and many are choosing to take what they see as the safer path, limiting children’s time in school — often for reasons that have as much to do with logistics and politics as they do with science."
Meaning the kids were tortured and damaged for nothing by lying fear-mongers like Globe and the criminals in government and public health offices as well as "educators."
And they wonder why enrollment is down?
"Public school enrollment plummets statewide amid coronavirus pandemic" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, November 24, 2020
Public school enrollment across Massachusetts dropped by nearly 4 percent this fall, a significant decrease that largely reflects a wave of families who have pulled their children out of public schools, frustrated that classrooms remain closed because of the pandemic, state officials announced Tuesday.
God bless them all!
The decline is dramatic in a state where public school enrollment has been stagnant or declining by a few thousand students in recent years, according to state data and interviews with education advocates.
“I have not seen a statewide enrollment drop this big before, but on the other hand I have not seen a situation like this [pandemic] before,” said Glenn Koocher, who has served as executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees for more than two decades.
Jeffrey Riley, state education commissioner, sounded alarms during the meeting about the growing plight of public school students learning from home as many experience a deepening sense of isolation and deteriorating mental health, which he fears could worsen in the winter months if districts don’t return to classrooms or find ways to connect more intentionally with their students. He said he will present recommendations to the board next month to assist.
Well, "trust, once lost, is hard to restore."
“I think some people have seen the very concerning data on emergency room visits, as they relate to mental health for our children, are skyrocketing,” he said. “This is a national emergency. It’s also being reflected here in Massachusetts. . . . We’re just seeing a huge spike in mental health issues that are taking place.”
Now they are going to use mental evaluations by quake pervert shrinks to kidnap your kids!
The steepest decline came in the lowest grades, as many families have opted to keep their children enrolled in private preschool programs even if it means delaying kindergarten for a year. Kindergarten enrollment decreased by nearly 12 percent and public prekindergarten enrollment is down 30 percent. Those two grade levels combined represent almost half of the overall enrollment decline statewide.
Where they will be much safer, I'm sure.
Cathy Knowlton of Princeton bypassed the Wachusett Regional School District and instead sent her daughter to a private kindergarten about a half-hour drive away because the local school system is conducting all learning online. “She is thriving and she is learning,” said Knowlton. “It’s hard to believe she would have the same outcomes in a fully remote situation.”
The data confirm mounting anecdotal evidence in recent months that suggested families around the state have been bailing out of public schools over concerns that remote learning is lackluster and various reports indicating that private schools with classrooms open full time have experienced a spike in enrollment.
That's a polite way of describing crap propaganda.
Martin Zwierlein, of Belmont, said he is torn about what to do for next year because his son is doing well in the first grade at a private school. “I would love for him to come back to the local school system — that is the main reason we chose to live in Belmont,” he said. “I’m struggling with the decision.”
The enrollment report follows months of pleas to local districts by Governor Charlie Baker to bring more students back into the classrooms. Currently, more than half of the state’s students are learning from home, while many of the other students are splitting their time between lessons in the classroom and home. Very few districts are open in person full time.
That's one way to disobey the tyrant.
Baker and other state officials say that in-school transmission of COVID-19 has been rare in Massachusetts and that the risk of harm to students not attending school in person is significant both in terms of academic losses and the toll social isolation is taking on their mental health, but teachers unions, other education advocates, and some parents remain concerned about safety.
“Despite COVID, children need to be in school as much as possible,” James Peyser, the state’s education secretary, said during the state board meeting prior to the presentation.....
F**K OFF, a$$hole!!
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You lying f***ing bastards are incredible as you come at the kids with a DNA-altering tube and needle found in the bu$ine$$ $ection (harrumph) on page C4:
"Moderna plans to test its coronavirus vaccine in children, too" by Denise Grady New York Times, December 2, 2020
Moderna said Wednesday that it would soon begin testing its coronavirus vaccine in children ages 12 to 17. The study, listed Wednesday on the website clinicaltrials.gov, is to include 3,000 children, with half receiving two shots of vaccine four weeks apart and half getting placebo shots of salt water, but the posting says the study is “not yet recruiting,” and Colleen Hussey, a spokeswoman for Cambridge-based Moderna, said it was not certain when the testing sites would be listed or start accepting volunteers. A link on the website to test centers was not yet working, and Hussey said she was not sure when it would become active.
That's what the essential personnel and government officials will be vaccinated with first to show you it's safe! They want their medical corp in the NWO.
Moderna announced Monday that data from its study involving 30,000 adults had found its vaccine to be 94.1 percent effective and that it had applied to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency authorization to begin vaccinating adults. If approval is granted, certain groups of high-risk adults, including people in nursing homes, could receive shots late in December, but no vaccine can be widely given to children until it has been tested in them. Vaccines meant for both adults and children are generally tested first in adults to help make sure they are safe for pediatric trials.
Moderna’s vaccine has not yet been studied in children or pregnant women. In the new clinical trial in adolescents, girls past puberty will be tested before each injection to make sure they are not pregnant.
“Everyone anticipates that when we test this first in adolescents, then older children, then the real small kids, that the COVID vaccine will work,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University and an adviser on vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but children have more active immune systems than adults and may have stronger reactions, including more fever, muscle and joint aches, and fatigue, Schaffner said.
“They may be more out of sorts than adults for a day or two,” he said. “You really do want to know, if it’s given in adolescents, what can parents expect? You really want to be able to tell them clearly how you might feel for 24 or 48 hours after you receive the vaccine, and obviously, we really want to be able to tell parents it works.”
For something they aren't catching, aren't spreading, and which isn't killing them and is based on false test.
You are looking at TRULY EVIL PEOPLE HERE, folks, and may God damn them all to hell!
If a child had intense side effects and parents were not prepared for it, they might be reluctant to go back for the second shot, Schaffner said.
Half of us are dead-set (literally) against taking your poison.
Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said that vaccines “for the most part” work equally well in children and adults. Occasionally, as with the hepatitis B vaccine, different doses are required, he said. Moderna will study the same dose in children that it has tested in adults.
Pfizer began testing its coronavirus vaccine in children as young as 12 in October. A large clinical trial found its vaccine to be 95 percent effective in adults, and the company has requested emergency authorization from the FDA. Britain approved the Pfizer vaccine for adults Wednesday, the first country to do so.
It's 95% effective, but you will still have to distance and wear a mask even after the shots so the "return to normal" schtick is a BIG FAT LIE!
AstraZeneca has also tested its vaccine in children, but not in the United States.
As vaccine studies have moved forward, rumors have spread on social media, particularly among people who oppose vaccines in general, that President-elect Joe Biden plans to require vaccination for everyone, including children. His team has denied those claims, and Biden has said that he will rely on scientists’ advice for the best way to end the pandemic.
They won't so that, they will simply cut you off from essential supplies like food until you are quarantined in a COVID extermination camp, I mean, field hospital.
Meanwhile, Merck said it had sold its stake in Moderna.
?????
Merck sold its direct equity investment in Moderna during the first half of the fourth quarter, according to a statement from the US drug maker on Wednesday. No terms of the sale of the holdings were given.
Shares of Moderna fell by as much as 9 percent as the US market opened, but the stock recovered quickly and closed up 1.41 percent at $143. The company’s stock has seen a more than sevenfold surge so far this year.
Merck, which is also developing its own COVID-19 vaccines, was an early investor in Moderna, investing $50 million in 2015 and another $125 million in 2018. Moderna sold shares to the public for the first time in December 2018. The US drug giant said it had seen a large increase in the value of its investment since it first put money into the company.
Vaccines plural?
“Merck achieved a substantial gain on its direct holding in MRNA over the life of the investment, particularly in 2020 given the substantial appreciation in MRNA’s stock price,” the drug maker said in its statement. A spokeswoman declined to provide additional details.
Merck still holds an indirect exposure to Moderna through its investment in venture funds, the company said, and the drug makers are working together on developing cancer therapies.
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"Moderna seeks FDA approval for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine; Cambridge company says US vaccinations may begin as soon as Dec. 21" by Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff, November 30, 2020
Moderna’s stock rose more than 20 percent Monday, closing at $152.74 in Nasdaq trading.
It's simply the hopes of humanity prematurely collecting their reward, and as long as the stock price is healthy, huh?
Moderna on Monday summarized final data that had been scrutinized by an independent monitoring board. The board analyzed 196 coronavirus cases diagnosed among the 30,000 study participants who received two shots four weeks apart and then went about their daily lives. Half of the participants got the vaccine. The other half got placebo shots.
That is called cherry-picking, folks.
The analysis found that only 11 of the 196 people who came down with COVID-19 had gotten the vaccine. The other 185 cases occurred in recipients of the placebo. That indicated the vaccine has an efficacy rate of 94.1 percent — virtually the same rate as the 94.5 percent disclosed by the company after the first 95 coronavirus cases were diagnosed. It’s a remarkable showing for any vaccine, let alone one based on novel technology.
Thirty of the 196 coronavirus cases in the latest analysis were deemed severe, including one that resulted in a participant’s death. All 30 severe cases were diagnosed in volunteers who got the placebo.
Right, the placebo produced the side effects and death.
They must think we are already brain dead.
The vaccine was effective regardless of the age, race, ethnicity, and gender of volunteers, according to Moderna. In an indication of the diversity of trial participants, Moderna said the 196 volunteers who became ill with COVID-19 included 33 adults who were at least 65 years old and 42 participants who identified themselves as Hispanic, Black, Asian-American, or multiracial.
The study found no serious safety concerns. The most common side effects included pain at the injection site, fatigue, achiness, and headache. Side effects increased in frequency and in discomfort after the second shot.
Who decides what is serious, and once it's in you , you can't get it out.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines rely on synthetic messenger RNA, a variation on the natural substance, which directs protein production in cells throughout the body. The vaccines contain custom-made messenger molecules that instruct cells to create a part of the coronavirus and then stimulate the immune system to make antibodies to fend off the disease. No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved.
In other words, they are INFECTING YOU WITH THE THING!
All for a "disease" that has a 99.9% survival rate and is so deadly and lethal you don't even know you had it and need a flawed and faulty test to tell you so!
Moderna, which was launched 10 years ago with backing from the Cambridge venture capital firm now called Flagship Pioneering, currently has no products on the market. If it wins FDA approval, the vaccine could generate $13 billion in sales next year, Goldman Sachs analyst Salveen Richter said in a recent note to investors.
Lot of money at stake, but they would never lie about it.
The company began manufacturing the vaccine at its plant in Norwood in early February and has ramped up production since then. Moderna said it remains on track to produce 500 million to 1 billion doses globally next year.
In addition to the Norwood plant, Moderna has a 10-year agreement with a Swiss company to manufacture up to 1 billion doses a year for worldwide use at facilities overseas and in the United States, including in Portsmouth, N.H.
A billion doses a year for how long?
WTF?
It's going to ENDLESS VACCINATIONS, isn't it, you fuckers!!!!
Moderna has deals with other companies to help fill vials with the vaccine and package them.
Under Operation Warp Speed, McKesson Corp., of Texas, will be a central distributor for vaccines that win approval from US regulators.
There are more than a dozen coronavirus vaccine candidates in late-stage trials globally. They use a variety of approaches, and no company could produce enough of one to protect the world’s 7.8 billion people. No one knows how long any of the vaccines might confer immunity, but the answer is likely to emerge in coming months.....
OMFG, it might not even work!
You can STICK YOUR F**KING TOXIC TUBE of POISON then!
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No doubt they will win rubber-stamp approval.
Related:
"The European Union said Tuesday it will sign a contract for up to 160 million doses of the experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Moderna. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission, said the deal will be approved on Wednesday as the EU tries to build “one of the most comprehensive COVID-19 vaccine portfolios in the world.” The deal with Moderna is the sixth secured by the EU Commission with pharmaceutical companies, allowing its 27 member countries to buy more than one billion doses once the shots are ready. Earlier this month, Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective, according to preliminary data from the company’s study. The commission said that once a vaccine is ready, all EU countries will receive it at the same time on a pro rata basis."
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Yes, I'm told TIME is of the ESSENCE and they MUST MOVE QUICKLY given that the MANIPULATED COVID DEATH FIGURES are coming to LIGHT!
"High-risk groups await state vaccine plan; Massachusetts could see two vaccines arrive by mid- to late December" by Robert Weisman and Deanna Pan Globe Staff, December 1, 2020
Yup, ‘time is of the essence here’ and every effort must be made to convince Black people of a COVID-19 vaccine’s efficacy and safety according to the race traitor that occupies space on the Globe opinion page and thinks they will rise to stature rather than become an endangered species.
With the first COVID-19 vaccines on track to arrive in Massachusetts in less than two weeks, the groups most vulnerable to the deadly virus — from front-line health workers to residents of hard-hit communities — are awaiting the state’s plan for allocating the initial doses in what’s shaping up as the largest vaccination program in history.
I have not long to live.
Members of a state vaccine advisory group say they now expect Massachusetts could receive enough two-shot allotments to inoculate 300,000 residents in the first phase, considerably more than they’d anticipated two weeks ago. As drug makers Pfizer and Moderna press forward with their bids for federal emergency use authorization, they think both vaccines could be available in the state by mid- to late December, and distributed over the course of several months.
They will be ruining Christmas with that "gift."
“Current projections are something on the order of 300,000 [allotments] in the first month or so, and it will take a couple months or so to deliver all of those doses,” said Dr. Robert Finberg, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and a member of the advisory group.
Finberg, huh?
At a press briefing Tuesday, Governor Charlie Baker reiterated that “high-risk individuals,” due to their work, age, or physical condition, will be first in line for the state’s vaccine supply.
“That’s probably gonna be where most of the activity is in December, January, February, and March,” he said.
Assuming all goes according to plan, “Joe Q or Jane Q Citizen” likely will have access to the vaccine by spring, Baker said.
All goes according to plan, huh?
The distribution plan, which eventually could involve the vast majority of the nearly 7 million state residents, came into sharper focus after a meeting Tuesday of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel that’s preparing a national vaccine distribution framework. That was to be followed by a Tuesday evening meeting of Baker’s vaccine advisory group, which will recommend who in the state will get the vaccines first. The governor’s plan is expected to follow that recommendation.
States have until Friday to submit their final vaccine distribution plans to the federal government.
“We are getting close” in establishing a priority list, said Dr. Asif Merchant, a geriatrician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital who represents the Massachusetts Medical Society on the state’s vaccine advisory group. “Time is of the essence here.”
Why?
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"Oxford study confirms Astra COVID shot’s response in elderly" by James Paton and Suzi Ring Bloomberg, November 19, 2020
The University of Oxford confirmed that the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with AstraZeneca produced strong immune responses in older adults in an early study, with key findings from the last phase of tests expected in the coming weeks.
The results, published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal, shed more light on preliminary data released in recent months showing the experimental shot generated an immune response in the elderly, who are at highest risk of severe illness.
‘‘This is a very important step, because the big worry with any vaccine is that it doesn’t work so well in older people,’’ Richard Horton, The Lancet’s editor-in-chief, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. The data is ’’another brick in the house that we’re trying to build for this vaccine. The responsibility of our political leaders is to really build trust with the public,’’ said Horton. ’’We have to protect the progress we’ve made and the antivaccination movement is a threat to that progress.’'
Thanks for the warning, you threat to my existence!
What a f**king evil $cum.
Researchers still await late-stage trial results that will show whether the vaccine can meet the high bar set by front-runners Pfizer and Moderna. AstraZeneca shares were little changed in London trading after rising as much as 1.7 percent earlier Thursday.....
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"Pfizer asks FDA for emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine; If the agency signs off, some people could start receiving it within weeks" by Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff, November 20, 2020
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday applied to the Food and Drug Administration to allow emergency use of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine, saying that people at high risk for exposure to the disease or most vulnerable to it could start getting shots “by the middle to the end of December.”
They had this thing ready to go. You don't cook this upon in 8 months!
The partners are the first drugmakers to seek “emergency use authorization” for a vaccine to help end the pandemic that has killed more than 1.3 million people globally, including over 250,000 Americans.
The last time they did this was during the Swine Flu $candal of 1976, and tens of thousands were either killed or paralyzed.
“Our work to deliver a safe and effective vaccine has never been more urgent, as we continue to see an alarming rise in the number of cases of COVID-19 globally,” said Albert Bourla, chief executive of Pfizer, whose company released data Wednesday from a late-stage clinical trial suggesting that the vaccine appeared to be 95 percent effective at preventing the disease.
“Filing in the US represents a critical milestone in our journey to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine to the world, and we now have a more complete picture of both the efficacy and safety profile of our vaccine, giving us confidence in its potential,” he added.
The FDA will review data on the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and also consult an outside panel of vaccine experts, a process that could take weeks. The companies said they “will be ready to distribute the vaccine within hours after authorization.”
And according to Trump's general, we will all be vaccinated within 24 hours so keep the midnight oil burning and the gun handy.
Cambridge-based biotech Moderna has said it also plans to seek an emergency use authorization “in the coming weeks.” It released interim results Monday from its own late-stage trial suggesting that its two-dose vaccine was 94.5 percent effective, roughly the same as the one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Both vaccines rely on synthetic messenger RNA, an ingenious variation on the natural substance that directs protein production in cells throughout the body. The vaccines contain custom-made messenger molecules that instruct cells to create a part of the coronavirus. That stimulates the immune system to make antibodies to fend off the disease if people encounter the actual virus. No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved.
If the FDA approves Pfizer’s emergency use request, attention will quickly turn to how the vaccine is distributed. It must be stored at minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than any other vaccine in development. Pfizer plans to ship the vaccine in special boxes of 1,000 to 5,000 doses that are stuffed with dry ice and equipped with GPS-enabled sensors. Pfizer’s vaccine can be stored in conventional freezers for up to five days, or in the special coolers for up to 15 days.
It needs to be stored at such low temperatures because it has it has the DNA-altering messaging in it that will be activated upon thawing and injection into your body. No such thing has ever been needed for flu vaccines before, and that's what is the coronavirus.
Moderna’s vaccine also must be kept in a freezer for long-term storage, but at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The 10-year-old company said Monday that its vaccine could be stored at standard refrigerator temperatures of 36 to 46 degrees for up to 30 days, which could make it easier to store than the Pfizer vaccine.
Pfizer, a 171-year-old Fortune 500 powerhouse, has about 2,400 employees in Massachusetts, including 1,400 at an Andover manufacturing plant that is helping to make the vaccine.
A Fortune 500 powerhouse, huh?
There are a dozen coronavirus vaccine candidates in late-stage trials worldwide that use a variety of approaches, and no company could produce enough of one to protect the world’s 7.8 billion people. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been the only ones to report any results from late-stage trials.
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They are in the hurry-up, so to speak, to distribute because they known the scam is collapsing as I type and want to get it in you before it falls away into dust:
"UK moves to quickly distribute COVID-19 vaccine; The elderly and health care workers are among those who will get the first 40 million doses" by Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff, December 2, 2020
The United Kingdom on Wednesday became the first country to clear a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, allowing Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, to start providing their experimental vaccine to people most at risk for catching the virus or becoming severely ill.
The decision by Britain’s drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, means the companies can immediately start supplying 40 million doses ― enough for 20 million people, since the vaccine requires two shots injected three weeks apart. Vaccinations are expected to start next week, the agency said, and will target the elderly, health care workers, and “the clinically extremely vulnerable.”
“Help is on its way,” Matt Hancock, Britain’s secretary of state for health and social care, tweeted Wednesday.
You detestable cretin who should be hung.
Britain’s swift action is likely to intensify pressure on the US Food and Drug Administration, which has set a Dec. 10 advisory committee meeting to consider a similar move in the United States.
Why?
Billy-boy told us they were above pressure and the gold standard for regulation.
The Trump administration has provided more than $12 billion through the Operation Warp Speed program to hasten development of coronavirus vaccines. During the presidential campaign, President Trump repeatedly pledged a vaccine by Election Day, prompting critics to say he was politicizing the effort.
Biden will bring it home!
FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn met Wednesday with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for the second consecutive day to explain why US drug regulators have not yet approved emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine, according to multiple news reports.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a briefing that it was “par for the course” for Meadows to meet with Hahn “as we’re trying to save American lives with the vaccine in record time.” McEnany said the administration expects to have 40 million doses of vaccines available by the end of the year, which she called a “tremendous achievement.”
That matches a figure provided last month by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. He predicted roughly 25 million doses of vaccine will be available from Pfizer and another 15 million doses from Cambridge-based Moderna, whose vaccine also requires two shots, injected four weeks apart.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the first in the world to clear the three phases of clinical trials typically required by drug regulators in Europe and the United States. China and Russia have authorized coronavirus vaccines without data from a late-stage trial.
Yeah, theirs is no good and I wouldn't;t want it anyway.
Britain’s action comes as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge, including in the United States. Since the coronavirus was first detected last December in Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million people in central China, it has infected more than 64 million people worldwide and killed more than 1.4 million, including 271,000 in the United States.
If you judge it by faulty tests that don't detect COVID-19 and turn up false positives 97% of the time.
Pfizer and BioNTech said they expect other drug regulators around the world will approve their vaccine for emergency use “in the coming days and weeks.” Such authorizations allow health officials to begin limited vaccinations of people at high risk for exposure to the disease, or those most vulnerable to it, without having to go through the full approval process.
“It’s indeed the beginning of the end of the pandemic,” Ugur Sahin, chief executive of BioNTech, said on the NBC News show “Today.” He added, “I am confident that authorization in the US could also happen within the next two weeks.”
BULLSHIT, and the limited rollout feels like a deke to me. They intend to vaccinate us all in the dead of night while kicking down doors.
Sahin, a physician and professor at the Mainz University Medical Center in Germany, helped invent the vaccine. He became a billionaire as BioNTech’s stock price soared this year. BioNTech’s US headquarters is in Cambridge.
Fre$hly minted like Bancel?
Albert Bourla, chief executive of Pfizer, the 171-year-old New York-based pharmaceutical giant, applauded the British drug regulator’s decision.
“With thousands of people becoming infected, every day matters in the collective race to end this devastating pandemic,” he said in a statement. Pfizer has a plant in Andover that is helping to make the vaccine.
Hasn't been very deva$tating to him!
Pfizer and BioNTech released data last month from a late-stage clinical trial of 43,538 participants that showed that two shots of the vaccine appeared to be about 95 percent effective at preventing the disease. Impressively, the vaccine was more than 94 percent effective in people who were 65 or older. Older people have been particularly vulnerable to severe infections of the coronavirus.
Moderna is hot on the heels of Pfizer and BioNTech. It filed applications Monday with the FDA and the European Medicines Agency for emergency use of a vaccine that the company showed was about 94 percent effective at preventing the disease. The FDA advisory committee is expected to meet about the Moderna application on Dec. 17, a week after it weighs the request by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Moderna has also asked the British drug regulator to consider a similar application to the one it approved for Pfizer and BioNTech. Moderna has an agreement with the UK to supply 7 million doses of its vaccine.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines rely on synthetic messenger RNA, a variation on the natural substance that directs protein production in cells throughout the body. The vaccines contain custom-made messenger molecules that instruct cells to create a part of the coronavirus and then stimulate the immune system to make antibodies to fend off the disease. No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved.
Wow, deja vu!
The Pfizer vaccine must be stored at minus-94 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than any other vaccine in development. Pfizer plans to ship it in special boxes of 1,000 to 5,000 doses that are stuffed with dry ice and equipped with GPS-enabled sensors.
The US government has bankrolled a handful of COVID-19 vaccine candidates through Operation Warp Speed. The government helped pay the cost of developing Moderna’s vaccine and pledged to buy at least 100 million doses, all for $2.48 billion.
Yeah, they are coming to the rescue, right.
Pfizer and BioNTech aren’t taking any money upfront from the US government. Rather, the government will pay the partners $1.95 billion for at least 100 million doses if the vaccine gets approved in the United States.
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I'm told "a team of New York Times reporters — Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Denise Grady — tracked how the extraordinary race unfolded, with so much at stake and such a complex backdrop. At play were not just commercial rivalries and scientific challenges but an ambitious plan to put the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed — and an often toxic political atmosphere created by President Trump — in the middle of the effort."
He got the placebo!
I'm sure the FDA will approve the emergency authorization just as they approved remdesivir which, according to a large study led by the World Health Organization, did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries (cost a lot more than the far more effective H*Q, though).
The EU says the WHO should have more power to investigate outbreaks, and they can start with themselves:
"The World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters, including five people who worked on the premises and were in contact with one another, an internal email obtained by The Associated Press shows. The email said about half of the infections recorded so far were in people who had been working from home, but 32 were in staff who had been working on premises at the headquarters building, where more than 2,000 people usually work and the agency says it has put in place strict hygiene, screening and other prevention measures. That could indicate that basic infection control and social distancing procedures in place may have been broken. The email did not specify who was infected, but a WHO staffer with direct knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the press said the five linked cases included a member of the WHO director-general’s leadership team who is also an infection control specialist. In normal times, an estimated 2,400 people regularly work at WHO’s seven-story headquarters overlooking Geneva. As the pandemic has swelled in the area, staffers have been encouraged to work from home when possible. Non-staff visitors have been required to wear masks, and access to the building has been curtailed....."
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The GUY would be a JOKE were it nor for being SO EVIL.
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Time to sit back and see how the kids react:
"Peanut butter and jelly are a perfect match, most would agree, but the pairing of a new PB&J cafe and a children’s museum has sparked calls for a quick separation. The Boston Children’s Museum and an adjacent storefront and cafe responded to a cascade of comments this weekend from parents on Facebook, many expressing concerns that children with peanut allergies would be accidentally exposed to the eatery’s namesake dish: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches....."
Museum officials say “the safety and wellbeing of all children is our top priority,” and the reason so many kids have peanut allergies is because peanut oil is used as an adjuvant to get the body to accept their toxic vaccines.
Here is what public health officials say you should do if you have been exposed to peanut butter.
The stigma of allergies is making the COVID-19 pandemic more invisible, and not even Baker can save you now, nor can the wizards of MIT or the caregivers who feel the weight of the pandemic war and the COVID nurses who march into battle with them and their a$$ociates.
Word up!
"If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. “That probably isn't a big shock,” Peter Sokolowski, editor at large for Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press. “Often the big news story has a technical word that's associated with it and in this case, the word pandemic is not just technical but has become general. It's probably the word by which we'll refer to this period in the future,” he said...."
AP is HAPPY about the choice, and history is slated to be wiped clean and replaced by what the globali$t overlords declare a la 1984.
History is easy to erase when it is digital, and at least no one can take away those $uper Bowl titles.
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"In the multibillion-dollar fight over insurance coverage for pandemic-related business losses, a Florida gynecologist succeeded where more than a dozen professional baseball teams and an iconic Hollywood restaurant failed. Since COVID-19 sparked government-ordered shutdowns in March, judges have dismissed more than four times as many business-interruption lawsuits as they’ve allowed to proceed, according to a preliminary analysis by the University of Pennsylvania Law School, but some plaintiffs are finding weak spots in the industry’s legal defenses. The stakes are high for thousands of businesses. The outbreak has led to a surge in bankruptcies, including the rental-car company Hertz Global Holdings. Century 21 Stores said it couldn’t survive after its insurer denied its business-interruption claim, but the pandemic is also squeezing insurers....."
