More like a $alve for $ome:
"The company barely existed a year ago. Now, Curative is running half of the state’s mass vaccination sites; California-based firm hits some bumps as it prepares to open Dartmouth clinic" by Kay Lazar and Anissa Gardizy Globe Staff, February 23, 2021
The nine employees of a fledgling California company called Curative were developing a new test for sepsis when the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States in early 2020. Barely a year later, the company is running three of Massachusetts’ six mass vaccination sites, emerging as a key part of Governor Charlie Baker’s drive to inoculate 4.1 million Massachusetts residents, but, as it prepares to open its third clinic Wednesday at an old Circuit City store in Dartmouth, Curative’s extraordinary growth has come with its share of bumps — and questions.
The company had been running COVID vaccine sites for about five weeks when it set up shop in Massachusetts, and Curative first captured wide public attention in Massachusetts two weeks ago when long lines formed outside its Danvers vaccination site amid rumors that the company might have extra doses to inject in anyone who could get there soon enough. That followed problems at its Springfield site.
Because of the health emergency, Curative received the contract to run the three mass vaccination clinics without competitive bidding. Curative was introduced to the Baker administration by an official at the nonprofit that runs the state’s contact tracing program.
A top official in Dartmouth is uneasy that such a new company is taking the lead on such an important job in his town.
“I am disappointed that the state is entrusting public health to private, pop-up companies,” said Christopher Michaud, Dartmouth’s public health director, in an interview late last week. “You hear about Danvers and Springfield, and that should have never happened.”
Senator Diana DiZoglio, Democrat of Methuen, questions the growing number of no-bid contracts awarded private companies by the Baker administration during the pandemic. She is calling on the state auditor and inspector general to investigate.
“We understand during an emergency certain emergency actions should be taken,” DiZoglio said, “but it doesn’t mean one person should have unilateral authority to pick and choose private companies to do this type of work. These are taxpayer dollars.”
Curative’s contract with the state guarantees it $45, which is twice the Medicare rate, for every shot that it can’t get reimbursed from an insurance company. With three sites in operation, that could generate tens of thousands of dollars in revenue daily.
The Baker administration said in a statement that it selected Curative because of the company’s experience operating large scale COVID-19 testing sites over the past year, experience that Curative has applied as it moved into vaccine distribution.
A spokeswoman for the state’s COVID-19 Response Command Center also said it has worked with Curative to address the problems in Springfield and Danvers.
Officials at Curative, led by a 25-year-old Oxford University drop-out who was once named the United Kingdom’s young engineer of the year, say they are more than up to the job of running large vaccine clinics.
The company, which has 5,000 employees nationwide, switched its focus to COVID-19 testing last March, and today Curative provides a million tests a week in 15 states, according to a Curative release. The company’s testing work, which does not include sites in the commonwealth, led to vaccinations.
Isaac Turner, Curative’s chief information officer and co-founder, declined to discuss the company’s Massachusetts rollout but said early stumbles are expected with rapid expansion. “You always experience growing pains,” Turner said.
Curative’s problems were certainly noticeable, as the company ran into overflowing crowds at three vaccination sites in two states in the space of a week.
Hordes descended on the Danvers DoubleTree hotel Feb. 10, backing up traffic, after Curative workers called people who were registered with appointments later in the week to come to the hotel that day so extra vaccines wouldn’t go to waste. Dozens waited hours in the cold, only to learn they wouldn’t get a shot.
Two days earlier, many more waited for hours outside another Curative clinic at the Eastfield Mall in Springfield. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said Curative didn’t have enough staff and it poorly communicated directions about when individuals should enter for an appointment. Baker sent the National Guard to help untangle the mess.
Just days before its Massachusetts missteps, Curative ran into similar problems with its early rollout of a vaccine clinic in Collin County, Texas. Hundreds of people waited in line for hours, creating traffic backups and mounting anger.
Curative has seen a meteoric rise since last winter, when its team created a saliva-based COVID-19 test that didn’t require nasal swabs.
Initially, the company thought COVID testing would be a detour, Turner said, “We’ll do this for three months and we’ll go back to developing sepsis [research and development] tools,” but the company’s COVID work rapidly took off. Aided by connections in the biotech industry and an early $8 million in venture capital funding, Curative ended up buying an accredited lab to start processing its own COVID-19 tests. Curative also scored a $42 million Department of Defense contract for its COVID tests, but the company’s testing program has not always run smoothly. In January, the Food and Drug Administration issued a safety notice about the company’s test, saying it can produce a concerning number of false negative results if used on people without symptoms.
As with so many things touted by the pre$$, the EXACT OPPOSITE is the TRUTH! The tests turn up false positives every single time because the technique and goal is a $elf-$erving fraud for a virus that existed only in terms of renamed seasonal cold and flu.
As you can see above, the MEDICAL and MILITARY INDUSTRIES are MERGING as the TOTAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOCRACY of GLOBAL TOTALITARIANISM is erected as the GREAT CULL is carried out.
Many sites in other states continue to use the tests, but some, including Colorado’s nursing home testing program, dropped Curative.
Curative first administered vaccines through a small pilot program giving flu shots in Los Angeles in the fall, then opened its first COVID-19 vaccination site there on Jan. 10. Its first Massachusetts site opened in Springfield Jan. 29.
Joe Wilson, a former partner at venture capital firm MarsBio, said he’s impressed that Curative figured out how to ramp up vaccinations quickly.
“It seems like they have developed a pretty needed model right now and have been able to scale it up really impressively,” he said. Wilson knew one of Curative’s co-founders and helped the company find its first lab to process its COVID-19 tests.
Curative lacked deep political connections in Massachusetts, but a senior adviser to the high-powered nonprofit group Partners in Health, which leads the state’s contact tracing initiative, introduced the company to the Baker administration after he heard about Curative’s saliva tests. A Partners in Health spokesman said the adviser sent a three-sentence e-mail to the state’s COVID-19 Response Command Center in December suggesting it take a look at Curative.
They are Clinton-connected outfit that the Globe is promoting there!
That is no cure for what ails us!
Turner said Curative had been scouting opportunities for expansion into delivering vaccinations, especially in places where there is “a lot of noise about a state having a lot of doses and not much of a plan.”
Massachusetts proved to be fertile territory, with the Baker administration facing nearly daily brickbats for a slow rollout and Turner said Curative makes most of its money from insurance company reimbursements for the tests and vaccines it administers. That requires the company to work quickly and hit high volumes to cover its expenses.
Baker just doubled those at taxpayer expense -- meaning he is a corrupt conduit for Clinton criminality!
“There aren’t many companies willing to launch themselves into this because there is a real risk they could lose a lot of money,” Turner said, but DiZoglio, the senator, said the bigger problem is the lack of transparency from the Baker administration about its private contracting during the pandemic.
“We should not have to pull teeth to get this,” DiZoglio said.....
Can't go to the dentist anyway due to CVD.
Forget about all the treatments that worked while the vaccinations speed ahead for a "disease" that 99.97% of people survive or never even knew they had it is so deadly.
Turns out the "viru$"-ba$ed fear is about getting the virus into you via inoculation if the numbers across the planet are any guide.
Related:
"Drug companies told lawmakers Tuesday that they project a major increase in vaccine deliveries that will result in 140 million more doses over the next five weeks, saying they have solved manufacturing challenges and are in a position to overcome scarcity that has hampered the nation’s fight against the coronavirus, but if the companies are able to meet their projections, it would signal the beginning of the end of a period of deep frustration and mark faster progress against a pandemic that has claimed 500,000 lives in the United States. The slower-than-anticipated vaccine rollout has hampered progress toward vaccinating the 70 percent or 80 percent of the US population of 330 million people required to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus. The federal government has spent about $16 billion on lab and clinical development, jump-starting manufacturing, and placing advance orders of vaccine....."
If all the undercounts in cases are true, we ALREADY HAVE NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY and there is NO NEED for a VACCINE!
That BEGS the QUE$TION of its TRUE PURPO$E -- especially as the virus weakens and dies:
"Expert outlines 5 possible reasons the pandemic’s weakening — and why we need to ‘stay humble’" by Martin Finucane Globe Staff, February 23, 2021
A Brigham and Women’s Hospital infectious disease specialist says there are five factors that could be behind the weakening of the coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts and across the nation, but it’s not clear which factor, or combination of them, is responsible.
Dr. Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Brigham, laid out the factors in a column Sunday on the New England Journal of Medicine’s Journal Watch website.
“I was motivated to write it because I saw a lot of discussion going on, a lot of speculation” about the reasons for the decline, he said.
“I thought it was important that we acknowledge that we don’t really know that it’s any one thing, and that it could be multiple things, and it’s important for us to have humility when we’re seeing good news.”
“What I would hate to happen is that we rely on one of the causes of why case numbers are dropping [and let our guard down], and we end up being wrong and the virus surges back,” he said in a telephone interview.
Here are the five factors Sax outlined:
1. The virus could be seasonal.
2. Herd immunity could be kicking in.
3. People’s behavior.
4. Vaccines.
5. The virus itself. Sax raised the possibility that the virus is becoming “less virulent over time.” Perhaps some variants, he said, “in order to gain the ability to transmit, also cause less severe disease.” (He noted that may not be case with the UK variant, which some studies have suggested may cause more severe disease.)
The most likely explanation, Sax wrote, is a “gemish” — Yiddish for a mixture of things.
That's a virus right there, and has been for centuries.
The pandemic, which has killed more than 500,000 people in the United States, has been on the decline for five weeks, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Monday, though officials are warning of the arrival of fast-spreading coronavirus variants, saying they could fuel another surge.
Public health officials have urged people to continue to wear well-fitting masks, stay 6 feet apart from people who are not part of their households, wash their hands, avoid travel and crowds, and get vaccinated when it’s their turn.....
I'm sick of the hard-$ell pre$$ure to take that poi$on, and we have now been told that there is little difference in positivity rates between 3 or 6 feet of social distancing and it is the vaccines that have reduced hospitalizations that never happened so..... go fly a kite.
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Can't think about that now because....
That's why I dumped those drafts after emptying the garbage.
