Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Taking a Peek at Pfizer's Vaccine

I had to go out for some other necessities this morning and unfortunately broke my word and promise (frown):

"Pfizer’s early data shows vaccine is more than 90% effective" by Katie Thomas, David Gelles and Carl Zimmer New York Times, November 9, 2020

The drugmaker Pfizer said Monday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested the vaccine was robustly effective in preventing COVID-19, a promising development as the world has waited anxiously for any positive news about a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people.

What is 6% of that because that's the real toll of this mythical and unisolated "disease."

Pfizer, which developed the vaccine with the German drugmaker BioNTech, released only sparse details from its clinical trial, based on the first formal review of the data by an outside panel of experts.

The company said that the analysis found that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among trial volunteers who had no evidence of prior coronavirus infection. If the results hold up, that level of protection would put it on par with highly effective childhood vaccines for diseases such as measles. No serious safety concerns have been observed, the company said.

Pfizer plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration for emergency authorization of the two-dose vaccine later this month, after it has collected the recommended two months of safety data. By the end of the year it will have manufactured enough doses to immunize 15 million to 20 million people, company executives have said.

“This is a historical moment,” said Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer.

Independent scientists have cautioned against hyping early results before long-term safety and efficacy data have been collected, and no one knows how long the vaccine’s protection might last. Still, the development makes Pfizer the first company to announce positive results from a late-stage vaccine trial, vaulting it to the front of a frenzied global race that began in January and has unfolded at record-breaking speed. 

That was the first inkling of the vaccine being total crap, for if its effectiveness and protection doesn't last what good is it against a "virus" that has a survival rate of 99.99% and is so fatal people need to be tested with flawed and faulty tests that turn up false positives 90% of the time and don't specifically identify COVID?

Ironically, that is where the turn-in was.

Eleven vaccines are in late-stage trials, including four in the United States. Pfizer’s progress could bode well for Moderna’s vaccine, which uses similar technology. Moderna has said it could have early results later this month. The news comes just days after Joe Biden clinched a victory over President Trump in the election.

No kidding!?

The CEO of Moderna says their COVID-19 vaccine could be OK’d for emergency use in December, and will be available to everybody.

As for the in$ide information“you announce a sliver of positive hope about a product and your stock price goes up” and it looks like I correctly called that one-day wonder

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"Monday’s advance extended gains from last week as investors grew more comfortable that the likeliest election outcome — Biden in the White House, Congress divided — would bolster the recovery without leading to higher taxes or heavy re-regulation of the financial and energy industries. Biden — who declared victory over the weekend, despite President Trump’s unfounded allegations of election fraud — has promised to prioritize getting COVID under control while delivering new stimulus for struggling families, businesses, and cash-strapped state and local governments....." 

You won't find something if you are not looking for it (how would they have any clue?) even if it is right in front of your face, while other huge que$tions are what will he do with the Fed (bow down) and Big Tech (reward with leniency)?

Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to rush a vaccine to market, has promised Pfizer $1.95 billion to deliver 100 million doses to the federal government, which will be given to Americans free of charge, but Jansen sought to distance the company from Operation Warp Speed and presidential politics, noting that the company — unlike the other vaccine front-runners — did not take any federal money to help pay for research and development.

“We were never part of the Warp Speed,” she said.

She said she learned of the results from the outside panel of experts shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, and that the timing was not influenced by the election.

Meaning it absolutely was! 

When they say it isn't about the money, it's about the money.

The data released by Pfizer on Monday was delivered in a news release, not a peer-reviewed medical journal. It is not conclusive evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, and scientists were stunned by the data so far.....

It was a “really a spectacular number.”

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Looks like they finally found the "magic bullet" directly below:

"Is Pfizer’s vaccine a ‘magic bullet?’ Scientists warn masks, distancing may last well into 2021" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, November 9, 2020

A nation in the grip of a raging pandemic got a glimmer of hope Monday with the drug maker Pfizer’s announcement that its COVID-19 vaccine showed early success among a small number of people in its drug trial, but with so many unknowns about the first batch of coronavirus vaccines still in development, vaccine and infectious disease experts warn that the public should be prepared to stay the course with 2020-style precautions for months to come, and perhaps longer. Masks and social distancing deep into 2021 are still likely, they say.

(Can you see my frown behind the infernal masks?)

Pfizer, one of the companies farthest along in its vaccine trials, said its early data on a small group of participants suggest the shots may be 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19. Scientists still don’t know, however, whether the vaccine will be effective in the population at large and, if so, how long that protection might last.

That is where I again wrote CRAP VACCINE as the printed paper called for a turn-in continuation.

They suggest, maybe, but still don't know and if.... Good Lord!

No matter which vaccines ultimately prove effective, there are also significant hurdles in distributing shots to millions of people in far-flung places.

People armed with firearms, for one.

“This could be the magic bullet, but we have to see how long the effect will last, maybe we have to take the magic bullet every six months,” Dr. Karen Tashima, director of clinical trials in the Immunology Center at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island, said of the Pfizer development. “Worst-case scenario is it only lasts two months. It’s just very preliminary data.”

OMFG! 

See what they want to ensnare you in if you take one shot? 

RESIST! 

Researchers around the world are racing to develop dozens of potential vaccines, including four candidates in large-scale trials that involve thousands of people in the United States. Recent data suggest the vaccines that are farthest along show strong protection against the virus in monkeys and produce an immune response in study volunteers.

Pfizer’s new interim analysis, for example, was based only on 94 confirmed infections in a study that has enrolled nearly 44,000 people in six countries. The data have not been independently reviewed by regulators at the US Food and Drug Administration.

“It’s encouraging. Ninety percent protection is wonderful for a first-generation vaccine. If it holds, it will be fantastic, but it’s early," said Michael Kinch, director of the Centers for Research Innovation in Biotechnology & Drug Discovery at Washington University in St. Louis.

“What ends up often happening with vaccines is the first vaccines you get are imperfect, and we learn as we go along," he said.

Many are anxiously awaiting more complete data expected to be released later this month by Pfizer, and in the coming weeks by the Cambridge biotech Moderna and AstraZeneca about whether their vaccines are safe and effective, but even if one or more of them get the green light, and some vaccines start to be released late this year, the nation’s top disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, doesn’t expect more widespread distribution until the second or third quarter of next year.

Not only that, young, healthy people may have to wait until 2022 for a vaccine, and what do health workers know that you do not?

So what happens when COVID-19 meets toxic air other than developing asthma that will be diagnosed as COVID?

The coronavirus cases will surge across the United States again and some even want to be infected with COVID-19 with the number of cases growing so fast the country will soon look like IsraelChina (but not Hong Kong), Singapore, the UK (where the epidemic is doubling every 9 days and could triple by the end of next month unless something more is done now), ArgentinaIndia, or Iran, where the timing of the pandemic has proved particularly difficult for Iran’s economy as the country confronts a new surge of infections that is filling hospitals and cemeteries alike and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered military hospitals to boost their capacities while in the coming days, Tehran residents caught without masks may get a cash fine like in Massachusetts, although based on anecdotal evidence from two drives this weekend, good luck with the mandate as well as enforcement.

This comes as the world moves toward another morbid threshold in the pandemic, a coronavirus death toll of one million, with new hot spots constantly emerging with heightened fears about what the winter might bring even though a resurgence of symptoms doesn’t prove reinfection and the WHO now says lockdowns should be a “last resort” even with no end in sight and the worst of the coronavirus pandemic still be to come when “all of a sudden, the cases just exploded” despite the ramped up containment strategies, including contact-tracing and targeted testing.

Even as the vaccines start to roll out more widely, researchers will still be tracking the people who took part in their large-scale studies to monitor their health. Federal regulators said the companies should follow them for up to two years.

Regulators also expect any COVID-19 vaccine to prevent the disease or decrease its severity in at least 50 percent of people who are vaccinated. Pfizer’s early data suggest it has surpassed that threshold. (By comparison, annual flu shots usually prevent or reduce the risk of illness by 40 percent to 60 percent, while vaccines for measles and smallpox produce lifelong immunity.) 

WTF? 

What good is the damn thing if it has limited effectiveness, hmmmm?

“When people get the vaccine, they may feel like ‘I am safe now and I don’t have to wear the mask,’ and we have to makes sure we temper that feeling because we don’t know how long that vaccine effect will last," said Tashima, from Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island.

“We are not going to reach people perfectly who are at risk of spreading the disease," she said. "I don’t think we can stop wearing masks for another year. It will take that long to roll out vaccines to the majority of the population.”

She just got finished saying you will have to wear the mask even after vaccination, so why bother being vaccinated then?

I'm glad I've stopped reading the Boston Globe because this stuff is so asinine it is completely worthless.

Vaccine specialists also point to significant technical and social-justice issues that could hinder distribution of some of the first vaccines, which would affect how widely they’re received and how long social distancing and masks would remain daily routines. For instance, Pfizer’s candidate needs to remain in super-cold storage — roughly minus 103 Fahrenheit — until ready for use, raising concerns about sufficient capacity of ultracold units to safely deliver and store millions of doses around the world.

The Globe has already given those concerns the deep freeze.

In addition, vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna would require patients to receive two shots, 21 or 28 days apart, respectively, and patients would have to stay with the same type of vaccine for both doses, further complicating distribution and uptake.

As well as take a magic bullet every six months so Bill Gates can update your software and make boatloads of money.

Just one of the four vaccines in large late-stage US trials, the one developed by Johnson & Johnson and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, would offer protection from COVID-19 after one shot. It does not require super-cold storage. 

I'm sure they will have their moment in this race.

“The first [vaccine] approved may coincidentally be the best, but one that comes a short time or long time later may be better in terms of safety, efficacy, or ease of distribution,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of Beth Israel’s Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, yet, Barouch added, “nothing could be worse than there being a safe, effective vaccine but not enough to go around. How many vaccines will be available is unknown.”

At the same time, there is concern that many people may be afraid or hesitant to get a shot, fearing that it may not be safe because the process might have been rushed. That could hinder the race to achieve widescale protection known as herd immunity.

Herd immunity has likely already been achieved despite its rejection by once respected medical institutions and the criminal $cienti$ts and collaborators who staff them, and it's not achieved through any vaccine.

That is the true tragedy of the stolen election and attempted coup, the loss of a group of scientists who heroically argued that authorities should allow the coronavirus to spread among young healthy people while protecting the elderly and the vulnerable — an approach that would rely on arriving at “herd immunity” through infections rather than a vaccine, and that simply cannot be allowed given the money and greater goals at $take.

What’s more, longstanding mistrust of the health care system in some communities and cultures, stemming from racist treatment by physicians and researchers, could also undermine the effort.

“A safe and effective vaccine that is not trusted by people will fail," Barouch said.

Then they already have.

Then there’s the concern about whether vaccine developers are focused on the right part of the coronavirus. Most of the US vaccines target the virus’s spike protein, which plays a major role in its ability to bind to and infect healthy cells, but what if that’s not the best approach?

And they expect us too line up and take the f**king thing?

Kinch, at Washington University, said more vaccine teams need to focus on other parts of the virus to better hedge against the potential that spike proteins aren’t the optimum target. While the Pfizer data suggest that approach may work in people, it’s not clear how durable that protection might be, and whether it works as well in older adults, who are most vulnerable to serious illnesses.

The virus that causes COVID-19 is part of a larger family of coronaviruses that usually cause much milder illnesses, including the common cold. People produce an immune response after catching a cold, but that protection wears off and people are again sickened by the same cold viruses. Kinch said the early Pfizer data don’t indicate whether the same would be true with its vaccine.

“We have to approach it like a 401(k) that uses a balance of stocks and bonds because we want to balance the risks, but instead we are putting our portfolio into the spike protein," Kinch said. “If we hit big, we are golden, but if we miss, we are back to where we were in March."

There are other thing$ at $take!

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As they try to dispatch Trump the mask has come off the evil in my state, where the alleged authorities think a “nationwide mask mandate would be a net benefit and send a really important message that it is going to be basically a way of life because everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and it would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly because winter is coming and  universal mask-wearing that would be an amplifier and alignment of efforts until there’s an actual effective vaccine,” and you make of this what you want (it came with the online article, frown).

"Trump delays transition to Biden as COVID-19 pandemic worsens" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, November 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s refusal to concede the election to Joe Biden has delayed the start of the formal presidential transition process, a crucial coordination phase that would help the incoming administration prepare to tackle the worsening pandemic.

Despite many bitterly fought races over the years, the presidential transition generally goes smoothly, with the outgoing administration allowing the incoming team access to a mountain of information as well as office space and millions of dollars to gird for inauguration day, when thousands of White House employees stream out the doors and need to be replaced.

That commitment to an orderly transition has helped peacefully transfer the massive machinery of federal power after every previous election, but — as with much in 2020 — this election appears to be shaping up differently with Trump continuing to baselessly declare the election results a fraud.....

There they go again! 

This from the same pre$$ that falsely hollered Russian collusion and interference for the last for years and that now turns around and says how dare you mention electoral fraud.

What pieces of work!

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"Pandemic worsens across New England, leading many to wonder what went wrong — and whether there is time to reverse course; In a troubling reversal of summertime trends, November has seen COVID-19 cases surge in all six New England states" by Martin Finucane, Dasia Moore, Travis Andersen and Dugan Arnett Globe Staff, November 9, 2020

Then all the tin-pot tyranny governor policies are abject failures and criminal.

More than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases each day in Massachusetts. A nursing home outbreak in Maine. Record peaks in infections in Connecticut. In Vermont and New Hampshire, the single highest daily caseloads since spring. In Rhode Island, the highest rate of positive tests since May.

While the nation was held rapt by a cliffhanger election, the coronavirus pandemic has surged to record levels across the United States, and this time — unlike the country’s summertime surge, when outbreaks were concentrated in the Sun Belt — New England is feeling the virus’s full wrath.

I'm so f**king sick of this script, especially since is a total rerun of the spring simulation.

It's also all out of context and based on distortions if not outright fabrications and lies.

In the past week, each state has seen its own version of a pandemic nightmare unfold, seemingly with no end in sight. Surging transmission across the region has left governors scrambling to introduce new restrictions and residents wondering what went wrong.

Experts said that New England’s summertime success might have created a false sense of security, preventing officials and residents alike from seeing the approaching surge in time to stop it. Now, the region must act immediately to curb or reverse the dangerous trend, they said.....

OMFG!

How much longer are people going to fall for this shit?

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Globe left you waiting at the train station:

"Cash-strapped MBTA details planned service cuts, would take effect next year" by Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff, November 9, 2020

The commuter rail would stop running at 9 p.m., ferry service would go on indefinite hiatus, a smattering of bus routes would be eliminated, and subway trains would run less frequently under a new MBTA plan to scale back service during the coronavirus pandemic.

With ridership and fare revenue buckled by the virus and its economic disruptions, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s proposed slate of service cuts would save $142 million by summer 2022.

Released shortly after news broke that Pfizer Inc.'s coronavirus vaccine has shown promising trial results, the budget-cutting plan raised the possibility that transit service will be curbed just as the region eyes a return to commuting normalcy — though even with a vaccine, travel and work habits may remain locked in place for many months. It’s a scenario playing out across the country, as cash-strapped transit systems call on the federal government for aid in a coronavirus relief package to offset dwindling revenue.....

At the same time, Great Re$et expansions are taking place amidst the financial turmoil and service cuts

Hmmmm.

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I see you are still waiting for the train to arrive, and it could be a long wait for the fast train to China!

Now that they won a game they are back on the front page -- even if no one is watching.

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Biden announces virus task force as cases soar 

That piece of NYT $hit was the printed Globe's National/World lead, and the plan is to test the entire population with their fraudulent and faulty tests, and I am really tired of it.

The co-lead was from the same source:


Too late. he should have done such things long ago. Then he wouldn't be in the position he is pin now.

These were the page A2 briefs:

Evo Morales Returns to Bolivia to Cheers 

The New York Times is worried for some reason.

Armenia accepts a deal in Nagorno-Karabakh war 

It's an update from my printed article, and the simple fact of the matter is I don't believe the reporting regarding the outside world reflects an accurate view of reality, so....

Ethiopia says its jets are ‘pounding’ targets in Tigray 

AP is just as bad as rest, so....

Shot to Prevent H.I.V. 

That's the New York Times jabbing at you again as the 29th named storm of the tumultuous 2020 hurricane season passes by and the climate change agenda is advanced yet again.

A4:

"Georgia’s secretary of state is firing back at the state’s two U.S. senators for calling on him to resign over the handling of the election, which has President-elect Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump in the state. Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue took the extraordinary step Monday of calling for Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to step down. Raffensperger responded, “Let me start by saying that is not going to happen. The voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me.” He says while he understands their frustration with the outcome of the election — which also saw Loeffler and Perdue forced into runoffs — the way the election was handled was a success. Raffensperger says, “As a Republican, I am concerned about Republicans keeping the U.S. Senate. I recommend that Senators Loeffler and Perdue start focusing on that.” Georgia hasn’t gone to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992."

And it didn't this time, but all that is supposed to end at the shoreline:

"The End of ‘America First’: How Biden Says He Will Re-engage With the World" by David E. Sanger, New York Times  Nov. 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. says he will make Russia “pay a price” for what he says have been disruptions and attempts to influence elections — including his own, but mostly, Biden said in a statement to The New York Times, he wants to bring an end to a slogan that came to define a United States that built walls and made working with allies an afterthought — and, in Biden’s view, undermined any chance of forging a common international approach to fighting a pandemic that has cost more than 1.2 million lives, but it is far easier to promise to return to the largely internationalist approach of the post-World War II era than it is to execute that shift after four years of global withdrawal and during a pandemic that has reinforced nationalist instincts.

In interviews in the past several weeks, Biden’s top advisers began to outline a restoration that might be called the Great Undoing, an effort to reverse course on Trump’s aggressive attempt to withdraw to American borders.

“Whether we like it or not, the world simply does not organize itself,” said Antony J. Blinken, Biden’s longtime national security adviser. “Until the Trump administration, in Democratic and Republican administrations, the United States did a lot of that organizing, and we made some mistakes along the way, for sure.” Now, however, the United States has discovered what happens “when some other country tries to take our place or, maybe even worse, no one does, and you end up with a vacuum that is filled by bad events.”

Those who have known Biden for decades say they expect him to move carefully, providing reassurance with a few big symbolic acts, starting with a return to the Paris climate accord in the first days of his administration, but substantive rebuilding of U.S. power will proceed far more slowly.

Biden will accelerate the Great Re$et.

At 77, Biden has his own back-to-the-future vision of how to dispense with “America First”: “This is the time to tap the strength and audacity that took us to victory in two world wars and brought down the Iron Curtain,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs in March, yet in a campaign in which foreign policy was rarely mentioned, Biden was never pressed on how the current iteration of superpower competition differs from what he remembers from early in his political career.

He never stated what kind of “price” he had in mind for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to pay, though one of his longtime foreign policy advisers, Jake Sullivan, offered a bit of detail. Just before Election Day, he said that Biden was willing to impose “substantial and lasting costs on perpetrators of the Russian interference,” which could include financial sanctions, asset freezes, counter cyberattacks and, “potentially, the exposure of corruption by the leaders of foreign countries.”

The sharp change on Russia offers a glimpse of the detailed planning that Mr. Biden’s transition team, organized late last spring, has engaged in to reverse Trump’s approach to the world, but their plans show some notable breaks from the Obama administration’s strategy.

The most vivid example, officials say, will come in rethinking China strategy. His own advisers concede that in the Obama years, Biden and his national security team underestimated the speed with which President Xi Jinping of China would crack down on dissent at home and use the combination of its 5G networks and its Belt and Road Initiative to challenge U.S. influence.

“Neither carrots nor sticks have swayed China as predicted,” Kurt Campbell, who served as the assistant secretary of state for Asia, and Ely Ratner, one of Biden’s deputy national security advisers, wrote in a Foreign Affairs article in 2018 that reflected this shift. “Diplomatic and commercial engagement have not brought political and economic openness. Neither U.S. military power nor regional balancing has stopped Beijing from seeking to displace core components of the U.S.-led system.”

The Hunter Biden laptop will turn Biden into a lapdog.

As president, Biden will have to deal with a Russia whose arsenal includes 1,550 deployed nuclear weapons and a raft of tactical nuclear weapons that it has been deploying freely, even before Trump exited the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. 

We were getting WWIII with Trump, too, so..... sigh.

How would Biden end the downward spiral? He would start with a five-year extension of New START, Blinken said in an interview, since the treaty lapses 16 days after inauguration. Then he would seek to expand the treaty to other types of weapons and perhaps more countries, and he would play on Putin’s growing economic fragility.

“We will deter, and impose costs for, Putin’s meddling and aggression,” Blinken said, “but there’s a flip side” to dealing with Moscow, he added. Putin is “looking to relieve Russia’s growing dependence on China,” Blinken said, which has left him in “not a very comfortable position.” 

You don't think both of those countries and their leaders don't know we are seeking to manipulate and split them? 

So much for good faith negotiations, huh?

The Times piece goes on to mention Iran and Afghanistan as afterthoughts.

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It was right around that point that I lost interest in reading the Globe, sorry.

A6:

Trump Lost the Race, but Republicans Know It’s Still His Party

For now, and the great thing is he can run again in 2024 if they coup him out.

"Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20 at an outdoor inauguration ceremony, though the coronavirus pandemic might cause the plans to be scaled back. “We are moving forward, anticipating an outside, full-scale inauguration,” Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, said on Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” but Mr. Blunt, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, was still hedging about which candidate he expected to be placing his hand upon a Bible that day....." 

Those are the New York Times' expectations anyway.


He says he won't be muzzled, but a photograph is worth a thousand words.

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Rahm Emanuel's genocidal brother is worried what will happen if the ACA is overturned as the last act of Trump’s presidency plays out (how will the Globe and their ilk react if it is not?) and our dictator, 'er, governor hugs the middle of the road on everything, including the coronavirus pandemic, and as the State House gets down to business of budgeting with a speedier collection of sales taxes.

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State House plans vote on expanding abortion access 

They are truly an embarrassment, as is the columnist who is ripping off his colleague's notes.

Franklin Park, a diverse and thriving course 

FORE!

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As busy immigration dockets resume in Boston, coronavirus fears rise

That printed story is two weeks old(?)!

President-elect Joe Biden is bringing dogs back to the White House

That will explain the stench coming from the place if he takes occupancy.

B2:

Quincy firm pays $250,000 to settle allegations of illegal campaign donations 

Corruption? 

In U.S. politics? 

Surely you je$t!

Mayor Walsh nearly tripled fund-raising haul in October

Did Nero loot while his city was burning?

B3:

Three men shot in Brighton expected to survive

It's the latest in rash of shootings in city, but thankfully Walsh has a bulletproof ve$t built of campaign ca$h.

Franklin Park Zoo displays baby hippo, gorilla for the first time on Monday 

Time to let the animals out and lock up our criminal leaders and authority

B5:

5 things to know about the COVID-19 outbreak in Fitchburg 

You only need to know one thing: it was in a church, and the Biden celebrations were not a problem at all!

Mass. reports 1,184 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 13 new deaths 

Those are BS#s that I am sick of, sorry.

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422,000 Massachusetts residents could lose coverage 

That is what a new report warns as the latest legal challenge to the decade-old law known as Obamacare goes before the court Tuesday, and what does it say when the $tory is the bu$ine$$ lead?

The Globe will also tell you what you need to know about PPP loan forgiveness if you read the fine print.

EU gives green light to levy $4 billion worth of tariffs on US 

Biden will call a truce in Trump's trade war and retreat.

Biogen stock plunges after FDA panel’s blow to Alzheimer’s drug 

One would have thought they would rise on the cusp of a demented presidency, and jibberish.