Coronavirus

Nineteen police officers have tested positive for coronavirus two weeks after the [Capitol riot,]('https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html') the union representing Capitol Police said Friday.
“The union was advised there are 19 confirmed positive cases since Jan 6th, ” Gus Papathanasiou, chair of the United States Capitol Police Labor Committee, said in an email

Health officials have worried that the mass of largely unmasked people, many shouting and pushing, would result in the spread of the virus. Several police officers were directly assaulted.
“I do think you have to anticipate that this is another surge event. You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol,” former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Robert Redfield said in a previous interview with the McClatchy newspaper group.
At least four members of Congress have also tested positive for coronavirus after the attack earlier this month.

Lots of first responders have tested positive.
Lots of super spreader events at parties all across the country.
Members of government all around the country have tested positive.

Thanks for the information.

[SIZE=7]A day after[/SIZE] President Biden sought to [jump-start the U.S. response]('https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-agenda-depends-on-success-in-curbing-covid-19-pandemic-11611223201') to the pandemic, key Covid-19 metrics appeared to show some signs of easing.

Covid-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. continued a downward trend that health experts say [could signal a plateauing]('https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2021-01-21/card/HUIeWeVNaDpZzitIwg84') of critical cases. Deaths also were slightly lower. Newly reported cases, meanwhile, edged up from a day earlier but remained below 200,000.

Still, the country’s metrics are hovering at or near highs, and Mr. Biden on Friday warned the U.S. death toll could top 600,000. His [pandemic response plan]('https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2021-01-21/card/YNz9EtQwnIsQuIL8qFLp') is focused partly on [ramping up vaccinations]('https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-covid-19-vaccine-plan-how-he-intends-to-speed-up-distribution-11610794800?mod=article_inline') and curbing the virus through mask wearing, treatments and testing data.

While U.S. testing capacity has improved, nearly 20% of counties, or more than seven million people, [lack a single site that administers coronavirus tests]('https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2021-01-22/card/OPjvaqE5cIwegr7jG3gA'). Access remains especially limited in many lower-income areas, complicating efforts to contain the spreading virus.

Yeah, heard lots of the same stuff. Without you, not sure how others could get this information.

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New York State expects to run out of its supply of coronavirus vaccines before the end of Friday, but more doses will begin to arrive in the coming days, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced at a news conference.

“We will — by the end of today fully — utilize all of the dosages that have been delivered,” Mr. Cuomo said Friday..

Stop trolling Gene...

Clean up time any More who did what Politically Presidential wise(no links to that either) you get a time out from the thread. Done with this shit back and forth

Thought I did the right thing...

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Not sure if this is still valid, but on the NBC national news this evening reported about an older couple on LI that couldn't get vaccines from the State sites, but were able to get an appointment at a local Walgreens.

I'd suggest you folks who really want a vaccine to go to the Walgreen's website and find out if you can schedule yourselves.

Llama yields antibodies that may prove effective against COVID-19

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As the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines seem to be approaching their introductions, let's review how they differ from the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines. All of the vaccines end up "fooling" a person's cells to make and release the COVID-19 "Spike Protein". Once this protein is released, the person's immune system recognizes this foreign body, activating a complete immune response, including the production of antibodies against the Spike Protein. The end result is that if a person gets infected by COVID-19, this "primed" immune response can immediately begin to attack the invading COVID-19 viruses.

So how do they do this, here are the steps.

Basic differences:
[LIST]
[*]AstraZeneca (AZ) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have the Spike Protein synthesis instructions embedded in the attenuated adenovirus' native DNA
[*]Pfizer (PF) and Moderna (MD) have the messenger RNA (mRNA) instruction for Spike Protein synthesis enclosed in lipid nanospheres, which bypasses multiple cellular steps as you'll see below
[*]AZ, MD, and PF are two dose vaccinations, J&J is a single dose
[*]The attenuated adenovirus AZ and J&J vaccines are far easier to scale up than the mRNA PF and MDD vaccines
[*]The Lipid Nanosphere mRNA vaccines have stringent shipping and storage conditions, including dry ice shipment for PF
[/LIST]

1. Cellular Entry Mode: Attenuated Adenovirus: AZ, J&J Lipid Nanospheres: PF, MD

2. Changes to Host Cell DNA: AZ, J&J N/A: PF, MD

3. mRNA synthesis: AZ, J&J N/A: PF, MD

4. Spike Protein Synthesis: AZ, J&J PF, MD

5. Spike Protein Release: AZ, J&J PF, MD

Time for a picture to jog your collective memory to remember how cells make proteins from mRNA. It occurs in your cellular ribosomes, those little black dots in the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

The mRNA can be considered an instruction tape which runs through the ribosome where transfer RNA (tRNA) which is bound to the appropriate amino acid, come together to assemble the polypeptide chain of the COVID-19 Spike Protein. The whole system can be considered to be a cellular nanobot assembly line. Once the protein is completed, it's then released from the cell, activating your immune system.

As the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines seem to be approaching their introductions, let's review how they differ from the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines. All of the vaccines end up "fooling" a person's cells to make and release the COVID-19 "Spike Protein". Once this protein is released, the person's immune system recognizes this foreign body, activating a complete immune response, including the production of antibodies against the Spike Protein. The end result is that if a person gets infected by COVID-19, this "primed" immune response can immediately begin to attack the invading COVID-19 viruses.

So how do they do this, here are the steps.

Basic differences:
[LIST]
[*]AstraZeneca (AZ) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have the Spike Protein synthesis instructions embedded in the attenuated adenovirus' native DNA
[*]Pfizer (PF) and Moderna (MD) have the messenger RNA (mRNA) instruction for Spike Protein synthesis enclosed in lipid nanospheres, which bypasses multiple cellular steps as you'll see below
[*]AZ, MD, and PF are two dose vaccinations, J&J is a single dose
[*]The attenuated adenovirus AZ and J&J vaccines are far easier to scale up than the mRNA PF and MDD vaccines
[*]The Lipid Nanosphere mRNA vaccines have stringent shipping and storage conditions, including dry ice shipment for PF
[/LIST]

1. Cellular Entry Mode: Attenuated Adenovirus: AZ, J&J Lipid Nanospheres: PF, MD

2. Changes to Host Cell DNA: AZ, J&J N/A: PF, MD

3. mRNA synthesis: AZ, J&J N/A: PF, MD

4. Spike Protein Synthesis: AZ, J&J PF, MD

5. Spike Protein Release: AZ, J&J PF, MD

Time for a picture to jog your collective memory to remember how cells make proteins from mRNA. It occurs in your cellular ribosomes, those little black dots in the rough endoplasmic reticulum.

The mRNA can be considered an instruction tape which runs through the ribosome where transfer RNA (tRNA) which is bound to the appropriate amino acid, come together to assemble the polypeptide chain of the COVID-19 Spike Protein. The whole system can be considered to be a cellular nanobot assembly line. Once the protein is completed, it's then released from the cell, activating your immune system.

Great job on this. Much appreciated.

Not sure if this is still valid, but on the NBC national news this evening reported about an older couple on LI that couldn't get vaccines from the State sites, but were able to get an appointment at a local Walgreens.

I'd suggest you folks who really want a vaccine to go to the Walgreen's website and find out if you can schedule yourselves.

Walgreens site just implies they might be providing vaccines in the future. No place to sign up. then again Snoozeday and the MSM rarely get anything correct. Maybe they reside at assisted living or volunteer at LTCFs ? That seems to be Walgreens's only involvement, vaccinating residents and staff.

Walgreens site just implies they might be providing vaccines in the future. No place to sign up. then again Snoozeday and the MSM rarely get anything correct. Maybe they reside at assisted living or volunteer at LTCFs ? That seems to be Walgreens's only involvement, vaccinating residents and staff.

My bad, it was actually at CVS, but Walgreen is in the works. Here's the entire NBC broadcast last night, skip right to 10:38 and you'll be at the bit.

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