Covid-19 Good And Bad

I remember Jay Powell from his work on the H1N1 Flu a few years back. His perspicacious insight on SARS was where I first realized how important it was to listen to him on virology and epidemiology.  His Coronavirus work is head and shoulders above anything the current medical field is producing. 

the vigilance is going right out the proverbial window this wknd .

no doubt the repos will balme fauci for any forthcoming rise in cases and deaths

Criticism of Powell from President Trump

Powell has faced substantial and repeated criticism from Trump,[36]
who stated that he considers Powell an
"enemy[37] equivalent to or worse" than China's leader Xi Jinping.[38]
He additionally stated that Powell had a

"horrendous lack of vision"[39]
and "I disagree with him entirely".[40]

Trump criticized Powell for not massively lowering federal interest rates
and instituting quantitative easing.[39][41]
In August 2019, trump criticized Powell for having "raised interest rates
too fast, too furious".[42] After the first emergency cut[43] since the
2008 financial crisis on 3 March 2020, Trump continued to push for
"more easing and cutting",[44] followed by more criticism on 10 March
2020 tweeting about Powell:
"Our pathetic, slow moving Federal Reserve, headed by Jay Powell".
Source: https://tinyurl.com/y23y2shr

Ohio Governor calls out the lies of Anthony Fauci. DeWine lifts the ban on the use of HCQ, hydroxychloroquine. 

Imagine that. The Left demonizes the use of HCQ so you can not recover from a potential serious case of Covid 19. The citizens of Ohio are much safer now thanks to DeWine lifting the illegitimate ban on HCQ.

Just another example on how liberalism is a mental disorder!

You will always win after taking the 'Mighty Quin,' Hydroxychloroquine.

so powell is only repeating what actual medical experts have been saying for months

What have the do called medical experts been staying  for months KellyM?

"...The Board of Pharmacy and the State Medical Board of Ohio
should revisit the issue, listen to the best medical science, and
open the process up for comment and testimony from experts.”
                                -- Gov. Mike DeWine (R), July 2020

Meanwhile,

Scientific studies have shown hydroxychloroquine can 
do more harm than good when used to treat symptoms of COVID-19.

Many high-quality studies have found NO evidence that hydroxychloroquine,
when used with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, helps treat coronavirus
infection or prevent serious disease from it. They include studies commissioned
by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization and
universities in the U.S. and around the world.

Because of the lack of benefit and the risks of serious side effects
such as heart rhythm problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
recently revoked its brief authorization of emergency use of the drug
for COVID-19.    NIH treatment guidelines also specifically recommend
against hydroxychloroquine’s use, except in formal studies.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Mind you, there is one VERY PROMINENT proponent of hydroxy-
whom the morons on the right seriously believe:  the infamous
"demon sperm" doctor - who also believes scientists are trying to
make a vaccine to make people "immune" from becoming religious,
that other doctors make medicine from "alien DNA" (space aliens!)
and that the government (trump's) is run in part not by humans
but by “reptilians” and other aliens (again, "aliens from space").

You and KellyM are such 'fake' news! Ridiculous!

Yep!

Keep in mind, Powell is not a medical professional -- he's the chair of the FED.

Still, encouraging the entire population to wear masks and social distance is a refrain we should be hearing from ALL those in government, and repeatedly. 

The Democrats do in both words and actions.   Not so much the GOP.

MULTIPLE polls show clearly, from 66% to 79% of those surveyed SUPPORT mandatory masking.

should actual science prevail  or  testimonial from the space alien dna lady ?

The Left has somehow, someway weaponized 2 words. They are 'empathy' ( of which they have none) and 'science.'

Science,   over the word of the demon sperm doctor

trump doesn't give a damn

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump made his third visit to North Carolina
in as many weeks on Tuesday, pushing a new end-in-sight message on coronavirus.

The state still has a mask requirement in place.
But the President did not wear a mask during his speech in Winston-Salem.
Most individuals higher up on the stands away from Trump and most supporters
on the ground in front of Trump's podium were not sporting masks.

Before Tuesday's event, the Republican chairman of the local county commission
said the President should wear a mask during his speech, a virtually unimaginable
prospect for a President who has been mocking his rival for wearing one and who
demanded reporters remove their face coverings when asking him questions on Monday.

"The President of the United States sets the example for everybody else.
You can hear it: if the President of the United States says I don't have to wear it,
I'm not going to wear it."

No parent in their right mind would hold this POS up as an example for others to follow.

He's a loser who has always been a loser who is abusive to most who come in contact with him. He even said of his son that  "he has the worst fucking judgement of anyone he's ever met." This is just one foul description he has for his son.

His cult says but but but....look at all the property he owns not realizing he doesn't own much of it because the banks do and he is the self proclaimed King of Debt. 

In 2006, he told Maria Bartiromo he was starting a mortgage company because it was a great time for that type of business. Without any vetting he hired another con man to run the company. Months later, the financial crisis struck because of boiler room housing activities like his.

He is a walking financial business disaster who has peed away most of his supporters donations to his campaign.

But who cares if the horse is dead. Keep loading the wagon with his bullshit.

The U.S. government on Monday will stop conducting enhanced screening of passengers on inbound international flights for covid, Yahoo News has learned. 

The screening operations have been held at select airports since January, when the first cases of the disease began to emerge from Wuhan, China. Since March, incoming international flights from select high-risk countries, including much of Europe, China and Iran, among other regions, have been funneled through 15 designated airports in the United States.

Why??????

7 months later and we still don't have a plan.

Astra send a stops phase 3 trials.

Scientists on Wednesday praised the decision by AstraZeneca to suspend its late-stage coronavirus vaccine trials and begin a safety review after learning that a participant had developed a serious neurological condition. Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, testifying at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, said the step “ought to be reassuring.”

Two others continue in phase 3 clinical trials.

Johnson and johnson is expexted to enter phase 3 by next month. Jnj buzz as it was first to produce an effective vaccine for Ebola.

At the same time, shares of Moderna Inc. gained 4.5% in premarket trading, while BioNTech stock was up 5.9% and shares of Pfizer rallied 1.1%. BioNTech and Pfizer are jointly developing a COVID-19 vaccine, and their candidate along with Moderna

How could the complicit cowards surrounding Piggy remain silent regarding this killer virus back in February?

Buddy Creech, MD, the director of Vanderbilt's Vaccine Research Program says the center will take part in the Moderna study and they are currently enrolling participants for a vaccine developed by Pfizer. As Creech stated during Nashville's COVID-19 weekly press conference held by Mayor John Cooper, the Moderna vaccine has been among those using "new technologies" and seeing "early successes" in generating an immunity response.

Source fox 17 Nashville Tennessee.

In just the past week, American colleges and universities have recorded more than 36,000 additional coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 88,000 since the pandemic began.

Kids throwing frat parties should be expelled.

Dr. Brewer , Los angels county head director of health tells schools will be open after the election..... only confirming this is political not about health.   

Some institutions here in ny will kick your kid out for good with no refund.     We need more of these!!!

The pivotal trial is event-based and there are many variables that will ultimately impact read-out timing. As stated previously, based on current infection rates, the companies continue to expect that a conclusive readout on efficacy is likely by the end of October. Pfizer vaccine.

Moderna has slowed enrollment of Caucasians as it has increased minority participation. The results are also expected to be known a little after Columbus day.