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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1460991399315320842?s=218 Dead, Dozens Infected With COVID-19 Due to Outbreak at Connecticut Nursing Home
Sounds like they did not have boosters yet
https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1460807666696138753?s=21
Biden administration expected to purchase 10 million courses of anti Covid pill
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1460675573437636614?s=21Moderna and NIH having a bitter dispute over who deserves credit
WASHINGTON — Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are in a bitter dispute over who deserves credit for inventing the central component of the company’s powerful coronavirus vaccine, a conflict that has broad implications for the vaccine’s long-term distribution and billions of dollars in future profits.
The vaccine grew out of a four-year collaboration between Moderna and the N.I.H., the government’s biomedical research agency — a partnership that was widely hailed when the shot was found to be highly effective. A year ago this month, the government called it the “N.I.H.-Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.”
The agency says three scientists at its Vaccine Research Center — Dr. John R. Mascola, the center’s director; Dr. Barney S. Graham, who recently retired; and Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, who is now at Harvard — worked with Moderna scientists to design the genetic sequence that prompts the vaccine to produce an immune response, and should be named on the “principal patent application.”
Moderna disagrees. In a July filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the company said it had “reached the good-faith determination that these individuals did not co-invent” the component in question. Its application for the patent, which has not yet been issued, names several of its own employees as the sole inventors.
From today’s NYT - linkhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/moderna-vaccine-patent.html
Shortage of herbicides - hopefully more farmers will go organic
https://twitter.com/careygillam/status/1456417085664468996?s=Johnson says he’s encouraging farmers to develop weed control plans that don’t rely so heavily on herbicides. That could include tilling the soil to physically remove weeds or planting cover crops that outcompete them.
NYT -Widespread Coronavirus Infection Found in Iowa Deer, New Study Says
Up to 80 percent of deer sampled from April 2020 through January 2021 in the state were infected, the study indicated.
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Researchers and outside experts characterized the study’s findings as a troubling development in the course of the pandemic. Widespread infection among North America’s most ubiquitous game species could make eradicating the pathogen even more difficult, especially if they became a reservoir for mutations that eventually spilled back over to humans. Researchers and outside experts characterized the study’s findings as a troubling development in the course of the pandemic. Widespread infection among North America’s most ubiquitous game species could make eradicating the pathogen even more difficult, especially if they became a reservoir for mutations that eventually spilled back over to humans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/science/deer-covid-infection.html
CDC: Some immunocompromised people can get fourth vaccine dose
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1453370950645391369?s=21Katie Porter - J & J trying to shield assets - baby powder cases
https://twitter.com/repkatieporter/status/1450522101924827137?s=21FDA Delays Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine for Adolescents to Review Rare Myocarditis Side Effect
The Food and Drug Administration is delaying a decision on authorizing Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents to assess whether the shot may lead to heightened risk of a rare inflammatory heart condition, according to people familiar with the matter.
After four Nordic countries strengthened their stances against giving Moderna vaccines to younger adults last week, the FDA has been taking another look at the risk of the condition, known as myocarditis, among younger men who took Moderna’s vaccine, especially compared with those who received the vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE , the people said. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-delays-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-for-adolescents-to-review-rare-myocarditis-side-effect-11634315159
Biden, Battling Supply Chain Woes, to Announce Port Will Operate 24/7
WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce on Wednesday that the Port of Los Angeles will begin operating around the clock as his administration struggles to relieve growing backlogs in the global supply chains that deliver critical goods to the United States.
Product shortages have frustrated American consumers and businesses and contributed to rising prices that are hurting the president politically. And the problems appear poised to worsen, enduring into late next year or beyond and disrupting shipments of necessities like medications, as well as holiday purchases.
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Meanwhile, the pandemic has shut down factories and slowed production around the world. Port closures, shortages of shipping containers and truck drivers, and pileups in rail and ship yards have led to long transit times and unpredictable deliveries for a wide range of products — problems that have only worsened as the holiday season approaches.
Home Depot, Costco and Walmart have taken to chartering their own ships to move products across the Pacific Ocean. On Tuesday, 27 container ships were anchored in the Port of Los Angeles waiting to unload their containers, and the average anchorage time had stretched to more than 11 days. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/politics/biden-port-los-angeles-supply-chain.html
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