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womanofthehills's JournalHealth officials to investigate flu outbreak of over 500 students at University of Michigan
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1461697531306463240?s=21Sara Kendzior on the evils of Steve Bannon
https://twitter.com/hazardoesque/status/1460974516209864708?s=21As Gas Prices Surge, Biden Asks F.T.C. to Investigate 'Illegal Conduct'
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 companys powerful coronavirus vaccine, a conflict that has broad implications for the vaccines 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 governments 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 centers 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 todays 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 hes encouraging farmers to develop weed control plans that dont 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 studys findings as a troubling development in the course of the pandemic. Widespread infection among North Americas 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 studys findings as a troubling development in the course of the pandemic. Widespread infection among North Americas 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
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