3 hours ago, EagleVA said:

Of course it'll be deleted, no worries though, it'll be on corbettreport.com, that's where you can find his other 3 vids on Bill Gates. 

In a nutshell, by way of philanthropy, Bill Gates owns the WHO and CDC and he's the only single member of the UN.

Bottom line, if lock up Bill and Melinda Gates and freeze their assets, you'll hear nothing else about the corona virus, he alone is driving the plandemic.

Bill Gates owns the WHO and a part of the US government, the CDC?

8 hours ago, Toastrel said:

 

Thanks a-holes.

I had a feeling no one was going to care once memorial day rolled around. 

4 hours ago, dawkins4prez said:

You should let Trump know.  

Trump knows what's going on, that's why he was talking about eliminating the Corona Task Force. 

The dilemma  he's in is he knows if he spills the beans on the hoax he'll have to deal with a country full of mask wearing ignorant arses that's buying into the mainstream narrative, you can' blame him from not wanting to deal with that crowd. 

I've never been a big fan of Trump but if he can muster up the guts to shut this scamdemic down I'll have a lot of respect for him.

 

3 hours ago, RPeeteRules said:

But what if he’s really the only one who is equipped to rationally evaluate it, and we’re all wrong?

Dude, I'm not the only one, moreover, most of those that work in the field say this is total BS, but if you'd never know that if all you view is the mainstream media.

5 hours ago, EagleVA said:

Of course it'll be deleted, no worries though, it'll be on corbettreport.com, that's where you can find his other 3 vids on Bill Gates. 

In a nutshell, by way of philanthropy, Bill Gates owns the WHO and CDC and he's the only single member of the UN.

Bottom line, if lock up Bill and Melinda Gates and freeze their assets, you'll hear nothing else about the corona virus, he alone is driving the plandemic.

Are you saying that he is the entire UN or he is the only member of the UN that is a single person?

19 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

Trump knows what's going on, that's why he was talking about eliminating the Corona Task Force. 

The dilemma  he's in is he knows if he spills the beans on the hoax he'll have to deal with a country full of mask wearing ignorant arses that's buying into the mainstream narrative, you can' blame him from not wanting to deal with that crowd. 

I've never been a big fan of Trump but if he can muster up the guts to shut this scamdemic down I'll have a lot of respect for him.

 

Well that's some heroic discipline by Trump if he knows this.  If the whole thing is a hoax from none other than Bill gates, that would help him immensely politically to get that info out there.  Do you think he can afford to keep this secret all the way to the election or do you think he's just waiting to unveil it at the right time when he can take Gates down?

 

56 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

Trump knows what's going on, that's why he was talking about eliminating the Corona Task Force. 

The dilemma  he's in is he knows if he spills the beans on the hoax he'll have to deal with a country full of mask wearing ignorant arses that's buying into the mainstream narrative, you can' blame him from not wanting to deal with that crowd. 

I've never been a big fan of Trump but if he can muster up the guts to shut this scamdemic down I'll have a lot of respect for him.

 

Wait wait wait, you think Trump knows this and is playing it close to the vest? Bwahahahahahahaa. Even a nutty conspiracy theorist like you couldn't suspend belief that much.

3 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

Wait wait wait, you think Trump knows this and is playing it close to the vest? Bwahahahahahahaa. Even a nutty conspiracy theorist like you couldn't suspend belief that much.

Of course Trump knows. Just go to < insert link to YouTube video here > and see for yourself!

LINK

The Coronavirus Vaccine Is on Track to Be the Fastest Ever Developed

By Carolyn Kormann

May 22, 2020

Pending the results of a Phase III efficacy trial this summer, a vaccine produced by the biotech company Moderna could be ready for approval as soon as the fall.

In early April, as COVID-19 cases and deaths in New York City were rising to horrifying numbers, Tal Zaks, the chief medical officer of Moderna, a Cambridge-based biotech company, was concerned about time. In just three months, his company had created an experimental vaccine to inoculate against COVID-19, and begun to inject the vaccine into humans, under the guidance of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a Phase I clinical trial involving forty-five healthy men and women. This kind of speed in vaccine development was unprecedented, and largely derived from the revolutionary—and yet, on a large scale, untested—biomedical technology behind the Moderna vaccine. Still, if there was any chance of getting the vaccine federally licensed, and then manufactured into hundreds of millions of doses, in twelve to eighteen months—as Anthony Fauci, the director of the N.I.A.I.D., has said is the fastest possible timeline—Zaks knew that the company would have to be able to prove the vaccine’s potential, or an "expectation of benefit,” as he put it, by this summer.

To accomplish this, Moderna would have to demonstrate three things: first, that the vaccine causes no significant adverse side effects in the healthy people dosed; second, that the vaccine can prevent disease in other mammals, such as mice and monkeys; and, third, that the vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies in trial participants’ blood, which is tested by adding inoculated blood to a petri dish and seeing if the virus is prevented from infecting and killing cells in a tissue culture. "In virology,” Zaks told me, "generating neutralizing antibodies is a pretty good surrogate of your ability to eventually protect the human being from becoming sick.” Once you have these Phase I results, "it becomes a judgment call,” he said. "When does that expectation of benefit actually become strong enough to warrant exposing more and more people to an unknown risk?”  On May 15th, Zaks received his answer in his in-box—a hundred-and-forty-page report analyzing the initial results. As he read, his smile got bigger. "It was really, really reassuring,” he said. After two doses—a first shot and a booster shot—eight of the trial participants produced neutralizing antibodies at or exceeding the levels seen in the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19. (Moderna is still awaiting data on the other thirty-seven participants from N.I.A.I.D. and its academic partners, which are carrying out the dangerous experiments in Biosafety Level 3 labs.) Across the entire group of forty-five trial participants, all of whom were between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five, the vaccine was safe and tolerated, with almost no adverse side effects. Among the two lower-dosage groups, one person had some redness around the injection site, and, in the high-dosage group, three people experienced short-lived, mild flu-like symptoms. In mice, the vaccine provided full protection against viral replication in the lungs, which researchers tested by giving mice the vaccine and then deliberately infecting them with the virus. (Scientists place a small drop of virus-laced fluid over the mouse’s nostrils. Similar trials on rhesus macaques are about to start.)

With these results, Moderna and the N.I.A.I.D. could continue with their wildly ambitious plan to start Phase II trials almost immediately, in six hundred participants, with no limit on maximum age, and then, by July, to start Phase III efficacy trials, which will likely involve upward of ten thousand people. After finishing his review of the report, Zaks jumped on a call with other Moderna executives and scientists, and also investigators at N.I.A.I.D. "The sense of excitement was palpable,” he told me in a video call on Monday, still smiling, wearing a blood-red tie. "There was clapping.” But he emphasized that there was still a long way to go. Mice are not humans. "I have to say that the degree of excitement is the same as the degree, or sense, of responsibility,” Zaks said. "Now we’ve got to get this next bit right. It’s on us.”

Stéphane Bancel, the C.E.O. of Moderna, said last week that, pending the results of the Phase III efficacy trial this summer, the vaccine could be ready for approval and licensing as soon as the fall. In the Phase III trial, one group will get a placebo and another will get the vaccine. Everyone is given the same precautions to avoid infection. Then the investigators have to wait for people to stumble into the virus or get infected; once there are significantly more cases among the placebo group, to prove that the vaccine is working, an independent review board will analyze the data and decide whether the trial is done. "The biggest risk is how quickly we get enough people infected to have significant data,” Zaks said. "Designing the trial and picking the right place to run it is going to be key now.”

New York City, where there likely still will be some community circulation of the virus this summer, is one of the locations under consideration. Zaks could not confirm yet how many cases of infection would be needed to prove that the vaccine is effective. Often, in Phase III case-driven trials of this kind, investigators and regulators want to have between sixty and a hundred cases of infection with clinical symptoms (the kind that make a person go to the doctor) in the placebo group. Ideally, there would be zero cases of infection among the vaccinated group. "Fifty-to-zero would be great. Thirty-to-zero would be good,” Zaks said. "The higher the ratio, the sooner we’re likely to be able to show that, indeed, it is a statistically significant difference, and therefore we got it right.” But most vaccines are not a hundred-per-cent effective. "Even fifty-per-cent or seventy-per-cent efficacy would be helpful here,” Barney Graham, the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center at the N.I.A.I.D., who has been deeply involved with the Moderna vaccine’s development and clinical trials, said.

Usually, vaccine development takes a decade or longer, and the statistical chance of failure, historically, is more than ninety per cent. But Moderna, which was founded a decade ago, has invested billions to create vaccines (and also therapeutic drugs) using messenger RNA, which is, essentially, the code—like the zeroes and ones that drive computing—that tells cells how to build new proteins (i.e., how to grow life). To make these vaccines, all that Moderna’s researchers need to know is the atomic-level genetic sequence—the messenger RNA—of the protein they want our bodies to create. Everything else about the vaccine—the upstream supply chain (the enzymes and nucleic acids, the lipids, the plastics) and the downstream processes (purification, tests for stability and integrity of the vaccine)—is the same as it would be for any of their other vaccines. That’s why they can move so quickly. With this coronavirus, the vaccine’s mRNA instructs our cells to make the now famous spike protein—the part of the virus that is particularly adept at binding to our cells—prompting our immune system to create antibodies that can disarm it. The company has some of its own manufacturing capacity, which allowed it to make the early doses. In April, the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) awarded the company nearly five hundred million dollars to accelerate development, and, on May 1st, Moderna announced that it would be collaborating with Lonza, a Swiss multinational chemical and biotech company, to manufacture up to a billion doses of the coronavirus vaccine in 2021.

Still, this vaccine will be Moderna’s first to go into Phase III trials, a historic first for mRNA vaccines and therapeutics. Fauci, during Senate testimony on May 12th, said, "There is no guarantee the vaccine is going to be effective.” He also pointed out that there have been at least two vaccines in the past that have had adverse effects; the vaccines induced the wrong sort of antibodies, and people exposed to the virus got even sicker. That is unlikely in this case, Zaks said, thanks to years of research by Barney Graham and others at the Vaccine Research Center. But it is still a theoretical possibility. At this stage, almost anything could happen. For Moderna, there will be pressure from all sides—the crisis of the pandemic itself, the Trump Administration, a depressed economy—to quickly show that the vaccine works. Despite the first round of promising evidence, Zaks knows that the company must wait for proof. "There’s going to be a tension between our ability to generate data for safety and effectiveness and our wish to use the vaccine as we’re ramping up manufacturing,” he said. "We’re going to have a pile of vaccines ahead of having actual data that proves its safety profile and benefit.” For a desperate world, the wait will be painful.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, paco said:

Are you saying that he is the entire UN or he is the only member of the UN that is a single person?

The latter.

1 hour ago, dawkins4prez said:

Well that's some heroic discipline by Trump if he knows this.  If the whole thing is a hoax from none other than Bill gates, that would help him immensely politically to get that info out there.  Do you think he can afford to keep this secret all the way to the election or do you think he's just waiting to unveil it at the right time when he can take Gates down?

Who knows, it's possible he knew what was about to take place and agreed to play along as with all the other national leaders.

4 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

Who knows, it's possible he knew what was about to take place and agreed to play along as with all the other national leaders.

Why would Trump play along?  It's killing his country and his reelection chances.

27 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said:

Why would Trump play along?  

Before the word get out that I said Trumps knows this is a hoax and he's playing along, don't forget "Who knows, it's possible.....".

Orange man wants you to review him on amazon

 

18 minutes ago, Smokesdawg said:

Orange man wants you to review him on amazon

 

"Great reviews on the Titanic, sometimes referred to as the English Ship.  An unbreachable hull, plenty of life boats, we made a lot of shipmates look very good - and got no credit for so doing.  Most importantly, everyone made it to New York!"

1 hour ago, Smokesdawg said:

Orange man wants you to review him on amazon

 

Just casually tossing in the racism to fire up the base. 

6 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Just casually tossing in the racism to fire up the base. 

That was to piss off the tds’ers more than anything.   I dont know why though. It’s so fricken petty.  
 

i never thought i’de say this but im actually starting to miss obama.  Jesus 

Daily update from pops

https://www.nothingbutthetruthmd.com/2020/05/52520-covid-19-update.html?m=1

COVID-19 RT-PCR TESTING AND RELATED ISSUES OF INTEREST

 

Contact Tracing Assessment of Covid-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods

JAMA Int Med May 2020

 

Real Time RT-PCR in Covid-19 Detection:Issues Affecting the Results

Expert Rev Mol Diagn April 2020

 

In Taiwan 100 cases of confirmed Covid-19 and 2761 close contacts were studied.  

 

The study period as from January 15 to March 18  of 2020 and the last observation day was April 2 2020.

 

The close contacts of 100 index cases were investigated.  A close contact was defined as any person with face to face contact (less than six feet) with an index case for greater than 15 minutes without proper PPE.  All close contacts were quarantined for 14 days from their last exposure with the index case.

 

Comment - similar to other contact tracing reports that I have read (which in this case were an integral part of Taiwan's response to contain the virus) a fairly large number of contacts are generated per index case.  In this report there were 27 contacts per index case.  The United States yesterday had 22,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19.  These cases would generate 594,000 secondary contacts that need to be contacted quickly to contain transmission.  They would also need to be tested for Covid-19, irrespective of symptoms since we now know that a significant number of these contacts will remain asymptomatic and they would needed to be tested daily for four to five days to ensure that viral loads would have been sufficient to trigger a positive RT-PCR test, a challenging endeavor but certainly not insurmountable.

 

I am not certain that our citizens would be willing to quarantine, which is an essential part of containing the virus.  Wearing masks seems to create a problem, quarantining for 14 days is certain not convenient.

 

During the quarantine period any relevant clinical symptoms triggered a test for Covid-19.

 

Comment - we now know that a significant number of patients with confirmed RT-PCR tests for Covid-19 remain asymptomatic.  This study was relatively early on but instrumental to Taiwan's growing knowledge of the virus.  By testing only symptomatic quarantined individuals they missed cases of secondary transmission that would have increased, possibly doubled the secondary transmission rate.

 

Of the index cases, 56% were males, the median age for all patients was 44 (age range 11-88)

 

Of the secondary contacts, 1818 occured before day five of symptom onset and the attack rate was 1%.  There were 852 close contacts after day five with no infections.  There were 299 individuals who only had contact with an index case prior to onset of symptoms with a 0.7% attack rate.  These numbers would have been higher had they tested everyone instead of just symptomatic secondary contacts.

 

Comment - it is interesting that there were no Covid-19 positive secondary contacts after day five, despite the fact that we know that positive RT-PCR tests frequently are positive after day five.  Current theory for this phenomena is based on  viral RNA segments as opposed to whole viral particles being picked up by the testing methodology.

 

The serial interval time of Covid-19 defined as the interval between infection of an index case and that of a secondary case was found to be four to five days, which is similar to the incubation period.  The short serial interval of Covid-19 results of viral shedding studies suggest that most transmission occurs near or even before the time of symptom onset.

 

RT-PCR is the currently the "gold standard" test for the detection of Covid-19 infection.  There are false negatives.  False negative would imply a test that should have been positive and therefore a miss a truly infected patient.  Some of these results are related to the collection of samples and sites, experience of the sampler and possible reagent problems.

 

Assuming that the reagents are good, the sampler is experienced, and the sample was adequate,  negative test results will occur in patients, who are in fact, infected, but have not yet built up a sufficient viral load to trigger a positive RT-PCR test.  According to the natural history of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, viral loads are built up at different rates at different anatomical sites.

 

A truly negative test does infer, that at that time, the patient was not shedding sufficient virus to be detected, and most likely is not contagious.

 

CRITICAL COMMENT

 

For those of you sending students back to school, who will be participating in athletic activities that will involve close face to face contact, coughing and heavy breathing from activity, BEWARE!!

 

It is well known that a series of negative RT-PCR tests can be followed by a positive test.  An individual is tested on days 1,2,3,4 and 5.  Days 1 through 4 are negative and day 5 is positive.  The tests done on days 1 through 4 give you no warning that the test performed on day 5 will be positive and on that day the individual is infectious.

 

Anything but daily testing of athletes in these sports, will not ensure that viral transmission will not occur.  A negative test today does not mean that tomorrow, that individual will not be contagious.  You must understand the meaning of negative tests and this is in addition to the false negatives that occur for reasons mentioned above.  It is my understanding that at the professional level, there is strong consideration to daily testing being given.  If you have a child who has a condition that might be associated with more severe disease, PLEASE give this great thought.  It will be of interest to see if lineman in the game of football contract the disease more often or have a more severe disease course than the smaller players in the game.

 

These comments are not germane to sports where physical distancing is possible at all times. 

 

 

Numbers:

 

Tests - 441,027 tests in the last 24 hours

 

USA - 1,657,441 (up 1.07%, down from 1.36%, 4465 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

New York - 362,764, (up 0.34%, down from 0.44%, 340 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

New Jersey - 155,092 (up 0.60%, down from 0.66%, 76 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

Pennsylvania - 71925 (up0.50%, down from 1.10%, 417 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

Maryland - 47,152 (up 1.79%, down from 1.81%, 9 more cases than the day before)

 

California - 94,536 (up 1.62%, down from 2.47%, 736 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

South Carolina - 10,178 (up0.81% down from 2.03%, 119 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

Texas - 55897 (up 1.36% down from 2.91%, 809 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

World - 5,467,945 (up 1.62% down from 1.89%, 12860 fewer new cases than the day before)

 

Went for a walk around Kelly Drive yesterday, near the Art Museum in Philadelphia, the vast majority of people, walking, running or biking had masks on!

 

Have a great night

 

 

Live Safely

Be Well

1 hour ago, Phillyterp85 said:

For those… who will be participating in athletic activities that will involve close face to face contact, coughing and heavy breathing from activity, BEWARE!!

The Eagles' cornerbacks should be safe from infection.

14 minutes ago, Mlodj said:

The Eagles' cornerbacks should be safe from infection.

You don like the Darius Slay move?

Can someone explain this about Qatar?  Over 45,000 cases since the pandemic started, but only 26 deaths?

https://covid19.moph.gov.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx

 

Could Qatar be hiding anything, like what many believe China did?  Qatar has been accused of allowing slavery in the past 10 years, and there is growing concern that Qatar has gone bad, such as financing terrorism and things like that.

 

Or, could their seemingly impossibly low death numbers be because they count their dead differently?  Do we attribute deaths in nursing homes to the virus when they shouldn't be?

1 hour ago, xzmattzx said:

Can someone explain this about Qatar?  Over 45,000 cases since the pandemic started, but only 26 deaths?

https://covid19.moph.gov.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx

 

Could Qatar be hiding anything, like what many believe China did?  Qatar has been accused of allowing slavery in the past 10 years, and there is growing concern that Qatar has gone bad, such as financing terrorism and things like that.

 

Or, could their seemingly impossibly low death numbers be because they count their dead differently?  Do we attribute deaths in nursing homes to the virus when they shouldn't be?

Even by very conservative death rates (0.5%), their death toll on those figures would be north of 200. 

So I googled "Flat Earth" for fun and just poked around a bit.  There are some out there who theorize that flat earthers may suffer from an underlying mental disorder.  From my very limited experience with the phenomena on here I'd say it is a theory worth digging into.

One of the things that will be interesting now as we move to the next phase is how everyone decides to filter who is allowed in and who isn't.  I saw an article this morning about a hair salon in NC who refuse to serve employees of a local Tyson's Food workplace due to a COVID outbreak at the plant.  Over here both Denmark and Cyprus are open for business but not for everyone.  For example, Danes can just jump in their car and drive over the bridge from Copenhagen over to Sweden but Swedes aren't allowed in to Denmark.  Lots of examples of this.  Easy to understand the basic thinking but going to be quite hard to sort out and make rationale sense of all the details.