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    https://www.foxla.com/news/bloody-br...t-wearing-mask

    MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - A bloody brawl broke out in Manhattan Beach after a couple confronted two men for not wearing masks, causing an argument that turned violent when the woman threw coffee into the face of one of the men.

    The brawl was all caught on video, recorded by James Hernandez’s bodycam, which he says he has to wear as a Trump supporter.

    “Because I wear a trump hat I’ve had a lot of confrontations, I guess,” he said.

    His camera was rolling on Friday when he says he and his friend, Matthew Roy, were eating burritos outside without masks on, and a couple criticized them.

    “Y’all need to be wearing masks,” the woman can be heard saying.

    “No we don’t,” Hernandez replies. “We’re locals here but were on the other side of the fence, we don’t believe in this stuff.”

    “I hadn’t even gotten to start eating the burrito yet before someone wanted to give me a mask lecture,” Roy said.

    “I guess the guy really wanted to impress his girlfriend because I was pretty dismissive, I thought when I turned my back on them they would just move on, but he wanted to stand there and engage me.”

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    Roy says the woman then stuck her middle finger in his face, and tensions escalated further until she threw her coffee in his face.

    Roy immediately gets up, and begins punching the woman’s boyfriend in response.

    “She decided to slam her coffee into my head and that’s when I decided to get up and beat up her boyfriend,” Roy said.

    “I got a few licks in and I have brothers at home and as soon as the gentleman or the gentler man said stop, I did, I backed off.”

    The bloodied man called police and reported he’d been assaulted.

    Police responded, but no arrests were made.

    “They really wanted to force us to put a mask on, they just thought we were killing their grandma,” Hernandez said.

    “Nobody really believes in the masks, but everybody is scared of Ken and Karen and I’m not, I don’t care anymore,” Roy said.

    The men told FOX 11 they declined to press charges.

    Manhattan Beach PD told FOX 11 no arrests were made, and no charges are pending.

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    LOS ANGELES - Grocery store employees at a Food 4 Less in Westlake are demanding better protection and protocols after nearly 30 workers tested positive for COVID-19.

    So far, 28 workers have become infected with COVID-19 at the location, making it the largest cluster at a grocery or retail drug store in Los Angeles and the most publicly reported positive cases of grocery retail workers in Los Angeles County.

    The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 is calling for regular COVID-19 testing for employees and more transparency about infections at stores run by Kroger, the parent company of the Food 4 Less and Ralphs supermarket chains.

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    “It’s clear that the pandemic will not be weeks-long or even months-long. It is our new reality and workers and customers need permanent protections,” said the chapter's president, John Grant. “The pandemic has shone a bright light on hourly wage earners. They are Black and brown, immigrants and people of color. Their work has always been essential and undervalued. The pandemic put their hard work front and center.”

    The workers plan to hold a social-distance safe demonstration at 11 a.m. Wednesday outside the chain's location, located at 1700 W 6th Street.

    In a statement to FOX 11, a representative for Kroger said, "Food 4 Less has taken extensive measures to safeguard our associates, customers and supply chain, ensuring local communities always have access to fresh, affordable food."

    The protections included things like providing face masks for every associate every shift, installing Plexiglass shields at checkout stands, handwashing and cleaning high-touch areas every 30 minutes, limiting store capacity to 25% of normal and mandatory temperature and symptom checks for associates prior to starting their shifts.



    The outbreak at the Food 4 Less in Westlake is the second outbreak at a Kroger-owned store in Los Angeles, union officials said. Since May, more than 25 grocery workers tested positive for COVID-19 at the Ralphs at 7257 W. Sunset Blvd. With 129 workers total, about 19% of the store’s unionized workforce has been infected with the virus.

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    If you are wondering why COVID-19 conspiracy theories keep escalating 6 months later check out this video called California jam by Jeff Holiday he exposed the leaders of this Snake Oil convention for having a political agenda.

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    https://fox40.com/news/national-and-...9-by-december/

    CNN) — Researchers behind an influential model are projecting that the US death toll from coronavirus could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 — but that can be changed if Americans consistently wear masks.

    According to Johns Hopkins University, 159,841 people have died in the United States since the pandemic began.

    “The US forecast totals 295,011 deaths by December,” the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation statement says.

    The model doesn’t have to come true, said IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray: “The public’s behavior had a direct correlation to the transmission of the virus and, in turn, the numbers of deaths.”

    The statement said that if 95% of the people in the US wear face coverings, the number would decrease to 228,271 deaths, and a total of more than 66,000 lives.

    The model comes the same day the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an ensemble forecast that projects 181,031 deaths by August 29.

    “State-level ensemble forecasts predict that the number of reported new deaths per week may increase over the next four weeks in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and may decrease in Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands.” the CDC says on its forecasting website.

    The forecast relies on 24 individual forecasts from outside institutions and researchers.

    Fauci: We can get case levels down by Election Day
    The US has what it takes to get Covid-19 case levels down to more manageable levels by Election Day if it uses masks and other “fundamental tenets of infection control” — but it needs to get serious now, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Thursday.

    “We can be way down in November … if we do things correctly, and if we start right now,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told “New Day.”

    Fauci’s roadmap is the same one he’s been preaching, including using masks in public, social distancing and washing hands.

    And he points to hopeful signs that this works. Arizona, which had a significant outbreak this summer, has “started to really clamp down and do things right,” he said.

    Arizona went from averaging nearly 4,000 cases a day in early July to below 2,000 new cases a day now, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

    “I really do believe, based on the data we see in other countries, and in the United States, in states and cities and counties that have done it correctly, that if we pay attention to the fundamental tenets of infection control and diminution of transmission, we can be way down in November,” Fauci said.

    “Everybody on the team of American citizens needs to pull together. … It’s up to us,” he said.

    Fauci: Test positivity upticks are ‘predictor of trouble’
    With 4.8 million cases in the US alone, Fauci elaborated on a warning that a fellow member of the White House coronavirus task force sounded.

    On Wednesday, task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned state and local officials in a phone call about a uptick in a test-positivity rate in several cities, including Chicago, Boston, Detroit and Washington, DC.

    She said Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, Portland, Omaha and California’s Central Valley “remain at a very high level.”

    Test positivity rates can give early indication that a surge in daily case counts will come if nothing is done, Fauci said Thursday.

    “So what Dr. Birx is saying, is now is the time to accelerate the fundamental preventative measures that we all talk about: Masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds, outdoors greater than indoors, washing hands, et cetera,” Fauci said.

    “Those kinds of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. So she was warning the states and the cities to be careful, because this is a predictor of trouble ahead.”

    At least 39 states as well as Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico have put some type of order in place that mandates the use of masks, and the development of vaccines is advancing with the hope that they could reach the public in 2021, Fauci has said. Still, the nation still is missing the cohesive response to the virus he would like to see.

    The US went from averaging near 20,000 new cases a day in late May to above 60,000 new cases daily in July. The daily average is below 60,000 now.

    Fauci indicated the US didn’t lower daily case rates enough in the spring — but he also thinks that the country can get them down “to a level of hundreds of cases, and maybe a thousand or two” with the preventive measures he’s prescribing.

    States and cities taking matters into their own hands
    Without a strong national game plan in place, state leaders are taking control of coronavirus measures.

    Testing, contact tracing, masks and distancing have all been stressed by health experts as measures that could help reduce the spread of the virus and bring numbers down to the baseline necessary to reopen safely.

    To ramp up production of tests that can give results in 15 to 20 minutes, governors from Maryland, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia reached an agreement to run a total of 3 million rapid antigen tests, according to a statement released Tuesday.

    Meanwhile, when people do test positive in Virginia, a new app announced by Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday will alert those with whom they have been in close contact of their potential exposure. COVIDWISE uses Bluetooth Low Energy technology, not personal information or location data, to detect when people have been in close enough range, according to a release.

    In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said he’s authorized the city’s water and power department to shut off service to places that host non-permitted large gatherings, beginning Friday.

    “This … is not focused on small and ordinary gatherings in people’s homes. These are focused on the people determined to break the rules, posing significant public dangers and a threat to all of us,” Garcetti said Wednesday.

    Los Angeles County has banned gatherings of people from different households, including parties, and violations are punishable by fines and jail time, said the county’s public health director, Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

    Since the beginning of June, the county’s coronavirus case rate for people ages 30-49 nearly tripled, and the rate for ages 18-29 nearly quadrupled, Ferrer said.

    “This is also the age group that is most likely to be attending the large parties that we keep seeing,” Ferrer said.

    North Carolina is extending Safer at Home Phase 2 for five weeks to combat the spread of the virus as schools reopen, Gov. Roy Cooper said. That phase includes restrictions on businesses; a mask mandate in public places; and limiting indoor and outdoor gatherings to 10 and 25 people, respectively.

    And Mississippi, which ranks fifth among states for highest cases per capita, has gone from mandating masks in only the counties with the worst numbers to requiring them at public gatherings and retail businesses statewide.

    Schools facing tough choices
    School districts have been at the center of a difficult debate about whether to reopen schools for in-person classes as infections continue to spread.

    As of Thursday, 62 of the country’s largest 100 school districts have said they will start the school year with full online learning, accounting for nearly 7 million students.

    Early in the outbreak, health experts believed severe infections and spread were less likely among children. But more recent data shows that while children are far less likely to die from Covid-19 than adults, they can still pass the disease on to others.

    But keeping students home could lead to millions of parents being forced to quit their jobs, according to economists from Goldman Sachs.

    Single parents, those whose jobs do not allow them to work from home and those without access to child care are at risk of having to choose between sending their children to school — whether or not they think it’s safe — or quitting their job to stay home with them, said Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a primary care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

    “We have failed the parents and the kids of this country,” she said.

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    https://fox40.com/news/national-and-...9-by-december/

    CNN) ? Researchers behind an influential model are projecting that the US death toll from coronavirus could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 ? but that can be changed if Americans consistently wear masks.

    According to Johns Hopkins University, 159,841 people have died in the United States since the pandemic began.

    ?The US forecast totals 295,011 deaths by December,? the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation statement says.

    The model doesn?t have to come true, said IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray: ?The public?s behavior had a direct correlation to the transmission of the virus and, in turn, the numbers of deaths.?

    The statement said that if 95% of the people in the US wear face coverings, the number would decrease to 228,271 deaths, and a total of more than 66,000 lives.

    The model comes the same day the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an ensemble forecast that projects 181,031 deaths by August 29.

    ?State-level ensemble forecasts predict that the number of reported new deaths per week may increase over the next four weeks in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and may decrease in Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, and the Virgin Islands.? the CDC says on its forecasting website.

    The forecast relies on 24 individual forecasts from outside institutions and researchers.

    Fauci: We can get case levels down by Election Day
    The US has what it takes to get Covid-19 case levels down to more manageable levels by Election Day if it uses masks and other ?fundamental tenets of infection control? ? but it needs to get serious now, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Thursday.

    ?We can be way down in November ? if we do things correctly, and if we start right now,? Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ?New Day.?

    Fauci?s roadmap is the same one he?s been preaching, including using masks in public, social distancing and washing hands.

    And he points to hopeful signs that this works. Arizona, which had a significant outbreak this summer, has ?started to really clamp down and do things right,? he said.

    Arizona went from averaging nearly 4,000 cases a day in early July to below 2,000 new cases a day now, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

    ?I really do believe, based on the data we see in other countries, and in the United States, in states and cities and counties that have done it correctly, that if we pay attention to the fundamental tenets of infection control and diminution of transmission, we can be way down in November,? Fauci said.

    ?Everybody on the team of American citizens needs to pull together. ? It?s up to us,? he said.

    Fauci: Test positivity upticks are ?predictor of trouble?
    With 4.8 million cases in the US alone, Fauci elaborated on a warning that a fellow member of the White House coronavirus task force sounded.

    On Wednesday, task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned state and local officials in a phone call about a uptick in a test-positivity rate in several cities, including Chicago, Boston, Detroit and Washington, DC.

    She said Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, Portland, Omaha and California?s Central Valley ?remain at a very high level.?

    Test positivity rates can give early indication that a surge in daily case counts will come if nothing is done, Fauci said Thursday.

    ?So what Dr. Birx is saying, is now is the time to accelerate the fundamental preventative measures that we all talk about: Masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds, outdoors greater than indoors, washing hands, et cetera,? Fauci said.

    ?Those kinds of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. So she was warning the states and the cities to be careful, because this is a predictor of trouble ahead.?

    At least 39 states as well as Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico have put some type of order in place that mandates the use of masks, and the development of vaccines is advancing with the hope that they could reach the public in 2021, Fauci has said. Still, the nation still is missing the cohesive response to the virus he would like to see.

    The US went from averaging near 20,000 new cases a day in late May to above 60,000 new cases daily in July. The daily average is below 60,000 now.

    Fauci indicated the US didn?t lower daily case rates enough in the spring ? but he also thinks that the country can get them down ?to a level of hundreds of cases, and maybe a thousand or two? with the preventive measures he?s prescribing.

    States and cities taking matters into their own hands
    Without a strong national game plan in place, state leaders are taking control of coronavirus measures.

    Testing, contact tracing, masks and distancing have all been stressed by health experts as measures that could help reduce the spread of the virus and bring numbers down to the baseline necessary to reopen safely.

    To ramp up production of tests that can give results in 15 to 20 minutes, governors from Maryland, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia reached an agreement to run a total of 3 million rapid antigen tests, according to a statement released Tuesday.

    Meanwhile, when people do test positive in Virginia, a new app announced by Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday will alert those with whom they have been in close contact of their potential exposure. COVIDWISE uses Bluetooth Low Energy technology, not personal information or location data, to detect when people have been in close enough range, according to a release.

    In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said he?s authorized the city?s water and power department to shut off service to places that host non-permitted large gatherings, beginning Friday.

    ?This ? is not focused on small and ordinary gatherings in people?s homes. These are focused on the people determined to break the rules, posing significant public dangers and a threat to all of us,? Garcetti said Wednesday.

    Los Angeles County has banned gatherings of people from different households, including parties, and violations are punishable by fines and jail time, said the county?s public health director, Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

    Since the beginning of June, the county?s coronavirus case rate for people ages 30-49 nearly tripled, and the rate for ages 18-29 nearly quadrupled, Ferrer said.

    ?This is also the age group that is most likely to be attending the large parties that we keep seeing,? Ferrer said.

    North Carolina is extending Safer at Home Phase 2 for five weeks to combat the spread of the virus as schools reopen, Gov. Roy Cooper said. That phase includes restrictions on businesses; a mask mandate in public places; and limiting indoor and outdoor gatherings to 10 and 25 people, respectively.

    And Mississippi, which ranks fifth among states for highest cases per capita, has gone from mandating masks in only the counties with the worst numbers to requiring them at public gatherings and retail businesses statewide.

    Schools facing tough choices
    School districts have been at the center of a difficult debate about whether to reopen schools for in-person classes as infections continue to spread.

    As of Thursday, 62 of the country?s largest 100 school districts have said they will start the school year with full online learning, accounting for nearly 7 million students.

    Early in the outbreak, health experts believed severe infections and spread were less likely among children. But more recent data shows that while children are far less likely to die from Covid-19 than adults, they can still pass the disease on to others.

    But keeping students home could lead to millions of parents being forced to quit their jobs, according to economists from Goldman Sachs.

    Single parents, those whose jobs do not allow them to work from home and those without access to child care are at risk of having to choose between sending their children to school ? whether or not they think it?s safe ? or quitting their job to stay home with them, said Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a primary care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

    ?We have failed the parents and the kids of this country,? she said.

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    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/sou...us-resurgence/

    Southeast Los Angeles County has become the epicenter for the resurgence of the coronavirus, according to a Times analysis of county health data that found infections skyrocketing in its mostly working-class Latino communities.

    The sharp increase since the economy reopened around Memorial Day shows the virus is spreading rapidly through factories, stores and other workplaces and into communities with higher rates of poverty, more crowding and many essential workers who make the economy tick. Hit hard by job losses during the shutdown, they are increasingly suffering from the virus itself.

    The region reported more than 27,000 new COVID-19 cases over the last two months, the most in the county. The area now accounts for 19% of new infections, although it comprises just 12% of the countywide population, the Times analysis shows. That vaulted its once-modest infection rate into one of the highest in the county, and just below the already hard-hit Eastside and South L.A. areas, according to the Times analysis through Aug. 2

    The trend is part of a statewide spike in infections among Latinos, both in rural, farm-working communities and urban areas. It’s only the latest burden for a corner of Southern California long beset by pollution from nearby industry, a lack of access to healthcare and a host of other ills.

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    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...-mask-72211113

    A Florida man was arrested after confronting a child wearing a mask at a restaurant and spitting in his face when the boy refused to take it off, police said.
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    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...KCN25338Z?il=0

    SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian billionaire Jorge Lemann’s foundation and other business interests will fund the building of factory to produce the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC.

    The Lemann Foundation said in a statement on Friday that the 100 million reais ($18 million) factory will be donated to Brazil’s premier biomedical research and development lab, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, or Fiocruz.

    It said the factory will be ready to produce 30 million doses of the vaccine per month as of the beginning of 2021.

    Brazil is approaching 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States.

    The Brazilian government sees the British vaccine as the most promising of the vaccines that are being developed by researchers worldwide.

    The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being tested on Brazilian volunteers in a study led by the Federal University of S?o Paulo that is also funded by the Lemann Foundation.

    Other donors to the initiative to ensure Brazil can absorb the technology to produce the potential vaccine include Brazilian brewer Ambev SA, Ita? Unibanco, the Votorantim Institute and the Behring Family Foundation.

    Lemann said he hoped the initiative will help Brazil be “better positioned and prepared to face other challenges of this nature that may arise.”

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree on Thursday setting aside 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) in funds to purchase an initial 100 million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and to invest in its eventually production in Brazil.

    The health ministry reported on Friday 50,230 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,079 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours.

    Brazil has registered 2,962,442 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 99,572, according to ministry data.

    https://www.fiercebiotech.com/resear...a-decoy-target

    Sars-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, infects a person by first binding its spike protein to the ACE2 receptor on the surface of human cells. Blocking this process could theoretically inhibit infections when tissues are exposed to the virus.

    A research team led by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, suggests that a variant of the receptor—one with an even stronger ability to bind to the coronavirus—might work as a therapeutic candidate against COVID-19 by acting as a decoy to lure the virus away.

    In a new study published in Science, the team showed that one soluble receptor protein dubbed sACE2.v2.4, a variant with three mutations, was significantly more efficacious at neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 infection than was the unmodified protein in cultured cells.

    Scientists have already isolated many highly potent neutralizing antibodies from patients who recovered from COVID-19. These antibodies defend a cell from infection by directly blocking the pathogen’s biological activities. They are considered a viable COVID-19 treatment approach, and inducing them is a key goal of vaccines.

    But the novel coronavirus’ spike protein can quickly accumulate “escape mutations” that help it evade the antibodies. Regeneron is combining two monoclonal antibodies targeting different sites on the spike protein in hopes of reducing the risk of resistance.

    A soluble high-affinity ACE2 variant could offer one advantage in the resistance wars: To escape neutralization, the virus would have to mutate in a way that decreases its ability to bind with human cells’ native ACE2 receptors. And that, in turn, would make it less infectious, Erik Procko, the study’s senior author, explained in a statement.

    ACE2 is widely expressed in the body—including in the lungs—regulating blood pressure, blood volume and inflammation. “Administering a decoy based on ACE2 might not only neutralize infection, but may have the additional benefit of rescuing lost ACE2 activity and directly treating aspects of COVID-19,” Procko said.

    Because human ACE2 is not naturally designed to recognize Sars-CoV-2, Procko’s team hypothesized that mutations could be introduced to increase affinity.

    The researchers examined 2,340 ACE2 mutations and settled on a combination of three mutations that made the receptor bind to the virus 50 times more strongly—a level comparable to the monoclonal antibodies against COVID-19 that have been identified so far. The decoy receptor not only bound to the virus in live cell cultures, but also effectively neutralized it, the team reported.

    RELATED: New coronavirus maps offer insights for detection and treatment

    Using decoys to prevent COVID-19 from binding to healthy cells is also an approach pursued by scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. An RPI team recently found that the widely used blood thinner heparin, by binding tightly to Sars-CoV-2, acts as a potential decoy to trap the virus.

    With the promising results in lab dishes, Procko and colleagues are testing whether their decoy receptor is safe and stable in mice. They hope to show efficacy in animals before moving into a clinical trial, he said.

    In addition, the team is exploring whether the drug candidate binds to other coronaviruses as a potential treatment for future pathogens. As sACE2.v2.4 was also found to potently neutralize Sars-CoV-1, the virus behind a deadly outbreak in Asia around 2003, “it is possible that that the decoy receptor will neutralize diverse ACE2-utilizing coronaviruses that have yet to cross over to humans,” the researchers wrote in the study.

    https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotec...id-19-vaccines

    The FDA has vowed not to let political pressure to approve a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible interfere with the regulatory process, Anthony Fauci told Reuters. Fauci’s comments come ahead of an election season in which the availability of a vaccine could influence the vote.

    While some companies have expressed hopes that they will win approval for COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the year, the consensus is that the FDA is unlikely to authorize a product before the U.S. goes to the polls in early November. The likelihood that a vaccine will nearly, but not quite, be ready for market in the run up to the election has raised concerns that political pressure may lead the FDA to authorize a product prematurely.

    However, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is confident the FDA will decide whether to approve a vaccine or not on the strength of the evidence alone.

    "They promise that they are not going to let political considerations interfere with a regulatory decision,” Fauci said. "We've spoken explicitly about that, because the subject obviously comes up, and the people in charge of the regulatory process assure us that safety and efficacy is going to be the prime consideration.”

    Fauci went on to say he is “certain of what the White House would like to see” but is yet to see “any indication of pressure at this point to do anything different than what we're doing.”

    Approving a vaccine before sufficient data are available to evaluate its safety and efficacy could cause harm. Notably, as the most closely watched prophylactics ever, postapproval safety problems with the COVID-19 products could significantly exacerbate existing vaccine hesitancy.

    President Donald Trump said this week that the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine in time for the election “wouldn’t hurt” his prospects but denied that was his motivation. “I want to save a lot of lives,” Trump said. Trump is optimistic the U.S. will have a vaccine against the coronavirus before the election, putting his stance at odds with the consensus of other observers.
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    My mom is doing the vaccine trials through Children's hospital. I may do it too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angiebla View Post
    My mom is doing the vaccine trials through Children's hospital. I may do it too.
    Hope for the best for you and your family taking the Vaccine clinical trials for COVID-19.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angiebla View Post
    My mom is doing the vaccine trials through Children's hospital. I may do it too.
    That's pretty selfless. You are a braver woman than I. I don't even do flu shots.

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    Hope for the best for you and your family taking the Vaccine clinical trials for COVID-19.
    Now that I know you have a biotech degree.... would you ever consider participating in clinical trials for COVID-19?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Angiebla View Post
    My mom is doing the vaccine trials through Children's hospital. I may do it too.
    That's awesome! I would totally do it if I could. How did she get involved? I don't even know where to start to get involved in a trial like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    That's awesome! I would totally do it if I could. How did she get involved? I don't even know where to start to get involved in a trial like that.
    Hey there lady, I know I'm not your mother or anything..... but based on previous posts, this might not be a good time to enter into clinical trials. [insert finger wag here]
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    https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/c...demic/2408668/

    Homes that are confirmed to be hosting parties by the Los Angeles Police Department will have their utilities cut, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday in the wake of reports of parties during the coronavirus pandemic in recent days.

    The mayor said that he had authorized the Department of Water and Power to cut utilities within 48 hours after parties were confirmed by the LAPD.

    "You're breaking the law," the mayor said in response to a question about the constitutionality of shutting off utilities on private property.

    The mayor said that, working along with the city attorney, he was confident the city had the authority to take this action. He pointed to similar actions taken by the city on non-compliant businesses.

    Garcetti added, "This is life and death."

    In response to a question about whether the action would apply to repeat offenders, the mayor said the city had the authority to cut utilities on the first offense. However, Garcetti added that the city typically prefers to educate on the first offense.

    On Monday, a party in the Beverly Crest area featured hundreds of people seemingly not social distancing or wearing masks, but police were unable to take action to shut down the gathering. Later in the night, a 35-year-old mother of three lost her life when a shooting took place at the event.

    City of Los Angeles will cut power to those that are accused of hosting COVID-19 parties.

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    Hey there lady, I know I'm not your mother or anything..... but based on previous posts, this might not be a good time to enter into clinical trials. [insert finger wag here]
    Oh, you're totally right. I just meant that I would if I could. No clinical trial would have me right now since I am falling apart day by day. There would be no way to know if the vaccine caused an issue or if my head fell off due to another on-going issue.

    My husband is interested though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    Now that I know you have a biotech degree.... would you ever consider participating in clinical trials for COVID-19?
    JohnLanders, still waiting for your response to this. Would you feel comfortable participating in a vaccine trial? I kind of feel like every flu shot ever is a "trial" since they come up with them so soon into the flu season. I don't know, I'm not in the business, maybe there is a good reason they develop flu shots so quickly and something like COVID-19 takes longer.

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    Oh, you're totally right. I just meant that I would if I could. No clinical trial would have me right now since I am falling apart day by day. There would be no way to know if the vaccine caused an issue or if my head fell off due to another on-going issue.
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    A duplicate post six minutes apart? Hmmm....
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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    A duplicate post six minutes apart? Hmmm....
    Maybe the board has COVID?

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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    JohnLanders, still waiting for your response to this. Would you feel comfortable participating in a vaccine trial? I kind of feel like every flu shot ever is a "trial" since they come up with them so soon into the flu season. I don't know, I'm not in the business, maybe there is a good reason they develop flu shots so quickly and something like COVID-19 takes longer.
    I'm an accountant, not at all medically inclined, so take this for what it's worth. I thought they have vaccines for most of the strains of flu, developed over the years, but each year the shot is different because they don't know which strains are going to be active that year. Once they see the strains they make up the vaccine for the year, and then sometimes tweak it as the year goes on. If they pick the wrong strains, then that's a year that the vaccine isn't as effective as some years.

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    https://www.mediamatters.org/coronav...fter-he-pushed

    Following Media Matters’ reporting, YouTube terminated the account for anti-vaccine figure Del Bigtree’s online show The HighWire, where he had repeatedly encouraged viewers to intentionally contract COVID-19 and pushed other dangerous medical misinformation. In a statement to Media Matters, a spokesperson for YouTube confirmed his account was pulled for violating the platform's policies. Bigtree’s show is also broadcast on Facebook, where it remains available for streaming.

    Bigtree, who has no medical credentials, is a leading figure in the anti-vaccination movement through his anti-vaccine nonprofit organization Informed Consent Action Network and as the host of The HighWire. A 2019 profile of Bigtree in the online parenting magazine Fatherly labeled him “dangerous” and said he “may be the most connected node in the anti-vaccine activist network.”

    During a July 29 HighWire special report in which Bigtree interviewed anti-vaccine figure Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bigtree alluded to the fact that his broadcast could be soon removed from social media platforms, telling viewers to sign up for his mailing list. Shortly thereafter, Bigtree’s account was terminated “for a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

    In a July 29 video posted to Facebook, Bigtree said that his YouTube account had been “unceremoniously removed,” but he argued that “this is a moment for celebration” because you know you are winning “when the other team has no choice but to start cheating.” Bigtree went on to warn that the medical establishment could “be accused of crimes against humanity” and claimed that “even though they threatened us, we will never stop bringing the truth.”

    Bigtree’s YouTube channel for The HighWire, which was created in 2017, had grown from around 60,000 subscribers at the beginning of 2020 to more than 210,000 subscribers, according to social media analytics website Social Blade. The channel had more than 15 million views, and Social Blade indicates view counts had spiked in recent months.

    Bigtree broadcast live from YouTube and Facebook and cross-posted the same clips and full shows for playback on each platform. The HighWire currently has more than 328,000 followers on Facebook. The HighWire also maintains an account on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, with 163,000 followers.

    On July 23, Media Matters published a report about the dangerous medical misinformation Bigtree was broadcasting on YouTube and Facebook. Bigtree had:

    Falsely characterized COVID-19 as a common cold and labeled it “one of the most mild illnesses there is.”
    Repeatedly falsely claimed that wearing a mask poses a serious health hazard.
    Repeatedly suggested that people intentionally expose themselves to the coronavirus in order to build herd immunity.
    Hosted guests who advised viewers who think they have the coronavirus to take vitamin C until they have diarrhea and then to take more vitamin C.
    Declared on March 27 that the coronavirus outbreak is over and encouraged people to go outside to celebrate (around 150,000 Americans have died of the disease since that date)
    And made numerous unfounded attacks to warn people off a forthcoming coronavirus vaccine.
    Following that report, Facebook removed three of the videos highlighted by Media Matters, but left other videos pushing dangerous medical misinformation available. YouTube took no public action.

    Then, on July 27, Media Matters reported on an emerging narrative on The HighWire in which Bigtree encouraged viewers to intentionally contract COVID-19 as part of a harebrained scheme to develop herd immunity without the use of a vaccine. According to medical authorities, developing herd immunity through natural infection could cause millions of unnecessary deaths.

    Anti-vaccine figures pose a special danger to attempts to get the novel coronavirus outbreak under control in the United States. As scientists across the world attempt to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, medical experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have warned that widespread rejection of a coronavirus vaccine could greatly harm efforts to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. According to a recent report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, anti-vaccine figures have a combined following of 58 million people on Facebook. It is imperative that social media platforms act responsibly and take action against dangerous medical misinformation that could damage efforts to end the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...egee-syphilis/

    The message came to Erik Underwood early this summer: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted him to stand by his side at a rally on the steps of the Colorado Capitol in Denver.

    Underwood, an African American entrepreneur coming off a failed U.S. Senate bid in Colorado?s Democratic primary, had long revered the Kennedy family for its legacy of civil rights activism. But until recently he would not have guessed the cause that would bring him together with a member of that dynasty on a Sunday in June.

    Kennedy, one of the nation?s leading anti-vaccination activists, was in Denver to oppose a bill tightening the state?s exemptions from immunizations for schoolchildren. After months of discussion with vaccine skeptics, Underwood had adopted Kennedy?s cause as his own. Despite the overwhelming consensus of doctors and scientists who say vaccines are safe for most people of every race, Underwood now believed that the drugs not only were dangerous but also posed a special threat to black children.

    ?I see this as an injustice for everybody,? he said, ?especially for the black community.?

    The bill ultimately passed, but not before debate over it showcased a remarkable new alliance between the anti-vaccine movement and black leaders in Colorado. Among those who testified against the bill, alongside Kennedy and white parents, were a local NAACP leader and a prominent Black Lives Matter activist.

    The dynamics on display in Denver have nationwide implications as scientists race to create a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus, which has taken a disproportionately steep toll on people of color. Although African Americans stand to benefit enormously from a vaccine, they remain distrustful of a medical establishment with a history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis study and surgical experiments on enslaved people ? not to mention the ongoing disparities they confront in the U.S. health-care system.

    A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 63 percent of black adults said they were likely to get a coronavirus vaccine, compared with 70 percent of whites and 78 percent of Hispanics. Only 32 percent of black adults said they would definitely get a vaccine, compared with 45 percent of whites and Hispanics.

    Anti-vaccination leaders seize on coronavirus to push resistance to inoculation

    The possibility that anti-vaccination leaders ? who have already made common cause with those dismissing the risks of the pandemic and protesting state safety restrictions ? could further undermine faith in a vaccine among people of color is profoundly worrisome for public health officials.

    ?It is of great concern to me,? said Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government?s top infectious-disease expert. ?If there?s anyone you want to get vaccinated, and anyone for whom vaccination would be most beneficial, it would be for the people [anti-vaccination activists] are trying to influence not to get vaccinated.?

    He said it was vital not only to build African Americans? trust in the vaccine that is ultimately developed but also to persuade them to participate in clinical trials, ensuring that the medicines are safe and effective for all racial and ethnic groups. Efforts to enroll more people of color in clinical trials for other drugs have been underway for years, with mixed results.

    Repeated studies have demonstrated the safety of vaccines for the vast majority of those who receive them. Many count immunizations ? which have all but eliminated diseases that once sickened, crippled or killed millions of people every year ? as among the greatest advances in the history of medicine. The 1998 study by Andrew Wakefield that purported to show a link between a common vaccine and autism, launching the modern anti-vaccination movement, was exposed as fraudulent and retracted.

    Anti-vaccination activists? interest in minority communities is not new. Kennedy has repeatedly sought allies among African American leaders. Several years ago, Wakefield, the disgraced British ex-physician who was also behind the 2016 film ?Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe,? helped persuade many Somali immigrants in Minneapolis to avoid the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. The Somali community was later hit by the state?s largest measles outbreak in nearly three decades.
    But amid the social fracturing surrounding covid-19 and the ferment over racial injustice that has swept the United States following the killing of George Floyd in police custody, there are signs that the anti-vaccine movement?s message is gaining new traction.

    ?Visions of Tuskegee?
    It was last year, after she and other activists had toiled to block an earlier school immunization bill, that Denver chiropractor Julie Bogdan said she realized something was amiss in their movement.

    ?It was apparent to me that it looked very ? it looked very white, to be honest with you,? Bogdan recalled.

    She decided to send out feelers among leaders in Denver?s black community. Her goal, she said, was simply to ensure that people of color were adequately educated about the alleged risks of inoculation.

    ?The intention was just to allow their community to have information and to decide on their own behalf whether or not it was a movement they wanted to participate in,? Bogdan said.
    Through an African American friend, Bogdan convened a summit of sorts at a Chipotle restaurant with Theo Wilson, a Black Lives Matter activist in Denver. Wilson said he had questioned the safety of vaccines but had not been involved in activism on the subject. He said the movement?s themes ? a predatory pharmaceutical industry profiting from the ignorance of vulnerable people ? resonated with him.

    ?Visions of Tuskegee still dance in our heads, man,? Wilson said in an interview. ?There is, in the black community, common cause ? much larger than people would think ? because of our history in the medical community.?

    Bogdan also broached the subject with one of her patients, Joyce Brooks, a black woman who heads the education committee of the Colorado NAACP. Brooks helped arrange a presentation for the Denver chapter?s leadership by Colorado anti-vaccination activist Phil Silberman and Toby Rogers, an economist who frequently attacks the safety of vaccines on social media and has done work in the past for Kennedy?s Children?s Health Defense nonprofit group.

    At that meeting, the pair ran through data they claimed showed that black children were more prone than white children to suffering vaccine injuries. Brooks said her NAACP colleagues were impressed by the information and taken aback that Democratic legislators pushing to narrow vaccine exemptions had not consulted with them.

    ?People really felt informed,? Brooks said, ?and rather angry that they hadn?t heard about this.?

    Silberman and Rogers also met earlier this year with a group that included African American pastors and other community leaders at a Denver steakhouse. Underwood, who attended, said their message was well received. ?Let me tell you this: The black community gets it,? Underwood said. ?The black pastors got it. I got it, certainly.?

    At least four black leaders ? including Underwood, Wilson and Brooks ? spoke against the state legislation strengthening vaccination requirements when it came up for a vote last month, according to the Mountain West News Bureau, which reported extensively on the debate over the legislation.

    Assertions of disproportionate harm to African Americans from inoculation are often based on a 2004 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that set off one of the more bizarre episodes in vaccine science history. That study, conducted in Georgia, observed slightly higher rates of autism among children who had received immunizations than among those who had not. The authors said this was probably because autistic children were required to be vaccinated to participate in preschool special-education programs.

    Their findings were called into question when one of the authors, William Thompson, later claimed the CDC had suppressed data showing a stronger link between vaccines and autism in black children than in white children. Thompson?s allegations, made during secretly recorded telephone conversations with anti-vaccine activist Brian Hooker, were never substantiated. A 2014 paper Hooker published on the subject was retracted.

    ?Immunizations are so important. I cannot think of any other medical intervention that?s more important,? said David Satcher, a black physician who served as U.S. surgeon general from 1998 to 2002 and who before that was director of the CDC. ?I would be very suspicious of someone who tried to talk me out of immunizing my children.?

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    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    Maybe the board has COVID?
    Or my computer has it! I did a weird cross-post with JohnLanders today in the Glynda Evangalista thread, too.

    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    I'm an accountant, not at all medically inclined, so take this for what it's worth. I thought they have vaccines for most of the strains of flu, developed over the years, but each year the shot is different because they don't know which strains are going to be active that year. Once they see the strains they make up the vaccine for the year, and then sometimes tweak it as the year goes on. If they pick the wrong strains, then that's a year that the vaccine isn't as effective as some years.
    OMG, this makes perfect sense. Thank you. And along those lines, isn't COVID-19 a combo of SARS and Coronavirus? Maybe that's why they're coming up with this vaccine so quickly? We need JL to weigh in. He knows about this stuff.

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    Or my computer has it! I did a weird cross-post with JohnLanders today in the Glynda Evangalista thread, too.



    OMG, this makes perfect sense. Thank you. And along those lines, isn't COVID-19 a combo of SARS and Coronavirus? Maybe that's why they're coming up with this vaccine so quickly? We need JL to weigh in. He knows about this stuff.

    COVID-19 is actually related to MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

    You are right on this one

    https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/covid-19

    In January 2020, a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified as the cause of an outbreak of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China. The disease, later named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), subsequently spread globally. In the first three months after COVID-19 emerged nearly 1 million people were infected and 50,000 died.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a test to diagnose COVID-19 in respiratory and serum samples. NIAID also is accelerating efforts to develop additional diagnostic tests for COVID-19. These tests are helping facilitate preclinical studies and aid in the development of medical countermeasures.

    NIAID COVID-19 research efforts build on earlier research on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which also are caused by coronaviruses. MERS is a viral respiratory disease that was first reported in Saudi Arabia in September 2012 and has since spread to 27 countries, according to the World Health Organization. Some people infected with MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) develop severe acute respiratory illness, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. From its emergence through January 2020, WHO confirmed 2,519 MERS cases and 866 deaths (about 1 in 3). Among all reported cases in people, about 80% have occurred in Saudi Arabia. Only two people in the United States have tested positive for MERS-CoV, both of whom recovered. They were healthcare providers who lived in Saudi Arabia, where they likely were infected before traveling to the U.S., according to the CDC.

    Infection with SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) can cause a severe viral respiratory illness. SARS was first reported in Asia in February 2003, though cases subsequently were tracked to November 2002. SARS quickly spread to 26 countries before being contained after about four months. More than 8,000 people fell ill from SARS and 774 died. Since 2004, there have been no reported SARS cases.

    Research evidence suggests that SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV originated in bats, and it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 did as well. SARS-CoV then spread from infected civets to people, while MERS-CoV spreads from infected dromedary camels to people. Scientists are trying to determine how SARS-CoV-2 spread from an animal reservoir to people.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176926/

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    In defiance of a restraining order, a Thousand Oaks pastor vowed to continue indoor Sunday services at a church that has faced legal action from Ventura County over violations of public health orders.

    The county has sued the Godspeak Calvary Chapel, arguing that it threatened public safety by repeatedly holding indoor services with more than 200 people. Officials also alleged that McCoy and other members have not worn masks and even sometimes “encouraged the violations” of the mandate.

    A court on Friday granted a temporary restraining order requiring the church and Pastor Rob McCoy to have religious services only outdoors, and with congregants wearing masks and practicing physical distancing, in compliance with guidelines meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

    But hours later, the pastor announced the church will defy the orders.

    “I wish you didn’t have to come to this, I really do. But we will be violating the judge’s order, we will be open this Sunday,” McCoy said in a video posted to social media. “Now, I don’t know what that means as far as who’s gonna stop us, but we’re planning on having services at 9, 11, and 1.”

    The pastor described the measures taken by the county as “draconian” and denied that the church has put anyone danger, saying there have been no COVID-19 cases at the church.

    “We’re going to keep worshiping God, if they seek to arrest me and the thousand of you, it’s almost like the first thousand get a prize: You get a citation. It’s a misdemeanor. You want to be one of the thousand? Come.”
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    McCoy encouraged people to come out to the church Sunday, despite the judge’s orders.

    “I know that there’s gonna be a lot of people coming out, we’ve been getting calls from all over the country. My phone has never been this busy,” he said, also claiming to have received calls from the White House.

    The pastor said it’s “impossible” for the church to hold services at a park, adding “we’ve had threats here and protesters so our people would be in danger.”

    McCoy was a former Thousand Oaks mayor who resigned his post as City Council member on April 4 after Gov. Gavin Newsom declared churches nonessential, the Los Angeles Times reports.

    Ventura County has had 8,146 people test positive for the virus as of Friday, with 89 people who have succumbed to the illness. The county is one of 37 being monitored by the state for heightened coronavirus activity as its health officials grapple with increasing COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases that are, in part, being driven by virus transmission at gatherings and workplaces.

    In mid-July, Newsom told counties on the watchlist, which includes all counties in Southern California, to close indoor activities at places of worship, fitness centers, offices for non-critical sectors, personal care services, hair salons, barbershops, and indoor malls.

    The strict orders came as coronavirus cases surged statewide and hospitalization rates reached all-time highs.

    Ventura County leaders have approved the use of restraining orders and other enforcement actions against individuals and businesses that refuse to comply with local and state health orders in a bid to control the spread of the virus.

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