Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Flu Vaccine Deadlier than Covid19
May 30th, 2020Via: Highwire:
California Hospitals Struggle Financially After Preparing for COVID-19 Surge that Never Came
May 28th, 2020Don’t worry: Now, reeling from the twin financial blows, hospitals are struggling to get ready for a possible new surge in cases this autumn, and wrestling with the question of whether they over-prepared last time around. Via: Reuters: As the novel coronavirus tore through Italy and then New York in March, California, anticipating a deadly […]
Prototype Robot that Carries Out Throat Swab Tests for Coronavirus Developed by Danish Researchers
May 28th, 2020Hmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: A robot that is able to take throat swabs from coronavirus patients using a 3D printed arm was developed by a team of researchers from Denmark in just four weeks. The University of Southern Denmark says the world’s first fully automated throat swab robot will be be able to test […]
Moderna Executives Cashed Out $89M in Shares as Stock Soared on Vaccine Hopes
May 27th, 2020Via: Stat News: The top five executives at the biotech company Moderna have sold more than $89 million of stock so far this year — initiating nearly three times as many stock transactions than in all of 2019 — as the company’s share price has soared on hopes for its Covid-19 vaccine. The trades, which […]
Lockdown Suicide Data Reveal Predictable Tragedy
May 26th, 2020Via: American Institute for Economic Research: On March 28, the American Institute for Economic Research ran a terrifying article that didn’t receive the attention it deserved, even though the research behind it was impeccable and detailed. It was Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown. On suicide in particular, […]
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns
May 26th, 2020Via: Real Clear Politics: In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as […]
Scared Americans Desperate to Travel Are Buying Up ‘Covid Campers’
May 26th, 2020All mainstream media are pushing the “second wave” scenario. Via: Bloomberg: Cooped-up Americans desperate to get out after months of lockdowns are dreaming of doing something—anything—that resembles a vacation. But a majority of them worry a second wave of the coronavirus is coming, and think politicians have pushed too fast to reopen. Unsurprisingly, when it […]
Meet Bill Gates
May 24th, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
A Timeline: Pandemic and Erosion of Freedoms Have Been Decades in the Making
May 22nd, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: From the moment of “COVID-19’s” naming—and particularly since the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”—some people have smelled a rat. And with each passing week, the smell becomes worse. A growing chorus of ordinary citizens and world-renowned medical and scientific experts is raising questions about […]
Trump Appoints Big Pharma Exec Connected to Bill Gates to Head Vaccine Developments
May 22nd, 2020Via: The Last American Vagabond: Following his education, Slaoui joined the pharmaceutical industry, serving on the board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline between 2006 through 2015. Slaoui served in several senior research & development (R&D) roles with GlaxoSmithKline during his time with the company, including Chairman of Global Vaccines. GSK has a history of working with […]
