Canucks' COVID-19 outbreak grows to 18 players with Virtanen added to protocol list
18 of the 22 players on Vancouver's active roster are now on protocol list
https://www.cbc.ca/s...ril-6-1.5977316
In this new study, published in the journal ACS Central Science, scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton, worked together to characterise the SARS-CoV-2 spikes manufactured by the cells presented with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The Oxford work was led by Professors Teresa Lambe, Peijun Zhang and Sarah Gilbert and Professor Max Crispin led the work in Southampton.
The Scientists exposed a range of cells in vitro to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Using an imaging technique known as cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) they took thousands of images which they then combined to build up a clear picture of the resulting protein spikes on the cells. Professor Peijun Zhang, of the University of Oxford and the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) at Diamond Light Source, who led the imaging work said, “CryoEM is an immensely powerful technique which enabled us to visualise the dense array of spikes that had been manufactured and presented on the surface of the cells”.
Further chemical analysis of the glycans that coat the newly developed protein spikes revealed that they bear a high resemblance to those surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 spikes. This is an essential feature of the vaccine as it means that it can deliver close mimics of the coronavirus that are important in triggering the immune response needed to protect against COVID-19.
Professor Crispin said, “In this study we set out to see how closely the vaccine induced spikes resembled those of the infectious virus. We were really pleased to see a large amount of native-like spikes.”
https://www.alphagal...y/ItemId/206654
Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte have gone on a week-long strike, urging the government to give them prioritised COVID shots alongside other “front line” workers, the AFP reports.
https://sputniknews....iority-workers/
לפי משרד הבריאות בברזיל, ביממה האחרונה מתו שם 4,195 בני אדם. מדובר בפעם הראשונה שברזיל מדווחת על יותר מ-4,000 מתים ביממה, ועל מספר נורא שכזה דיווחו בעבר רק שתי מדינות אחרות, ארה"ב ופרו. מפרוץ המגפה מתו בברזיל כבר כמעט 337,000 חולי קורונה, ומספר הנדבקים המאומתים עומד שם על יותר מ-13 מיליון. בשני הנתונים הללו היא מדורגת שנייה בעולם אחרי ארה"ב, שם מתו כבר יותר מ-555,000 בני אדם ואובחנו יותר מ-31 מיליון נדבקים.
כמה מומחי בריאות מזהירים שמערכת הבריאות בברזיל נמצאת על סף קריסה, וכי היא נמצאת במסלול שעלול להביאה אל מניין מתים גבוה אף יותר מזה של ארה"ב, למרות שאוכלוסייתה המונה 210 מיליון איש מהווה רק שני שלישים מאוכלוסיית ארה"ב. "זה כמו כור גרעיני שנוצרה בו תגובת שרשרת שיצאה משליטה", אמר לסוכנות הידיעות רויטרס מיגל מיקולליס, רופא ברזילאי שמשמש גם כחוקר באוניברסיטת דיוק שבארה"ב. "זו פוקושימה ביולוגית", הוא הוסיף בהתייחסות לאסון ביפן ב-2011.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, 4,195 people died there in the last day. This is the first time that Brazil has reported more than 4,000 deaths a day, and only two other countries, the United States and Peru, have reported such an awful number in the past. In both figures, it ranks second in the world after the United States, where more than 555,000 people have already died and more than 31 million people have been diagnosed.
Some health experts warn that Brazil's health care system is on the verge of collapse, and that it is on a path that could lead to an even higher death toll than that of the United States, even though its 210 million people make up only two - thirds of the U.S. population. "It's like a nuclear reactor with a chain reaction out of control," Miguel Mikollis, a Brazilian doctor who also serves as a researcher at Duke University in the United States, told Reuters. "This is a biological Fukushima," he added, referring to the 2011 disaster in Japan.
https://www.ynet.co....icle/SJgHzgsB00
Spanish region suspends use of AstraZeneca jabs again
Suspension in Castile and Leon region comes ahead of European Medicines Agency’s expected statement on vaccine
https://www.aa.com.t...s-again/2201158
New Zealand announced Tuesday it will open a long-anticipated travel bubble with Australia on April 19 now that both countries have been successful in stamping out the spread of the coronavirus.
The start of quarantine-free travel between the neighboring nations will come as a relief to families who have been separated by the pandemic as well as to struggling tourist operators.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said health officials believe the risk of the virus being transmitted from Australia is low and that travel is now safe.
“The bubble will give our economic recovery a boost and represents a world-leading arrangement of safely opening up international travel while continuing to pursue a strategy of elimination and keeping the virus out,” Ardern said.
Australia had previously allowed New Zealanders to arrive without going into quarantine but New Zealand had taken a more cautious approach, requiring travelers from Australia to spend two weeks in quarantine upon arrival.
Both countries have managed to keep out the virus by putting up barriers to the outside world, including strict quarantine requirements for travelers from countries where the virus is rampant.
https://thediplomat....ia-on-april-19/
TOKYO: Japan's western region of Osaka will hold the Olympic torch relay in a park without spectators instead of on public roads, as record coronavirus infections prompted its government to declare a medical emergency on Wednesday (Apr 7).
https://www.channeln...rgency-14573204
A quarantine violator in General Trias, Cavite, died on Saturday, April 3, after being forced to do 300 rounds of a pumping exercise akin to squats, his family said.
According to the Facebook post of Adrian Luceña, the victim's cousin, 28-year-old Darren Manaog Peñaredondo died after being forced to do 300 rounds of the exercise in Barangay Tejero on April 1.
Peñaredondo was nabbed by village guards (barangay tanod) for violating the curfew on April 1 after he was seen buying drinking water past 6 pm.
https://www.rappler....rounds-exercise
MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/. The vaccine EpiVacCorona will be able to protect the vaccinated at least for one year, the chief of the Yekaterinburg Research Institute of Viral Infections (an affiliate of the center Vector), Alexander Semyonov, said on Wednesday.
https://tass.com/society/1275009
Lavrov reveals Russia might produce Indian coronavirus jab
He also noted that the Russian Direct Investment Fund was in the process of inking contracts with several Indian contractors to manufacture the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in India
https://tass.com/politics/1274653
Biden announces all U.S. adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccine by April 19
http://www.ecns.cn/n...ha9129677.shtml
COVID-19 is so contagious that even a single breach of social distancing measures can have far-reaching consequences.
A case in point: An explosion of new COVID-19 cases traced to five people who joined in on a bar's opening night in rural Illinois in February.
Four of the five who attended the crowded gathering (the bar's capacity was 100 people) were already experiencing symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, researchers said. A fifth attendee was asymptomatic but had tested positive on his or her COVID-19 test the day before hitting the bar.
A total of 46 new cases of COVID-19 followed. Twenty-six bar customers and three staff members were infected, the case report found, while another 17 people who weren't at the bar that night were infected as contagion spread to others.
"This situation shows that transmission originating in a business, such as a bar, not only affects the patrons and employees of the bar, but the entire community," said Illinois Department of Public Health researcher Shelby Daniel-Wayman.
https://medicalxpres...rowded-bar.html
Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., which includes Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park, a separate park roughly themed after the state of California, will reopen on April 30.
https://www.marketwa...nes-11617803395
The Department of Justice has received reports that fraudsters are creating fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine surveys for consumers to fill out with the promise of a prize or cash at the conclusion of the survey. In reality, the surveys are used to steal money from consumers and unlawfully capture consumers’ personal information.
Consumers receive the surveys via email and text message, and are told that, as a gift for filling out the survey, they can choose from various free prizes, such as an iPad Pro. The messages claim that the consumers need only pay shipping and handling fees to receive their prize. Victims provide their credit card information and are charged for shipping and handling fees, but never receive the promised prize. Victims also are exposing their personally identifiable information (PII) to scammers, thereby increasing the probability of identity theft.
Unless from a known and verified source, consumers should never click on links in text messages or emails claiming to be a vaccine survey.
Schemes that use links embedded in unsolicited text messages and emails in attempts to obtain personally identifiable information are commonly referred to as phishing schemes. Phishing messages may look like they come from government agencies, financial intuitions, shipping companies, and social media companies, among many others. Carefully examine any message purporting to be from a company and do not click on a link in an unsolicited email or text message. Remember that companies generally do not contact you to ask for your username or password. When in doubt, contact the entity purportedly sending you the message, but do not rely on any contact information in the potentially fraudulent message.
If you receive a text message or email claiming to be a COVID-19 vaccine survey and containing a link or other contact information, please report the communication to the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) by calling 866-720-5721 or via the NCDF Web Complaint Form at: www.justice.gov/disaster-fraud. Intellectual property crimes such as these also may be reported to federal law enforcement at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) at http://www.IPRCenter.gov.
https://www.justice....ne-survey-scams
https://www.mentalfl...9-vaccine-scams
Edited by amor de cosmos, 07 April 2021 - 07:21 AM.
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