London: Popular dating apps on Monday launched a campaign encouraging British users to post “I got my shot” on their profiles as the UK rollout reaches young adults.
In partnership with the government, apps including Tinder, Bumble and Hinge are offering special stickers, badges and bonuses for users who say they have had the coronavirus jab, the Department of Health said.
This comes as the UK rollout this week reaches the under-30s, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed Sunday.
https://www.arabnews...1872066/offbeat
109 נדבקים בקורונה אובחנו בשבוע שעבר, מתוכם 51 הגיעו מחו"ל, וחלקם לא ישראלים. כל ארבעת הנדבקים שאובחנו בשבת הגיעו מחו"ל. באמ"ן מדגישים את הסכנה בכניסת וריאנטים מחו"ל שעלולים לפגוע ביעילות החיסונים
109 infected people with coronavirus were diagnosed last week, of whom 51 came from abroad, and some are not Israelis. All four infected people who were diagnosed on Saturday came from abroad.
https://www.ynet.co....le/H100008wc500
МАДРИД, 7 июн – РИА Новости. Восьми преподавателям одной из испанских школ из-за врачебной ошибки были введены сразу шесть доз вакцины от коронавируса COVID-19, сообщает агентство Efe.
Преподаватели колледжа, расположенного в муниципалитете Хельвес (провинция Севилья, автономное сообщество Андалусия), были вакцинированы в пятницу. Медики по ошибке ввели каждому содержимое всей ампулы вакцины Pfizer, рассчитанной на шесть доз.
MADRID, June 7 - RIA Novosti. Eight teachers of one of the Spanish schools were injected with six doses of the COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine due to medical error, the Efe news agency reported.
The teachers of the college, located in the municipality of Helves (province of Seville, Autonomous Community of Andalusia), were vaccinated on Friday. Doctors mistakenly injected everyone with the contents of an entire six-dose vial of Pfizer's vaccine.
https://ria.ru/20210...1735994363.html
China has slammed a US probe into the origins of the coronavirus, saying Washington is not interested "to find out the truth, it does not want any scientific research, this is just a political game, an attempt to throw the blame on others and throw off their responsibility".
Slightly over a month before the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus a pandemic, several Indian scientists and experts reportedly flagged circumstantial evidence that suggested the virus had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
On 31 January 2020, a team of biologists from the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi released a 22-page research paper on the bioRxiv online platform that suggested an "uncanny similarity" between aspects of SARS-CoV-2 and HIV.
During their study of the protein structure of the virus, the team found four unique inserts in the novel coronavirus glycoprotein not seen in any other coronaviruses. The inserts are critical for the virus to identify and latch onto host cells in humans and then multiply, media reports say.
The scientific study signalled the possibility of the virus having been engineered in a lab, but the team was simultaneously bombarded with criticism that led them to withdraw the paper soon after it was posted, according to the MIT Technology Review.
https://sputniknews....ic-report-says/
The city of Lu'an in east China's Anhui Province downgraded the last medium-risk area for COVID-19 to low-risk, marking the clearance of all areas with medium or high risk for the novel coronavirus in the province, the health commission of Lu'an announced Monday.
http://www.ecns.cn/n...nf8951375.shtml
Several months into the largest mass vaccination campaign in U.S. history, nearly half the country’s residents have yet to get a shot. While pollsters and journalists have strained to sort that cohort into subgroups, based loosely on varying degrees of persuadability—anti-vax diehards slotted into one box; patients concerned about deaths linked to the Johnson & Johnson formula slotted into another—a somewhat unexpected obstacle has emerged that deserves attention. Though Congress passed legislation mandating that Covid-19 vaccines be free at the point of use for all U.S. residents, around one-third of unvaccinated people cited fear of cost as a significant reason they’ve yet to get the jab. Even worse, it’s a barrier for people who seem to genuinely want it: a full 45 percent of those stipulating that they hope to get it “as soon as possible,” compared to only 19 percent of those resolutely opposed.
Per a follow-up report in The New York Times, this phenomenon isn’t solely ascribable to ignorance about the mandate against cost-sharing. Apparently, many people do know that the jabs are supposed to be free. They just don’t believe it. As one still unvaccinated 42-year-old put it, “This is America—your health care is not free.… I just feel like that is how the vaccination process is going to go. They’re going to try to capitalize on it.”
You can’t exactly blame her for believing this to be true. As it happens, patients across the country have been slapped with coronavirus-related medical bills throughout the pandemic, sometimes getting hit with steep charges for testing and treatment in spite of Congress’s mandates. And even though restrictions on billing patients were tightened even further for the rollout of vaccinations, anecdotal reports of patients receiving bills for their shots are common enough that the Department of Health and Human Services has publicly asked to be notified of violations. Even if such events are rare, the startlingly widespread concern about it poses an undeniable threat to public health—and is just the latest illustration of the havoc wrought by a health care system that millions of people are too terrified to use.
https://newrepublic....urprise-billing
“Damning” science strongly suggests that COVID-19 is a man-made monster, optimized in a lab for maximum infectivity before hitting the outside to catastrophic effect, two experts said Sunday.
Writing in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller pointed to two key pieces of evidence to support the claim, which has increasingly gained steam after long being derided as little more than speculation.
The first relates to the nature of gain-of-function research, in which microbiologists tweak a virus’ genome to alter its properties, such as making it more transmissible or more lethal.
Of the 36 possible genome pairings that can produce two arginine amino acids in a row — which results in boosting a virus’ lethality — the one most commonly used in gain-of-function research is CGG-CGG, or double CGG, wrote Quay and Muller.
“The insertion sequence of choice is the double CGG,” wrote Quay, the founder of Atossa Therapeutics, and Muller, a former top scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who now teaches physics at the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
“That’s because it is readily available and convenient, and scientists have a great deal of experience inserting it,” they wrote. “An additional advantage of the double CGG sequence compared with the other 35 possible choices: It creates a useful beacon that permits the scientists to track the insertion in the laboratory.”
The pair noted that the double CGG sequence has never been found naturally among the entire group of coronaviruses that includes CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
But, in what Quay and Muller called a “damning fact,” it was found in CoV-2.
“Proponents of zoonotic origin must explain why the novel coronavirus, when it mutated or recombined, happened to pick its least favorite combination, the double CGG,” they wrote. “Why did it replicate the choice the lab’s gain-of-function researchers would have made?
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Beyond apparent signs of gain-of-function engineering, Quay and Muller wrote in the Journal that the evidence “most compelling is the dramatic differences in the genetic diversity of CoV-2, compared with the coronaviruses responsible for SARS and MERS.”
SARS and MERS, which were confirmed to be of natural origin, “evolved rapidly as they spread through the human population, until the most contagious forms dominated,” the pair wrote.
By contrast, COVID-19 proved to be highly contagious from the point it was first detected.
“Such early optimization is unprecedented, and it suggests a long period of adaptation that predated its public spread,” wrote Quay and Muller. “Science knows of only one way that could be achieved: simulated natural evolution, growing the virus on human cells until the optimum is achieved. That is precisely what is done in gain-of-function research.”
https://nypost.com/2...ineered-in-lab/
Naomi Wolf, former political adviser to 42nd US President Bill Clinton, has been suspended from Twitter for posting anti-vaccine remarks. Wolf spread a popular conspiracy theory claiming that inoculations against the coronavirus contain microchips, which are purportedly implanted to control the population. In one of her posts, she wrote that vaccines allegedly contain a “software platform that can receive uploads”.
https://sputniknews....d-conspiracies/
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