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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 25, 2021 7:53:49 GMT -5
On Sunday, Fauci said Johnson & Johnson's vaccine should be approved in two weeks, with 100 million single shot doses produced by early April.
Merck has stopped efforts of its two vaccines; ineffective.
Thank the Almighty that the bets on the two messenger RNA vaccines were successful.
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Post by matunuck on Jan 25, 2021 9:43:12 GMT -5
So has HC pitched any proposals to Warren Buffett, Zuckerberg, Gates et al. that would appropriately honor the tremendous work and long-term service of the good Dr. to our nation?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 29, 2021 12:12:34 GMT -5
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Post by matunuck on Jan 29, 2021 12:17:48 GMT -5
And that moon landing in 1969 -- fake.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jan 29, 2021 13:00:16 GMT -5
I thought they were conspiring to build a space laser to compete with the Jewish one.
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Post by hchoops on Jan 29, 2021 13:09:34 GMT -5
Has Steve Bannon threatened to behead Gates also ?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 29, 2021 17:32:59 GMT -5
Has Steve Bannon threatened to behead Gates also ? No. Bannon called for Fauci's and FBI Director's Chris Wray's heads to be put on pikes as a warning to Federal bureaucrats.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 29, 2021 20:36:33 GMT -5
Here we go again
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 30, 2021 7:16:40 GMT -5
In vaccine news, Pfizer's vaccine is 99.9% effective, based on preliminary data from Israel. This is an astounding value. www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-shows-promising-results-from-pfizer-vaccination-campaign-657051Moderna's vaccine was not distributed in Israel, but it should have similar efficacy. The U. S. initially ordered 400 million doses of Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccine, enough for 200 million people. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a one-shot vaccine which is easily stored, will receive emergency use approval soon. However, J&J's vaccine is significantly less effective than Pfizer's and Moderna's. The U.S. has ordered 100 million doses of J&J's vaccine. Thus, the U.S. will have enough vaccine from these three manufacturers to inoculate 300 million Americans, everyone over the age of five. The U.S. is now ordering another 100 million doses from Pfizer and another 100 million from Moderna. That's enough to inoculate 100 million Americans twice. Why? Fauci stated that the beauty of messenger RNA vaccines is that they can be quickly tailored to fight mutations of the COVID virus, such as the South African variant. Thus it appears that this buy of 200 million more doses will be of a tailored vaccine that will be highly effective against the South African variant, a booster for those individuals already inoculated and who live/work in an area where the South African variant has taken hold. Fauci also said that a tailored Pfizer or Moderna vaccine would only go through a Phase One trial, to test its safety, and it would be approved following the Phase One trial. ____________________________ Bannon is a very conservative Catholic, with a view of Catholicism that is inimical to contemporary Catholic teaching, --so much so that the conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke severed ties with Bannon. www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/06/25/citing-alignment-steve-bannon-cardinal-burke-cuts-ties-dignitatis-humanae Bannon has also compared himself to Thomas Cromwell. And as students of Tudor England are well aware, in the end, it was Cromwell's head that wound up on a pike.
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Post by matunuck on Jan 30, 2021 9:36:35 GMT -5
The media’s initial top-line coverage of the JNJ results was off base and not helpful in accurately conveying the results. Fauci (and Scott Gottlieb et al.) explained that comparing JNJ to the others is a bit of apples v oranges largely because JNJ trials were broader globally and also conducted in an environment with more virus mutations circulating.
The most important numbers, he (and others) said, is that the JNJ vaccine showed an 85% efficacy at protecting against severe COVID — in multiple regions around the world, including in South Africa. And it was 100% effective against hospitalization & deaths. Having multiple pharmaceutical companies in the vaccine race is a huge force multiplier in getting the pandemic under control and staying ahead of the curve.
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Post by Chu Chu on Jan 30, 2021 16:48:05 GMT -5
As noted, the data demonstrate that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a one-shot vaccine, is 100% effective against hospitalization & deaths! That is what we really care about, and that IS a huge deal.
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Post by hcpride on Jan 30, 2021 17:30:50 GMT -5
As noted, the data demonstrate that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a one-shot vaccine, is 100% effective against hospitalization & deaths! That is what we really care about, and that IS a huge deal. Which is precisely why some folks never panicked regarding college (and high school, and grade school and kindergarten) kids and Covid.
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Post by lou on Feb 2, 2021 19:16:54 GMT -5
Coming soon...
“There is only one Dr. Fauci, and it is an incredible privilege to bring his inspiring, lifelong quest to cure disease and prevent outbreaks, to viewers around the world,” Hoffman and Tobias said in a statement. “This film will be an unprecedented, intimate portrait of our nation’s greatest public servant, whose relentless pursuit of truth and devotion to science has never been more important.”
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Post by ts1970 on Feb 3, 2021 0:16:58 GMT -5
Here is a thought. We have always honored members of our Holy Cross Family in various ways. In recent years we honored our greatest basketball player by placing a statute of his image in front of the Athletic Center. I would propose in a school where 10% of our graduates are physicians that it should be considered that our greatest research scientist and physician alumnus ( no offense to Nobel Prize winner Dr. Murray) who led the world wide fight against Aids, honored with the US Medal of Freedom and now leads us in the fight against the COV-19 virus have a similar statue placed in front of our science buildings to serve as an inspiration to all future HC scientists and physicians. Excellent idea.
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Post by sader1970 on Feb 3, 2021 6:01:14 GMT -5
Why in front of the science building? He was a Classics major.😉
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 3, 2021 12:48:31 GMT -5
Why not a science building? Was Bob Cousy a "basketball major?"
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Post by alum on Feb 4, 2021 11:11:52 GMT -5
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Post by matunuck on Feb 4, 2021 11:18:32 GMT -5
The statue idea has been mentioned many times. Honestly, nothing against statues but I think HC can do a little better to honor Fauci's work, service and legacy.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 4, 2021 13:46:25 GMT -5
My suggestion regarding Honoring Dr. Fauci, posted in December. crossports.freeforums.net/post/173936/quote/5213A least one endowed academic chair in human biology and another in classics would be a start in honoring Dr. Fauci. The Tenure Professors who receive the position should be renowned and emerging internationally recognized as experts in their field before their appointment to their respective positions. Another possibility is is an Endowed Academic Colloquiums similar to Hanify-Howland that will bring leading international experts to campus to present symposiums with students, faculty and possibly alumni. The colloquiums would hopefully have a keynote presentation by a prior years awardee of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The Colloquiums would be named after Dr. Joseph Murray (Nobel Prize in 1990) and Dr. Fauci. The Murray-Fauci International Colloquium in Medicine and Human Biology. Now to find the funding.....
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Post by td128 on Feb 4, 2021 15:15:38 GMT -5
I am with Crucis#1 in regard to bringing leading experts to campus to speak on issues, especially in the field of public health, so as to recommit to what was our longstanding Jesuit inspired pursuit of the truth.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 4, 2021 16:20:37 GMT -5
I still remember an HC evening class on medical ethics that I took back in the 1960s. It was mostly pre-med students, but it was an area in which I had interest. There were a variety of fields represented among the students and all got a good deal from that course. Possibly one of my best classes ever...theonly one to start at 7:30pm. Such programs continue to honor the names of alumni and add to the field of knowledge presented to both current students, faculty and alumni. The kicker is always having sufficient sounds to insure continuation of the honor. If it. draws on more than interest/proceeds from the initial funds it m eans the program will not continue.
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Post by alum on Feb 4, 2021 17:04:00 GMT -5
I still remember an HC evening class on medical ethics that I took back in the 1960s. It was mostly pre-med students, but it was an area in which I had interest. There were a variety of fields represented among the students and all got a good deal from that course. Possibly one of my best classes ever...theonly one to start at 7:30pm. Such programs continue to honor the names of alumni and add to the field of knowledge presented to both current students, faculty and alumni. The kicker is always having sufficient sounds to insure continuation of the honor. If it. draws on more than interest/proceeds from the initial funds it m eans the program will not continue. HC has the Hanify Howland lecture which has attracted major speakers year in and year out. www.holycross.edu/hanify-howland-memorial-lecture/previous-lectures I doubt that they would want to upstage it. I think HC could offer an annual lecture on ethics. I have an idea for a great speaker for the inaugural event irp.nih.gov/pi/christine-gradyI bet Dr. Fauci would come. (One of the most popular classes at HC in the early 80s, and one I recall vividly to this day, was Father Paris's Law, Medicine and Ethics. He was an engaging professor and we talked about end of life issues, assisted fertilization, allocation of scarce resources, etc. )
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 4, 2021 17:15:52 GMT -5
A big topic back in the 1960s was ethical issues of surrogate parenthood - not yet a practical reality. One good thing about this is that there can be numerous lectures, simply have separate sponsoring disciplines. The speakers should be of high enough quality that each can stand on their own with no worry about being overshadowed.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 4, 2021 17:22:19 GMT -5
Okay, I can take a hint: I will make myself available
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Post by alum on Feb 4, 2021 17:26:12 GMT -5
Okay, I can take a hint: I will make myself available "Bourbon, Bunting (don't) and Betting the Ponies--A Man for Others' Guide to Life."
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