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Opinion | China, Fauci and the Origins of Covid
Did the virus come from a Chinese lab funded by the celebrated doctor’s U.S. government institute?
Misinformation about the side effects of COVID vaccines has been rife — particularly among vaccine skeptics and anti-vaccine groups. Insider reported last week that some groups were circulating "death lists" and broadcasting screenshots of reports of disturbing side effects, pulling statistics from an unvetted vaccine database to warn others about unverified "side effects" from taking the COVID shot.
However, the vaccine database in question, known as the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), does not require a medical professional to verify symptoms before reports are logged — meaning that reports of deaths and adverse side effects are unverified, and may even be falsified.
The number of people hospitalised for COVID-19 decreased by 131 to a seven-week low of 25,666. And, amongst that total, patients in intensive care units for the disease stood at 4,870, the lowest since March 27.
The COVID-19 death toll grew by another 292 on Monday, at 106,684, the world's eighth-highest. But, at 222, the seven-day moving average of daily new fatalities is the lowest since Oct. 26.
France's 5.78 million cases count is the fourth-highest globally, behind the United States, India and Brazil.
I'm reminded of this. https://satwcomic.com/baby-stepsThis is called how to make an already bad situation worse.
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COVID-19: India's doctors warn against using cow dung to ward off coronavirus - amid rise in deadly 'black fungus'
Medics are looking out for signs of mucormycosis in patients after a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection.news.sky.com
The point is to capture all prospective side-effects from medication, including stuff people might not feel they needed to bother their doctor with - particularly if they might have to pay to see a doctor (and also for those who have doctors who just can't be bothered to do more than the absolute minimum). Every issue logged, whether by doctor or patient, may or may not be due to the medication in question, no one knows until the stats start to firm up. People falsifying or wrongly portraying the results aren't normally a concern, though they have the potential to be a problem in this case.It does seem something of a flaw to have a database so open to falsification.
Misinformation about the side effects of COVID vaccines has been rife — particularly among vaccine skeptics and anti-vaccine groups. Insider reported last week that some groups were circulating "death lists" and broadcasting screenshots of reports of disturbing side effects, pulling statistics from an unvetted vaccine database to warn others about unverified "side effects" from taking the COVID shot.
However, the vaccine database in question, known as the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), does not require a medical professional to verify symptoms before reports are logged — meaning that reports of deaths and adverse side effects are unverified, and may even be falsified.
Lots of variation among friends getting Pfizer, from nothing at all to fatigue and brain fog lasting a week to ten days. But not one of them doubts it was worth it.I've had the Pfizer vaccine administered (2 doses, roughly four weeks apart), and the side-effects were mild--fatigue. Lasts about a day afterwards, hits the following morning (after the vaccine jabbing) when you get up. But nothing crazy. I'm glad I am vaccinated. That's one key thing to make sure we stay alive for a while.
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Get a vaccine, win $1m: Ohio offers lottery to beat vaccine hesitancy
The scheme is one of several unusual incentives across the US, including scholarships, bonds and beerwww.theguardian.com
There has been previous accusations of experiments being conducted at the wrong BSL, admittedly strongly denied by the Chinese authorities. Also there was that scientific paper I previously posted on here that claimed to have found coronavirus contamination of nearby food crops. Though that paper wasn’t peer reviewed.I think it requires a very strong proof or disproof, otherwise I'm interpreting it as rightwing facebook propaganda designed to trick stupid violent people into getting even more stupid and violent to cause mayhem.
IIRC the other issue with that paper that warranted doubt was the affiliation of the lead researchers, or rather their lack of affiliation with any university, never mind a major one.There has been previous accusations of experiments being conducted at the wrong BSL, admittedly strongly denied by the Chinese authorities. Also there was that scientific paper I previously posted on here that claimed to have found coronavirus contamination of nearby food crops. Though that paper wasn’t peer reviewed.I think it requires a very strong proof or disproof, otherwise I'm interpreting it as rightwing facebook propaganda designed to trick stupid violent people into getting even more stupid and violent to cause mayhem.
I didn't get past the paywall on the WSJ article someone linked the other day, but if your lede on the article is to pick a fight over the likelihood of "left wing journalists" (or it might have been activists, not journalists) disagreeing with the main body of the article, not to concentrate on the supposed point of the article, then it actually suggests the skeptics probably have a point and you know it. And if your second string in the headline is to try to smear Dr Fauci by association, then I think your real motives are pretty damned apparent.I see there’s been more comment in the US press about COVID being an accidental escape of a previously discovered virus that had undergone gain of function research not to weaponise it or anything silly like that but just to better understand it for development treatments. What’s people’s thinking on this, anything in it?