Chuck Close, and so it goes.
"The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December."
"But the subject of masking is so polarizing that parents are becoming violent toward the very people they entrust their children with… During a back-to-school event this week, an angry parent ripped a mask off a teacher's face. Others yelled at a teacher who was wearing a mask, saying they could not understand her while her face was covered."
"Johnson is relieved her vaccination likely protected her against a more severe case of COVID-19. But the fact that kids are transmitting the coronavirus to family members is unnerving many parents all over the U.S., and putting extra stress on many households as children head back to school."
"Reider assumed it was because authorities wanted to find out whether he had a Delta infection. He, too, was curious — but when he got the test results back, he was surprised to learn that doctors couldn't give him any information about his variant." On why you must likely won't know which variant you contracted. Because, in reality, to the patient it doesn't really matter, does it?
"The researchers were looking for markers in vaccinated patients' blood that would indicate protection against COVID-19, what's known as 'correlates of immunity.' What the team of scientists found were neutralizing antibodies — proteins made by the immune system that are known to disarm the coronavirus." What really matters are these two points; does your immune system remember how to make these antibodies (and here it comes into some gritty details of how your immune system works), and how quickly does your body recognize the infection and is able to ramp up production. How many are in your blood is only a real indicator of if your body can fight off the virus before your immune system gets into gear. And, again, antibodies will always diminish in your blood when you are not infected. You body (it is believed) conserves resources and will reuse proteins. It won't produce many antibodies if there is no need to.
"The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a key achievement in fusion research on Tuesday. Fusion, the lesser known and opposite reaction to nuclear fission, is when two atoms slam together to form a heavier atom and release energy. It is the way the sun makes energy."
"The euro zone economy lost some momentum in August but is still on track for solid growth in the third quarter of this year, according to preliminary data released Monday."
"If members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma get their way, everyone on the list will win sweeping immunity from civil lawsuits linked to the family's activities, the sale of OxyContin, or Purdue Pharma's other operations." Oh, I'm sorry, you thought you were in control of this. Nope. Take the deal, without the immunity, or we'll just take everything the way the drugs you pushed took everything from the victims.
"Investigators are considering whether toxic algae blooms or other hazards may have contributed to the deaths of a Northern California couple, their baby and the family dog on a remote hiking trail, authorities said… The area in the Sierra National Forest where the bodies were found on Tuesday had been treated as a hazmat site after concerns were raised about the deaths being linked to potentially toxic gases from old mines nearby."
"Mike Richards has announced he won't be hosting Jeopardy!, after questions have persisted about how the show's executive producer was chosen for the coveted role… Richards has been scrutinized over earlier allegations of a hostile work environment, as well as inappropriate comments he allegedly made about women on a podcast that he once hosted." LaVar Burton is right there.
"The Department of Defense is mobilizing commercial airline flights to help with the United States' evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, which has been chaotic as thousands are desperate to leave the country after the Taliban swiftly took control."
How's that "we're a reformed Taliban" working out? "The Taliban have sentenced the brother of an Afghan translator to death, according to letters obtained by CNN, accusing him of helping the US and providing security to his brother, who served as an interpreter to American troops."
"Because when it was too cold to jihad, that IED still got planted. When they had 30-year-old AK-47s and we had $100 million war planes, they kept fighting. When we left a village, they took it back. No matter what we did, where we went, or how many of them we killed, they came back." On listening in to the Taliban. Instead of creating an Afghanistan for Afghanis.
"U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Monday during a visit to Singapore that the United States was focusing on evacuation efforts taking place in Afghanistan and that there would be plenty of time to analyse the context of the troop withdrawal."
"With thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners crowding into Kabul's airport in the hope of fleeing Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, pressure grew on U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to extend the deadline for the evacuation operation."
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blessed President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal, but with the House majority on the line, Kevin McCarthy is facing a different decision: how harshly to oppose it… With the House voting this week on advancing the infrastructure legislation, a $3.5 trillion Democratic spending framework plus an election reform bill, Republicans are still waiting to receive guidance on whether the GOP leader will whip against or withhold his influential fire on the bipartisan plan."
"The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives."
"Earlier in the afternoon, a large group gathered downtown. A KATU News crew observed the crowd size increasing throughout the afternoon. According to police, by about 2:30 p.m., several hundred people had gathered at Salmon Street Springs. People were seen carrying bats and shields." Funny how in this report the group carrying the bats and shields is not identified.
"A man fired a handgun near demonstrators in downtown Portland Sunday evening as high-intensity clashes splintered across the city — including an earlier confrontation involving right-wing protesters using paintball guns and fireworks against left-wing counterprotesters in Northeast Portland." But, you know, they don't know which group he may, or may not, have been affiliated with. Sure.
"Former President Donald Trump was briefly booed at a rally on Saturday in Alabama after telling his supporters they should get vaccinated against COVID-19."
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