8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (9)
#18142352 at 2023-01-14 12:26:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22243: Wings Over Dallas Crash Audio Released Edition
Lithuania-Latvia gas pipeline blows up, but no sign of attack
VILNIUS (Reuters) -A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia was hit by an explosion on Friday but there was no immediate evidence of an attack, Lithuania gas transmission operator Amber Grid said.
Video published by Lithuania's public broadcaster LRT showed a fire raging at the blast site in the Panevezys county in northern Lithuania. The fire was put out, the Lithuania pipeline grid operator's chief executive said.
"According to the initial assessment, we do not see any malign cause, but the investigation will cover all possible options," Amber Grid Chief Executive Nemunas Biknius told a news conference.
The supply of gas was cut off but the CEO said the blast had damaged one of two parallel pipelines sending gas from Lithuania to Latvia and that Amber planned to restore supply by using the unaffected one.
"We plan to restore the gas supply in a few hours, in comparable amounts. We plan that the clients will not feel an impact from this event", Biknius told reporters.
Lithuania, like war-torn Ukraine, borders Russia and is situated on the Baltic Sea where the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream gas pipelines were destroyed by explosions last year.
Flames initially rose some 50 metres (160 feet) in the air and could be seen at a distance of at least 17 km (11 miles), LRT reported.
There were no injuries or fatalities reported, Baltic news agency BNS said.
Povilas Balciunas, the head of public administration in the nearby town of Pasvalys, told Reuters flames initially burned like "a big torch of gas" before calming down.
(Reporting by Andrius Sytas, writing by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Kirsten Donovan, David Evans and Grant McCool)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lithuania-latvia-gas-pipeline-hit-175601430.html
#16318049 at 2022-05-21 21:22:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20642: To Mook Or Not To Mook, That Is The Question Edition
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>>10009597
List of holocaust movies since 2010
2010 Canada Song of the Lodz Ghetto David Kaufman
2010 Israel
Germany A Film Unfinished Yael Hersonski
2011 Germany Auschwitz Uwe Boll
2011 Israel
Germany The Flat Arnon Goldfinger
2011 Turkey Turkish Passport Burak Arl?el A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports.
2011 Israel
Germany Hitler's Children Chanoch Zeevi
2012 Austria Dann bin ich ja ein M?rder Walter Manoschek Subject of the film is Adolf Storms & the Deutsch Sch?tzen massacre
2012 United States Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors Heather Elliott-Famularo http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com
2012 United States Misa's Fugue Sean Gaston www.misasfugue.com
2012 Germany 204 AR-Z 269/60Y Die Protokolle Wolfgang Jost & Winfried Wallat
2012 United States No Place on Earth Janet Tobias Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust.
2012 United States REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home Ethan Bensinger Documentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home
2012 United States The Resort Galina Kalashnikova www.codeoflifeproductions.com
2012 Netherlands
Belgium
United States Transport XX to Auschwitz Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom
2012 United States Hiding Halina Jeff MacIntyre 9 out of 10 Jewish children perished during the Holocaust. Those who survived were hidden. "Hiding Halina" is a documentary about a little girl who beat the odds.
2013 Austria
Germany Das Radikal B?se Stefan Ruzowitzky
2013 Canada
United States
United Kingdom The Lady in Number 6 Malcolm Clarke
2013 Italy The Longest Journey Ruggero Gabbai A documentary about the last days of the Jews of Rhodes.
2013 France Last of the Unjust Claude Lanzmann https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/
2014 Poland Warsaw Uprising Jan Komasa Documentary film using archived and colorized footage of Warsaw uprising original Polish title Powstanie Warszawskie (2014)
2014 France Izieu, Children in the Shoah Romain Icard
2014 United States Berlin Calling Nigel Dick A punk fan from Los Angeles traces her father's journey back to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt where he spent two years of his life.
2014 Israel
Germany Farewell Herr Schwarz Yael Reuveny An Israeli woman living in Germany, granddaughter of a survivor, explores the ramifications of discovering a great-uncle who, unbeknownst to the family in Israel, lived out his life in East Germany near the camp he was held in.
2014 United Kingdom Night Will Fall Andre Singer
2014 Germany
Austria
Israel The Decent One Vanessa Lapa
2014 France Shoah, les Oubli?s de l'Histoire V?ronique Lagoarde-S?got
2014 Israel
Czech Republic
Slovakia
United States Gisi Natasha Dudinski The story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she managed to raise enough money.
2015 United Kingdom What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy David Evans
2016 Germany Austerlitz Sergei Loznitsa Documentary showing how tourists act while visiting the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
2017 United States The Zookeeper's Wife
2018 United States The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm Amy Schatz It features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
2018 United States Who Will Write Our History Roberta Grossman
2018 Germany Der Letzte Jollyboy Hans-Erich Viet
2018 United States Operation Finale Chris Weitz Dramatization of the Mossad's clandestine operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina for his trial in Jerusalem
2018 Canada The Accountant of Auschwitz Matthew Shoychet Trial of Oskar Gr?ning who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for murder of over 300,000 Jews.[21]
2019 Hungary A P?sztor L?szl? Ill?s English title: The Shepherd - The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter got killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible.
#14037160 at 2021-07-02 15:45:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17763: Freedom Friday 4th Weekend Edition
Beloved professor James Youngblom's body found at Yosemite National Park, witnesses sought
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - The body of a longtime Northern California professor was found last week in Yosemite National Park, and park officials are asking anyone who may have seen him there to call investigators.
James Youngblom, 64, had been hiking alone. His body was found on June 25, the National Park Service said in a statement Wednesday.
The statement did not disclose details on how Youngblom died. Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office spokesman Deputy Nico Sandelin said an autopsy has not yet been completed. Park spokesman Scott Gediman provided no other information, citing an ongoing investigation.
Anyone who may have seen Youngblom in the area of White Wolf, Pate Valley or the Grand Canyon of The Tuolumne between June 22 and June 25 should contact the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch, the statement said. The tip line is 888-653-0009.
Youngblom taught biological sciences at California State University Stanislaus for 31 years. He was an avid outdoorsman and experienced backpacker who took at least one solo backpacking trip each year, said David Evans, the university's dean of the College of Science.
Youngblom was the chair of the Department of Biological Services. His expertise was on genetics and DNA technology, but his focus was on the students, Evans said.
"He was passionate about getting youth and college students interested in science," Evans said.
Youngblom, who was set to retire in the fall, for years ran a program for middle schoolers called "Dinner with a Scientist" that brought hundreds of young students to the university in Turlock, California. His wife, Janey, was also a genetics professor at Stanislaus State until her retirement, Evans said.
"Our thoughts are with Janey, their family, loved ones, friends, colleagues and students during this sad time," Evans said in a message to the campus community.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/07/02/yosemite-national-park-death-california-stanislaus-state-professor-james-youngblom-investigation/7838483002/
#13571357 at 2021-05-03 16:05:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17187: POTUS T Started Global Twatter Trend & Spy Plane Circles AZ Audit Edition
you know they are panicking when Buffet disses on retail traders, they can't keep holding these stocks down
Robinhood hits back at Buffett for retail trading comments
BY Reuters
- 8:57 AM ET 05/03/2021
(Reuters) - Retail-focused brokerage Robinhood Financial has hit back against comments by Warren Buffett who on Saturday likened the millions of inexperienced day traders who entered the stock market in the past year to gamblers.
Speaking at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's ( BRK/A
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"If the last year has taught us anything, it is that people are tired of the Warren Buffetts and Charlie Mungers of the world acting like they are the only oracles of investing," said a blog post https://robinhood.engineering/the-old-guard-of-investing-is-at-it-again-a8b870fbfd49 on Robinhood's website by its Head of Public Policy Communications Jacqueline Ortiz Ramsay published on Monday.
"And at Robinhood, we're not going to sit back while they disparage everyday people for taking control of their financial lives."
In a statement published by CNBC, Robinhood said that there is an "old guard that doesn't want average Americans to have a seat at the Wall Street table so they will resort to insults. The future is diverse, more educated and propelled by engaging technologies that have the power to equalize."
At the meeting, Buffett said: "There is nothing illegal to it, there's nothing immoral, but I don't think you build a society around people doing it," he said.
Munger's comment was: "It's just god-awful that something like that would draw investment from civilized man and decent citizens," he said. "It's deeply wrong. We don't want to make our money selling things that are bad for people."
Brokers like Robinhood Financial have attracted controversy this year as traders drove huge rallies in shares of video game retailer GameStop Corp ( GME
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(Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; additional reporting by John McCrank; writing by Megan Davies; editing by David Evans)
https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/news/basicNewsStory.jhtml?symbols=AMC&storyid=202105030857RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_KBN2CK0YP-OUSBS_1
#12892190 at 2021-02-11 16:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16455: Morning Shift E-Bake Corrected Dough Edition
Roche's tocilizumab cuts deaths in hospitalised COVID-19 patients - study
LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Roche's arthritis drugtocilizumab cuts the risk of death among patients hospitalisedwith severe COVID-19, also shortening the time to recovery andreducing the need for mechanical ventilation, results of a largetrial showed on Thursday.
The findings - from the RECOVERY trial, which has beentesting a range of potential treatments for COVID-19 since March2020 - should help clear up confusion about whether tocilizumabhas any benefit for COVID-19 patients after a slew of recentmixed trial results.
"We now know that the benefits of tocilizumab extend to allCOVID patients with low oxygen levels and significantinflammation," said Peter Horby, a professor of emerginginfectious diseases at Oxford University and the joint leadinvestigator on the RECOVERY trial.
In June last year, the RECOVERY trial found that the cheapand widely available steroid dexamethasone reduced death ratesby around a third among the most severely ill COVID-19 patients.That drug has since rapidly became part of standard-of-carerecommended for severe patients.
Tocilizumab, sold under the brand name Actemra, is anintravenous anti-inflammatory monoclonal antibody drug used totreat rheumatoid arthritis. It was added to the trial in April2020 for patients with COVID-19 who required oxygen and hadevidence of inflammation.
The study data were from 2,022 COVID-19 patients who wererandomly allocated to receive tocilizumab by intravenousinfusion and who were compared with 2,094 patients randomlyallocated to usual care alone. Researchers said 82% of allpatients were taking a systemic steroid such as dexamethasone.
Results showed that treatment with tocilizumab significantlyreduced deaths - with 596 (29%) of the patients in thetocilizumab group dying within 28 days, compared with 694 (33%)patients in the usual care group.
This translates to an absolute difference of 4% and meansthat for every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, oneadditional life would be saved, Horby and his co-leadinvestigator Martin Landray said.
They added that benefits of tocilizumab were clearly seen tobe in addition to those of steroids.
"Used in combination, the impact is substantial," saidLandray, who is also an Oxford professor of medicine andepidemiology.
He added that results "clearly show the benefits oftocilizumab and dexamethasone in tackling the worst consequencesof COVID-19 - improving survival, shortening hospital stay, andreducing the need for mechanical ventilators."
Roche's drug division chief Bill Anderson said lastweek that previous mixed results were likely due to differencesin the type of patients studied, when they were treated, and theendpoint - the juncture at which success or failure is measured.
"We think we're sort of zooming in on both the most relevantendpoints and relevant patient population," Anderson said. "Itseems like the ideal candidates are patients who are really inthat acute phase of inflammatory attack."
Actemra, along with Sanofi's similar drug Kevzara,was authorized by Britain's NHS in early January for COVID-19patients in intensive care units after preliminary data from asmaller study called REMAP-CAP indicated it could reducehospital stays by about 10 days.
During 2020, Actemra rose to become Roche'sfifth-best-selling drug, at more than $3 billion, with nearly$600 million from COVID-19 treatment.(Reporting by Kate Kelland in LONDON, with additional reportingby John Miller in ZURICH. Editing by David Evans)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/roches-tocilizumab-cuts-deaths-hospitalised-150000883.html
#10343277 at 2020-08-19 17:59:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13235: NO MAGA? REKT Edition
AstraZeneca, producer of mandatory vaccine in Australia and soon others, will be exempt from liability claims, THAT MEANS THEY CAN LEGALLY KILL OR BRAIN DAMAGE YOUR KIDS AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
AstraZeneca to be exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
Thursday, July 30, 2020 9:17 a.m. EDT by Thomson Reuters
By Ludwig Burger and Pushkala Aripaka
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca has been granted protection from future product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine hopeful by most of the countries with which it has struck supply agreements, a senior executive told Reuters.
With 25 companies testing their vaccine candidates on humans and getting ready to immunise hundred millions of people once the products are shown to work, the question of who pays for any claims for damages in case of side effects has been a tricky point in supply negotiations.
"This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects," Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra's senior executive team, told Reuters.
"In the contracts we have in place, we are asking for indemnification. For most countries it is acceptable to take that risk on their shoulders because it is in their national interest," he said, adding that Astra and regulators were making safety and tolerability a top priority.
Dobber would not name the countries.
EU officials told Reuters this week product liability was among contentious points in European efforts to secure supply deals for potential COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson.
The United States, however, already has a law to exclude tort claims from products that help control a public-health crises in the form of the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness, or PREP Act.
AstraZeneca, Britain's second-largest drugmaker, has pledged to supply a total of more than 2 billion doses at no profit in agreements with the United States, Britain and European countries, among other nations and organisations.
Astra's deals differ from most rivals because it has secured government backing for production and development efforts, while competitors such as GlaxoSmithKline are looking to negotiate a price for a finished product, contingent on approval.
To back its claim to forgo profits from the $1.2 billion collaboration in the United States, Astra has even granted the government access to financial accounts related to the venture, according to Dobber.
"There are very clear milestones before they are going to pay. Because we made the promise to manufacture the vaccine at no profit, auditors of the U.S. administration will get free access to our accounting books," he said.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Pushkala Aripaka; Editing by Edmund Blair and David Evans)
#10009614 at 2020-07-19 16:41:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12809: Haven't Had my Covfefe Yet. Wake and Bake Edition
>>10009597
List of holocaust movies since 2010
2010 Canada Song of the Lodz Ghetto David Kaufman
2010 Israel
Germany A Film Unfinished Yael Hersonski
2011 Germany Auschwitz Uwe Boll
2011 Israel
Germany The Flat Arnon Goldfinger
2011 Turkey Turkish Passport Burak Arl?el A documentary about the Jews who were rescued by Turkish diplomats through having been given Turkish diplomatic passports.
2011 Israel
Germany Hitler's Children Chanoch Zeevi
2012 Austria Dann bin ich ja ein Mörder Walter Manoschek Subject of the film is Adolf Storms & the Deutsch Schützen massacre
2012 United States Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors Heather Elliott-Famularo http://www.bearingwitnesstoledo.com
2012 United States Misa's Fugue Sean Gaston www.misasfugue.com
2012 Germany 204 AR-Z 269/60Y Die Protokolle Wolfgang Jost & Winfried Wallat
2012 United States No Place on Earth Janet Tobias Documentary about a group of Jews who lived in caves in Ukraine for nearly 18 months to escape the Holocaust.
2012 United States REFUGE: Stories of the Selfhelp Home Ethan Bensinger Documentary about the last generation of Holocaust Survivors and Refugees at Chicago's Selfhelp Home
2012 United States The Resort Galina Kalashnikova www.codeoflifeproductions.com
2012 Netherlands
Belgium
United States Transport XX to Auschwitz Karen Lynne & Richard Bloom
2012 United States Hiding Halina Jeff MacIntyre 9 out of 10 Jewish children perished during the Holocaust. Those who survived were hidden. "Hiding Halina" is a documentary about a little girl who beat the odds.
2013 Austria
Germany Das Radikal Böse Stefan Ruzowitzky
2013 Canada
United States
United Kingdom The Lady in Number 6 Malcolm Clarke
2013 Italy The Longest Journey Ruggero Gabbai A documentary about the last days of the Jews of Rhodes.
2013 France Last of the Unjust Claude Lanzmann https://web.archive.org/web/20121028182739/http://www.le-pacte.com/international/upcoming-films/single/the-last-of-the-unjust/
2014 Poland Warsaw Uprising Jan Komasa Documentary film using archived and colorized footage of Warsaw uprising original Polish title Powstanie Warszawskie (2014)
2014 France Izieu, Children in the Shoah Romain Icard
2014 United States Berlin Calling Nigel Dick A punk fan from Los Angeles traces her father's journey back to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt where he spent two years of his life.
2014 Israel
Germany Farewell Herr Schwarz Yael Reuveny An Israeli woman living in Germany, granddaughter of a survivor, explores the ramifications of discovering a great-uncle who, unbeknownst to the family in Israel, lived out his life in East Germany near the camp he was held in.
2014 United Kingdom Night Will Fall Andre Singer
2014 Germany
Austria
Israel The Decent One Vanessa Lapa
2014 France Shoah, les Oubliés de l'Histoire Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot
2014 Israel
Czech Republic
Slovakia
United States Gisi Natasha Dudinski The story of Gisi Fleischmann, a woman who believed she could stop the Holocaust if only she managed to raise enough money.
2015 United Kingdom What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy David Evans
2016 Germany Austerlitz Sergei Loznitsa Documentary showing how tourists act while visiting the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
2017 United States The Zookeeper's Wife
2018 United States The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm Amy Schatz It features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
2018 United States Who Will Write Our History Roberta Grossman
2018 Germany Der Letzte Jollyboy Hans-Erich Viet
2018 United States Operation Finale Chris Weitz Dramatization of the Mossad's clandestine operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann from Argentina for his trial in Jerusalem
2018 Canada The Accountant of Auschwitz Matthew Shoychet Trial of Oskar Gröning who worked as accountant in Auschwitz, responsible for murder of over 300,000 Jews.[21]
2019 Hungary A Pásztor László Illés English title: The Shepherd - The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter got killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible.
#6265103 at 2019-04-21 19:40:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8011: Happy National Park Week Edition
BRAZZAVILLE, April 19 (Reuters) - Congo Republic shipped its first iron ore exports on Friday from a rehabilitated deep-water port that will be used by Congolese billionaire Paul Obambi's Sapro SA and Swiss commodities giant Glencore.
Sapro mined the oil-dependent Central African country's first iron ore in 2017 from its Mayoko project in the southwest and plans to reach output of 12 million tonnes per year by 2022.
Glencore's joint venture with British Virgin Islands-incorporated Zanaga Iron Ore Co plans to ship 2 million tonnes of iron ore per year through Sapro's port and rail link over the next two years, and 30 million tonnes by 2024.
Sapro, the Congolese government and British shipping company Ashley Global are spending a combined $550 million on rehabilitation to Pointe Noire's deep-water port, the Mayoko mine and an old railway track connecting the two.
At a ceremony on Friday in Pointe Noire attended by the mines minister, a ship loaded with 23,000 tonnes of ore set sail for China, where it will be processed for a European buyer.
"We are heading towards more than a century of production," said Obambi.
Iron ore prices are near their highest in two years, spurred by growing demand from China and the collapse in January of a dam operated by Brazil's Vale, which has cut into global output.
Congo's economy has been hit hard in recent years by low crude prices, which led its debt to balloon. It is currently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to try to secure a bailout. (Reporting by Christian Elion and Roch Bouka Writing by Sofia Christensen Editing by Aaron Ross and David Evans)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.
https://gcaptain.com/congo-ships-first-iron-ore/
#2480533 at 2018-08-06 16:43:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3128: Sanctioning The Cabalists Edition
>>2480193
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/paper-showing-how-make-smallpox-cousin-just-got-published-critics-wonder-why
A paper showing how to make a smallpox cousin just got published. Critics wonder why
By Kai Kupferschmidt Jan. 19, 2018 , 3:35 PM
Today, a highly controversial study in which researchers synthesized a smallpox relative from scratch is finally seeing the light of day. The paper, in PLOS ONE, spells out how virologist David Evans at the University of Alberta in Canada, and his research associate Ryan Noyce ordered bits of horsepox DNA from the internet, painstakingly assembled them, then showed that the resulting virus was able to infect cells and reproduce.
The study stirred alarm when Science first reported it in July 2017 because it might give would-be terrorists a recipe to construct smallpox virus, a major human scourge vanquished in 1980. And now that it's out, many scientists say the paper doesn't answer the most pressing question: Why did they do it?
The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox. But safe smallpox vaccines already exist, and there appears to be no market for a horsepox-based replacement, says virologist Stephan Becker of the University of Marburg in Germany. "It simply does not add up," Becker says. Given the apparent lack of benefits, publishing the paper was "a serious mistake," says Thomas Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. "The world is now more vulnerable to smallpox."
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm613496.htm
FDA approves the first drug with an indication for treatment of smallpox
For Immediate Release
July 13, 2018
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (2)
#56129 at 2021-02-11 16:34:08 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #260: We Gonna Fight Like Hell! Edition
Roche's tocilizumab cuts deaths in hospitalised COVID-19 patients - study
LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Roche's arthritis drugtocilizumab cuts the risk of death among patients hospitalisedwith severe COVID-19, also shortening the time to recovery andreducing the need for mechanical ventilation, results of a largetrial showed on Thursday.
The findings - from the RECOVERY trial, which has beentesting a range of potential treatments for COVID-19 since March2020 - should help clear up confusion about whether tocilizumabhas any benefit for COVID-19 patients after a slew of recentmixed trial results.
"We now know that the benefits of tocilizumab extend to allCOVID patients with low oxygen levels and significantinflammation," said Peter Horby, a professor of emerginginfectious diseases at Oxford University and the joint leadinvestigator on the RECOVERY trial.
In June last year, the RECOVERY trial found that the cheapand widely available steroid dexamethasone reduced death ratesby around a third among the most severely ill COVID-19 patients.That drug has since rapidly became part of standard-of-carerecommended for severe patients.
Tocilizumab, sold under the brand name Actemra, is anintravenous anti-inflammatory monoclonal antibody drug used totreat rheumatoid arthritis. It was added to the trial in April2020 for patients with COVID-19 who required oxygen and hadevidence of inflammation.
The study data were from 2,022 COVID-19 patients who wererandomly allocated to receive tocilizumab by intravenousinfusion and who were compared with 2,094 patients randomlyallocated to usual care alone. Researchers said 82% of allpatients were taking a systemic steroid such as dexamethasone.
Results showed that treatment with tocilizumab significantlyreduced deaths - with 596 (29%) of the patients in thetocilizumab group dying within 28 days, compared with 694 (33%)patients in the usual care group.
This translates to an absolute difference of 4% and meansthat for every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, oneadditional life would be saved, Horby and his co-leadinvestigator Martin Landray said.
They added that benefits of tocilizumab were clearly seen tobe in addition to those of steroids.
"Used in combination, the impact is substantial," saidLandray, who is also an Oxford professor of medicine andepidemiology.
He added that results "clearly show the benefits oftocilizumab and dexamethasone in tackling the worst consequencesof COVID-19 - improving survival, shortening hospital stay, andreducing the need for mechanical ventilators."
Roche's drug division chief Bill Anderson said lastweek that previous mixed results were likely due to differencesin the type of patients studied, when they were treated, and theendpoint - the juncture at which success or failure is measured.
"We think we're sort of zooming in on both the most relevantendpoints and relevant patient population," Anderson said. "Itseems like the ideal candidates are patients who are really inthat acute phase of inflammatory attack."
Actemra, along with Sanofi's similar drug Kevzara,was authorized by Britain's NHS in early January for COVID-19patients in intensive care units after preliminary data from asmaller study called REMAP-CAP indicated it could reducehospital stays by about 10 days.
During 2020, Actemra rose to become Roche'sfifth-best-selling drug, at more than $3 billion, with nearly$600 million from COVID-19 treatment.(Reporting by Kate Kelland in LONDON, with additional reportingby John Miller in ZURICH. Editing by David Evans)
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/roches-tocilizumab-cuts-deaths-hospitalised-150000883.html
#48217 at 2021-01-25 03:06:22 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #222: Earth is Quaking, Shetlands Shakin, Tsunami Up! Edition
Indonesia Seizes Iranian and Panamanian Tankers Over Illegal Oil Transfer
January 24, 2021
Jakarta, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Sunday its coast guard had seized the Iranian-flagged MT Horse and the Panamanian-flagged MT Frea vessels over suspected illegal fuel transfers off the country's waters.
A statement from coast guard spokesman Wisnu Pramandita said the tankers, seized in waters off Kalimantan province, were escorted to Batam island in Riau Island Province for further investigation.
"The tankers, first detected at 5:30 a.m. local time (2130 GMT on Jan. 23) concealed their identity by not showing their national flags, turning of automatic identification systems and did not respond to a radio call," the statement said.
"There was an oil spill around MT Frea."
The International Maritime Organization requires vessels to use transponders for safety and transparency. Crews can turn off the devices if there is a danger of piracy or similar hazards. But transponders are often shut down to conceal a ship's location during illicit activities.
Iran, which not commented on the seizure, has been accused of concealing the destination of its oil sales by disabling tracking systems on its tankers, making it difficult to assess how much crude Tehran exports as it seeks to counter U.S. sanctions.
In 2018, former President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers and reimposed sanctions aimed at cutting Tehran's oil exports to zero.
Iran sent the MT Horse vessel to Venezuela last year to deliver 2.1 million barrels of Iranian condensate. (Reporting by Agustinus Beo Da Costa Writing by Parisa Hafezi; editing by David Evans)
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#18318514 at 2023-02-10 11:05:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
>>18318512
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It was later revealed Professor Petrovsky had previously written to participants of his Phase 1 clinical trial, encouraging them to take a vaccine approved by the Therapeutics Goods Administration when it became available, "just as you would have, had you not participated in this study".
After several participants ?contacted the Central Adelaide Local Health Network questioning the professor's public statements, the research ethics committee's acting chair, David Evans, instructed participants to ignore Professor Petrovsky's claims in the media and get a TGA-approved vaccine.
"Participants are concerned that comments that Professor Nikolai Petrovsky reported in the media did not correspond with the advice given in the letter participants received," Dr Evans wrote in November 2021.
"These comments ... could be construed that it would be unsafe to receive a TGA-approved vaccine ... The committee is not aware of any scientific evidence of efficacy of the Covax-19 vaccine to meet Australian TGA standards."
Phase 1 clinical trials are primarily conducted to test whether a vaccine is safe. However, the Covax-19 Phase 1 trial also examined the "immunogenicity" of the vaccine, or whether it produced an ?immune response.
Professor Petrovsky attracted heavy criticism in some scientific quarters for comments regarding the safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines after he described them as experimental as well as "gene therapy vaccines" - a claim rejected by the TGA.
In April, Vaxine was fined $13,320 by the TGA after the regulator said it had "allegedly advertised ... an unapproved Covid-19 vaccine which is subject to a clinical trial".
In December, the provisional determination status granted to Vaxine by the regulator lapsed after no further clinical data was supplied. The Australian understands the TGA has not received any application to register the product.
Professor Petrovsky maintains millions of doses of Covax-19 have been administered in Iran, under the name SpikoGen, where he says he has successfully completed Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials.
The company's Phase 2B clinical trial - the second to be conducted in Australia since Vaxine started a Phase 1 study in 2020 - was launched in collaboration with the Australian Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Institute in Adelaide last year and is due to be completed in March.
In response to questions, a Flinders University spokesman said the university conducts regular reviews of academic status for eligibility in accordance with university policy, but would not comment on Professor Petrovsky's affiliation process.
"As status holders' terms near expiry they are invited to apply for renewal as per normal college processes. In 2022 this comprised several hundred applications which were assessed in accordance with the current University Academic Status policy," the spokesman said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/university-to-sever-ties-with-refusenik-vax-developer/news-story/3d52294e819155544834cb24506eedbb
#10343294 at 2020-08-19 18:01:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
>>10340729
AstraZeneca, producer of mandatory vaccine in Australia and soon others, will be exempt from liability claims, THAT MEANS THEY CAN LEGALLY KILL OR BRAIN DAMAGE YOUR KIDS AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
AstraZeneca to be exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
Thursday, July 30, 2020 9:17 a.m. EDT by Thomson Reuters
By Ludwig Burger and Pushkala Aripaka
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca has been granted protection from future product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine hopeful by most of the countries with which it has struck supply agreements, a senior executive told Reuters.
With 25 companies testing their vaccine candidates on humans and getting ready to immunise hundred millions of people once the products are shown to work, the question of who pays for any claims for damages in case of side effects has been a tricky point in supply negotiations.
"This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects," Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra's senior executive team, told Reuters.
"In the contracts we have in place, we are asking for indemnification. For most countries it is acceptable to take that risk on their shoulders because it is in their national interest," he said, adding that Astra and regulators were making safety and tolerability a top priority.
Dobber would not name the countries.
EU officials told Reuters this week product liability was among contentious points in European efforts to secure supply deals for potential COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson.
The United States, however, already has a law to exclude tort claims from products that help control a public-health crises in the form of the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness, or PREP Act.
AstraZeneca, Britain's second-largest drugmaker, has pledged to supply a total of more than 2 billion doses at no profit in agreements with the United States, Britain and European countries, among other nations and organisations.
Astra's deals differ from most rivals because it has secured government backing for production and development efforts, while competitors such as GlaxoSmithKline are looking to negotiate a price for a finished product, contingent on approval.
To back its claim to forgo profits from the $1.2 billion collaboration in the United States, Astra has even granted the government access to financial accounts related to the venture, according to Dobber.
"There are very clear milestones before they are going to pay. Because we made the promise to manufacture the vaccine at no profit, auditors of the U.S. administration will get free access to our accounting books," he said.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Pushkala Aripaka; Editing by Edmund Blair and David Evans)
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#35369 at 2017-12-05 06:19:45 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #39 - WE DIGGIN NOW
>>35250
>>What is Bonos background pre fame?
Bono [Paul Hewson] & the Edge [David Evans] grew up in a Christian commune…
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I know i read that in a reference book at library circa 93.