I smell desperation again... Harris incorrectly stated "220 million" instead of "220 thousand" back in 2020 when Biden/Harris were campaigning before the 2020 November election. Biden/Harris campaign posted the correction the very next day when they said she misspoke. In contrast, when the Trump/Pence campaign misspoke and stated Covid would be gone by Easter...they then doubled down, triple down on their statements that such would be true. Worst, they didn't admit they were wrong but the WH press secretary did say "they miscalculated". Today, we know that the Trump/Pence were wrong but nobody cares now because the Trump/Pence campaign was wrong about so many more important things about the spread of Covid that caused many Americans to lose their life or be hospitalized with severe Covid infection. It impacted more Red states/counties than Blue states/counts. It may impact on who shows up to vote here in 2024 considering more Covid deaths in red states/counties than blue states/counties because red states/counties had worst healthcare policies during the Pandemic. wrbtrader
Japan's largest broadcaster flips: admits Covax Injuries. https://www.aussie17.com/p/japans-largest-msm-broadcaster-nhk
An even more contagious COVID strain is ‘just getting started’ amid California wave The summer surge of the coronavirus subvariants nicknamed FLiRT has given way to ever more contagious strains, a key reason behind the current high levels of COVID in California and nationwide. And doctors and scientists are keeping an eye on yet another subvariant — XEC — that could surpass the latest hyperinfectious subvariant, KP.3.1.1, now thought to be the most common nationwide. XEC was first detected in Germany and has since seized the attention of doctors and scientists worldwide. XEC “is just getting started now around the world and here,” said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla. “And that’s going to take many weeks, a couple months, before it really takes hold and starts to cause a wave.˜ “XEC is definitely taking charge. ... That does appear to be the next variant,” Topol added. “But it’s months off from getting into high levels.” While XEC has shown up in the United States, its prevalence is low and it is not being individually tracked on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s variant tracker website. A lineage must be estimated to circulate above 1% nationally over a two-week period for it to be tracked. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-30/covid-new-subvariant-even-more-contagious
Democrats and Republicans greet Covid spike with a collective shrug Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing coming out of their respective conventions: Almost no one cares about Covid anymore. Infections are running rampant after the Democratic confab in Chicago, with staffers on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, reporters and other convention-goers all stricken — and in at least one case claiming the positive test was “worth it.” Cases also cropped up after the Republican National Convention in July. And yet the single most-animating issue of the 2020 election is an afterthought for the major-party nominees coming out of two of the 2024 campaign’s biggest milestones — even as the virus remains an ever-present threat that’s shaped broader debates over key electoral issues like strength of the economy and the future of families’ health and child care. Both campaigns have struggled with how — and how much — to address a pandemic that the U.S. never fully defeated, but that few Americans still want to dwell on. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/covid-2024-dnc-campaigns-00176539
The new COVID shot is now available. Here's what you need to know It’s that time of year again. New COVID-19 shots are now available all over the country. The Food and Drug Administration has greenlighted three updated vaccines — the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots, and now a third one from Novavax, which was just authorized by the FDA on Friday. All three aim to help protect people from the latest strains of the virus, which may come as a relief to those who’ve tried to dodge a summer surge in cases, fueled by the FLiRT variants. Whether or not you decide to rush out and get the vaccine could depend on a few factors, including when you last had COVID-19 and your underlying risk of getting seriously ill. What exactly are these new shots? The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines rely on the same mRNA technology as the earlier versions of the vaccine, but they now target the KP.2 variant – a member of the omicron family that rose to prominence over the summer. The Novavax vaccine, which is based on an older technology, targets an earlier strain of the virus called JN.1. As many of us know by now, the virus continues evolving to better evade our immune defense, which means regularly updating the vaccines to keep up with the latest strain. It turns out the KP.2 and JN.1 variants have already been overtaken by newer variants. Because those are also descendants of omicron, the hope is that the new vaccines are close enough matches that they can still boost immunity and protect people in the coming months – ideally reducing the chances of a big winter wave. “The vaccine is not intended to be perfect. It’s not going to absolutely prevent COVID-19," Dr. Peter Marks from the FDA told NPR in an interview. "But if we can prevent people from getting serious cases that end up in emergency rooms, hospitals or worse — dead — that’s what we’re trying to do with these vaccines.” On average across all age groups, the two mRNA vaccines should cut the risk of having COVID-19 by 60% to 70% and reduce the risk of getting seriously ill by 80% to 90% during the three to four months after receiving the shot, Marks says. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-...1-5082372/updated-covid-vaccines-fda-approved