“The DSMB is concerned that AstraZeneca chose to use data that was already outdated and potentially misleading in their press release,” the letter stated. “The point that is clear to the board is that the [vaccine efficacy number]… they chose to release was the most favorable for the study as opposed to the most recent and most complete. Decisions like this are what erode public trust in the scientific process.”
Ouch. This is all so unnecessary, too: even the less favorable studies suggest that they’re still more effective than the J&J.
What was it the guy at the hardware store said to my engineering grad school buddy and me those many years ago… “You don’t want that coil of 1/4” copper tubing. You want this here coil of 1/4" stainless steel tubing. Copper comes with lubricating oil remnants on the inside… your first batch " well, never mind…
I see in the comments that someone has already pointed out that lots of things, like oils, catch fire when exposed to high concentrations of O₂.
Just wait. I’ll bet he holds off until we have finally turned the tide (she wrote, hopefully, dreaming that we will succeed), then put out a bunch of videos urging his supporters to get the jabs, then claim credit for turning the tide. He doesn’t want to put anything out there and then have it not work.
Germany: Angela Merkel urges vigilance after Easter U-turn
She publicly apologised, asked for forgiveness (a first in her 16 years of being chancellor, and many more years in different positions of power), and spoke to parliament.
I’m not sure how this is going to turn out in the long run, but the short-term effects are devastating enough. The Easter shutdown was a bad idea in the first place, and now even that got revoked. We are at > 20k new cases a day, even intelligent people in my immediate surroundings are calling for for less restrictions, in public opinion of crisis management will be at an All Time Low™ on both the sides of the covidiots as on the side of people who can actually count to three (ok, who can understand what exponential growth looks like, and what it means to have an exponentially growing pandemic situation in hospitals).
Sir and madam, I think we are even more fucked than I did before.
Mark 12:17 Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s, and get vaccinated, you dipshits.” And they marveled at him.
I’m truly surprised that the preferred pattern isn’t that members of a household get scheduled based on the most ‘vulnerable’ member, or just grouped together period. Seems daft to calculate each human separately in this context. But I am not, of course, an epidemiologist. (Well, no more so than we have all become over the past year.)
They say you get more conservative with age, but I never thought I’d change my mind on the death penalty, much less that I would fervently wish for a literal hell.
