Wuhan (Novel) Corona Virus -looming pandemy of deadly pneumonia? - Pandemy ongoing!

Wrong Year of course:-)

Abacus wrote:Wrong Year of course:-)

I keeps struggling as well.

I keeps struggling as well

So much to know, so little time

(January 7, 2021) EU Authorizes Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Saying It Has 160 Million Doses
The European Union is preparing to distribute the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to all its member countries,
after the European Commission granted conditional authorization of the vaccine.
The EU acted hours after the European Medicines Agency endorsed the vaccine,
in a move that will add another 160 million doses to its large-scale vaccination effort.
With 460 million combined doses of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines now being rolled out in the EU,
Stella Kyriakides, the union's commissioner for health and food safety, said member nations must "ensure
that the pace of vaccinations follows suit."

Moderna, a ten-year-old Massachusetts biotechnology company, has never brought a product to market before.
But the company developed its potential vaccine within days of learning the virus’ genetic sequence
and began working with the National Institutes of Health to put doses into trials.
Moderna in May signed a manufacturing contract with Swiss company Lonza AG
to produce up to one billion doses of the vaccine in the next year.

(This article was removed, now available on webarchive)

(January 6, 2021) Merck to repurpose four U.S. facilities for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing
Under a new agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Merck,
the company will expand domestic manufacturing capacity for COVID-19 vaccines by repurposing four of its existing facilities.
“This collaboration with Merck will help to ensure that the U.S. is prepared to scale up production not just for this pandemic but also for future pandemics and other public health emergencies.”
A $340 million agreement reached with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a part of HHS, makes this possible.
In return, Merck will renovate and modify infrastructure to meet large-scale vaccine and therapeutic candidate manufacturing demands.
The new capacity should be operational within the first quarter of this year.

(January 7, 2021) Bayer Joins COVID-19 Vaccine Development in Germany
Bayer announced it had signed a collaboration and services agreement with CureVac N.V. to support the further development,
supply, and key territory operations of CureVac´s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate CVnCoV.
To this end, Bayer stated in a press release issued on January 7, 2021; it will contribute its expertise and established infrastructure
in areas such as clinical operations, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, medical information, supply chain performance
as well as support in selected countries.Germany-based CureVac announced in November 2020 that it would ramp up
its European manufacturing network, working with Wacker and Fareva, amongst others.

(January 7, 2021) Death of Florida doctor weeks after receiving COVID vaccine sparks investigation
The death of a Florida doctor, who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke just weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, has triggered an investigation.
It’s not yet clear if Dr. Gregory Michael’s death on Monday was linked to the jab, which he received on Dec. 18.
Michael’s wife, Heidi Neckelmann, said in a Facebook post that her husband sought out treatment just three days after getting inoculated.
At the time he’d grown concerned over a series of dots on his skin that would typically indicate internal bleeding.
She said a team of doctors for weeks worked to bring Michael’s platelet count back up, but were ultimately unsuccessful.

Well blow me down with a feather. Imagine my shock.https://t.co/GkbNnWwlFu

— Charlotte B (@CharlieEmma85) January 7, 2021

Meanwhile in China...

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— وكالة يونيوز للأخبار (@uunionnews) January 8, 2021

(January 9, 2021) False reports of a new ‘U.S. variant’ originated from Dr. Deborah Birx on the task force
Reports of a highly contagious new variant in the United States, published on Friday by multiple news outlets,
are based on speculative statements made by Dr. Deborah Birx and are inaccurate, according to several government officials.
The erroneous report originated at a recent meeting where Dr. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force,
presented graphs of the escalating cases in the country. She suggested to other members of the task force
that a new, more transmissible variant originating in the U.S. might explain the surge, as another variant did in Britain.
Her hypothesis made it into a weekly report sent to state governors.

C.D.C. officials did not agree with her assessment and asked to remove it but were told no,
according to one frustrated C.D.C. official, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

(January 9, 2021) Twitter strikes again: Iran’s supreme leader’s tweets about ‘untrustworthy’ UK & US vaccines deleted
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hit by Twitter’s campaign of high-profile censorship,
as the platform removed his messages blasting coronavirus vaccines from the US and the UK as “completely untrustworthy.”
Khamenei’s remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday.
The Twitter thought police, however, were quick to react, purging the messages it deemed “misleading.”
His allegations that the UK and US want to “contaminate other nations” apparently triggered the purge.

(January 9, 2021) Australia Buys 51 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses From Maryland Pharma
Maryland-based Novavax, Inc. announced that it had executed an Advance Purchase Agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia for 51 million doses of NVX-CoV2373,
Novavax’ COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This follows an agreement in principle that was announced in November 2020.
Novavax stated it is working with Australia’s regulatory agency, the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA),
to obtain product approvals upon demonstrating efficacy in clinical studies. The company aims to deliver initial doses by mid-2021.
As part of the agreement, Australia will have the option to purchase up to an additional 10 million doses.

(January 5, 2021) Houston hospital offers workers $500 to get COVID-19 vaccine
The eight-hospital system's president and CEO, Dr. Marc Boom, told employees in an emailed letter
last week that they can look forward to a $500 bonus as a "thank you for your perseverance throughout a difficult 2020.
" Eligibility criteria to receive the award include getting a COVID-19 vaccination, "
fulfilling our obligation as health care workers to lead the community," he stated.

China Scrubs Critical Wuhan Lab Data; Deletes 300 Studies - Including Research By 'Batwoman' https://t.co/qbBZ1NUbEe

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 10, 2021

Six died in Pfizer late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial

Six people died in Pfizer’s late-stage trial of the COVID-19 vaccine, but the deaths raises no new safety issues or questions about the vaccine.

Two people who received the experimental vaccine had died during the trial and four others who died were on a placebo.

The revelation was made by the US Food and Drug Administration just after Britain became the first country in the world to roll out the vaccine.

https://theindependent.sg/six-died-in-pfizer-late-stage-covid-19-vaccine-trial/

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A Nursing Home Had Zero COVID Deaths. Then, It Vaccinates Residents And The Deaths Begin

Over a period of less than two weeks since December 29, Mulder relates that 24 coronavirus-infected residents at the 300-bed nursing home have died.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/nursing-home-had-zero-covid-deaths-then-it-vaccinates-residents-and-deaths-begin

(January 11, 2021) Tony Blair eyes Covid-19 comeback with secret UK government meetings
Former British prime minister Tony Blair is secretly advising the current British government on its Covid-19 response,
including meetings with Health Secretary Matt Hancock, The Sunday Times reported.
He also spoke to the head of the National Health Service’s Test and Trace programme, Dido Harding, and Steve Bates, a member of the vaccine task force.
Mr Blair served as Labour prime minister for 10 years, leaving a complicated legacy
including introducing a minimum wage and taking the country into the Second Gulf War in Iraq.

(January 11, 2021) eCoronaPass Launches Optimized Software Platform to Facilitate COVID-19 Tests and Vaccinations Nationwide
"The pandemic shook our world last year and has now changed the way we work, learn, and live," says Happy Dhani, CEO of Softbir,
the leader in medical software solutions which includes eCoronaPass.
The platform is built and supported through Amazon Web Services (AWS), making it the most reliable and easily
The locator module allows for patients to find areas nearest to them to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.
With its comprehensive COVID-19 test tracking and automated vaccine reporting, eCoronaPass will give patients peace-of-mind.
eCoronaPass includes administrative prioritization selection technology,
with features including effective patient health-risk stratification and predictive care modules.
One can pinpoint and select which populations will be segmented into different phases of vaccination programs.

(January 11, 2021) Novavax bosses sell $46m worth of stock with Covid-19 vaccine still in late trials
Top executives at US biotechnology company Novavax sold roughly $46m worth of the company's stock
while its Covid-19 vaccine was still undergoing late stage clinical trials.
Chief Executive Stanley Erck and three of his top lieutenants sold the shares in the first two weeks of the year, Reuters reported.
They capitalized on a near 3,000% rally in the share price fueled by investors betting on the success of the shot.

(January 11, 2021) Boehringer Ingelheim targets medical breakthroughs with Google Quantum AI
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) has announced a collaborative agreement with Google Quantum AI (Google),
focusing on researching and implementing cutting-edge use cases for quantum computing
in pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), specifically including molecular dynamics simulations.
Boehringer Ingelheim is the first pharmaceutical company worldwide to join forces with Google
in quantum computing. The partnership is designed for three years
and is co-led by the newly established Quantum Lab of Boehringer Ingelheim.

(January 11, 2021) JPM: Microsoft signs on to Verily, Broad Institute’s Terra open research platform
Verily and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard hope to dramatically boost the reach
of their open-source biomedical research platform through a new partnership with Microsoft.
The scalable Terra platform includes digital tools currently used by over 15,600 researchers,
to analyze and collaborate on data gathered from nearly 2 million study
participants spanning cancer genomics to infectious disease projects.
Terra will work with Microsoft’s Azure services as well as the cloud-based offerings from Verily’s corporate sibling, Google.
Additionally, Microsoft plans to dedicate its own software engineering resources and lend its machine learning
expertise to Terra’s efforts, while also using open application interfaces and internationally recognized modular software components.
Together, Verily, Microsoft and the Broad Institute expect to see the rate of new healthcare data—including
all the information generated from genomic tests, digital scans, biometric signals and electronic health records
to reach dozens of exabytes by 2025, with each being equal to 1 billion gigabytes.

(January 11, 2021) The Pandemic Produced 56 New American Billionaires
56: That’s how many newly minted billionaires the United States gained between mid-March and December 2020, bringing the total number to 659,
according to a report by the Institute of Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, per NBC News.
These individuals have seen their collective net worth increase by more than a trillion dollars during the pandemic so far.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country continues to grapple with high unemployment and small business closures,
amid soaring Covid infections. Last year saw the biggest single-year increase in the U.S. poverty rate of any year since records began in 1960,
with the poverty rate for individuals without a college degree climbing to 22.1% in November.

(January 11, 2021) AMRI Included in BARDA CDMO Network
Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (AMRI), a global provider of advanced contract research, development and manufacturing solutions,
said that its Albuquerque, NM, facility has been approved for inclusion in the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) network.
The network is part of a comprehensive effort by the U.S. government to improve preparedness capabilities.
AMRI’s Albuquerque location includes a large-scale fill and finish facility,
currently supporting COVID-19 vaccine production. Inclusion in the network recognizes AMRI’s pandemic preparedness,
its existing support of COVID-19 vaccine production, experience in government contracting
and its ability to support further BARDA contract work at Albuquerque.

(January 12, 2021) COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan 2.0 Announced
The US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced on January 12, 2021,
that “the COVID-19 vaccine administration in the states has been too narrowly focused.”
As a result, the administration is now asking states to vaccinate people age 65 and over and those under 65 with underlying health conditions
that put them at high risk, Sec. Azar told ABC's “Good Morning America." We’ve already distributed more vaccine than we have health care workers
and people in nursing homes,” Azar said. Sec. Azar indicated the federal government “will deploy teams to support states making mass vaccination efforts if they wish to do so.”

(January 12, 2021) Tessera Therapeutics scores $230M to ramp up 'gene writing' tech to cure disease
Tessera Therapeutics is pioneering “gene writing,” a kind of genetic medicine it hopes will surmount the limitations of gene editing
and gene therapy—and investors have bet more than $230 million on the approach.
At its core, gene writing simply means writing short or long messages into the genome
to treat disease, said Tessera CEO Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Ph.D.
“What that allows is one to be able to cure or prevent a disease from ever happening by writing in the code of DNA,
which of course drives the biology in every single cell in the body,”
he said. Tessera is developing multiple ways to do it.

(August 5, 2020) Blackstone Reaches $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Ancestry.com
Blackstone Group Inc. acquired a majority stake in Ancestry.com Inc., the business known for family history research and DNA testing.
It’s the first acquisition by Blackstone’s largest ever private equity fund.
Silver Lake and Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund GIC Pte have been the majority owners since 2016.
After the deal closes, Blackstone will own about 75% and GIC will still hold about 25% of Ancestry.com,
said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
Based in Lehi, Utah, Ancestry.com has more than 3 million paying subscribers and more than 18 million people in its DNA network.
It sells at-home DNA testing kits to customers, competing with 23andMe Inc.

(January 12, 2021) Westland Insurance Announces Partnership with Blackstone Credit
Westland Insurance Group Ltd. (“Westland”) is pleased to announce that it has entered a partnership with Blackstone Credit (“Blackstone”).
Westland has refinanced its existing debt with a new long-term debt financing led by Blackstone,
which includes a committed and undrawn debt facility for acquisitions.
“We are very excited to be partnering with Blackstone Credit,” said Jamie Lyons, President & Chief Operating Officer of Westland Insurance.
“Through this partnership, we are extremely well-positioned to accelerate our organic and inorganic growth strategy and to accomplish our goal of becoming Canada’s leading insurance brokerage.

There is a Polish article about 4 deaths after vaccination with Pfizer/BionTech vvaccine. So far I didn't find this report on other websites.

Details of the two deaths have been made public. The Uppsala region reported the death of a 97-year-old inmate a day after receiving the vaccine. A similar incident occurred in Kalmar and involved an 85-year-old man with multiple illnesses. He died of heart failure.

In total, 96 adverse events were suspected in 38 vaccinated subjects. Almost half of the adverse effects reported by health services or individuals (42) were classified as "serious". Among them is a case of anaphylactic shock, as well as facial paralysis.

https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2021-01-13/szwecja-cztery-osoby-zmarly-po-przyjeciu-szczepionki-przeciw-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR3dw5BkjNGAiMseBt9m6eLzzj8in1f7ROvqngqm8k3GaZxu8_7JKLe5GpE

IT’S NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR THE PFIZER QUACKCCINE. FROM THE CDC; 3,150 people vaccinated in ONE DAY are “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work” after vaccination. https://t.co/vMf4bTWsax

— ussuricat (@ussuricat1) January 13, 2021

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf