Bharat Rakshak

DavidD

Here is ToI item from today: Covid-19: Oxford vaccine may get nod in a few days Everything around AstraZeneca vaccine is *bizarre* and *strangely suspicious*. It is bizarre because very large publicly listed companies like AstraZeneca are very careful about messaging, especially about its reputatio...

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I don’t have a firsthand knowledge / talked with a direct source but there is a lot of chatter that a California group has uncovered a new UK SARSCoV2 variant in US. Not published/officially reported yet but I think as public has a right to know about more infectiously transmissible variants as soo...

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They use the same tried-and-true process as the Chinese vaccine that has a 90+% efficacy, have to think that it's efficacy is ultimately fairly close to that. In any case, prevention of severe disease is what's really important. Mild COVID is at worst like a typical case of the flu.

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I am getting concerned, as this pandemic rages and decimates populations of white people and also Indians (only less so), that this coronavirus may be used as a template for a biological or economic weapon. It seems Chinese populations may have an innate resistance if not immunity to this virus . I...

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Antibodies are easy to test for, but my understanding of viral diseases is that it's primarily the T cell response that grants one immunity. Unfortunately, however, there's no good way to test for T cell immunity. For example, many patients who've received Hep B vaccine or have had Hep B lose their ...

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Large explosion in downtown Nashville. Apparently an RV was parked there and it was broadcasting a message saying there's a bomb inside. The FBI is investigating it as an act of domestic terrorism. It's usually a heavily trafficked area, but it was early morning on Christmas in COVID times so no one...

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It may only mean that Chinese in the west are susceptible to the Wuhan virus for the same reason that Indians travelling to India may get gastroenteritis ie waning immunity. Right, that type of data is not gonna be definitive. I get a week of diarrhea every time I visit China or Vietnam, for exampl...

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-latest-news-cases-area-tier-4-sturgeon-variant-b1777998.html Covid news – live: Tier 4 extended in England as new Kent variant confirmed in Northern Ireland I hope the Chinese will protest against identification of the mutation as the Kent strain. If ...

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The Oxford vaccine is not a mRNA vaccine, and I don't think the Russian one is either. My understanding of the flu vaccine is quite effective against the strains they target, probably at 90+% as well. The issue is that the flu has a lot of antigenic variation (i.e. different strains that require di...

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The Oxford vaccine is not a mRNA vaccine, and I don't think the Russian one is either. My understanding of the flu vaccine is quite effective against the strains they target, probably at 90+% as well. The issue is that the flu has a lot of antigenic variation (i.e. different strains that require dif...

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Note the US News ranking is "Best Public High Schools". Public schools tend to excel in time wasting, taking it easy, and indoctrination to a large measure. Public schools have tried to compensate in the past by offering gifted or magnet programs, to set up separate tracks, however that s...

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^^^Since Jan. 21, 2020 it has been NJ, NY and MA. Other states would really need to be effed up really bad like those 3 as far as public health is concerned. ND and SD don’t have the incomes and many are rural people working in meat processing. Even then, they won’t beat the top 3 Dem controlled $h...

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^^^ False positive for HIV?! Little wonder they abandoned that one. It would scare the public to death and no one would take it. So there would be some basis for the report by Indian scientists of HIV gene sequences being found in this virus? They're unrelated. The Australian vaccines are manufactu...

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Looks like FDA panel voted 17-4 for Vaccine authorization for persons over 16. Have to wait for the full FDA approval. 4 people voted not to authorize. I hope their comments get published. Rather all of them come out and write articles about why they voted the way they did. I second that. I'd love ...

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We currently have 2 PCR tests in my hospital, one called Cepheid can be done within an hour, used when we need the result quickly (e.g. before urgent surgery). Another is called Eppendorf and it takes ~4 hours and it's run 3 times a day. This is general purpose. We also refer people to get tests don...

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^^^ The Unkil-Panda rivalry will play out in many things -- BMs and hypersonics are just a few pieces, look at the rail guns, EMALS, etc. Two things stood out and have far reaching implications. First that there is official, at the highest uniform level, acknowledgement of the success of the medium...

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Cyrano wrote:We have been hearing about vaccine efficiency, is there any data yet on how long the vaccine efficiency lasts ? Or is it too early to tell ?

Not yet, too soon for that.

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...That's enough for just around 22 million people and does not even fully cover healthcare workers and seniors residing in nursing homes. Assuming some inefficiencies in actually vaccinating people (as opposed to having doses in hand) we are probably going to have to wait till the spring or possib...

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The problem is what if EUA is not granted? How did the UK, whose NHS is a lot more bureaucratic, was able to approve Pfizers vaccine but not the US where it was developed? These are valid questions to ask. What exactly is the delay? We know that petiotin for EUA was filed at least a week back. Pfiz...

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We certainly have more PPEs here in CA. That, at least for now, is not an issue. Given the less aggressive use of ventilators, that's also not an issue. As for beds, that was never really an issue. You can make beds pretty easily, same with making PPEs and ventilators, but you can't surge medical st...

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I have constantly mentioned on this thread, that the trump card for us is: Taiwan. Chini adventure on the border has opened that door. Apple may shift some of the production out of China, but it is the Taiwanese gov, which will push hard on companies like Foxconn to move out of China, for sake of s...

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Most vaccine makers have started production long before testing are finished, so not really surprising to hear AstraZeneca has already produced 40 million doses.

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The Oxford vaccine I think only requires -8C for storage, should be easily done by local pharmacies. The Pfizer one requires something closer to -80C, which is much tougher.

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Cyrano wrote:Pfizer's vaccine announcement seems to be timed wrt its CEO selling shares than Trump's re-election chances.

Some shenannigans was going on. They only needed to have 32 pts catch COVID to publish their preliminary results, but they waited until they got more than twice the pts.

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BEVs are already viable options for passenger vehicles, hard to see H2 unseat them there. The main advantage of H2 is its higher energy density, so for purposes that require it, e.g. truck transportation, perhaps propeller aircrafts and ships in the future, that can be used. Those uses constitute a ...

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I don't know how you're doing your math, but the 3.3 M / 4.3m eligible voters is 76%, a very high turnout, but not unbelievable. We knew turnout was gonna be high, a few states even had more votes submitted before the election day than the total in 2016. I see that you simply sidestepped the questi...

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The answer is easy, Michigan needs to update its website, and your numbers for Wisconsin is wrong. Turnout was about 71% state-wide as it's calculated by votes counted / eligible voters. You're using registered voter as of 11/1 as the denominator instead of eligible voters. This is the turnout comp...

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How do i interpret this ? How did MI call the election in favor of Biden when their own site has Trump leading ? https://mielections.us/election/results/2020GEN_CENR.html Sooraj, in case of WI, they allow election day registration but even then 89.9% of the eligible voters seem to have voted in the...

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It looks like the election will end up with Biden beating Trump by the smallest of margins 270-268 , based on current trends. Trump is currently 214. If he takes Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, he makes 268 Biden takes Nevada for 6 more for 270 In that case I don't see it ending there. Du...

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What took so long? Perhaps some thought that it's not a good idea to antagonize the world's 2nd largest economy while you're trying to develop? Imagine if China for the past 40 years decided to curb Japanese investment and imports due to territorial disputes, or rejected Taiwan for the paused Civil...

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Tightening the screws on Chini guys......... This also begs same repeatedly asked questions....... Why it took so Long ? & Why it was being ignored in first place to begin with ?? India issues quality control order for some leather goods to restrict cheap imports By Kirtika Suneja, ET Bureau La...

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Gurus, can the china virus be transmitted via people who have seen the last of their symptoms 3+ weeks back? My mother met some of our neighbours in the parking lot of the apartment complex, about 3weeks after their quarantine ended (so 5 weeks or so after the appearance of symptoms and testing pos...

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As for changing names, it's just a name. I don't know if it's just Chinese culture or if it's a sequela of the Cultural Revolution, but in general Chinese don't hold anything as sacred. Using a Western name in a Western country is simply logical. Everyone can spell it, you don't have to answer &quo...

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I see, I didn't hear about that, but that's not likely to be an issue. I mean, even the US and Canada still has actual border disputes. I foresee China and Russia continue to become increasingly aligned in the short to medium term. As for a previous poster noting strategic goals running counter to o...

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What's the motivation for each side to escalate tensions there? I feel that my analysis of potential Chinese motivations is reasonably thorough and I couldn't find a compelling reason for China to do so. Sorry, but your analysis doesn't work out. India is keeping what belongs to it. In fact, despit...

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You guys bring up some great points. I obviously can't reply to everyone, but I think I can sum up my stance at this point. Reading through your replies, and doing some readings based on them, I admit that I had the wrong impression of Indian domestic politics, which in turn made the premise of my h...

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I have read some of your earlier posts and you sounded fairly intelligent. What happened here? And according to him, he is actually a doc in NYC area. Imagine a TYTA having all the unfiltered info in the world about China and still making these glaringly unsound allegations, the plight of a SYTA ch...

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Interesting thought indeed. David ji, India has a choice of four or five weaker neighbors to pick fights with and deflect domestic attention. So Modi picked the strongest budding superpower neighbor and did "aggression" against it, at a time when that neighbor has a roaring economy and In...

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If you can't figure out why China "did" it, then maybe your premise is wrong. I know it's an Indian board, but what if India is the aggressor here? What would be India's motive? Many here often point toward the possibility of the CCP starting external troubles to deflect from internal issu...

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any RCT in favour of Remdesivir ? ^ By the time RECOVERY trial came pandemic was on way out. Hence usefulness of dexamethasone could not be established , now with return of pandemic it will hopefully be part of treatment plan. https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-w...

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