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The Department of Provocations
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Breaking: US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of Colonial Pipeline. DOJ today is expected to announce details of the operation led by the FBI. via @evanperez
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Vaccines are vanquishing the virus in the US. But unfortunately, that's not the case globally. As long as Covid is spreading anywhere, it's a risk everywhere—of more dangerous variants, interruptions to trade and travel, and the possibility of instability.
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And I have to clarify myself a bit: this is a small study, young people, 8 weeks apart, good immunogenicity and no untoward seeming side effects: this, with Spanish data, animal data, is supportive. The larger RCT will be hugely useful to confirm.
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🔥🔥Astra Zeneca then Pfizer switch vaccine strategy looks GOOD.
I think enough data to say to AZ recipients that they should get a Pfizer boost. Preprint data but controlled not compared with past group, immune response seems better, side effects same. medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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NEW - The National Advisory Community on Immunizations is recommending either a mRna vaccine or AstraZeneca as second dose for those who received Astra as a first dose, giving approval to mix and matching. #bcpoli
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Without a #January6thCommission, Republicans will attack this country again. RT if you agree.
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Ivanka Trump In A Fog In Deposition About Role Of Investigated Top Trump Executive.
After working for years in the Trump Organization, she apparently couldn’t recall Allen Weisselberg has been the company’s chief financial officer for decades.
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2020 was the warm up. The GOP wants to try it again.
We need to break them as a party in 2022. No mercy. They cannot be allowed to take power again.
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(G)O 🇨🇦!
Despite a later start, Canada has now exceeded the US for 1st dose vaccinations and is about to cross for fewer hospitalizations, population-adjusted
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The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will not serve prison time under a deal with federal prosecutors. apne.ws/EIq2hnl
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“Giuliani and Toensing are lawyers, to be sure,” prosecutors wrote. “But this Court has found probable cause that their devices and accounts contain evidence of specified federal crimes.”
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5) Although businesses and politicians say they trust Americans to be honest, experts on human behavior aren't so sure.
Michael McCullough, a psychology professor at the UC San Diego, said the new guidance will enable unvaccinated people to flout rules with "impunity."
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This is only fantastic news for global vaccine equity. Any vaccine can be administered as part of covax
EMA has changed the recommended storage conditions for Pfizer vaccine. Instead of 5 days the thawed, unopened vials can now be stored in a normal fridge for a month. 👏
ema.europa.eu/en/news/more-f…
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Just heard that it only costs $3 per dose for Pfizer and Moderna to make their COVID vaccine. But they sell it for $15-40 to the world.
Given the amount of publicly funded research that went into development of these vaccines, & the current crisis, this is unacceptable.
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Pfizer & Moderna mRNA vaccines are effective against multiple SARSCoV2 variants, including the B.1.617 & B.1.618, 2 variants underlying the surge in India. The research, while not yet peer-reviewed, was conducted at NYU School of Medicine in New York City medicalxpress.com/news/2021-…
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Some fascinating new data on another deadly pandemic:
Researchers have sequenced a full and two partial genomes of the 1918 flu from lung tissue in a museum collection in Berlin.
Story here, thread to come:
sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/…
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Rake the forests. Nuke the hurricanes. Arm teachers. Buy Greenland. Stare at an eclipse. Waterbomb a cathedral. Ingest disinfectant. Doctor a weather map. Hype a false drug. Gas peaceful protestors. Ignore Russian bounties. Incite riots. Lose the Senate. THIS is who they follow.
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Your health is in your hands. If you are unvaccinated, please get vaccinated as soon as you can to decrease your risk to #COVID19. If you choose not to be vaccinated, continue to wear a mask and practice all mitigation strategies to protect yourself from the virus.
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Six of 25 AR-15 rifles missing from @MiamiPD have been recovered; the other 19, believed to be in possession of police officers, will be reported stolen on Monday #BecauseMiami #CafecitoTalk #MiamiTech miami.cbslocal.com/2021/05/1…
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To sum up: it's possible that if the Indian variant is moderately more transmissible than B.1.1.7, we may need to keep some light-touch measures in place slightly longer than planned. That doesn't derail summer in my book.
