Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Russia lying? I am shocked!

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty-six scientists, most of them working at universities in Italy, have signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the early-stage trial results of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, named “Sputnik-V”.

Addressing the editor of The Lancet, the international peer-reviewed medical journal in which Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute published its early-stage trial results, the scientists said they saw patterns in the data that looked “highly unlikely”.

The letter, published on the personal blog page of one of the signatories, said the Phase I/II trial results data showed multiple participants reporting identical antibody levels.

“On the ground of simple probabilistic evaluations the fact of observing so many data points preserved among different experiments is highly unlikely,” the open letter said.​

Some scientists spot 'unlikely' patterns in Russia vaccine data: letter — Reuters

 

It is possible to open a university safely, but you must be committed in order to do so.

Inside University of Illinois' massive COVID-19 testing operation

 

From signing an open letter to falling out of an open window. What a country.

 

All of this innovation comes at a cost. Implementing UIUC's testing capability, including modifying the veterinary lab for COVID testing, ran about $6 million to $7 million, Jones said. It's an investment for the near future.

"We think this has given us a competitive advantage, time will tell," Jones said. "Testing is going to be with us until the next year, next two, maybe next three -- we don't know."

Basically the cost of a D1 football coach's yearly salary.

 

The thing is that universities can either approach this reasonably and in a businesslike way, or they can be swept up into political posturing. That $6-7m is an investment in being a functional institution, as opposed to being whipsawed by poor decisions allowed to fester uncontrolled.

 

Arkansas Governor announces the end to daily updates. They’ll be done “when needed.”

 

That's tremendous. Committed and capable of conducting your own tests on your own campus. Not through some third-party lab. The testing facility is only a golf-cart ride away from the drop-off points.
There just aren't that many schools that can do this sort of thing.

 

Crumbs.

OSHA Fines Smithfield $13,494 Over Worker Infections, Deaths (2)

 

California State University system extending virtual classes to spring 2021 semester.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article245642250.html

 

Nebraska has decided to go one better on Arkansas, removing most restrictions and pretending it's February again. Never mind their test-positivity rate is still 9%, they have their highest hospitalized count in three months (according to COVID Tracking Project) and they just had their highest one-day death count (15) the other day.
Nebraska to drop almost all state-imposed COVID-19 mandates

 

Remember the good old days when that was the entire reasoning behind restrictions?