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The UK RECOVERY trial investigators recently disclosed that Regeneron’s REGEN-COV, a pair of monoclonal antibodies, actually reduced the risk of death by 20% in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who failed to sustain their own immune response. According to the company’s press release, this monoclonal antibody cocktail represents the first antibody treatment that improved survival in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The company will not only share this data with regulatory authorities immediately but will also seek to expand its U.S. EUA to include appropriate hospitalized patients.TrialSite provides a brief summary breakdown of this most recent information generated by the UK RECOVERY...

A Springfield, Ohio man wounded in a shooting called 911 for help, but was run over by a police officer as he lay bleeding in the street late Sunday night. Eric Cole, 42, was flown from the scene to a hospital where he died after midnight Monday, according to police. The Ohio State Patrol is investigating the incident, and Cole’s cause of death is pending results of an autopsy “This was an accident,” Springfield Police Chief Lee Graf said during a /news conference Wednesday, flanked by city leaders. “Doesn’t mean it’s OK, but it is an accident.”

More than 350 doctors and medical workers have caught Covid-19 in Indonesia despite being vaccinated with Sinovac, officials said, as concerns grow about the efficacy of some vaccines against more infectious variants. Most of the workers were asymptomatic and self-isolating at home, said Badai Ismoyo, head of the health office in the district of Kudus in central Java, but dozens have been hospitalized with high fevers and falling oxygen-saturation levels. Kudus, which has about 5,000 healthcare workers, is battling an outbreak believed to be driven by the more transmissible Delta variant, which has raised its bed occupancy rates above 90%....

The week in whoppers: Biden’s fake facts, Fauci’s revisionism and more Joe Biden’s a Putin-like polarizer: Devine Putin given free pass to knock US as Biden lets Russian strongman brief reporters alone Widower of woman killed in Capitol riot suing for name of cop who shot her A former NYPD cop charged in the US Capitol riot brutally attacked a police officer with a metal flagpole hoisting a Marine Corps banner, new video shows. The intense footage, first obtained Thursday by CNN, shows Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD cop and Marine veteran, launching a hate-filled tirade toward a Metropolitan Police...

The so-called Covid variants, officially designated as mutations, are being used to extend the British lockdown. However, Dr. Luc Montagnier, a Nobel laureate and former director of the Retrovirology Lab at the Pasteur Institute reports that in fact it is the vaccinations that are producing the variants.Dr. Montagnier says that an enormous mistake, an unacceptable mistake, a scientific and medical error has been made. The Covid vaccines are causing new variants that perpetuate the problem.Dr. Montagnier said that epidemiologists know but are silent about the phenomenon, known as “Antibody-Dependent Enhancement” (ADE). Prof. Montagnier explained that the trend is happening in...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he welcomed United States President Joe Biden's tough messaging when he met Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kuleba told Reuters in a comment. Related: Putin is still ready to meet with Zelensky, there are no concrete steps yet, - Peskov “Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday he welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's tough messaging when he met President Vladimir Putin this week and said now was the time to make Russia withdraw from Ukraine,” the statement says. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister also said that the Presidents of the United States and Russia did...

On Thursday Joe Biden, a lifelong racist, signed a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday.

The US government’s former ethics chief is slamming the Biden administration for a potentially “illegal” nepotism spree, saying that it “royally sucks” and is “a real ‘f— you'” to ethical governance.Walter Shaub, director of the US Office of Government Ethics from 2013 to 2017, gained fame for frequently faulting the Trump administration, but turned his fire on President Biden on Friday.

Ramallah government spokesman Ibrahim Melchem: "Shatya instructs the health minister to cancel the agreement and return the vaccine doses it received from the occupation"

Former President Donald Trump endorsed the primary opponent to Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Friday, declaring his support for Kelly Tshibaka Alaska's former commissioner of administration. "Lisa Murkowski is bad for Alaska. Her vote to confirm Biden’s Interior Secretary was a vote to kill long sought for, and approved, ANWR, and Alaska jobs," Trump said in a statement. "Murkowski has got to go! Kelly Tshibaka is the candidate who can beat Murkowski—and she will. Kelly is a fighter who stands for Alaska values and America First. She is MAGA all the way, pro-energy, strong on the Border, tough on Crime and...

The United States is devoting $3.2 billion to advance development of antiviral pills for COVID-19, officials said Thursday. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, announced the investment during a White House briefing as part of a new “antiviral program for pandemics” to develop drugs to address symptoms caused by potentially dangerous viruses like the coronavirus. The pills, which would be used to minimize symptoms after infection, are in development and could begin arriving by year’s end, pending the completion of clinical trials.

The Biden White House froze $100 million in military aid to Ukraine as Joe Biden prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva According to Politico, the Biden Admin ‘temporarily’ halted a military aid package to Ukraine that would include lethal weapons such as short-range air defense systems, small arms and anti-tank weapons as Russia amassed troops on the border.

Independent MP Derek Sloan holds a news conference on Parliament Hill to raise concerns about the alleged censorship of doctors and scientists as well as medical information related to vaccines. Good info from Dr. Byram Bridle about evidence covid vaccines are not working as planned and info about his changed opinion of Ivermectin based on new data.

The picture painted is one of working-class destruction.. Founding father and the second president of the United States John Adams once said that “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” What he meant was that objective, raw numbers don’t lie—and this remains true hundreds of years later. We just got yet another example. A new data analysis from Harvard University, Brown University, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation calculates how different employment levels have been impacted during the pandemic...

Former Vice President Mike Pence was heckled with calls of “traitor” at a conservative conference Friday as he continues to draw criticism from members of the Republican base for his role in Congress’s certification of President Biden's Electoral College victory. “It is great to be back with so many patriots dedicated to faith and freedom and the road to the majority,” Pence said to applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition summit before the heckling began. “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Pence continued, as the hecklers in the audience began to grow louder, yelling...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said officials remain unsure of how long vaccines will provide protection from the Chinese coronavirus. When asked about how long virus protection lasts, the White House chief medical adviser told NPR’s Morning Edition, “We don’t know for sure.” “We certainly know that it’s several months up to a year, because people who have been vaccinated early on, the original people who were vaccinated, seemed to continue to have protection,” Fauci said

Who is this man? On the eve of the January 6th protests, a middle aged man in a MAGA hat showed up, defended Antifa and told the crowd they needed to “go into the Capitol” on Jan. 6. This was the night before the Trump rally of a million patriots. This was the day before VP Mike Pence stabbed President Trump in the back and approved the fraudulent 2020 election results. The man’s name is Ray Epps from Queen Creek, Arizona. He did an interview with reporters the night of January 5th after urging the crowd to enter the US...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose city is suffering from homelessness, economic disruption, and drought, launched a nationwide commission on slavery reparations on Friday, Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE). Garcetti appeared with several urban mayors via streaming video as the federal government observed Juneteenth for the first time as a public holiday (since June 19 is on Saturday this year).

A local resident in the city of Sapporo, which is due to host the Olympic Marathon and Olympic Race Walking events at this summer's Tokyo Games, first reported sighting a bear on a road in the early hours of the morning. Soon after, Hokkaido police tweeted they were on the lookout for the bear, writing that since the sighting, many others had reported seeing the bear and that people had been injured. Local police said the bear attacked three men, one of whom was seriously injured, and a woman in her 80s, according to NHK. At around 11 a.m., the...

The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church" following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly. The action to move forward passed with 168 votes in favor and 55 votes against it. There were six abstentions. The results, announced June 18, allows the bishops' Committee on Doctrine to draft the document and present it for discussion when the bishops reconvene in person in November. For more than two hours June 17, 43 bishops shared their views on whether such a...