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The risk of suffering a breakthrough COVID-19 infection with the delta variant after being fully vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine may be much lower than the risk for those who received the Pfizer vaccine, according to a new Mayo Clinic study that is awaiting a full review. The study found that in July in Florida, where COVID cases are at an all-time high and the delta variant is prevalent, the risk of a breakthrough case was 60% lower for Moderna recipients as compared to Pfizer recipients.

One of Mike Lindell’s cyber experts bailed on the China hack theory earlier this week and spoke with the media. Why now? Why would he wait until the week of the symposium to bail? Josh Merrritt, aka “Spyder” spoke to the media this week: The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate. TRENDING: Mike Lindell Opens Thursday Cyber Symposium with SHOCKING Developments: Another Home Raided, Credible Threats, Conference Infiltrated Mr. Lindell said he had...

At the beginning of the week, we told readers the dog days of summer have finally arrived with above-average temperatures for most of the country. By late Thursday, watch/warning/advisory alerts for dangerous heat extended to nearly 200 million Americans as multiple heat domes scorch the Pacific Northwest, Central states, and East Coast. “Dangerous heat and humidity in the Northwest, Northeast, and central portions of the CONUS have prompted Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories. Severe thunderstorms will impact the areas from the Midwest into the Great Lakes through Thursday,” the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote on its website.“Around 195 million...

Background: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has a wide range of pathophysiological effects. Curcumin, an active constituent of Curcuma longa (turmeric), has several properties, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, anti-thrombotic, and anti-proliferative effects, which make it a promising candidate for the symptomatic treatment of COVID-19. Objective: We aimed to determine the effects of curcumin administered with piperine (to optimize absorption) on symptoms in patients with COVID-19 in a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial at a 30-bed dedicated COVID Health Center (DCHC) in Maharashtra, India. Methods: In addition to conventional COVID-19 treatment, patients in the control group received a dose of probiotics twice a day,...

Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday in a disclosure that was more than a year overdue that his wife in February 2020 bought up to $15,000 worth of shares in Gilead, a biotech company that brought to market the first drug designed to treat COVID-19. Paul’s mandatory filing with the Senate shows that his wife purchased between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of Gilead stock on Feb. 26, 2020. Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir became the first COVID-19 specific treatment to win an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration less that three months after the purchase in May 2020.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its list of riskiest countries for travel due to growing pandemic waves associated with SARS-CoV-2 and variants of interest such as the Delta variant. Interestingly, a recent review of this list reveals most of the countries ranked high on the Johns Hopkins list of the most vaccinated continue to be categorized by the CDC as ‘high’ or ‘very high’ in association with the risk of travel due to COVID-19. TrialSite took an independent look at the data and can verify that the opposite of what was to be expected...

The chance of asteroid Bennu colliding with Earth by the year 2300 CE is a little higher than we thought. But you don't need to whip out your asteroid strike survival handbook just yet. According to new calculations based on data gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which orbited and sampled the asteroid, the probability of Bennu colliding with our home planet in that timeframe is just 0.057 percent – or one chance in 1,750. The date we have to worry about the most is over 150 years away – 24 September 2182. On that date, Bennu will have a 0.037...

I know Thanksgiving is a ways off but I realized that there is so much for which we can thank Biden voters. Each passing day brings us more. Let us list the items of our gratitude. Inflation jumped a 5% last month Thank you, Biden voters. Biden says it's temporary. You know, like 15 days to flatten the curve. Biden is downplaying inflation, probably because it doesn't affect him or Hunter. Tyson already raised the price of pork by 39 percent in the last quarter while beef went up 11 percent and chicken prices increased 15 percent. Thanks, Biden...

Here is a truly smart Millennial: Vivek Ramaswamy, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an A.B. in biology and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Credentialed in addition to competent: founder of Campus Venture Network, a technology company acquired in 2009 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, partner at QVT Financial where he managed the firm's biotech portfolio, and founder of the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences where he served as CEO until this year when he stepped aside and now serves as executive chairman. Author of just released Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Yosmar Sanguino says she struggles to put food on the table for her two daughters and three grandchildren in a low-income neighborhood of Venezuela’s capital. She often whips up arepas — traditional flat, round corn patties — with butter and cheese. But it’s hard to afford even those few ingredients. “There is food, but the money is lacking. Because if you buy one thing, you can’t buy the other,” she said. “If you buy butter, you can’t buy cheese. Or if you buy the cheese, you can’t buy the butter.”

This photo and video were taken outside the DC jail, where some protestors from January 6th are still being held under, what I consider, inhumane conditions. The man I’m with is Karl Dresch, one of the protestors who was just released yesterday after six months in prison for a crime that, honestly, doesn’t even sound like a crime. After months of speculation about the conditions of the prisoners behind those walls, Karl was kind enough to share his experience in the DC jail with me just minutes after being released. I was amazed at his lack of anger at the...

Don’t think of this as a bad sign, it’s exactly what’s expected from an effective but imperfect jabA MailOnline headline on 13 June read: “Study shows 29% of the 42 people who have died after catching the new strain had BOTH vaccinations.” In Public Health England’s technical briefing on 25 June, that figure had risen to 43% (50 of 117), with the majority (60%) having received at least one dose.It could sound worrying that the majority of people dying in England with the now-dominant Delta (B.1.617.2) variant have been vaccinated., Does this mean the vaccines are ineffective? Far from it!...

Democrats are seeing a calamity befalling them in 2022. Currently, they are rushing to push through two pork-laden spending bills through Congress before they lose their powers to steal. Notice that though Trump made infrastructure spending a priority, he could never get enough Democrats interested enough in it to go along with his agenda. Why? Well, like with COVID relief, which Democrats stalled until Trump was out of the way so they could load the bills up with unrelated waste that largely goes right back into their pockets, they wanted to have control over the spending to load it up...

Surgical masks were designed to keep medical personnel from inadvertently infecting patients’ wounds, not to prevent the spread of viruses. Public-health officials’ advice in the early days of Covid-19 was consistent with that understanding. Then, on April 3, 2020, Adams announced that the CDC was changing its guidance and that the general public should hereafter wear masks whenever sufficient social distancing could not be maintained. Fast-forward 15 months. Rand Paul has been suspended from YouTube for a week for saying, “Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work.” Many cities across the country, following new CDC guidance...

@RepMattGaetz The American people were lied to for decades about Afghanistan by warmongers in both political parties. Video clip...

VIDEODuring Gavin Newsom's infamous unhinged recall rage rant in his interview with the Sacramento Bee editorial board , he also tried but hilariously failed to channel Joe Friday of Dragnet while also embracing a woke criminal justice system. Sorry, Governor, but the two just don't mix. Oh, and there would never be an effort to recall Joe Friday from the police force since he was CONSISTENTLY on the side of REAL justice.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday went after Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) for their moves to ban local school boards from imposing mask mandates on students as the country deals with the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Scarborough called the GOP governors “clowns” for “trying to consolidate power in a centralized state.” He said what the two leaders are doing is “the antithesis of being conservative.”

Perhaps because of its incredibly brave troops in WWI and WWII, not to mention the Crocodile Dundee films, Australia shared with America a reputation for being a wild and free place. That's not so anymore. New South Wales, home to Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has gone so overboard with COVID hysteria that the state is under martial law, and people are not only being told not to talk to each other anymore, but also being urged to spy and report on scofflaw neighbors. North Korea couldn't have done it better. And all this is happening in a state...

Prior to the second half of the 20th century, racism was a genuine problem in America. However, the civil rights movement of the 1960s focused attention on the issue. The peaceful protests of Martin Luther King provided clarity of message and the moral high ground. We made great progress. Prejudice against people of color became socially unacceptable. It became taboo -- and that was a good thing. Unfortunately, within few short years, leftists highjacked the movement. Just as they do with everything, they perverted it. Consistent with their “never let a crisis (or opportunity) go to waste” mentality, they turned...

WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that President Biden won’t release visitor logs from his Delaware residences, despite making 17 trips home in six months. The decision comes despite the Biden administration’s claim to “restore transparency and trust in government” — including with the resumption of limited release of White House visitor logs. “I can confirm we are not going to be providing information about the comings and goings of the president’s grandchildren or people visiting him in Delaware,” Psaki said at her daily press briefing in response to a question from The Post about whether...