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Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for mRNA-1345, its investigational single-dose mRNA vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults older than 60 years of age. “We are pursuing an mRNA RSV vaccine to protect the most vulnerable populations – young children and older adults,” said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. “We are studying mRNA-1345 in these populations in an ongoing clinical trial and we look forward to sharing data when available. The Fast Track...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Raiders are the first team in the National Football league to implement a vaccine policy for fans during home games. Seeing the Silver and Black faithful in person has been a long time coming for Raider Nation, however it’s a fan base now split with the new vaccine mandate at Allegiant Stadium this season. "I completely agree with that. I'm vaccinated and I'm ready to get in," Raiders fan Louis Zabala said. Some season ticket holders said the vaccine is choice. “Not being vaccinated is a choice. I don’t see why the government...

A top official at Facebook laid out actions the social network had taken to contain the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines by 12 prominent users Wednesday, but denied claims by the White House that the so-called “disinformation dozen” were responsible for the majority of all such falsehoods. “In recent months, there has been a debate about whether the global problem of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be solved simply by removing 12 people from social media platforms,” Facebook Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a statement. “People who have advanced this narrative contend that these 12 people...

With the U.S. in the grips of a frightening surge of coronavirus cases, many parents are understandably eager to know when the COVID-19 vaccine will finally be available for children under 12. This age group accounts for about 50 million Americans and currently none of them qualify for a shot. But scientists are racing to figure out how one of the COVID-19 vaccines currently available for adults could be given to this age group. Pfizer and Moderna are both running large pediatric trials to study the effectiveness and safety of using their COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for children under 12...

Twenty years ago, the military-industrial complex rushed the United States into a pair of wars that cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives — only to end in the abject humiliation of American power in Kabul over the past few days. Meanwhile, defense contractors, who had no financial incentive to properly train an Afghan military to operate independently of them, made off handsomely along the way. Today, a new alliance of big government and big business seeks to profiteer from the domestic culture war. I call it the woke-industrial complex. The consequences could be even more devastating...

Trump's good policies have been replaced by policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security A little less than a year ago, a significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter feed is void of President Trump's tweets. But the price was high. Gone are the good policies that drove the Trump economy and made the world a safer place. In their place are policies antithetical to prosperity, freedom and security. You traded energy efficiency for dependency on the Middle East. Whereas a year ago you enjoyed inexpensive gas, high paying...

... Pressure continued to mount as other countries, including France and Israel, approved boosters for those who are immunosuppressed. Without official action, patients have also taken matters into their own hands. The CDC estimated that more than 1 million people who have received the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine have gone back for an unauthorized booster shot. The estimated 1.1 million, included in an internal CDC briefing document reviewed by ABC News, likely is an undercount because although it counts Moderna and Pfizer shot recipients, it ignores people who may have received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine but got another...

... 'So this is not only the pandemic of the unvaccinated in the U.S., it's a pandemic of the young now.' He added: 'It is not just a huge proportion of patients admitted to the ICU with COVID, it is also a much younger demographic than we've seen previously.' 'And again, I think this is another myth that young people don't get very sick. And that is clearly not the case, particularly with Delta wave.'...

In the past week, Democrat governors and other Democrat Party elected officials throughout the country have launched a coordinated effort to threaten Americans’ economic security by issuing hasty “do what we say or your job gets it” Covid diktats. Democrats claimed these mandates were in the name of science to combat the virulent Delta variant — the latest of probably several versions — of Covid... ... The rubber is meeting the road, folks. We have crossed the rubicon. This is it. Ben Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty...

Litigating Forced Vaccination / Vaccine "Mandates" - What you Need to Know - Viva & Barnes HIGHLIGHT

San Francisco announced Thursday it will become the first major U.S. city to enforce proof of full vaccination for entry to restaurants, gyms and other indoor venues, as it aims to curb a new wave of COVID infections. San Francisco, which launches its mandate on August 20, is the third major city to pass a sweeping vaccine requirement for indoor businesses behind New York and Los Angeles, which only require proof of one vaccination dose. 'Vaccines are our way out of the pandemic, and our way back to a life where we can be together safely,' San Francisco Mayor London...

Achieving herd immunity with Covid vaccines when the highly infectious delta variant is spreading is “not a possibility,” a leading epidemiologist said. Experts agree on several reasons why such a goal — where overall immunity in a population is reached and the spread of the virus is stopped — is not likely. Sir Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told British lawmakers Tuesday that as Covid vaccines did not stop the spread of the virus entirely — with vaccinated people still able to be infected and transmit the virus — the idea of achieving herd immunity was “mythical.”...

...”The variant has undeniably changed the terms of our engagement with this pandemic,” Kafoury said at a news conference Monday, where she was joined by public health officials, Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and leaders of local health care systems. “We know masks work,” she said. “They are tried and true, they are affordable and they’re an effective way to limit the spread of this virus and all its variants. Until enough of us are vaccinated all across Multnomah County, masks remain one of the best strategies to keep each other as safe as possible.”...

After analyzing data from a July 2021 Provincetown, Massachusetts COVID-19 outbreak where 74 percent of those infected and diagnosed were fully vaccinated,1 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last month that vaccinated individuals can become infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and transmit it to others.2 Expressing “alarm” at this new information, the government agency in charge of protecting the public health doubled down on imperatives for a return to masking, including for the vaccinated, and more vaccination.3 Had the CDC and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) been more transparent with the public from the beginning about...

...“The amount of the economy that’s been controlled by the central bankers has been growing,” said Fitts. “But now what they are doing is part of a creeping financial coup d’état …” Fitts pointed to an October 2020 video in which Agustín Carstens, general manager of the Bank of International Settlements, discussed how a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), or a digital dollar, would allow banksters to track all financial transactions. Carstens said: “In cash, we don’t know who is using a $100 bill today. A key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control...

A healthy person with a natural immunity might be a happy person—but to a 2021 biotech entrepreneur, who views the human body as a market to dominate, he is a sheer insult. From the standpoint of that entrepreneur, replacing the default natural immunity of the past millions years with a fully artificial tool that requires a “subscription” throughout one’s entire lifetime (see “variants” and “boosters”) is desirable. Replacing the default natural immunity with an artificial tool is a very successful case of creating a brand new market (“artificial immunity market”) out of air. A life-long subscription to artificial immunity, with...

There is also a third possible problem which was raised by French virologist and Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier, M.D. in May. In an interview with Pierre Barnérias of Hold-Up Media, Dr. Montagnier said he believed that the mass vaccination programs for COVID may actually be causing SARS-CoV-2 mutations like the Delta variant and, thus, prolonging the pandemic. Montagnier explained that in each country that undertakes a mass vaccination campaign, “the curve of vaccinations is followed by the curve of deaths.” He said that the COVID vaccines create antibodies that force the virus to “find another solution” or “die,” adding that...

Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, said, “In some sense, vaccination is now about personal protection — protecting oneself against severe disease. Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections.”

Mask-free Sweden is approaching zero Covid deaths per day while the country's chief epidemiologist has swatted away fears over the Delta variant's infectiousness. In the last two weeks, Sweden has recorded an average of 0.6 Covid deaths per day, this compares with 74 fatalities in the UK and 329 deaths in US per day over the same period. Although it has the highest per capita death toll of its Scandinavian neighbours, Sweden has kept its economy afloat throughout the pandemic with its reluctance to enforce tough social distancing rules or lockdowns.

(Flashback Fauci: pre-vaccine truths )... At least four candidates are near the finish line in the U.S. coronavirus vaccine race, but how well they will work remains a question. A key point to note, however, is that the vaccine isn’t an end-all solution to the pandemic. That’s in large part because any inoculations developed now are focused on simply preventing symptoms from arising, rather than blocking out the virus altogether. The latter goal is a secondary endpoint, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “The primary thing you want to do is...