Container ship PEGASUS J
This is one of the ships I watch going between Port Everglades, Porto Cortes, Honduras; and Puerto Barrios Guatemala.
Listed destination is Antwerp, Belgium. I've never seen her makes this voyage before
These ports are normal for the vessel, screencap from the 7th
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ICYMI: "Operation Warp Speed Slowly Gets Its Due"
Operation Warp Speed Slowly Gets Its Due
The program’s premature abandonment left the country unprepared for the Delta and Omicron Covid waves.
By Allysia Finley
Jan. 31, 2022 1:37 pm ET
The Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed delivered three Covid-19 vaccines in record time. Yet liberals are giving the program its due only now, amid President Biden’s Covid-19 stumbles. Some, including former Biden adviser Ezekiel Emanuel, are even calling for another Operation Warp Speed to boost therapies. Operation Warp Speed also delivered the two monoclonal antibody treatments. More such treatments would have been available this winter had the Biden team not abandoned the program
Early in the pandemic, the government struggled to persuade drugmakers to invest in vaccines and therapies. Many companies lost money during previous public-health emergencies when treatments they developed turned out not to be needed. “I’m not like a drug company fan, but there’s no question that a lot of them lost a lot of money trying to produce an Ebola vaccine,” said Ron Klain, now White House chief of staff, in February 2020.
Operation Warp Speed shifted the financial risk to government by placing orders for vaccines and therapies before they were authorized by the Food and Drug Administration or even shown to be effective. This encouraged pharmaceutical companies to expand manufacturing capacity so vaccines and therapies were ready to be distributed once they had the FDA’s green light.
Three Operation Warp Speed leaders explained the strategy in a September 2020 commentary for the New England Journal of Medicine. “Predicting drug performance in a new disease is difficult,” Moncef Slaoui, Shannon E. Greene and Janet Woodcock wrote. “Many candidates may fail to demonstrate efficacy or have safety problems. It’s necessary, however, to take a financial risk early to scale up manufacturing in order to have drug supplies on hand if the results are positive. If we wait for clinical trial readouts before initiating large-scale manufacturing, developing an adequate supply could take months or years.”
In July 2020, Operation Warp Speed announced a $450 million manufacturing and supply agreement with Regeneron for up to 300,000 doses of its experimental monoclonal antibody. A few months later, it ordered 300,000 doses of Eli Lilly’s experimental antibody. The FDA granted emergency-use authorization to both treatments in November 2020.
Supply of both monoclonals exceeded demand last winter because many people were unaware of the treatments. Still, during the final two months of the Trump presidency, Operation Warp Speed ordered another 1.25 million doses of Regeneron’s and 650,000 of Eli Lilly’s antibody treatments, leaving the Biden administration well supplied.
When the Biden team took over, they dismissed Mr. Slaoui, announced they were “phasing in a new structure,” and retired the Operation Warp Speed name. Cases and hospitalizations fell as vaccines rolled out. President Biden prematurely declared success last Fourth of July and failed to prepare for another wave by stockpiling treatments and investing in new ones.
More:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/operation-warp-speed-slowly-gets-its-due-covid-deaths-vaccine-omicron-monoclonal-antibodies-biden-11643646972
I have an idea why the tanker is still up
Gotta amphib hugging the coast near Pendleton right now
F-22 was too rusty and wouldn't start
USNS BOB HOPE (the one that loaded all the Army equipment in San Diego) is out of Pearl Harbor and headed west
U.S. Exporting Every Molecule of LNG Possible
Bloomberg
February 12, 2022
By Sergio Chapa, Feb 12, 2022 (Bloomberg) –Tankers are docked or loading at all seven U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals for the first time, marking a small piece of industry history and setting up record flows to the plants amid high prices and tensions in Europe.
The Greek-flagged tanker Yiannis is docked at Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana, which remains under construction but has been given permission by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to send out cargoes during the export terminal’s startup process. The Saturday afternoon arrival of LNGships Manhattan at Kinder Morgan’s Elba Island LNG plant in Georgia, marked loadings at the other six U.S. LNG export terminals.
Although the tankers will only remain docked at the same time for less than a day, demand from their loadings helped set a record 13.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas flows to U.S. LNG export terminals on Saturday. Once Calcasieu Pass LNG is in full service, the seven U.S. LNG export terminals will be able to draw as much as 13.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, solidifying America’s lead over Qatar and Australia as the world’s top supplier of the superchilled power plant fuel, figures from U.S. Energy Information Administration show.
Out of the roughly five dozen U.S. LNG cargoes on the water, more than two-thirds are headed to Europe where low winter inventories and tensions between Russia and Ukraine have sent natural gas prices on the continent soaring to more six times the U.S. benchmark Henry Hub.
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-exporting-every-molecule-of-lng-possible/
Wonder where he goes next?
Micronesia Follows Marshall Islands Out Of The PIF Alliance
Reuters
February 13, 2022
by Kirsty Needham (Reuters) The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) will temporarily rescind its withdrawal from the Pacific’s main political forum, the country’s foreign ministry said on Saturday, hours ahead of a visit of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Fiji. (The Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia all decided to leave the Forum after Palau’s decision in February 2021.)
Blinken’s stop in Fiji aims to reassure Pacific Island leaders, including of the FSM, that Washington and its allies are committed to providing security and COVID vaccines, as China steps up its aid and influence in the region.
In February 2021, the FSM and four other nations withdrew from the Pacific Island Forum (PIF), saying that an informal agreement to elect a new chief diplomat from their Micronesia sub-region was not honored.
The foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday that after consultations about PIF reforms offered to the leaders of the country, the decision was made to “temporarily rescind the withdrawal from the Pacific Islands Forum so as to materialize these reforms offered … by no later than June 2022.”
FSM, made up of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae states and with a population of just under 114,000 people, is spread across the western Pacific Ocean comprising more than 600 islands.
Blinken is to hold a video meeting with leaders of 18 Pacific islands, which despite being sparsely populated are strategic locations that have in recent years become a battleground for influence between China and the United States and its allies.
https://gcaptain.com/micronesia-follows-marshall-islands-out-of-the-pif-alliance/
Special Vessel WORTHY, older track but she's off the Oregon coast having sailed from Kwajalein
So what would a seeming Range Tracking Ship be doing off Oregon?