Moderna Just Made the Pfizer Vaccine's Biggest Weakness an Even Bigger One

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) have been close rivals in the COVID-19 vaccine race ever since they announced the starts of their phase 3 vaccine trials – on the very same day back in July. But Pfizer edged ahead en route to the finish line. The big pharmaceutical company scored the first FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) for a coronavirus vaccine in December.

Still, Moderna wasn't far behind – the smaller biotech company's vaccine earned its EUA only seven days later.

Since then, the two companies have continued the competition largely in tandem. So far, 49 million Americans have gotten both doses of the Pfizer vaccine developed under the code name BNT162b2, but now called Comirnaty while 40 million have completed their regimens of Moderna's vaccine, still called mRNA-1273. Both companies also are working on booster shots, and conducting the necessary clinical studies that will allow them to start inoculating kids and teens, too. But Comirnaty has one big weakness. And that weakness plus Moderna's latest news may help mRNA-1273 jump ahead.

An evolving vaccination situation

When COVID-19 vaccines first began to roll out, countries were aiming simply to vaccinate as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible. So, they ordered what was available. But as various vaccine makers continue to ramp up production and refine their offerings, countries will have more choices – and a bit more time to consider those options. This is when Moderna could take the lead.

Will this mean major market dominance for Moderna and a big loss of revenue for Pfizer? No. True, mRNA-1273 could move into the top spot due to its easier storage requirements. But if that happens, Pfizer's Comirnaty will remain close behind it. No single company can make enough doses to vaccinate the more than 7.8 billion people in the world with the necessary speed. Moderna and Pfizer each aim to produce 3 billion doses of their coronavirus vaccines next year, and each requires a person to get two doses. So even if a country prefers Moderna's vaccine, for example, it likely will still have to order some doses from another vaccine maker to cover all its citizens.

The Moderna vaccine's easier-to-manage temperature requirements won't upend Pfizer's prospects for billions in dollars of sales of Comirnaty. But this latest news is likely to lead to a boost in orders for mRNA-1273, and may significantly increase Moderna's product sales over the long term.

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Hundreds report abnormal menstruation after being teargassed during Portland protests

More than a thousand people reported lasting health effects after being exposed to teargas during protests in Portland, Oregon, last summer, according to a newly published scientific study.

Nearly 900 people reported abnormal menstrual cycles, including intense cramping and increased bleeding, that began or persisted days after their initial exposure to the teargas. Hundreds of others complained of other negative health impacts, including severe headaches, nausea, diarrhea, and mental health concerns.

The new research, based on an online survey of more than 2,200 people, challenges claims that the health consequences of being teargassed are minor and temporary, said Dr Britta Torgrimson-Ojerio, a researcher at Kaiser Permanente Northwest and the lead author of the study.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-report-abnormal-menstruation-being-100005451.html

Are we getting up to the, [D] Sky is Falling, part of the movie?

Henry Kissinger has warned of the doomsday potential of the weapons US-China possess as relations between the 2 superpowers worsen

Veteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has offered a stark warning of the apocalyptic dangers facing the world if conflict erupted between the US and China.

Kissinger told the McCain Institute's Sedona Forum on global issues Friday that strained relations with China are "the biggest problem for America, the biggest problem for the world," reported the AFP.

"Because if we can't solve that, then the risk is that all over the world, a kind of cold war will develop between China and the United States."

He told the forum that while nuclear weapons during the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union had had the capacity to inflict vast damage, that capacity for destruction was exceeded by nuclear technology and artificial intelligence capabilities the US and China now have at their disposal.

"For the first time in human history, humanity has the capacity to extinguish itself in a finite period of time," Kissinger said.

"We have developed the technology of a power that is beyond what anybody imagined even 70 years ago."

"And now, to the nuclear issue is added the high tech issue, which in the field of artificial intelligence, in its essence is based on the fact that man becomes a partner of machines and that machines can develop their own judgement," he said.

"So in a military conflict between high-tech powers, it's of colossal significance."

He said that while the Soviet Union had vast military might during the Cold War, China had greater economic strength and technological expertise.

"The Soviet Union had no economic capacity. They had military technological capacity," he said.

"(They) didn't have developmental technological capacity as China does. China is a huge economic power in addition to being a significant military power."

Kissinger served as secretary of state to President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford between 1973 and 1977. He was the architect of the strategy that saw the US improve its relations with China as part of a bid to drive a wedge between the country and its erstwhile Communist ally, Russia.

The 97 year-old is regarded as one of the most influential figures in foreign policy in the last 50 years, though is reviled for some over US military policy during the Vietnam War and its support of right-wing dictatorships in South America during the 1970s.

Under President Donald Trump, relations with China worsened, with the nations imposing a series of economic sanctions on each other. President Joe Biden has maintained the US' hawkish stance towards China, with a recent meeting between US and Chinese diplomats in Alaska resulting in mutual recriminations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/henry-kissinger-warned-doomsday-potential-115944501.html

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The girl in the Kent State photo: She was only 14. Here’s how her life turned out

Last May, when Mary Ann Vecchio watched the video of George Floyd’s dying moments, she felt herself plummet through time and space — to a day almost exactly 50 years earlier. On that May 4 afternoon in 1970, the world was just as riveted by an image that showed the life draining out of a young man on the ground, this one a black-and-white still photo.

Mary Ann was at the center of that photo, her arms raised in anguish, begging for help.

That photo, of her kneeling over the body of Kent State University student Jeffrey Miller, is one of the most important images of the 20th century. Taken by student photographer John Filo, it captures Mary Ann’s raw grief and disbelief at the realization that the nation’s soldiers had just fired at its own children.

The Kent State Pietà, as it’s sometimes called, is one of those rare photos that fundamentally changed the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Like the image of the solitary protester standing in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Or the photo of Kim Phuc, the naked Vietnamese girl fleeing the napalm that has just incinerated her home. Or the image of Aylan Kurdi’s tiny, 3-year-old body facedown in the sand, he and his mother and brother having drowned while fleeing Syria.

These images shocked our collective conscience — and insisted that we look. But eventually we look away, unaware, or perhaps unwilling, to think about the suffering that went on long after the shutter has snapped — or of the cost to the human beings trapped inside those photos. “That picture hijacked my life,” says Mary Ann, now 65. “And 50 years later, I still haven’t really moved on.”

Mary Ann Vecchio has granted few interviews in 25 years, and as a child of the ’60s — with her own entanglement with the FBI — she’s still a bit wary. Partway through the first of what would go on to be a dozen interviews over the phone, she stops abruptly.

“Are you doing this on your own?” she asks. I’m freelancing, I tell her. Is that what she means? No, she wants to know if I’m working with a political party. Or law enforcement. “When you’ve lived the life I have,” she says, “you still worry that maybe people are after you.” She also tells me she’s researched me before agreeing to speak. “I’m a little FBI-ish myself, in a renegade way,” she says. “And I’m also still that hippie kid who always sees a rainbow.”

Before Kent State, she says, she was a free spirit. “I was the kid rolling down the river on a raft,” she recalls. “I was magic. In my childhood, I believed anything was possible.” But her home in Opa-locka, Florida, not far from Miami International Airport, where her father was a carpenter, could be volatile. When her parents fought, she and her brothers and sisters would scatter, with Mary Ann hiding out in spots as far away as Miami Beach, some 15 miles from home.

Soon she got in trouble — smoking pot, skipping school. So in February 1970, when the police told Mary Ann, then 14, that they’d throw her in jail if they caught her playing hooky one more time, she took off — in her bare feet. She says she wasn’t rebelling against her parents’ authority or seeking to join the antiwar movement: “I just wanted to be anywhere that wasn’t Opa-locka.”

Hitchhiking her way across the country, Mary Ann slept in fields, at hamburger shacks, at crash pads, working here and there for money for food, which she shared with other kids who were also bumming around. Seeing the country, meeting new people, sharing music and the occasional joint — the adventure had that feeling of magic from her childhood. Until, that is, she got to Kent State in northern Ohio, where, on May 4, student protests erupted over President Richard Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/girl-kent-state-photo-she-100000836.html

Watch astronauts splash down to Earth safely aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience, carrying four astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station, splashed down safely just before 3 a.m. ET on Sunday morning off the coast of Panama City, Florida. It was the first nighttime splashdown for NASA astronauts since the return of Apollo 8 in 1968.

NASA's Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi of Japan's JAXA are reportedly in "in great shape and great spirits" after spending 168 days orbiting Earth. "For those of you enrolled in our frequent flier program, you have earned 68 million miles on this voyage," Michael Heiman, a SpaceX mission control official, joked. "We'll take those miles. Are they transferable?" Hopkins replied.

With their landing the crew successfully completed the first round-trip operational mission for NASA led by a private company. "I'd just like to say quite frankly, you all are changing the world," Hopkins said as SpaceX personnel prepared to open the side hatch of the capsule.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-astronauts-splash-down-earth-113601529.html

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A man was hospitalized after the porta-potty he was using at the historic Gettysburg battlefield was crushed by a tree

First responders have rescued a man who became imprisoned inside a porta-potty at the site of a historic Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania.

On Friday, volunteer firefighters from the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department responded to a 911 call at Little Round Top to find that a large tree that had toppled in high winds had crushed a car and a portable latrine, The York Daily Record reported.

Volunteers found no one inside the vehicle, the outlet said, but identified that the tree had trapped a man inside the crushed porta-potty, and proceeded to cut him out.

He was taken to Gettysburg Hospital by ambulance with injuries not considered life-threatening.

"Arrived to find one male subject trapped in the porta-potty," Joe Robinson, assistant chief of the Barlow Volunteer Fire Department, wrote on the department's Facebook page.

Robison shared images of the decimated lavatory on Facebook.

"He was very lucky," Robinson told the York Daily Record. "It was a large tree, and it just missed striking him. It could have been very serious."

The firefighters treated the situation as if the man had been trapped in the car, Robinson said. They used a chainsaw to cut away the tree and they cracked the porta-potty open with a machine-powered saw.

"This is definitely something I have never seen before," Robinson added.

During the Battle of Gettysburg, the Little Round Top was the site of an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Union troops.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-hospitalized-porta-potty-using-120838039.html