https://thehill.com/policy/finance/585122-gop-senators-help-advance-mcconnell-debt-deal

Fourteen Senate Republicans on Thursday helped advance a deal negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to set up a one-time exemption to the filibuster on raising the debt ceiling.

Senators voted 64-36 to close debate on the bill, which also prevents automatic cuts faced by physicians and other medical providers under Medicare from taking effect.

McConnell and GOP Sens. John Barrasso (Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Susan Collins (Maine), John Cornyn (Texas), Joni Ernst (Iowa) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.), John Thune (S.D.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.) helped advance the bill.

https://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/evusheld-authorized-for-emergency-use-in-us-for-pre-exposure-prevention-of-covid/

AstraZeneca’s Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody (LAAB) combination, has received emergency use authorization (EUA) in the US for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (prevention) of COVID-19, with first doses expected to become available very soon.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the EUA for Evusheld for pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 in adults and adolescents (aged 12 and older who weigh 40 kg or more) with moderate to severe immune compromise due to a medical condition or immunosuppressive medications and who may not mount an adequate immune response to COVID-19 vaccination, as well as those individuals for whom COVID-19 vaccination is not recommended. Recipients should not be currently infected with or had recent known exposure to a person infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Myron J Levin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, US, and principal investigator on the PROVENT trial, said: “Millions of people in the US and around the world remain at serious risk for COVID-19 because their immune systems do not generate a sufficient immune response, even after receiving all recommended doses of vaccine. I am excited to offer my patients Evusheld as an easily-administered new option that provides long-lasting protection that could help them return to their everyday lives.”

Evusheld is a combination of two long-acting monoclonal antibodies and is the only antibody therapy authorized in the US for COVID-19 pre-exposure prophylaxis and the only COVID-19 antibody delivered as an intramuscular dose (150mg tixagevimab and 150mg cilgavimab).

The primary data supporting the Evusheld EUA are from the ongoing PROVENT Phase III pre-exposure prevention trial, which showed a statistically significant reduction (77 percent at primary analysis, 83 percent at median six-month analysis) in the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 compared to placebo, with protection from the virus continuing for at least six months. More follow-up is needed to establish the full duration of protection provided by Evusheld. Data from the Phase III STORM CHASER post-exposure trial and the Evusheld Phase I trial also supported the EUA. Evusheld was well-tolerated in the trials.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/300474885/china-evergrande-has-defaulted-on-its-debts-fitch-ratings-says

Fitch Ratings said in a statement that it had placed the embattled home builder and two of its subsidiaries, Hengda Real Estate Group and Tianji Holding Limited, into "restricted default." The designation means it has missed a debt payment but hasn't entered into bankruptcy or other process that would suspend operations.

Evergrande's default was largely expected by those who have been watching the company's business, possibly blunting its effect on global markets. the S&P 500 index was down just .2 per cent after overnight news of Evergrande's default. The Dow was down .4 per cent shortly after trading opened.

Problems with debt are not limited to Evergrande. As of October China's debt-to-GDP ratio was reported at 159 per cent, compared to 84 per cent for the United States, according to an October 19 note from S&P ratings which warned of "substantial financial and economic contagion risks."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/09/anthony-fauci-reveals-himself-as-a-fabian-socialist-openly-advocating-the-communal-good-supersedes-the-individuals-right/

This one minute segment from Anthony Fauci’s discussion with MSBNC journalist Andrea Mitchell is eye-opening and alarming. Within the interview Dr. Fauci states that individual rights to medical autonomy must be forcibly removed by the state under the premise of a communal good. This is the exactly mindset of the Fabian Socialists throughout history.

Dr. Fauci stated, “Free will. I respect that, but these are unusual times.” Pull your chair a little closer and allow me to whisper in your ear: ‘There will always be unusual times.’

Historically this type of communal outlook has been used as a talking point to justify some of the darkest times in world history. Politicians, eugenicists and some very disturbed world leaders with grand opinions of their own importance have long espoused this same ideology. It is a twisted and sick worldview that eventually leads to the same repeated conclusion.