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Default Ivermectin among generic drugs that failed to help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitaliz

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Apparently, if it wasnt designed to work on a virus, it didnt work.
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House panel details Trump pressure on FDA for discredited COVID treatment, vaccines

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Top Trump administration officials pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reauthorize the discredited COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine, and to speed up the release of the first COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new report Democrats on the House select coronavirus subcommittee released Wednesday.



Emails, text messages and testimony obtained by the committee show the Trump White House “exerted extreme and inappropriate pressure” on the FDA to reauthorize hydroxychloroquine even after it was shown to be ineffective and potentially dangerous.

The report found administration officials like trade adviser Peter Navarro enlisted outside allies like Fox News host Laura Ingraham and daytime TV talk show host Mehmet Oz — now the GOP nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania — to amplify pressure on the FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine, a drug normally used to treat malaria and lupus, as a COVID-19 treatment.

Hydroxychloroquine has been heavily promoted as a treatment for the virus by Trump allies despite almost no evidence.

Navarro and Steven Hatfill, an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington University brought on by Navarro as an adviser to the coronavirus response, led coordinated attacks on FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci and other health officials who refused to support hydroxychloroquine.

“Newly released evidence shows that Dr. Hatfill and Mr. Navarro used their direct access to top public health officials in an attempt to strongarm them into supporting hydroxychloroquine,” the report stated.

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine in late March 2020, but then revoked it less than three months later.

The report also details how the Trump administration influenced the FDA to deliver misleadingly positive news about convalescent plasma as a coronavirus treatment on the eve of the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) and White House attempts to block the FDA from collecting additional safety data on the first coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to ensure that it could be authorized before the 2020 presidential election.

Trump later attacked Hahn, without evidence, for deliberately slowing down the authorizations of the vaccine and convalescent plasma because of politics.

“The Select Subcommittee’s findings that Trump White House officials deliberately and repeatedly sought to bend FDA’s scientific work on coronavirus treatments and vaccines to the White House’s political will are yet another example of how the prior Administration prioritized politics over public health,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the panel’s chair, said in a statement.

The efforts by members of the Trump administration, including the former president, to meddle with public health agencies has been well documented. However, the report offers new levels of detail on the pressures put on the FDA in 2020.

Clyburn noted the Trump administration’s attacks on public health officials helped contribute to a politicization of science, and reduced the public’s trust in the government.

“These assaults on our nation’s public health institutions undermined the nation’s coronavirus response—and are precisely why we must never again settle for leaders who prioritize politics over keeping Americans safe,” Clyburn said.

In testimony before committee staff, Hahn said he felt pressure because of Navarro’s “persistence” in insisting that hydroxychloroquine worked and should be reauthorized, despite strong evidence to the contrary.

“We took a different stance at the FDA,” Hahn said. “So that disagreement, which of course ultimately became somewhat public, was a source of pressure.”

In an emailed statement, Navarro said the select subcommittee was “wrongly” perpetuating that hydroxychloroquine “was somehow dangerous.”

Navarro also cited excerpts from his memoir that chronicled his clashes with what he described as the “never-Trump FDA.”

The subcommittee report also details how the FDA wanted to advise vaccine manufacturers that the FDA wanted 60 days worth of follow-up patient safety data before applications for emergency use authorization were filed. That request would mean authorization wouldn’t occur until after the November 2020 election.

Trump had repeatedly said the shots would be authorized before Election Day, despite experts and agency scientists signaling it was unlikely.

Hahn told the committee the agency faced “pushback about the issue” from multiple officials, including Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Meadows said the White House wouldn’t sign off on the guidance, because of the 60-day requirement.

The agency eventually circumvented the White House by quietly publishing the 60-day data request as part of a larger set of background documents for industry. Meadows later that day told Hahn the White House had cleared the release of the guidance.

Trump later attacked the FDA on Twitter.

“New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job!” Trump wrote, tagging Hahn.
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When I was in health class in 10th grade in the Spring of 1981, Mr. Racicot told us that Americans were the fattest people in the world ...... 41 years later, Americans may or may not be THE fattest people in the world, but they are certainly up there near the top of the list.

I'm a strong advocate for National Health-Care, like they have in Canada and Great Britain ...... but all of the health-care in the world won't help if people don't exercise enough and have bad diets.

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When I was in health class in 10th grade in the Spring of 1981, Mr. Racicot told us that Americans were the fattest people in the world ...... 41 years later, Americans may or may not be THE fattest people in the world, but they are certainly up there near the top of the list.

I'm a strong advocate for National Health-Care, like they have in Canada and Great Britain ...... but all of the health-care in the world won't help if people don't exercise enough and have bad diets.

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1,000,000+ Americans died from covid in the past 2.5 years. Right now it looks as if it will never go away. So estimates are that 600,000 are going to die from this virus every year. Thats about the same number of annual deaths due to SMOKING.

Crazier still, dying from Covid and smoking can be avoided. But some people cant figure it out.
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NASA knows the "how" but not the why of a telemetry data routing snafu that caused "garbled" information about the 45-year-old Voyager 1 probe's position to be sent to mission controllers on the ground.

The space agency's engineers announced a fix of the issue last night, saying they'd discovered the data was being routed through the wrong place altogether – an onboard computer the team said was "known to have stopped working years ago," which then "corrupted the information."

Calling the fix from billion of miles away the "ultimate telesurgery," Voyager propulsion engineer Todd Barber said the team were "delighted" after being left "flummoxed" over the nonsensical attitude control telemetry. "We couldn't get any health and safety info about the pointing of the spacecraft or any of the thruster operation," he noted.

The ground crew needs data from the venerable 1970s probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS) to control the spacecraft's orientation. One of the most crucial functions of AACS is to keep Voyager 1's high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, or else it won't be sending any data home.

When the problem first cropped up in "March or April", the Pasadena techies were quick to point out that the craft, which entered interstellar space in 2012 and is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth, was operating normally.

43 years and 14 billion miles later, Voyager 1 still crunching data to reveal secrets of the interstellar medium
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
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It was receiving commands from Earth and executing them, as well as gathering and returning science data, all without any compromise of the signal, suggesting those AACS values were actually in good shape. The team said at the time the data they were receiving didn't actually reflect "any possible state the AACS could be in," adding: "Voyager 1's signal hasn't weakened, either, which suggests the high-gain antenna remains in its prescribed orientation with Earth."

Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager, said that as the team had suspicions about the underlying issue, they opted to try a low-risk solution: commanding the AACS to resume sending the data to the right computer – confirming their thesis as it apparently worked.

It's not yet known why the probe started sending telemetry to the wrong box, but NASA says it is likely it received a faulty command generated by another onboard computer. "If that's the case, it would indicate there is an issue somewhere else on the spacecraft," the JPL team added, saying it would keep looking for the underlying issue, but didn't think it a "threat" to Voyager 1's long-term health.



The fact that we still receive data 45 years later from the craft, currently 22.5 billion kilometers (14 billion miles or about 20 light-hours) away from Earth, is extraordinary, and some of the original team members were on hand to discuss it yesterday.

Voyager probe. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Propulsion engineer Barber went on to list current issues with the craft. "We lose 4 watts [of power] a year on the spacecraft; things are insanely cold; the propellant lines are about to freeze; we've had computer chip issues," he said, adding that it was "kind of like keeping an old car running – they are geriatric by NASA standards and it's been the hardest engineering I've done in my entire career but also the most fun."

The probe, launched in 1977 and sporting a 3.7-meter-wide (12ft) radio antenna dish, was originally designed to last the five years the agency believed it would take to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

The Register found it interesting that the telemetry problem was disclosed in May, but when the Voyager engineers appeared live yesterday, it seems it may have started much earlier, in March or April, making us wonder about the vetting process for information even on veteran craft. Barber also noted that "we announced the fix today."

Speaking more broadly about Voyager's resilience, deputy project scientist Linda Spilker said during the live Q&A yesterday: "All of the computers are redundant on Voyager and we knew from an earlier flyby of Pioneer going by Jupiter that Jupiter's radiation environment was quite harsh. So we did a lot of things to radiation-harden the two Voyagers and that stood them in good stead not just for their Jupiter flybys but now in interstellar space, where those cosmic rays or high
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The data comes from 2021. 1 year of biden. The pandemic is the biggest causation and that is the reason for the biggest drop. If the republicans in office had not fought over masks and vaccinations the deaths could have been cut by 40%.

One year of any administration cant account for this drop. As I posted above, every smoker kicking the habit and increase the number of people getting a flu shot and the numbers go up.

BTW, cut back on booze and we would all be better off. Wow, I just noticed my ice cubes are a little dry, so to quote a movie, “Jobu needs a refill”
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The data comes from 2021. 1 year of biden. The pandemic is the biggest causation and that is the reason for the biggest drop. If the republicans in office had not fought over masks and vaccinations the deaths could have been cut by 40%.

One year of any administration cant account for this drop. As I posted above, every smoker kicking the habit and increase the number of people getting a flu shot and the numbers go up.

BTW, cut back on booze and we would all be better off. Wow, I just noticed my ice cubes are a little dry, so to quote a movie, “Jobu needs a refill”
So, this is just more Trump hate. Guess I should not be shocked, coming from you.
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