COVID-19 >> New Drug Activity & VACCINE TRACKING!!

[Anonymous]

It will be by the end of the year if at all.



Manitoba makes deal to buy Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine that just started human clinical trials

Vaccine from Providence Therapeutics still must pass through regulatory hoops before approval



Manitoba has made a deal to buy two million doses of a Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine on the condition it gets approved for use in Canada and is delivered by the end of the year.



The province has reached a preliminary agreement to buy a vaccine under development by Calgary-based biotechnology company Providence Therapeutics, which has just started to put its product through human clinical trials, Premier Brian Pallister said at a news conference on Thursday.



Pallister called the availability of vaccines from the federal government to Manitoba the province's, "No. 1 limiting factor" in immunizing its population.



"We can't do our job if the federal government isn't doing its job," Pallister said.



Providence's product is an mRNA vaccine, similar to the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus shots already being administered across Canada.



The company has purchased a 20,000-square-foot site in Calgary to produce the vaccine, which still must pass through a series of regulatory hoops before it's approved for use in Canada.



This would be the first time a province directly buys a COVID-19 vaccine. Ottawa assumed responsibility for vaccine purchasing and made deals to buy the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines already in distribution across Canada.



Pallister is among the provincial leaders who criticized the federal government for the move, arguing the provinces were shut out of the decision-making process and left without adequate vaccine supplies.



"The federal government took away our right to buy vaccines by placing blocks on our ability to do that. We've been knocking on doors for months now. And the fact of the matter is health care is a constitutional responsibility of the provinces," he said.



"The door was slammed in our face repeatedly, and I know other provinces have tried as well."

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My gut tells me Health Canada will do what ever they can not to approve the vaccine. It would make Justine look like the incompetent wanker he is.

I wonder if we would have better results if provinces handled acquiring vaccines....it couldn't be any worse.

[Anonymous]

Premier Jason Kenney said Thursday that Alberta would pursue additional domestic production of vaccines after Manitoba made a deal to buy two million doses of a Calgary-made COVID-19 vaccine.

[Anonymous]

The U of C is taking part in the trial of a new drug that could help reduce lung inflammation in COVID-19 patients.



U of C joins trial of novel drug Metablox, hoped to reduce organ inflammation in severe COVID-19 patients

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/u-of-c-joins-trial-of-novel-drug-metablox-hoped-to-reduce-organ-inflammation-in-severe-covid-19-patients">https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-ne ... 9-patients">https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/u-of-c-joins-trial-of-novel-drug-metablox-hoped-to-reduce-organ-inflammation-in-severe-covid-19-patients

[Anonymous]

Vaccines save lives Dinky.



More than 97% of recent COVID-19 deaths in Israel were people who weren't vaccinated, PM says



JERUSALEM -- More than 97% of COVID-19 deaths in Israel over the past month were people who had not been vaccinated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, as his government tries to increase turnout for the Pfizer Inc shots.



"I want to give you a jarring fact: Over the last month - the last 30 days - 1,536 people have died (of COVID-19) in the State of Israel. More than 97% of them had not been vaccinated. Fewer than 3% had been vaccinated."

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[cc]

It's already showing in our care homes. Outbreaks down to 1/4 what they were and what are left were carryovers from before that are slowed down and coming to an end



Same for hospital outbreaks

[Anonymous]

Vaccines save lives Dinky.



More than 97% of recent COVID-19 deaths in Israel were people who weren't vaccinated, PM says



JERUSALEM -- More than 97% of COVID-19 deaths in Israel over the past month were people who had not been vaccinated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, as his government tries to increase turnout for the Pfizer Inc shots.



"I want to give you a jarring fact: Over the last month - the last 30 days - 1,536 people have died (of COVID-19) in the State of Israel. More than 97% of them had not been vaccinated. Fewer than 3% had been vaccinated."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-than-97-of-recent-covid-19-deaths-in-israel-were-people-who-weren-t-vaccinated-pm-says-1.5301377">https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.5301377">https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-than-97-of-recent-covid-19-deaths-in-israel-were-people-who-weren-t-vaccinated-pm-says-1.5301377

Anti-vaxxers will say the Israeli government is lying.

[cc]

They are  a special breed unto themselves .. are "driven" like flat earthers for example  .. except are more fear-driven



They "just know" and will grasp at straws to support what "they just know"  .. while at the same time if pressed with the facts that prove them wrong,  deny / twist any real world proofs that  they are dead wrong

[Anonymous]

They are  a special breed unto themselves .. like flat earthers for example except more fear-driven



They "just know" and will grasp at straws to support what "they just know"  .. and if pressed with the facts,  deny / twist any real world proofs that  they are dead wrong

They have the right to be stupid.

[cc]

They are  a special breed unto themselves .. like flat earthers for example except more fear-driven



They "just know" and will grasp at straws to support what "they just know"  .. and if pressed with the facts,  deny / twist any real world proofs that  they are dead wrong

They have the right to be stupid.

That's an inalienable right we all have  ac_smile



The only right we don't have is to disagree with progs

[Anonymous]

They are  a special breed unto themselves .. like flat earthers for example except more fear-driven



They "just know" and will grasp at straws to support what "they just know"  .. and if pressed with the facts,  deny / twist any real world proofs that  they are dead wrong

They have the right to be stupid.

The only right we don't have is to disagree with progs

You have to draw the line somewhere.

[Thiel]

Vaccines save lives Dinky.



More than 97% of recent COVID-19 deaths in Israel were people who weren't vaccinated, PM says



JERUSALEM -- More than 97% of COVID-19 deaths in Israel over the past month were people who had not been vaccinated, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, as his government tries to increase turnout for the Pfizer Inc shots.



"I want to give you a jarring fact: Over the last month - the last 30 days - 1,536 people have died (of COVID-19) in the State of Israel. More than 97% of them had not been vaccinated. Fewer than 3% had been vaccinated."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-than-97-of-recent-covid-19-deaths-in-israel-were-people-who-weren-t-vaccinated-pm-says-1.5301377">https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.5301377">https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/more-than-97-of-recent-covid-19-deaths-in-israel-were-people-who-weren-t-vaccinated-pm-says-1.5301377

That is good for Israelis. I will be lucky if I am vaccinated by January 1, 2022.

[Anonymous]

The prime minister cares only about his own ego.



Ottawa still blocking provinces from ordering vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna: Pallister



Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said the federal government's contracts with key coronavirus vaccine suppliers like Pfizer and Moderna forbid those companies from selling in separate deals to provinces.

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[Anonymous]

With almost 50,000 people fully vaccinated in Alberta, the most common side effect is a sore arm.

[cc]

That's all I'm hearing also.

[Anonymous]

Our big vaccine delivery date has been delayed one day due to inclement weather in Kentucky, but it looks like it's actually coming.

 ac_smile



The "big lift" for Canada's COVID-19 vaccination efforts this week has been sideswiped by a big snowdrift.



UPS temporarily closed its operations in Louisville, Ky., Monday because the city received more than 15 centimetres of snow.



While Canada's doses of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech are made in Belgium, they are being shipped through UPS, which flies them to Canada via its air hub in Kentucky.



Health Canada says provinces expecting deliveries of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine can expect them to arrive at least a day behind schedule but all doses will be in the country by Friday.



The delivery will be the single biggest delivery of vaccines to Canada so far, containing 403,000 doses.



This is to mark the end of four weeks of delivery delays from Pfizer while the company upgraded its plant in Belgium, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently called the expected expansion of vaccine deliveries "the big lift."

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