by | Jan 20, 2024 | Aggregate
A group of medical staff at Denver Health made history last November by being among the first to receive a live Ebola vaccine, a decision drawing attention due to its unusual nature and the vaccine’s reported “shedding” characteristics.
Although there are currently no Ebola outbreaks, the proactive approach of Denver Health’s High Risk Infection Team has been both lauded and questioned.
The live Ebola vaccine, administered to members of Denver Health’s High Risk Infection Team, is part of a proactive strategy to bolster defenses against potential future outbreaks.
Ebola, known for its high fatality rate, caused global concern during the 2014 West Africa epidemic, which also resulted in cases within the United States. While the world is currently free of any Ebola outbreaks, the team at Denver Health is not taking any chances.
“We want to make sure that people have the chance to be protected in case we need to take care of a patient that has a disease with a mortality potentially of 70%,” said Dr. Maria Frank, one of the vaccine recipients. “We want to be able to help if necessary, and you know, a lot of people in the U.S. feel inclined to go when something happens, so we may deploy health care workers to actually help during an outbreak.”
Screenshot: Immunize Colorado
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However, Dr. Richard Bartlett revealed some concerns on The Alex Jones Show. He discussed the unique properties of this live Ebola vaccine, which is being administered for the first time in Colorado.
Bartlett questioned the timing and purpose, correlating it to a new lab being built near Denver in Colorado Springs, which is reported to be engaged in bat research and potentially working with Ebola and Nipah virus strains.
The Ebola vaccine is a live virus vaccine that is administered as a single injection into a muscle. The vaccine contains a weakened strain of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) that has been altered to contain a gene from the Ebola virus. As of August 2023, the FDA has approved Merck’s ERVEBO (Ebola Zaire Vaccine, Live) for use in children 12 months and older. ERVEBO is a replication-competent, live, attenuated recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) vaccine.
The “Ervebo” vaccine, as it’s known, reportedly has a shedding rate of 31%, according to the FDA package insert. This shedding refers to the vaccine virus’s ability to be transmitted to others, including family members or casual contacts. Critics like Bartlett highlight the risks associated with such shedding, particularly when the general public remains unaware of potential exposure.
The FDA report indeed confirms that vaccine virus RNA was detectable in some participants’ urine or saliva, with the highest shedding occurring on Day 7 post-vaccination and ceasing by Day 28. The highest shedding rate was observed in participants aged 12 to 17 years.
From the FDA package insert:
“Shedding of vaccine virus into the urine or saliva was evaluated in 359 participants enrolled in 8 clinical studies who were vaccinated with ERVEBO or lower dose formulations. Vaccine virus RNA was detected by RT-PCR in the urine or saliva of some participants at timepoints ranging from Day 1 through Day 14 postvaccination. In the 3 studies that assessed shedding at Day 28, no samples tested positive. In Study 6, 31.7% (19/60) of participants 12 months through 17 years of age enrolled in a substudy shed vaccine virus in saliva following vaccination. Viral shedding was greatest on Day 7 and declined thereafter, with no shedding detected after Day 28. Vaccine virus RNA was detected by RT-PCR in vesicular fluid samples from some participants. In one participant, a sample collected 20 days after vaccination tested positive for vaccine virus RNA by RTPCR.”
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by | Jan 20, 2024 | Aggregate
Citing “inflationary pressures”, the U.S. Postal Service is increasing rates again on Sunday, with the price of first class “forever” stamps rising about 3 percent from 66 cents to 68 cents. The price for a first class forever stamp when Joe Biden took office in 2021 was 55 cents. At 68 cents, that makes about a 24 percent increase thanks to Bidenomics (23.6 percent).
2024 forever flag stamps, image via USPS.
The Postal Service announced the increase, along with other rate increases, last October (excerpt):
“As inflationary pressures on operating expenses continue and the effects of a previously defective pricing model are still being felt, these price adjustments are needed to provide the Postal Service with much needed revenue to achieve the financial stability sought by its Delivering for America 10-year plan. The prices of the Postal Service remain among the most affordable in the world.”
Last week the Postal Service released the latest report on mail delivery:
The United States Postal Service reported new delivery performance metrics for the first week of the second quarter for fiscal year 2024. The average time for the Postal Service to deliver a mailpiece or package across the nation was 2.8 days.
FY24 second quarter service performance scores covering January 1 through January 5, included:
First-Class Mail: 87.5 percent of First-Class Mail delivered on time against the USPS service standard, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the fiscal first quarter.
Marketing Mail: 93.4 percent of Marketing Mail delivered on time against the USPS service standard, consistent with performance from the fiscal first quarter.
Periodicals: 82.0 percent of Periodicals delivered on time against the USPS service standard, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from the fiscal first quarter.
During our peak season, USPS experienced a significant growth in package volume throughout the nation, and effectively managed the expected increased volume along with the unexpected network disruptions outside our control as demonstrated by our continuing ability to deliver mail and packages to 98 percent of the nation’s population in less than three days. In fact, approximately 45 percent of mail and packages are delivered a day in advance of the specified service standard, and approximately 97 percent of all mail and packages are delivered within a day of its specified service standard, which evidences our ability to rapidly adjust to all conditions. The very small percentage of mail that is not delivered within this time frame is often the result of broader staffing and hiring issues within the local economies that we are working aggressively to address.
One of the goals of Delivering for America, the Postal Service’s 10-year plan for achieving financial sustainability and service excellence, is to meet or exceed 95 percent on-time service performance for all mail and shipping products once all elements of the plan are implemented. Service performance is defined by the Postal Service as the time it takes to deliver a mailpiece or package from its acceptance into our system through its delivery, as measured against published service standards.
With the implementation of the Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service continues its focus on improving service reliability for the American public and business customers by modernizing the outmoded and aging postal network across the nation.
The Postal Service is still led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy who was appointed in 2020 by the USPS Board of Governors. DeJoy, a Republican donor to then President Trump, was attacked by the left during the 2020 election season over fears he might rig mail-in ballots for Trump (or was it actually fear DeJoy would interfere in the Democrats’ scheme to rig mail-in voting). That criticism has largely faded as DeJoy is working with the Biden administration on bringing 66,000 electric vehicles to the Postal Service fleet by 2028, Politico reported last August.
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by | Jan 20, 2024 | Aggregate
A Florida teachers’ aide who was badly beaten by a 17-year-old student nearly a year ago wants her assailant to spend decades in prison for his crime.
Brendan Depa, an autistic 270-pound, 6-foot-6-inch man now 18 who was tried as an adult, confessed to beating Joan Naydich and pleaded “no contest” to the single felony charge of aggravated battery filed against him after beating the school paraprofessional after she recommended that his Nintendo Switch be confiscated, according to Unilad.
That charge carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
Depa’s victim has been calling for the maximum sentence all along.
“He definitely needs to be in jail,” Naydich told the New York Post. “He needs to be in jail for what he did to me. I’m in my own jail of sorts every single day I wake up.”
Naydich said she had lost her income and all of her benefits since suffering five broken ribs and a concussion in the beating.
She still has issues with her vision and hearing, she told the outlet.
She also said that proponents of a lighter sentence for Depa have been exaggerating his disabilities.
“He’s not autistic like everybody believes he is,” Naydich said. “They are painting a picture of him that he’s not able to think for himself. He’s working on his GED in jail and he almost has it.
“His mother has painted a picture of him that he’s incapable of putting socks on,” she said.
Leanne Depa, the attacker’s adoptive mother, didn’t blame Naydich but said the school district had to share some of the blame after it deviated from a treatment plan for her student that it had previously approved.
“This should never have been a criminal case,” she argued.
“I’m not blaming Joan,” she said. “In no way do I blame Joan for what happened. I blame the district. It’s a systemic problem. There is not enough funding and there’s a shortage of paraprofessionals.”
Video of the Feb. 21, 2023, incident at the Palm Coast, Florida, school showed Brendan Depa attacking Naydich and knocking her unconscious.
According to an affidavit, Depa hit Naydich in the back and on the back of the head about 15 times.
WARNING: Some viewers will find the following video disturbing.
Teacher confiscates student’s Nintendo Switch during class.
Student then attacks her, kicking and punching her, leaving her unconscious. pic.twitter.com/SeDa7vp6k5
— Peter Lloyd (@Suffragent_) February 24, 2023
Brendan Depa is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 31.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Jan 20, 2024 | Aggregate
Thank a Democrat.
Early in the morning on January 11th, Christopher Dash, a veteran and a teacher was carjacked by armed six thugs outside a high school in New York. Dash was sitting in his car with his wife and son at the time of the violent robbery, according to NYPD.
Dash was hit in the head with a gun outside of Francis Lewis High School in Queens. The carjackers stole $7,000 and Dash’s BMW. It all started when he was sitting in his car with his wife and son, who is 18.
The Dash family was ambushed by the armed thieves who blocked them in with their cars. Six of them, five men and one woman got out and pulled out their guns. They forced Dash to give up his keys and the family’s possessions.
New York Post reported:
Six armed bandits carjacked a veteran teacher outside a Queens high school, pistol-whipping the educator in front of his family and taking off with his BMW and $7,000, cops said.
Christopher Dash was smacked in the head with a gun during the terrifying 5:30 a.m. heist on Jan. 11 outside Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows – one in a recent series of luxury carjackings in Queens.
Dash, 59, was sitting with his wife and 18-year-old son in their car in a lot behind Horace Harding Expressway next to the school when two Dodge sedans approached and blocked them from leaving, cops said.
The carjackers took their wallets which totaled $7,000, laptop computers, IDs and a phone. Even with them having weapons drawn on the family, one of them still hit Dash in the head with a gun causing a laceration.
The car was stolen by the carjackers. Two of them were in his car while the others drove off in the cars they arrived in.
Christopher Dash works as an ROTC teacher at the school and has not said anything about the carjacking to reporters.
Carjackings are out of control in Democrat run cities. In December of last year, TGP reported of an off-duty police officer that thwarted carjackers in DC.
Carjackings in the nation’s capital are up 111% in the first ten months of 2023.
An off-duty police officer from Maryland was carjacked in DC while helping family members into their vehicle in December of 2023, in the Oxon Hill area across the street from a large shopping mall.
As the carjackers were trying to force the family out of the vehicle, the officer fired his weapon at the suspects and sent them fleeing.
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by | Jan 20, 2024 | Aggregate
Thousands of Trump supporters stood on line in snowy, freezing cold temperatures Saturday afternoon for President Trump’s rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire being held before Tuesday’s GOP presidential primary election. The rally is set to start at 7 p.m. EST. Doors opened a short while ago and supporters were soon filling the 11,000 seat arena.
The SNHU Arena is a regular stop for Trump, with ‘sold out’ campaign rallies being held there three times since his first campaign, in 2016, 2019 and 2020, sometimes with overflow crowds outside.
The 16 degree daytime high will likely mean no overflow crowds outside and maybe a few empty seats. The seating behind the stage is blocked off by a large black curtain, according to photos.
But Trump has drawn a huge crowd of enthusiastic supporters, with some photographers describing the lines as several blocks long earlier in the day.
The Trump campaign offered rally prizes to top phonebank volunteers at the Manchester headquarters, with the top caller getting to take a photo with Trump.
Photos and videos from the scene posted by attendees and reporters, including foreign press:
Trump speaks in Manchester 7pm tonight… At 10am they’re lining up to get into arena…. It’s 11 degrees. pic.twitter.com/AYoKb7K8te
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) January 20, 2024
The line to see Pres. Trump keeps getting bigger and bigger in New Hampshire! pic.twitter.com/65HjpMIKlT
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) January 20, 2024
My take from the campaign trail in NH is this….
Trump has a massive line for a rally in Manchester that is happening hours from now.
He is speaking at an arena.
It’s cold, it’s snowing and his supporters are here. pic.twitter.com/0sLZdNEgmL
— Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) January 20, 2024
A snowy Manchester afternoon where supporters are lined up over a block to see President Trump.
Feels like 5° rn pic.twitter.com/WGZfiZ0bNz
— James Levinson (@james_levinson) January 20, 2024
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally here tonight. Three days until the New Hampshire primary. pic.twitter.com/i1ZH7pVDT5
— Stephanie Murray (@stephanie_murr) January 20, 2024
Thousands of Trump supporters excited to be a part of rally Manchester NahH. Line to enter arena is 4 -5 city blocks long in bitter cold temperatures #MAGA #Trump2024 pic.twitter.com/HEnKyYpOeh
— Jean Mathieu (@JeanMathieuPlus) January 20, 2024
The line of Trump supporters waiting to get into SNHU stretches down the street as far as the eye can see #Trump2024NowMorethanEver pic.twitter.com/xGDV8kRzY1
— Cecilia Calabrese (@CeceCalabrese) January 20, 2024
It’s 4:30 pm at Manchester Trump rally. The line is more than a few blocks long to get in. Getting ready for Trump at 7pm. The arena is starting to fill up. Let’s Go Brandon! pic.twitter.com/kYL3lw8UfK
— Chester Tam (@islantstudio) January 20, 2024
Huge line gathering at SNHU Arena in Manchester hours ahead of tonight’s Trump rally pic.twitter.com/91NEmw5eOG
— Edward Tomić (@EdTomic) January 20, 2024
It’s -9C (feels like -18C) / 16F (feels like 1F) in Manchester and people have been lining up for hours to get into the Trump Rally happening here tonight pic.twitter.com/LIU50lj6sH
— Annelise Nielsen (@annelisenews) January 20, 2024
Diese Halle in Manchester, New Hampshire, will Donald #Trump heute mit rund 11.000 Menschen füllen. Seine Attacken gegen Nikki Haley nehmen 4 Tage vor den Primaries hier zu. In den meisten Umfragen liegt er auch hier allerdings vorne. @tonline pic.twitter.com/Hfwp6ypiuV
— Bastian Brauns (@BastianBrauns) January 20, 2024
Getting crowded here in Manchester a few hours before Trump is expected to speak pic.twitter.com/1xK49yth6s
— Edward Tomić (@EdTomic) January 20, 2024
Premier rang à Manchester. 17 h. Supporters Trump pic.twitter.com/hiftq9JTVr
— LAURENCE HAIM (@lauhaim) January 20, 2024
Manchester Trump rally vibes! pic.twitter.com/jj6Hg4HtYU
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) January 20, 2024
New Hampshire native and newly minted Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced rally prizes for phonebankers:
Some fun incentives for volunteers at Trump’s New Hampshire HQ today.
• If you phonebank for 3 hours, you’ll get VIP tickets to Trump’s campaign rally in Manchester today.
• If you’re the 2nd highest phonebanker, you’ll get a hat signed by Trump.
• If you’re the top… pic.twitter.com/fMLhWmK2BC
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) January 20, 2024
C-SPAN is there:
C-SPAN crew on the job SNHU arena for the 7pm Trump rally which will be live on @CSPAN. The line outside goes on for blocks in 17 degree -and snowy- weather. pic.twitter.com/9Rz54IBx8a
— Susan Swain (@cspanSusan) January 20, 2024
As is RSBN:
I’m there! Stage left about 6 rows back https://t.co/DN4k732CMh
— Cecilia Calabrese (@CeceCalabrese) January 20, 2024
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