No More Yearly Flu Shots? Vaccine Mixed From 80,000 Proteins Could Be The Key 100 percent of the animals avoided illness or death when given a dose of flu that should have been fatal. Across the ferret experiments, the animals given the new vaccine had less severe illness than ... 05/2/2024 - 3:45 am | View Link
Federal health officials aim to develop a vaccine to protect people from bird flu The health officials say the country is ready to produce a vaccine against a worrisome flu virus that recently jumped from birds to cows and at least one person. But some experts are skeptical. 05/2/2024 - 2:16 am | View Link
New vaccine approach shows promise in targeting less variable region of influenza virus The reason we need a new flu shot every fall isn't because the vaccine wears out; it's because the influenza virus is constantly changing the surface proteins that vaccines target. Flu shots -- and ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Universal Flu Vaccine May No Longer Be a Long Shot The search for a universal flu vaccine has been long and fraught with false starts ... only some of them are included in each year’s flu shot. To broaden the function of flu vaccines, Heaton’s team ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot This new vaccine approach, described May 1 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is part of a 5-year-old effort to develop a longer-lasting universal flu vaccine that would be able to foil ... 05/1/2024 - 7:23 am | View Link
Rep. Jamie Raskin slammed the petroleum industry yesterday as he pointed to experts who described Big Oil’s “pattern of lying and evasion” that has “set the country back decades” in its ability to address climate change. Not that the people who need to pay attention ever will, of course. Via HuffPost:
“Instead of acting like Paul Revere and sounding the alarm about climate change, they acted like Maleficent the evil fairy in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and cursed everyone to try to go to sleep for 100 years,” said Raskin during a Senate Budget Committee hearing.
Raskin’s remarks came after that committee and the House Oversight Committee released a 65-page report following a three-year investigation into oil and gas companies’ “evolving efforts to avoid accountability for climate change.”
The Maryland Democrat described calling a House Oversight hearing in 2019 where scientists and experts testified that the companies “knew” that burning fossil fuels caused climate change as early as 1959.
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This article is raising the alarm about a disturbing failure of Facebook to enforce its own ban of paramilitary organizing -- in an election year, no less. Via Wired:
“JOIN YOUR LOCAL Militia or III% Patriot Group,” a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group called the Free American Army.
Watching this self-righteous ass get confronted with his own hypocrisy is a nice tonic to start the day. And that's it's delivered by Kaitlan Collins is even better.
Vance was pontificating about campus protests when Collins asked, "So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?" (I think you know where this is going, right?)
Vance said yes.
"Okay, I'm just checking because you did help raise money for people who did so on January 6, which was impeding an official proceeding, breaking into a building that they weren't allowed to be in, vandalizing the Capitol," she said.
Former President Donald Trump knows that the right to choose for women is popular. He massively fucked up when he appointed justices to overturn Roe while trying to kiss his evangelical supporters on their collective hypocritical butts. He knows. So, now that he's running to get the coveted keys to the White House again, but this time to stay out of prison, he's acting like a used car salesman trying his damnedest to sell a Ford Pinto to a car-savvy couple.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: When partisan hacks want to be philosopher kings.
Mock Paper Scissors: How Trump spends his non-trial days.
Rewire: If the Supreme Court upends the Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), people will die.
Kevin Drum: Trump through conservative eyes.
Everything Is Going to Be Okay: Well-behaved women.
This installment by Batocchio.
It's no secret that Senator Ron Johnson (Q - Moscow) is a Russian ass(et). We knew that in 2018 when RoJo and seven other Republican lawmakers spent the Fourth of July with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Ever since then, RoJo has been Putin's lapdog, regurgitating Russian talking points time and time again.