Bumpy vaccine drive: As statewide deaths surpass 30,000, California plans to use Dodger Stadium, Disneyland Resort, Petco Park (home of the San Diego Padres), and the state fairgrounds in Sacramento as mass vaccination sites, The New York Times reports. The first to open will be Disneyland, Matthew Ormseth writes for the Los Angeles Times, where health officials are expected to begin vaccinating people this week. Eligibility is limited to those with top priority.
In New York, rigidly sticking to a healthcare-workers-first plan resulted in horrifying stories of hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses languishing in freezers—or worse, thrown out because they weren’t administered quickly enough, Joseph Goldstein reports for The New York Times. Hospital administrators who received more doses than they needed to inoculate their staffs worried that using the extra doses on older patients would run afoul of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s strict rules, so they just sat there. As criticism and pressure from the city mounted, the governor has now said the city can begin inoculating people 75 or older, but that it could still be slow-going. “This is a very large group of people: It can’t be just show up at the pharmacy,” Cuomo said.
Meanwhile, elite medical institutions like Harvard, Columbia, and Vanderbilt are putting young researchers, graduate students, technicians, and other staff with limited or no patient interactions first in line for the coronavirus vaccine, even ahead of older and high-risk patients, Apoorva Mandavilli reports for The New York Times. While officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have looked at the glacial pace of vaccinations and suggested loosening restrictions so as to vaccinate as many people as possible, they never expected this.
- Also: President-elect Joe Biden is feeling the pressure to deliver on his promise to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days, Adam Cancryn and Tyler Pager report for Politico, and has admonished his coronavirus response team for underperforming. According to the AP, roughly 9 million Americans have received the first vaccine shot.
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Global toll: With deaths topping 1,950,000, the worldwide toll of the coronavirus pandemic is inching close to 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University data. More than 378,000 of those deaths have been in the U.S., where the pandemic has sickened 22.7 million people. In September, Reuters reported that the World Health Organization estimated the death toll could surpass 2 million before a successful vaccine was in wide use. “Unless we do it all, (2 million deaths) … is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely,” Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s emergencies programme, said at the time.
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Riot fever: Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, warned that the riot at the Capitol last week would likely be a surge event in the coronavirus pandemic, with public health consequences stretching nationwide, Michael Wilner reports for McClatchy. Many of the rioters were unmasked, in close quarters, screaming and shouting, all of which could have contributed to the spread of the virus. And since the vast majority of rioters were not detained, they’ve since returned to their homes across the country, potentially taking Covid germs with them.
Three Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, have tested positive for Covid. They blame having to spend time in cramped quarters while the Capitol was being overrun by Trump supporters with Republican colleagues who refused to wear masks, according to The New York Times. Several Republican lawmakers have also tested positive for coronavirus, including Rep. Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee and Rep. Jake LaTurner of Kansas.
- Also: Simone Gold, a doctor who promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid, was at the storming of the capitol, which she told The Washington Post was “incredibly peaceful.”
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Finger-pointing: The now-former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund says he asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be on standby for the pro-Trump rally and election protest that quickly devolved into a mob attack, The Washington Post reports. They said no. According to The Post, House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving said he didn’t like the “optics”; Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger said he should go through informal channels to put the Guard on alert. (Stenger and Irving have also since resigned.) Even on Wednesday afternoon, as Sund’s forces were quickly overwhelmed, Pentagon officials denied Sund’s request for National Guard help. “I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background,” Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army Staff. The Pentagon has blamed the Capitol Police for not requesting backup in advance. Now, Sund says there could be a repeat disaster on or around Inauguration Day. “My concern is if they don’t get their act together with physical security, it’s going to happen again,” he told The Post.
- Also: The FBI has put out a bulletin warning of armed protests being planned in all 50 state capitols, ABC News reports.
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Women of color lose out: According to the latest jobs report, the U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs in December—with women hit hardest, Annalyn Kurtz reports for CNN. Women actually lost 156,000 jobs, but men gained 16,000, offsetting the net loss. A separate survey that includes self-employed workers showed white women made gains while Black and Latina women did not. Women are down 5.4 million jobs since February 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic hit, while men have lost 4.4 million jobs.
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Climate change before SCOTUS: In 2018, the city of Baltimore filed a lawsuit arguing that fossil fuel companies like Chevron and BP that have externalized the environmental cost of extracting and burning fossil fuels should pay for the damage that rising sea levels and other climate impacts are having on the city, Jennifer Hijazi reports for E&E News. Now, in a challenge on where cases like this should be argued—brought by lawyers for the companies, which would rather see these cases in federal courts where they might be more likely to fail—is headed for the Supreme Court. If the Court sides with industry, it could deal a blow not only for Baltimore’s case, but for similar cases across the nation.
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In the pipeline: The Trump administration has finalized a rule that will ease requirements for oil and gas companies to report leaks, fires, explosions and other incidents, Mike Lee writes for E&E News. Under current regulations, companies need to report accidents if they cause a death, serious injury, or more than $50,000 in property damages; now that last threshold to $122,000, indexed to inflation. While the rule change is scheduled to take effect March 12, the Biden administration may seek to overturn it.
- Also: The EPA has proposed a rule making it easier to construct pipelines, bridges, and roads by creating a new category of “non-major” federal projects that would be exempt from undergoing environmental review, Katelyn Burns writes for Vox. The proposed rule would be the biggest deregulatory change to the National Environmental Policy Act in almost three decades.
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Dame Leyser:
When you take into account that the nose causes colds, all this treatment for colds and viruses falls into place. If this were to be given to people with Covid-19, the results would be readily seen. For over six years I have been colds and virus free. With the slightest sniffles I do my treatment. When your nose is stuffy or stuffed up, do this and usually instantly your nose is completely clear to breathe. Don’t ask me how because I have no idea, but it works all the time. Twice yesterday I did with instantaneous clearing of my nasal passages.
Colds and viruses are coronaviruses, and Covid-19 is a coronavirus so there is all the reason to believe that my treatment would work on Covid-19. When you see on tv the swabbing going on to test for Covid-19, they are going right back into the nasal passages with a long swab where it incubates and starts out. Just look at a diagram of the nasal passages which is in my book No More Colds by William Wells available on Amazon, a read copy available, and it is easy to see how the viruses are incubated by constantly circulating the air to warm the air in the nasal passages, a labyrinth of tunnels
Dr. Ellison:
Some years ago I discovered a treatment for colds, dabbing a little bit of ACV in my nostrils. I did not know how it worked and started investigating. On the label for ACV it says 5% acid. I wanted to find out the make up of ACV and contacted you.
You were kind enough to titrate it for me. I recall giving you ACV and also Braggs ACV with the mother which there are now several brands now on Redner’s shelves, Heinz, etc.
Your titration showed 5% acetic acid, the pH 2.5. Also, you titrated White Vinegar with the same results and Braggs ACV with the mother with the same results. The key to this working is ACV. I switched to White Vinegar a year or so ago because I ran out of ACV, and started getting cold symptoms and switched back to ACV right away. The mother is the key ingredient, occurring in the process that makes it. If you let a bottle of ACV sit, the mother develops in it.
With your findings and other research I did, I was able to write a book about it, No More Colds. I recall giving you a copy of my book. Because of your help, I was able to do this.
When this pandemic set in last year, I soon began to realize that my treatment would work on Covid-19 even maybe killing off some or all of the Covid-19 cells in the lungs as you inhale the vapors which would go into the lungs. I can get none of the doctors I have contacted to acknowledge my treatment. Many scientists, doctors and researchers that are mentioned in online news and in WSJ I have sent emails to. A couple have responded that it sounds real, but the medical community will not accept it.
Originally, I had drafted different examples of pandemics in the past and how ACV was used in England to sterilize coins in a town that was quarantined and closed, and other explanations from the past thinking that would stimulate some awareness and action, not so.
Of interest, over the years I have spoken to people about this and some have said they drink Braggs ACV and have been cold free for years. I could not grasp it because swallowing it the ACV just gets digested. The bogus claim that ACV changes the acidity of the blood is what they claim. I am curious. In any event, for those people drinking ACV, I came to the conclusion that when they drink it the vapors are going into their nasal passages and possibly lungs. That was my aha moment.
The key to get it accepted is to run trials. So, I came up with this thinking this was an innocuous way to get this approved. If even 10% of my emails were read, a lot of people are aware of this treatment. I contacted Gary Smith at the Chester County Industrial Development who I have known since 1979, the president, and they have many divisions that provide grants for studies. I reached out to several of them, and this was not something they could do. I reached out to Boris Johnson before he went in the hospital and got a staff response that they would take it under consideration and that was that. The only positive response I got from anybody was Dr. Levine at the Dept of Health early on that it sounded interesting, and that was the end of it.
Penn State is researching how Listerine works on Covid-19, but he says that it is not provable. That it works is questionable. He needs grants to do his work and gets a lot of funding from large corporations. Makes sense.
So, I contacted him and talked with him about my treatment for colds. I tell him the CDC was going to give me a grant to study my treatment five years ago, and I told them that it worked for me and I had no capability of doing research.
He tells me that I am only one person. So, I tell him Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar has been around since 1912 and is in every supermarket so its use has been known about since then.
He says he needs a grant to test it out. So, who can do a test on this? There are tens of thousands of people sick with Covid-19 in nursing homes and could easily be tested on to see how it works.
I explained to him that the 5% Acetic Acid in ACV changes the pH in the nasal cavities where all colds and viruses incubate. Colds and viruses thrive at 5 to 7 pH so my treatment would lower the pH in the Nasal Cavities below 5 so they could not replicate and would die off. Acetic Acid is 2.5 pH. With this pandemic I found out from British studies that 6% acetic acid kills Covid-19 and TB. So then I realized that the Acetic Acid is killing Covid-19 and will prohibit the coronaviruses from replicating.
This did not seem to sway him as he did not indicate that he would do it. So, I asked him who would look into this, and he didn’t give me any names.
I was hoping that educating him on the medicinal powers of ACV that he might be swayed or I might find out in the near future that he was doing a test to see if this works. A guy by the name of Hippocrates used it on patients.
None of the Covid-19 experts and scientists I have contacted have given it any consideration.
It’s a simple matter of spraying Apple Cider Vinegar from the grocery store on to the tip of your forefinger and then placing the first digit of your forefinger into one nostril and then doing it again to the other nostril. Stuffy noses go away almost instantly.
At a Monday night meeting, I told one gentleman about it, and that weekend he had a horrible cold. I had given him a card with a description of my treatment and the name of the book I wrote about it: No More Colds. He remembered our conversation and went on the internet and found the internet link on Amazon and downloaded the book, did the treatment, and his cold was gone over nite. Another lady I know was dogged with colds. I gave her my book No More Colds. She did my treatment and no more colds. Recently, I saw a guy who I hadn’t seen for a while and told him about my treatment. He said: “Yeah, I know, you told me about it two years ago and have been doing it ever since. Works for me.”
I have been cold and virus free since I discovered this and have not bought one bag of cough drops. I used to go through bag after bag through the winter with numerous colds.
Who can be contacted to have my treatment researched to find out if it will work on Covid19?
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I worked for a Big Pharma and advised that they should find a cure for colds in 1975 in an employee reach out for things to be accomplished in the next five years. They decided to do it in 1990 putting it on the cover of their Annual Report as one of the ten things they wanted to cure in the 90’s. And Vunderbar, I accidentally came across the treatment which in actuality is a cure for colds and viruses. Since Covid-19 is from the same family, it will have some effect on Covid-19. I think I had it last February with it raging all around my house and on my school bus that I drive with a kid sitting right behind me whose mother was in SF at a worldwide company conference, her being the worldwide head, and the girl was out sick twice during Jan – Feb – March and out the week before we shut down like March 17, 2020 for school busing for the rest of the year until Sep 29. I had a slight case of coughing very minimal for a few days, my daughter and grandson really sick with all the symptoms living with me, close contact. So, my treatment worked on Covid-19 for me.
A spin off of this was No More Cavities by Brian Cusp, my pseudonym, based upon how the pH in the mouth prevents cavities from Streptococcus Mutans bacteria. With a pH of 7.0 or slightly higher the bacteria are unable to destroy the enamel on the tooth. The pH of the mouth while sleeping adjusts to 7.0 from the saliva in the mouth. The pH range of saliva is from 6.2 to 7.6. Ingested foods and liquids make the mouth more acidic. Overnite the mouths pH become more alkaline becoming 7.0 and above. You can easily fact check this. I am Brian Cusp. The pH studies I did on colds led me into how pH works on Streptococcus Mutans bacteria.
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