Friday, December 18, 2020

Cardinals in Winter


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  1. States thought they would get more COVID vaccines. Pentagon system had wrong numbers

    Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article247935785.html


    WASHINGTON
    A Pentagon system set up for states to keep track of coronavirus vaccines had outdated, inaccurate projections for deliveries that misled governors into expecting they would receive far more doses than will arrive in the coming days, a federal official told McClatchy.
    The system, called Tiberius, went live months ago in order for state and local officials to prepare for the day that the Food and Drug Administration authorized a coronavirus vaccine, with projections that were intended to help states practice using the complex system.
    But when the FDA issued its first emergency use authorization for a vaccine on Friday, the outdated projections in the Defense Department software remained in place...

    In a statement, Pfizer said that the company was “not having any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine,” and that no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed.
    “Going forward, the Tiberius numbers should be correct. The problem is, when they looked at them last week, and when they got to ordering them now, they were different,” the federal official explained. “Everything in Tiberius was for planning purposes, not official allocations – and they clearly did not make that clear to states.”

    When Our Glorious Leader said he was putting the Pentagon in charge of distribution rather than the CDC, it was predicted that things would go wrong because the Pentagon lacked the necessary experience.

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  2. OHIO; COVID cases 605,862 and 7,967 deaths.

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  3. Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star. [Click] “Tantalising ‘signal’ appears to have come from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun.”

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    1. From the article:

      2003 The Seti@home project, run by the University of California in Berkeley with observations from the Green Bank radio telescope and the recently collapsed Arecibo telescope, also discovered an intriguing signal. The 1420MHz burst of radio waves, known as SHGb02+14a, was observed three times before vanishing. The signal lies in the “water hole” quiet zone of the electromagnetic spectrum, which scientists consider an attractive band for alien civilisations to broadcast interstellar signals.

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    2. Yes, please.

      Wouldn't it be wonderful to find that there are other beings, wiser than we, who might help us get through some of our most difficult conundrums?

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  4. The FDA just issued emergency use authorization for the Moderna vaccine!

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  5. Yup. UNKNOWN is me. Sigh. Sorry about that.

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    1. Thanks to our advanced psychic abilities developed with the aid of our extraterrestrial friends, WE KNEW.

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  6. VTcases: 6243-6149=93
    2147active cases
    107deaths(+2)
    Recovered 3970 (+73)
    Hospital:27(+5) ICU:10(+7)
    Tests 248,986 (+1681)

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  7. “The military spending bill that President Trump is threatening to veto contains provisions that would help protect against the kind of broad Russian hacking discovered in recent days, according to experts and lawmakers,” the New York Times reports.

    That sounds right.

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