China Quarantines Millions After Thousands Exposed To Mutating Virus That Has Killed Many

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Noah Manskar - The New York Post




Johnson & Johnson says it aims to have more than half a billion coronavirus vaccines ready early next year.

The pharmaceutical giant will have 600 million to 800 million vaccines available in early 2021, when it expects the US government to approve the drug it plans to start testing in humans this September, chief financial officer Joe Wolk said Tuesday.

“The timeline still is pretty certain,” Wolk told Yahoo Finance in an interview. “We’re manufacturing at risk to ensure that should the clinical development and the trials be successful, we are in a position to kind of flip the switch and ready to go to create great access across the globe.”

The company aims to ramp up production to 1 billion doses annually by the end of next year, Wolk said in the interview. J&J and the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority announced a $1 billion investment last month to help achieve that goal.

J&J plans to set up a new manufacturing facility in the US to supplement the company’s plant in the Netherlands that can produce up to 300 million doses. The stateside factory will be up and running later this year or early next year, Wolk told Yahoo.

[lost in melb.]

[Muddy]

Nice.. I didn't know they had a vaccine ...

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Payday!

[deebakes]

Nice.. I didn't know they had a vaccine ...

they don't

[Muddy]

they don't

Well how can they mass produce it then?

[deebakes]

Well how can they mass produce it then?

i know you don't like to read things

'The pharmaceutical giant will have 600 million to 800 million vaccines available in early 2021, when it expects the US government to approve the drug it plans to start testing in humans this September, chief financial officer Joe Wolk said Tuesday.'

meaning the vaccine will be tested in september, they are totally future casting that the vaccine both a) works and b) doesn't have off target effects. lots of ways this could collapse. it is the same as the plan for major league baseball they are talking about with no start date on the horizon

[deebakes]

they are getting ready to be able to produce, which is optimistic planning based on the trials being best case scenario

[RBP]

(CNN)The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now counting "probable" cases of coronavirus among its tabulations, according to the agency's website.
The inclusion of such cases will add thousands to the total number of patients and deaths by including people who didn't have a positive test but showed signs of having the virus.
It comes after the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists suggested the CDC and state health departments add probable cases.
Previously, the CDC was only counting cases that had been confirmed by them or cases where the agency had yet to confirm a test done by a local or private entity.

A probable case or death is defined as one that meets clinical criteria such as symptoms and evidence of the disease with no lab test confirming Covid-19. It can also be classified as a probable case if there are death or other vital records listing coronavirus as a cause. A third way to classify it is through presumptive laboratory evidence and either clinical criteria or evidence of the disease.

New York City's Health Department said Tuesday it is now reporting "probable" Covid-19 deaths of individuals who have not been tested for the coronavirus but are presumed to be positive. The 4,059 probable cases pushed the death toll in New York City to nearly 11,000 victims.
"The fact is, we have to be honest and always acknowledge the full impact," Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN's "New Day."
"We think it is smart and really fair to those families and to everyone to say, look, a lot of these deaths ... the medical professionals ... they couldn't confirm it was Covid because there wasn't time do a test but they thought that's what it was."

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state will begin counting probable deaths, based on the CDC's guidance.

The CDC count is 605,390 cases of novel coronavirus in the United States and 24,582 people deaths.

According to Johns Hopkins University -- data used by CNN -- at least 637,000 people have contracted the novel coronavirus in the US, and 28,364 people have died.

The US recorded its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a day Tuesday after several days in which the death toll had fallen or was nearly flat.

The daily death toll was 2,405 on Tuesday, according to the Johns Hopkins tally.

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So they are intentionally inflating the numbers? And the new daily reports will be a different standard, so no way to compare trend lines?

[RBP]

they are getting ready to be able to produce, which is optimistic planning based on the trials being best case scenario

Are you Johnson or Johnson?

[Muddy]

So they are intentionally inflating the numbers? And the new daily reports will be a different standard, so no way to compare trend lines?

Yeah I'm not seeing the logic here..

[RBP]

Yeah I'm not seeing the logic here..

Not enough people have died, so they need a new tactic.

[Griffin]

Gotta get those numbers up somehow to justify the damage done to the economy.

[Muddy]

Not enough people have died, so they need a new tactic.

I wash my hands and I stay out of peoples faces but other than that this is business as usual for me.. This is ridiculous..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I wash my hands and I stay out of peoples faces but other than that this is business as usual for me.. This is ridiculous..

Same here...I wash my hands more often than normal, and I have been doing grocery delivery and/or pick-up, but other than that, I haven't changed anything.