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<li><a href="#from-preprints">From Preprints</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-clinical-trials">From Clinical Trials</a></li>
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<li><strong>Misinformation in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey on citizens’ perceptions and individual differences in the belief in false information</strong> -
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens have been exposed to vast amounts of mis- and disinformation. This “infodemic” has undermined key behavioural and pharmacological measures to contain the pandemic—for instance, by increasing vaccine hesitancy. In a cross-sectional survey of residents of Germany, we investigated citizens’ perceptions of and ability to deal with misinformation across three Waves of data collection in 2020/21 (Ntotal = 3324). We observed three main results. First, there was a strong increase in the perceived prevalence of misinformation in classic and online media and in social interactions over the course of the pandemic. Second, some—but by no means all—respondents knew how to identify misinformation. Third, higher susceptibility to misinformation was associated with support for the far-right AFD party, reliance on tabloids, neighbours and social media for information and news, lower education, as well as migration background. To help people navigate the challenges of the infodemic, we propose a two- pronged approach, namely, to boost individuals’ abilities to discern false from accurate information, and to enrich citizens’ proximate environments (e.g., neighbourhoods with high rates of migration) with reliable, accessible and high- quality information.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/cw2jn/" target="_blank">Misinformation in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross- sectional survey on citizens’ perceptions and individual differences in the belief in false information</a>
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Thе оutbrеаk оf thе соrоnаvirus disеаsе 2019 (COVID-19) саusing milliоns оf pеоplе tо bе infесtеd hаs pоsеd mаjоr publiс hеаlth аnd gоvеrnаnсе сhаllеngеs. This study еvаluаtеs thе еxtеnt tо whiсh thе unаvаilаbility оf prеvеntivе саrе sеrviсеs fоr сhildrеn duе tо thе pаndеmiс аffесts pаrеntаl psyсhоlоgiсаl wеllbеing. Wе find thаt pаrеnts hаving nо ассеss tо prеvеntivе саrе sеrviсеs fоr thеir сhildrеn duе tо thе pаndеmiс аrе 6.55, 5.04, 3.90, аnd 3.85 pеrсеntаgе pоints mоrе likеly tо fееl аnxiоus, wоrriеd, displеаsеd, аnd dеprеssеd еvеry dаy. Thе study саlls fоr thе еxpаnsiоn оf prеvеntivе саrе sеrviсеs fоr сhildrеn during thе pаndеmiс, еspесiаlly fоr disprоpоrtiоnаtеly аffесtеd соmmunitiеs.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/qw6zs/" target="_blank">The Unavailability of Preventive Care for Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Parental Mental Health</a>
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<li><strong>Post-covid Value Chains Resilience and Regionalization, including a Spotlight on Singapore</strong> -
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The global economy, global flows and global economic coordination have been severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This note reviews and summarizes some of the current forecasting and predictions of the consequences of the pandemic for global value chains, with an additional focus on Singapore. The review is based on a convenience sample of expert reports, scientific papers, and press articles. The disruption has already caused exceptional economic damage. In the medium and long terms, global value chains and the structure of globalization are expected to adapt significantly due to new attitudes to pandemic and other risks. The dominant prediction is of an organizational and geographical contraction of economic activities and exchanges, within the bounds of economic regions large enough to diversify location risk. At the same time, Singapore is poised to benefit from Asia’s economic buoyancy and from regional dynamics in the manufacturing and tech sectors.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/x8wpt/" target="_blank">Post-covid Value Chains Resilience and Regionalization, including a Spotlight on Singapore</a>
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<li><strong>Chronumental: time tree estimation from very large phylogenies</strong> -
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Phylogenetic trees are an important tool for interpreting sequenced genomes, and their interrelationships. Estimating the date associated with each node of such a phylogeny creates a “time tree”, which can be especially useful for visualising and analysing evolution of organisms such as viruses. Several tools have been developed for time-tree estimation, but the sequencing explosion in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has created phylogenies so large as to prevent the application of these previous approaches to full datasets. Here we introduce Chronumental, a tool that can rapidly infer time trees from phylogenies featuring large numbers of nodes. Chronumental uses stochastic gradient descent to identify lengths of time for tree branches which maximise the evidence lower bound under a probabilistic model, implemented in a framework which can be compiled into XLA for rapid computation. We show that Chronumental scales to phylogenies featuring millions of nodes, with chronological predictions made in minutes, and is able to accurately predict the dates of nodes for which it is not provided with metadata.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.27.465994v1" target="_blank">Chronumental: time tree estimation from very large phylogenies</a>
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<li><strong>Avoid being a victim of social engineering attack during the COVID-19 pandemic</strong> -
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Several professional routines were moved to Digital media because of the prevalent circumstances of the COVID 19 disease outbreak. This resulted in a spike in the number of individuals on all these sites and also saw current members leap into the period consumed digitally. This rise in folk’s internet connectivity often never precedes cyber security awareness and the different forms of threats that can happen to a daily Web user. This makes this particular circumstance ready for use by malicious hackers and social engineering attacks (SEA) are indeed the main kind. The assaults on social engineering are a category of advanced cyber threats that manipulate the inherent human behavior and thus violate most security mechanisms. This article addresses how the COVID-19 disease outbreak has laid the groundwork for an increased social technology assault, the implications of these threats as well as some strategies for countering these challenges. This report would assist entities and enterprises through an examination of the several known threats on coronaviruses and suggestions. The study also investigated social engineering philosophy and proposes safety knowledge as a solution for reducing the risk of threats of being the victim of social engineering.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/w5t4d/" target="_blank">Avoid being a victim of social engineering attack during the COVID-19 pandemic</a>
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<li><strong>Understanding the Genetics of Viral Drug Resistance by Integrating Clinical Data and Mining of the Scientific Literature</strong> -
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Drug resistance caused by mutations is a public health threat for existing and emerging viral diseases. A wealth of evidence about these mutations and their clinically-associated phenotypes is scattered across the literature, but a comprehensive perspective is usually lacking. This work aimed to produce a clinically-relevant view for the case of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) mutations by combining a chronic HBV clinical study with a compendium of genetic mutations systematically gathered from the scientific literature. We enriched clinical mutation data by systematically mining 2,472,725 scientific articles from PubMed Central in order to gather information about the HBV mutational landscape. By performing this analysis, we were able to identify mutational hotspots for each HBV genotype (A-E) and gene (C, X, P, S), as well as the location of disulfide bonds associated with these mutations. Through a modelling study, we also identified a mutational position common in both the clinical data and the literature that is located at the binding pocket for a known anti-HBV drug, namely entecavir. The results of this novel approach shows the potential of integrated analyses to assist in the development of new drugs for viral diseases that are more robust to resistance. Such analyses should be of particular interest due to the increasing importance of viral resistance in established and emerging viruses, such as for newly-developed drugs against SARS-CoV-2.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.465417v1" target="_blank">Understanding the Genetics of Viral Drug Resistance by Integrating Clinical Data and Mining of the Scientific Literature</a>
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<li><strong>How many lives do COVID vaccines save? Evidence from Israel.</strong> -
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Background: In December 2020, Israel began a mass vaccination program with the rapid rollout of the Pfizer- BioNTech COVID-19 BNT162b2 vaccine for adults in Israel. The campaign vaccinated fewer people than necessary for herd immunity. However, at the same time, government stringency measures in terms of closing public life were decreased. Real-world observational data were used to examine the effect of mass vaccination on Covid-19 mortality. Methods: The study period to examine the effect of vaccination on mortality was chosen to capture when at least 90% of the population over age 70 were vaccinated for less than seven months. Projected deaths as expected from vaccine efficacy and actual mortality data were compared for the study population with examination of potential confounding effects of government stringency. Average government stringency (Oxford Stringency Index) was calculated in the study period and the preceding period of the pandemic. Potential confounding effects of an age shift in the distribution of deaths were examined by analyzing the distributions of deaths and cases before and after the study period. Results: Confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the population over 70 after mass vaccination were recorded as 370, versus 408 expected from applying person-days of vaccine efficacy, and 5,120 estimated without vaccinations. Conclusions: Vaccines against COVID-19 saved more lives than expected by simply applying individual vaccine efficacy to the vaccinated population in Israel, despite a loosening of government stringency.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.27.21265591v1" target="_blank">How many lives do COVID vaccines save? Evidence from Israel.</a>
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<li><strong>Covid-19 Partisanship in the UK: Findings from Survey and Mobility Data</strong> -
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What is relationship between partisanship and views and behaviours towards Covid-19? This article tackles this research question using nearly 100,000 survey responses to a new and highly granular daily survey as well as google mobility matched to UK general election data. Our results suggest that partisanship is correlated with the views and behaviours of different voters. First, Conservatives saw Covid-19 as less threatening than Labour voters and they tended to leave home more after the national lockdown was announced, even after controlling for potential confounding factors. Second, random forests shows that partisanship as one of the most important predictor of attitudes and behaviours towards Covid-19. Third, the effect of national lockdown on mobility was negative and statistically significant only in less Conservative counties. Thus, partisanship is important to understand the views and behaviours of individuals during a pandemic.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ex8by/" target="_blank">Covid-19 Partisanship in the UK: Findings from Survey and Mobility Data</a>
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<li><strong>Safety Monitoring of mRNA Vaccines Administered During the Initial 6 Months of the U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program: Reports to Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and v-safe</strong> -
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Background: In December 2020, two mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for use in the United States. Vaccine safety was monitored using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a passive surveillance system, and v-safe, an active surveillance system. Methods: VAERS and v-safe data during December 14, 2020-June 14, 2021 were analyzed. VAERS reports were categorized as non-serious, serious, or death; reporting rates were calculated. Rates of reported deaths were compared to expected mortality rates by age. Proportions of v-safe participants reporting local and systemic reactions or health impacts the week following doses 1 and 2 were determined. Findings: During the analytic period, 298,792,852 doses of mRNA vaccines were administered in the United States. VAERS processed 340,522 reports; 92.1% were non-serious; 6.6%, serious, non-death; and 1.3%, death. Over half of 7,914,583 v-safe participants self- reported local and systemic reactogenicity, more frequently after dose 2. Injection-site pain, fatigue, and headache were commonly reported during days 0-7 following vaccination. Reactogenicity was reported most frequently one day after vaccination; most reactions were mild. More reports of being unable to work or do normal activities occurred after dose 2 (32.1%) than dose 1 (11.9%); &lt;1% of participants reported seeking medical care after vaccination. Rates of deaths reported to VAERS were lower than expected background rates by age group. Interpretation: Safety data from &gt;298 million doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine administered in the first 6 months of the U.S. vaccination program show the majority of reported adverse events were mild and short in duration.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265261v2" target="_blank">Safety Monitoring of mRNA Vaccines Administered During the Initial 6 Months of the U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program: Reports to Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and v-safe</a>
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<li><strong>Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study of 10,024 breakthrough infections</strong> -
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Background. Vaccination has proven effective against infection with SARS-CoV-2, as well as death and hospitalisation following COVID-19 illness. However, little is known about the effect of vaccination on other acute and post-acute outcomes of COVID-19. Methods. Data were obtained from the TriNetX electronic health records network (over 81 million patients mostly in the USA). Using a retrospective cohort study and time-to-event analysis, we compared the incidences of COVID-19 outcomes between individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine (approved for use in the USA) at least 2 weeks before SARS-CoV-2 infection and propensity score-matched individuals unvaccinated for COVID-19 but who had received an influenza vaccine. Outcomes were ICD-10 codes representing documented COVID-19 sequelae in the 6 months after a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (recorded between January 1 and August 31, 2021). Associations with the number of vaccine doses (1 vs. 2) and age (&lt; 60 vs. ≥ 60 years-old) were assessed. Findings. Among 10,024 vaccinated individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection, 9479 were matched to unvaccinated controls. Receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose was associated with a significantly lower risk of respiratory failure, ICU admission, intubation/ventilation, hypoxaemia, oxygen requirement, hypercoagulopathy/venous thromboembolism, seizures, psychotic disorder, and hair loss (each as composite endpoints with death to account for competing risks; HR 0.70-0.83, Bonferroni-corrected p&lt;.05), but not other outcomes, including long-COVID features, renal disease, mood, anxiety, and sleep disorders. Receiving 2 vaccine doses was associated with lower risks for most outcomes. Associations between prior vaccination and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection were marked in those &lt; 60 years-old, whereas no robust associations were observed in those ≥ 60 years-old. Interpretation. COVID-19 vaccination is associated with lower risk of several, but not all, COVID-19 sequelae in those with breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection. These benefits of vaccination were clear in younger people but not in the over-60s. The findings may inform service planning, contribute to forecasting public health impacts of vaccination programmes, and highlight the need to identify additional interventions for COVID-19 sequelae. Funding. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v2" target="_blank">Six-month sequelae of post- vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection: a retrospective cohort study of 10,024 breakthrough infections</a>
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<li><strong>REcovery and SURvival of patients with moderate to severe acute REspiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19: a multicentre, single-arm, Phase IV Itolizumab Trial: RESURRECT</strong> -
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<b>Objective</b>: To evaluate safety and efficacy of Itolizumab in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with PaO<sub>2</sub>/FiO<sub>2</sub> ratio (PFR) ≤200 requiring oxygen therapy. <b>Design</b>: A multicentre, single-arm, Phase-4 study with a treatment period of 30-Days and an extended follow-up period of 90-Days. <b>Methods</b>: Hospitalized adult patients (n=300) with SARS-CoV-2 infection, with PFR ≤200, oxygen saturation ≤94% and ≥1 elevated inflammatory markers were included from 17 COVID-19 specific tertiary hospitals in India. Patients received Itolizumab infusion 1.6 mg/kg and were assessed for 1-month and then followed up to Day-90. <b>Results</b>: Day-30 post-treatment safety/efficacy results and Day-90 mortality results are presented. Primary outcome measures: incidence of severe acute infusion-related reactions (IRRs) (≥Grade-3) was 1.3% and mortality rate at 1-month was 6.7% (n=20/300). Key secondary analyses: Mortality rate at Day-90 was 8.0% (24/300). 91.7% patients came off the oxygen therapy within Day-30 of treatment. By Day-7, most patients had stable/improved SpO<sub>2</sub> without increasing FiO<sub>2</sub>. Mean PFR improved by 50% by Day-7 (p&lt;0.001) and the trend remained consistent till Day-30. Median time of recovery was 8 days. Cumulatively, at Day-30, 260(86.7%), 256(85.3%), 132(44.0%), 113(37.6%) and 32(10.7%) patients showed &gt;1-point, &gt;2-point, &gt;3-point, &gt;4-point and 5-point improvement on the modified COVID-19 8-point ordinal scale and worsening of symptoms by &gt;1 point, &gt;2 points and 3-points was seen in 26(8.7%), 20(6.7%) and 6(2.0%) patients, respectively. CRP, D-dimer, LDH and serum ferritin levels significantly decreased (p≤0.01) compared with baseline. IL-6 and TNFα levels also decreased 48-hours post-infusion. Overall, 123 treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were reported in 63 patients, most being Grades 1-3. Most common TEAEs were IRRs and lymphopenia; most common serious TEAEs were septic shock, worsening of ARDS and respiratory failure. No deaths were attributable to Itolizumab. <b>Conclusion</b>: Itolizumab shows no new safety concerns and suggests a mortality and recovery benefit at 1-month in hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen therapy.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.25.21265462v2" target="_blank">REcovery and SURvival of patients with moderate to severe acute REspiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19: a multicentre, single- arm, Phase IV Itolizumab Trial: RESURRECT</a>
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<li><strong>Efficacy of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine against severe COVID-19 in those with risk conditions and residual risk to the clinically extremely vulnerable: the REACT-SCOT case-control study</strong> -
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Objectives - To determine whether COVID-19 efficacy varies with clinical risk category and to investigate risk factors for severe COVID-19 in those who have received two doses of vaccine. Design - Matched case-control study (REACT- SCOT). Setting - Population of Scotland from 1 December 2020 to 8 September 2021. Main outcome measure - Severe COVID-19, defined as cases with entry to critical care or fatal outcome. Results - Efficacy against severe COVID-19 of two doses of vaccine was 94% (95 percent CI 93% to 96%) in those without designated risk conditions, 89% (95 percent CI 86% to 91%) in those with moderate risk conditions, but only 73% (95 percent CI 64% to 79%) in those designated as clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) and eligible for shielding. Of the 641 cases of severe COVID-19 in double- vaccinated individuals, 47% had moderate risk conditions and 38% were CEV. In the double-vaccinated CEV group, the rate ratio for severe disease (with no risk condition as reference category) was highest in solid organ transplants at 101 (95% CI 47 to 214) but even in this subgroup the absolute risk of severe COVID-19 was low (35 cases in 23678 person- months of follow-up). Conclusions - Two doses of vaccine protect against severe COVID-19 in CEV individuals but the residual risk in double-vaccinated individuals remains far higher in those who are CEV than in those who are not. These results lay a basis for determining eligibility for additional measures including passive immunization to protect those at highest risk.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.13.21262360v2" target="_blank">Efficacy of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine against severe COVID-19 in those with risk conditions and residual risk to the clinically extremely vulnerable: the REACT-SCOT case-control study</a>
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The emergence of COVID-19 has profoundly affected social lives and economies globally, and unfortunately the vulnerable low-income population of the world has been adversely affected. On the whole, Covid19 has not only increased human causes, but containment measures have had a negative impact on societies, particularly low-income populations. Widespread adoption of containment measures such as lockdown has led to adverse effects such as mental health disorders, increased economic inequality, decreased employment opportunities, increased poverty trends, loss of income and spending, and other socio-economic consequences that have greatly damaged the lives of economically vulnerable households. . To analyze the effects of the pandemic on low-income households, The purpose of this research is to conduct a survey of the emerging literature on the effects of Covid19, examine the government’s response, and recommend policies that will reduce harm to the low-income community. The increasing number of research studies published on the pandemic last year will give a deep insight into the misadventures and containment measures related to Covid19.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/n5237/" target="_blank">COVID-19’s Impact on Low Income Countries</a>
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<li><strong>Implementation and extended evaluation of the Euroimmun Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay and its contribution to the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 public health response</strong> -
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In March 2020, the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory at Public Health England, Porton Down, was tasked by the Department of Health and Social Care with setting up a national surveillance laboratory facility to study SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses and population-level sero-surveillance in response to the growing SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. In the following 12 months, the laboratory tested more than 160,000 samples, facilitating a wide range of research and informing PHE, DHSC and UK government policy. Here we describe the implementation and use of the Euroimmun anti-SARS- CoV-2 IgG assay and provide an extended evaluation of its performance. We present a markedly improved sensitivity of 91.39% (≥14 days 92.74%, ≥21 days 93.59%) compared to our small-scale early study, and a specificity of 98.56%. In addition, we detail extended characteristics of the Euroimmun assay: intra- and inter-assay precision, correlation to neutralisation and assay linearity.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265497v1" target="_blank">Implementation and extended evaluation of the Euroimmun Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay and its contribution to the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 public health response</a>
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<li><strong>A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Sarilumab in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19</strong> -
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BACKGROUND Sarilumab (anti-interleukin-6 receptor-alpha monoclonal antibody) may attenuate the inflammatory response in Covid-19. METHODS We performed an adaptive, phase 2/3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of intravenous sarilumab 200 mg or 400 mg in adults hospitalized with Covid-19. The phase 3 primary analysis population (cohort 1) was patients with critical Covid-19 receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) randomized to sarilumab 400 mg or placebo. The primary end point for phase 3 was the proportion of patients with ≥1-point improvement in clinical status from baseline to day 22. RESULTS Four-hundred fifty-seven (457) and 1365 patients were randomized and treated in phases 2 and 3, respectively. Among phase 3 critical patients receiving MV (n=289; 34.3% on corticosteroids), the proportion with ≥1-point improvement in clinical status (alive not receiving MV) at day 22 was 43.2% in sarilumab 400 mg and 35.5% in placebo (risk difference [RD] +7.5%; 95% confidence interval [CI], -7.4 to 21.3; P=0.3261), representing a relative risk improvement of 21.7%. Day 29 all-cause mortality was 36.4% in sarilumab 400 mg versus 41.9% in placebo (RD -5.5%; 95% CI, -20.2 to 8.7; relative risk reduction 13.3%). In post hoc analyses pooling phase 2 and 3 critical patients receiving MV, the hazard ratio (HR) for death in sarilumab 400 mg compared with placebo was 0.76 (95% CI, 0.51 to 1.13) overall, improving to 0.49 (95% CI, 0.25 to 0.94) in patients receiving corticosteroids at baseline. CONCLUSION In hospitalized patients with Covid-19 receiving MV, numerical benefits with sarilumab did not achieve statistical significance, but benefit may be greater in patients receiving corticosteroids. A larger study is required to confirm this observed numerical benefit.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.13.21256973v4" target="_blank">A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Sarilumab in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19</a>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COVID-19 Study of Pharmacokinetics, Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Intravenous Anti-Spike(s) SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies (Casirivimab+Imdevimab) for the Treatment of Pediatric Patients Hospitalized Due to COVID-19</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Drug: casirivimab+imdevimab<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:  <br/>
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Immunogenicity and Safety of Heterologous and Homologous Boosting With ChAdOx1-S and CoronaVac or a Formulation of SCB-2019 (COVID-19)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   Covid19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: ChAdOx1-S COVID-19 Vaccine(Fiocruz/Oxford- AstraZeneca);   Biological: CoronaVac (Sinovac Biotech);   Biological: Adjuvanted Recombinant SARS-CoV-2 TrimericS- protein Subunit Vaccine (SCB-2019 - Clover)<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   D’Or Institute for Research and Education;   Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;   Instituto Fernandes Figueira<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>WHO COVID-19 - Evaluation of the Efficacy of Probiotics to Reduce the Occurrence of Long COVID</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Dietary Supplement: Probiotics;   Dietary Supplement: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke;   Lallemand Health Solutions<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Tocilizumab Versus Baricitinib in Patients With Severe COVID-19</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Drug: Tocilizumab;   Drug: Baricitinib<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   University Hospital of Patras<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Efficacy and Safety of Pyramax in Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Patients (Phase3)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Drug: Pyramax;   Drug: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:  <br/>
Shin Poong Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>JINZHEN for Treatment of Mild to Moderate COVID-19</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Drug: JINZHEN Granules for Oral Solution;   Drug: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Lianyungang Kanion Group, Ltd.<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Effectiveness of Using Interactive Consulting System to Enhance Decision Aids of COVID-19 Vaccination</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Device: Chatbot<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Sun Yat- sen University<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Efficacy and Safety of Apixaban in COVID-19 Coagulopathy Patients With Respiratory Severity Under Critical Care</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Drug: Apixaban<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:  <br/>
Scotmann Pharmaceuticals;   Rawalpindi Medical College<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Impact of Nudges on Downloads of COVID-19 Exposure Notification Smartphone Apps: A Randomized Trial</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Behavioral: Self-Benefit/Social Norm;   Behavioral: Self- Benefit/No Social Norm;   Behavioral: Other Benefit/Social Norm;   Behavioral: Other Benefit/No Social Norm<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   University of Pennsylvania;   Pennsylvania Department of Health<br/><b>Completed</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Clinical Validation of Breath Analyser Tests for Diagnosis of COVID-19.</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Diagnostic Test: Breath Sample analysis<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Tera Group<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Efficacy, Safety, and Immunogenicity Study of the Recombinant Two-component COVID-19 Vaccine (CHO Cell)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: Recombinant two-component COVID-19 vaccine (CHO cell);   Biological: Placebo<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Jiangsu Rec-Biotechnology Co., Ltd.<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Cardiovascular Assessment in Patient Recovered From COVID-19 and Recovery of Autonomic Nervous System in Association With the Severity of the Disease</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Intervention</b>:   Other: Non invasive cardiovascular monitoring with CNAP device of arterial pressure, ECG and respiratory activity<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Safety and Efficacy of KOVIR (TD0068) in the Combination Regimen With Background Treatment in COVID-19 Patients (KOVIR)</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   COVID-19<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Dietary Supplement: KOVIR (TD0068) oral capsule;   Dietary Supplement: Placebo oral capsule<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   Sunstar Joint Stock Company;   Vietstar Biomedical Research<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Phase 1 Trial of ChAd68 and Ad5 Adenovirus COVID-19 Vaccines Delivered by Aerosol</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>:   COVID-19;   SARS-CoV2 Infection<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Biological: Ad5-triCoV/Mac;   Biological: ChAd-triCoV/Mac<br/><b>Sponsors</b>:   McMaster University;   Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)<br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Effect of PBM on Functional Capacity and Fatigability in Post Covid-19 Elderly</strong> - <b>Condition</b>:   Post Covid-19 Elderly<br/><b>Interventions</b>:   Radiation: photobiomodulation;   Other: placebo intervention by photobiomodulation device<br/><b>Sponsor</b>:   Cairo University<br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-pubmed">From PubMed</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Characterizing the BCR repertoire during lymphocyte reduction and recovery mediated by cyclophosphamide and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor</strong> - Leukopenia is a common manifestation of many diseases, including global outbreak SAS-CoV-2 infection. Granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM -CSF) has been proved to be effective in promoting lymphocyte regeneration, but adverse immunological effects have also emerged. This study aim to investigate the effect of GM -CSF on BCR heavy chain CDR3 repertoire while promoting lymphocyte regeneration. Cyclophosphamide (CTX) and GM -CSF were used to inhibit and stimulate bone marrow…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COVID-19: A review of newly formed viral clades, pathophysiology, therapeutic strategies and current vaccination tasks</strong> - Today, the world population is facing an existential threat by an invisible enemy known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) or COVID-19. It is highly contagious and has infected a larger fraction of human population across the globe on various routes of transmission. The detailed knowledge of the SARS-CoV-2 structure and clinical aspects offers an important insight into the evolution of infection, disease progression and helps in executing the different therapies…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Fentanyl-induced acute and conditioned behaviors in two inbred mouse lines: potential role for Glyoxalase</strong> - An increase in opioid-overdose deaths was evident before the COVID-19 pandemic, and has escalated since its onset. Fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid, is the primary driver of these recent trends. The current study used two inbred mouse strains, C57BL/6J and A/J, to investigate the genetics of behavioral responses to fentanyl. Mice were tested for conditioned place preference and fentanyl-induced locomotor activity. C57BL/6J mice formed a conditioned place preference to fentanyl…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Heart-rate-variability (HRV), predicts outcomes in COVID-19</strong> - CONCLUSION: Higher HRV predicts greater chances of survival, especially in patients aged 70 years and older with COVID-19, independent of major prognostic factors. Low HRV predicts ICU indication and admission in the first week after hospitalization.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Quercetin and its derivates as antiviral potentials: A comprehensive review</strong> - Quercetin, widely distributed in fruits and vegetables, is a flavonoid known for its antioxidant, antiviral, antimicrobial, and antiinflammatory properties. Several studies highlight the potential use of quercetin as an antiviral, due to its ability to inhibit the initial stages of virus infection, to be able to interact with proteases important for viral replication, and to reduce inflammation caused by infection. Quercetin could also be useful in combination with other drugs to potentially…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein S1 Induces Neuroinflammation in BV-2 Microglia</strong> - In addition to respiratory complications produced by SARS-CoV-2, accumulating evidence suggests that some neurological symptoms are associated with the disease caused by this coronavirus. In this study, we investigated the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein S1 stimulation on neuroinflammation in BV-2 microglia. Analyses of culture supernatants revealed an increase in the production of TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β and iNOS/NO. S1 also increased protein levels of phospho-p65 and phospho-IκBα, as well…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Celecoxib, Glipizide, Lapatinib, and Sitagliptin as potential suspects of aggravating SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection: a computational approach</strong> - COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 has emerged as a potential threat to human life, especially to people suffering from chronic diseases. In this study, we investigated the ability of selected FDA-approved drugs to inhibit TACE (tumor necrosis factor α converting enzyme), which is responsible for the shedding of membrane-bound ACE2 (angiotensin- converting enzyme2) receptors into soluble ACE2. The inhibition of TACE would lead to an increased population of membrane-bound ACE2, which would facilitate…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sophorolipid: A glycolipid biosurfactant as a potential therapeutic agent against COVID-19</strong> - Biosurfactants are natural surfactants produced by a variety of microorganisms. In recent years, biosurfactants have garnered a lot of interest due to their biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. Sophorolipids are glycolipids types of biosurfactants produced by selected non-pathogenic yeasts. In addition to the detergent activity (reduction in surface and interfacial tension), which is commonly utilized by biomedical applications, sophorolipids have shown some unique properties such as,…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Implementation of Clean Hospital Strategy and Prioritizing Covid-19 Prevention Factors Using Best-Worst Method</strong> - Many nations have suffered the catastrophe of COVID-19, and one of the first countries affected by the pandemic was Iran; all industries and individuals have been adversely affected by the pandemic. Health care systems and patients’ conditions, in particular, were disrupted due to canceling elective surgery. To put it more sharply, a delay in performing elective surgery may potentially impact patients’ survival and the quality of their lives. To cope with the new situation, in the first stage,…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Associations between accessibility to health care service, social support, and Korean Americans’ mental health status amid the COVID-19 pandemic</strong> - CONCLUSION: Our findings recommend that equipping community health care services with translators or interpreters is necessary. Additionally, health practitioners and staff should be trained to utilize telehealth tools to effectively treat individuals with mental health problems. American policymakers and health care professionals need to understand and address the unique hardships Korean Americans experience amid COVID-19.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ORF3a of SARS-CoV-2 promotes lysosomal exocytosis-mediated viral egress</strong> - Viral entry and egress are important determinants of virus infectivity and pathogenicity. β-coronaviruses, including the COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 and mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), exploit the lysosomal exocytosis pathway for egress. Here, we show that SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a, but not SARS-CoV ORF3a, promotes lysosomal exocytosis. SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a facilitates lysosomal targeting of the BORC-ARL8b complex, which mediates trafficking of lysosomes to the vicinity of the plasma membrane, and…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Structural, Electronic, and Electrostatic Determinants for Inhibitor Binding to Subsites S1 and S2 in SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease</strong> - Creating small-molecule antivirals specific for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) proteins is crucial to battle coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS-CoV-2 main protease (M^(pro)) is an established drug target for the design of protease inhibitors. We performed a structure-activity relationship (SAR) study of noncovalent compounds that bind in the enzyme’s substrate-binding subsites S1 and S2, revealing structural, electronic, and electrostatic determinants of…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Gold-Nanostar-Chitosan-Mediated Delivery of SARS-CoV-2 DNA Vaccine for Respiratory Mucosal Immunization: Development and Proof-of-Principle</strong> - The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (SC2). A variety of anti-SC2 vaccines have been approved for human applications, including those using messenger RNA (mRNA), adenoviruses expressing SC2 spike (S) protein, and inactivated virus. The protective periods of immunization afforded by these intramuscularly administered vaccines are currently unknown. An alternative self-administrable vaccine capable of mounting long-lasting immunity via sterilizing neutralizing antibodies…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Natural products for infectious microbes and diseases: an overview of sources, compounds, and chemical diversities</strong> - As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) threatens human health globally, infectious disorders have become one of the most challenging problem for the medical community. Natural products (NP) have been a prolific source of antimicrobial agents with widely divergent structures and a range vast biological activities. A dataset comprising 618 articles, including 646 NP-based compounds from 672 species of natural sources with biological activities against 21 infectious pathogens from five categories,…</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong><em>Pediococcus acidilactici</em> CCFM6432 mitigates chronic stress-induced anxiety and gut microbial abnormalities</strong> - The discovery of psychobiotics has improved the therapeutic choices available for clinical mental disorders and shows promise for regulating mental health in people by combining the properties of food and medicine. A Pediococcus acidilactici strain CCFM6432 was previously isolated and its mood-regulating effect was investigated in this study. Viable bacteria were given to chronically stressed mice for five weeks, and then the behavioral, neurobiological, and gut microbial changes were…</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-patent-search">From Patent Search</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and uses thereof I</strong> - - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=AU339290405">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and uses thereof II</strong> - - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=AU339290406">link</a></p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>휴대용 자화 육각수물 발생기</strong> - 본인의 발명은, 사람의 신체에서 육각수물 생성에는 한계가 있으며, 동맥혈관, 정맥혈관 내부 혈액은 수분이 약 90% 이며, 건강한 성인이면, 육각수 물은 약 62% 이며, COVID-19 환자, 사고의 부상, 17만개의 질병, 질환으로 조직세포가 손상되면 자기 신체수복을 위해서 육각수 물을 평소보다 많이 흡수 하면서 동반 산소부족 상태가 되며, 육각수물 보충 없이 산소 호흡기를 사용하면 심각한 후유증이 발병 할 수 있다.</p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">육각수물 부족 상태를 해결하기 위해서, 객관적인 과학적으로 네오디뮴(원자번호 = 60) 3.000 가우스의 자기장을 이용하여서 육각수 물을 62% ~ 80% 이상, 상시 유지 시켜주는 제조 방법이며, 휴대용으로 항시 착용 가능하다. 결론은 COVID-19, 질병, 질환의 근본적인 원인은, 육각수물 부족 상태가 되면 동반 산소 부족 상태가 되면서, 염증 -&gt; 통증 -&gt; 극심한 통증 -&gt; 석회화, 섬유화, 암 까지 발병 한다. - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=KR338655754">link</a></p>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>휴대용 자화 육각수물 발생기</strong> - 본인의 발명은, 사람의 신체에서 육각수 생성에는 한계가 있으며, 동맥혈관, 정맥혈관 내부 혈액은 수분이 90% 이며, 육각수물은 약 62% 이며, COVID-19, 사고 부상, 질병, 질환으로 조직세포가 손상되면 자기 신체수복을 위해서 육각수물을 평소보다 많이 흡수하면서 산소부족 상태가 되며, 육각수 보충 없이 산소호흡기를 사용하면 심각한 후유증이 발병 할 수 있다 육각수물 부족 상태를 해결하기 위해서, 객관적인 과학적으로 네오디뮴(원자번호 = 60) 3.000 가우스의 자기장을 이용하여서 육각수물을 62% ~ 80% 상시 유지 시켜주는 제조 방법이며, 휴대용으로 항시 착용 가능하다. 결론은 COVID-19, 질병, 질환의 근본적인 원인은, 육각수물 부족 상태가 되면 동반 산소 부족 상태가 되면서, 염증 -&gt; 통증 -&gt; 극심한 통증 -&gt; 석회화, 섬유화, 암 까지 발병 한다. - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=KR338650904">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>用于检测新冠病毒的配对抗体及其应用</strong> - 本发明涉及一种用于检测新冠病毒的配对抗体及其应用，其包括第一检测抗体和第二检测抗体；第一检测抗体具有如SEQ ID NO:1~3所示的轻链互补决定区，以及如SEQ ID NO:4~6所示的重链互补决定区，第二检测抗体具有如SEQ ID NO:7~9所示的轻链互补决定区，以及如SEQ ID NO:10~12所示的重链互补决定区。本发明筛选得到具有上述互补决定区序列的配对抗体，其识别N蛋白的不同表位，且由于两种抗体识别的是N蛋白非核酸结合区域，不会受核酸负电荷干扰，对核酸抗原表现出了兼容性，具有较好的稳定性，同时上述配对抗体具有较高的亲和力，病毒N蛋白检测灵敏度高。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN339127990">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>抗KL-6双特异性抗体及基因、重组载体、药物、试剂盒</strong> - 本发明公开了抗KL‑6双特异性抗体或其变体、或其功能性片段，所述抗KL‑6双特异性抗体或其变体、或其功能性片段包括抗PTS域和抗SEA域，所述抗PTS域的重链可变区的CDR1、CDR2和CDR3分别具有SEQ ID NO.1~3所示的氨基酸序列。本发明还提供了基因、重组载体、药物、试剂盒。本发明的抗KL‑6双特异性抗体或其变体、或其功能性片段用于与KL‑6蛋白特异性结合，基因、重组载体用于抗KL‑6双特异性抗体的制备，药物用于治疗KL‑6蛋白引起的相关疾病，试剂盒用于KL‑6蛋白的定量检测。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN338723529">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>基于决策树模型与逻辑回归模型组合的感染筛查方法</strong> - 本发明公开了一种基于决策树模型与逻辑回归模型组合的感染筛查方法，其检测操作方便，可提高感染筛查准确性，该方法基于生命体征监护仪实现，生命体征监护仪与远程数据服务平台通信连接，远程数据服务平台依据临床数据进行感染筛查，该方法包括：通过生命体征监护仪检测获取用户临床数据，将临床数据随机划分为训练集、测试集，将训练集均分为两份：训练集A、训练集B，基于训练集A构建决策树模型，同时，对训练集A进行特征选择，将关键特征向量作为已构建的决策树模型的输入，获取新构造特征向量，基于组合特征向量，构造逻辑回归模型，基于决策树模型和逻辑回归模型组合，对测试集进行预测分类，获取分类结果。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN339127711">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>病毒中和抗体与非中和抗体联合检测方法、检测卡及应用</strong> - 一种病毒中和抗体与非中和抗体联合检测方法、检测卡及其应用，通过病毒受体结合蛋白夹心法原理检测中和抗体，其为通过提前设置病毒受体结合蛋白和能阻断中和抗体与其结合的作为配体的蛋白所形成的复合物，将靶向受体蛋白的非中和抗体提前捕获，保证后续通过夹心法检测中和抗体的特异性。解决了现有技术中中和抗体检测灵敏度低、特异性差以及不能区分中和抗体与非中和抗体的问题，提供了一种简便、快速、灵敏度高、特异性高的病毒中和抗体与非中和抗体联合检测方法、检测卡及其应用。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN338613501">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>扩增△500-532的SARS-CoV-2 Nsp1基因的引物对及其检测方法</strong> - 本发明公开了一种扩增Δ500‑532的SARS‑CoV‑2 Nsp1基因的引物对及其检测方法。引物对的具体序列如SEQ ID NO.1和SEQ ID NO.2所示，其检测方法为：采用引物对对SARS‑CoV‑2 Nsp1基因进行PCR，对PCR产物进行变性退火后，加入T7EI内切酶孵育，再进行PCR扩增，并判断是否存在Δ500‑532的SARS‑CoV‑2 Nsp1基因。本发明可简便快捷的区分出SARS‑CoV‑2 Nsp1基因突变型和野生型。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN339334235">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>广谱抗冠状病毒和流感病毒及口腔致病菌复合IgY及其制剂</strong> - 本发明提供一种广谱抗冠状病毒IgY和广谱抗流感病毒IgY以及抗口腔致病菌IgY及其组合抗体和制剂。本发明提供制备广谱抗冠状病毒IgY和广谱抗流感病毒IgY以及抗口腔致病菌IgY及其组合抗体和制剂的方法。广谱抗冠状病毒IgY和广谱抗流感病毒IgY可结合保守的抗原表位，达到广谱中和效果，解决新冠病毒和流感病毒变异的问题。本发明将广谱抗新冠病毒IgY和广谱抗流感病毒IgY以及抗口腔致病菌IgY及其组合抗体制成系列制剂，包括牙膏和口含片以及潄口水和其它日用品、口鼻喷雾剂、消毒剂、洗手液、粉剂、片剂、糖果、滴鼻剂、滴眼剂、口服剂、胶囊剂，应用于防治新冠和流感以及口腔疾病的药物、消毒产品、保健品和医疗器械中。 - <a href="https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=CN338613293">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Retiring Democrat Places Blame for Paralysis in Congress</strong> - The Kentucky representative John Yarmuth fears for the country’s democratic—and Democratic—future, but expresses some hope for President Biden’s legislative agenda. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/tears-from-a-democrat-as-paralysis-grips-congress">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mexico’s Historic Step Toward Legalizing Abortion</strong> - A landmark court ruling gave Mexicans greater rights to the procedure than Texans now have, but opponents have vowed to reverse the decision. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mexicos-historic-step-toward-legalizing-abortion">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pope Francis and Joe Biden Will Meet in Rome but Not, Alas, in Glasgow</strong> - The Pontiff and the President have common goals on climate change—and similar problems at home. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/pope-francis-and-joe-biden-will-meet-in-rome-but-not-alas-in-%20glasgow">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Another Buffalo Is Possible</strong> - This summer, India Walton looked likely to become the first Black woman to lead Buffalo, and the first socialist mayor of any major American city in decades. Then the sitting Democratic mayor launched a campaign to defeat her. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/another-buffalo-is-possible">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden Can’t Quite Close the Deal—with His Own Party</strong> - “Everybody’s on board,” the President said. But they weren’t, at least not yet. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/biden-cant-quite-close-the-deal-with-his-own-%20party">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>One Good Thing: Knifepoint Horror, a collection of campfire ghost stories in podcast form</strong> -
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A spooky anthology series to listen to over Halloween weekend and on many fall nights to come.
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Every now and then, a man going by the alias Soren Narnia will put out a new episode of his podcast, <a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/"><em>Knifepoint Horror</em></a>. With few exceptions, every episode starts the same way, in the same, barebones aesthetic: slowly, with deceptive calm, the man begins, “My name is ___,” then takes the listener on a mesmerizing first-person journey into the heart of terror.
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I discovered <em>Knifepoint Horror</em>, a minimalist horror anthology podcast that has been scaring listeners for 11 years, through word of mouth, as I expect most of its tiny but loyal fanbase did. With no advertising, no podcast network, and no production studio — not even a theme song — to gussy up its narration, <em>Knifepoint</em> is about as grassroots as podcasting gets. The pseudonymous creator has rarely used his platform to advertise his other works; all of his creations are released under a Creative Commons license, so fans may re-record, remix, and make fanworks. The whole enterprise — an anonymous creator intermittently dropping gifts of spine-tingling campfire tales onto a select band of groupies — feels like a one-man underground subculture. Sometimes, Soren Narnia has a guest voice actor or two on the podcast. Sometimes, when he’s really feeling adventurous, he uses sound effects.
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For the most part, however, he just talks into a stiff, eerie silence, in a monologue that he seems to ad-lib or summon forth from a macabre collection of fables that exists only in his head. In every episode, his character for the evening relays a tale of <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/21363945/hp-lovecraft-racism-examples-explained-
what-is-lovecraftian-weird-fiction">Weird fiction</a> — that Lovecraftian horror subgenre that necessitates a confrontation with the cosmos, of some dark expansive evil too vast and horrible to comprehend without descending into madness.
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With no frills and no production frippery, <em>Knifepoint</em>’s effectiveness derives partly from its minimalism. Soren Narnia allows the silence to fill your mind with terror. The settings are always crucial to these threadbare stories, with their complete lack of adornment — just a man, a voice, and a journey somewhere very, very scary. One week we might revisit a childhood school where secrets lie buried or explore an abandoned factory with a strange inhabitant. Perhaps we’ll trek to an icy arctic wasteland, visit a town where a horrifying cult has taken over, or find an isolated European convent where no gods dwell.
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Our narrators’ levels of reliability and sanity often vary, but Soren Narnia’s masterful storytelling never does. There’s something about the impact of that grave voice reaching into the dark that’s sometimes so frightening it becomes exhilarating. The first time I heard “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/staircase">staircase</a>,” about a disturbing home invasion, the story’s gradually deepening terror had me literally transfixed — physically rooted in place, frozen with fear.
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“You live your whole life and then in one second, you learn what it’s like for primal terror to swallow you, mind and body,” the narrator tells us — even as the story he’s in achieves a level of primal terror, in part because of its vivid imagery, in part because of the simplicity of its narration.
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The podcast currently consists of 64 stand-alone episodes ranging from 40 to 70 minutes in length. In addition to “staircase,” I’m fond of “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/rebirth">rebirth</a>,” <a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/landmark">“landmark</a>,” “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/sisters">sisters</a>,” “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/attic">attic</a>,” “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/legend">legend</a>,” and the recent “<a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/i-was-called-anwen">I was called Anwen</a>” — though every tale in this collection might wind up in your nightmares. A sampling of <em>Knifepoint</em>’s most popular episodes is also available <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/winterthurn/videos">on YouTube</a>, along with other experimental stand-alone stories. New episodes are released from time to time, whenever Soren Narnia feels like it; a recent story about <a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/attraction">a most grisly tourist attraction</a> just appeared for Halloween.
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Over the years, <em>Knifepoint Horror</em> has gained a small but dedicated fan following, and I think that’s in part because there’s something deeply brave about <em>Knifepoint</em> as a creative exercise. Many of the stories feel as though they’re being spun aloud, impromptu. Soren Narnia’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/winterthurn">YouTube channel</a> is full of similar spontaneous storytelling exercises, and he’s said before that he often works from a general outline of the story rather than a full script.
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That makes every story in <em>Knifepoint Horror</em> feel like a triumph, a rough diamond of creative expression that dares to speak itself aloud, flaws and all — to exist in the tense space between Soren Narnia’s brain and a judgmental audience steeped in horror tropes. Except somehow, defying all odds, the rough diamond is always brilliant, sparkling in the dark.
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Knifepoint Horror<em> can be listened to at </em><a href="https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/"><em>this link</em></a><em>. For more recommendations from the world of culture, check out the </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/one-good-thing"><em>One Good Thing</em></a><em> archives.</em>
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Part of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/22500449">Horror Issue </a>of <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-
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As a kid in the 1980s, I never once saw a <em>Nightmare on Elm Street</em> movie, but I still grew up terrified of Freddy Krueger. I didn’t have to watch the movies to know Freddy was a knife-fingered, pizza-faced monster waiting to kill me in my dreams. At the time, he was the subject of chatter at the bike rack, jokes in Mad Magazine or <em>The Simpsons, </em>TV commercials, Halloween costumes, and more. You didn’t need to find Freddy, he was going to find <em>you.</em>
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Much like today’s entertainment landscape is fixated on superheroes, in the 1980s and 1990s, murders and monsters held an absolutely brutal dominance over pop culture. Strangely, much of it was marketed to children.
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The time was “a really key period in the development of horror for children,” says Catherine Lester, the author of <em>Horror Films for Children</em> and lecturer in film and television at the University of Birmingham in the UK. In the 1980s, many factors — directors who grew up on monster movies, experimentation in what children’s media could be and do, even the creation of the PG-13 rating — came together to let scary films for kids “flourish a bit,” she says.
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The horror boom began, more or less, with Michael Myers hacking through a closet door in 1978’s <em>Halloween,</em> and continued with <em>Friday the 13th </em>in 1980. Those franchises had released a combined seven films by the time Freddy came for us in <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street </em>in 1984. Over the next seven years, Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers would star in 10 more movies. Quickly, more kid-friendly monsters also began appearing: <em>Gremlins</em> (described by <a href="https://www.tvguide.com/movies/gremlins/review/2030112295/">TV Guide</a><em> </em>as “cynically aimed to draw an audience of small children who would no doubt be terrorized”),<em> Beetlejuice, </em>Garbage Pail Kids, and the assorted terrors running through <em>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Goosebumps, Tales From the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, </em>and <em>Are You Afraid of the Dark? </em>Horror bled out of theaters, books, and TV screens in a million ways. According to data provided to Vox by costume retailer Spirit Halloween, the most popular costume in 1984 was Freddy Krueger.
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Scary stories for children have an extremely long history. One researcher working at the University of Durham in the UK has been able to trace back early versions of stories like Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast, and Rumpelstiltskin <a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/research/?itemno=27041">thousands of years</a> using techniques borrowed from the field of biology. These stories, and their descendants from Aesop to the Brothers Grimm, tucked moral lessons inside bloody tales of women lopping off their heels and itinerant tailors snipping off the appendages of little boys who won’t stop sucking their thumbs.
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“There are lots of really obvious links between older forms of literature for children like fairy tales and children’s horror,” says Lester. “You see similar themes being worked through that are common in childhood, like learning to be independent, learning to grow up, and dealing with issues with your parents.”
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Closer to the modern day, horror as a genre began to take shape in the 1930s, says Josie Torres Barth, a teaching assistant professor of film studies at North Carolina State University.
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“<em>Dracula</em>, <em>Frankenstein</em>, and <em>The Wolf Man</em> are the first time we think of films as being horror films,” she explains. Crucially, the restrictive Hays Code, which dictated the content of films between 1934 and 1968, made sure that these movies were acceptable to everyone, including children. Decades later, these at least marginally kid-safe movies had second lives as TV reruns and matinee fodder aimed at children and teens, and inspired imitations like <em>I Was a Teenage Werewolf </em>and <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em>. Hollywood producers, says Barth, “realized that they have this great new target market [in teens], and they wanted to get as much money as they can.” Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, monster movies were largely seen as kid stuff.
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This all changed with the beginning of more serious and disturbing horror films like <em>Rosemary’s Baby </em>and <em>The Exorcist </em>in the late 1960s and into the ’70s, though audiences didn’t always know what they were in for. An <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-night-of-the-living-dead-1968">infamous article</a> by Roger Ebert immortalized the liminal moment: Attending an early screening of 1968’s <em>Night of the Living Dead, </em>he found his theater was full of “kids, the kind you expect at a Saturday afternoon kiddie matinee.” Ebert, and apparently the children’s parents, had expected something like <em>Creature from the Black Lagoon</em>, not a genre-defining piece of socially conscious, horrifying filmmaking. The youthful audience watched in stunned silence as the movie “stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying.”
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Despite exponentially increasing levels of not just violence but nudity and sex, “Horror in the ’80s is still kind of thought of as a medium for teenage boys,” Barth says. The films almost invariably were about teens, and were popular with them, too.
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Horror films can serve many deep purposes for teens and children, says Lester. “They can function as a social bonding exercise with peers, and help you work through certain fears and anxieties.” But then again, she says, “It’s also just really fun. It’s fun to be scared!”
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“Let’s face it, kids are attracted to what’s taboo,” says artist and writer Scott Shaw, who has contributed several times to Garbage Pail Kids. “My parents would say, ‘Oh, you can’t watch that. That’s too scary for you.’ Well, I’d wait until they fell asleep, and I’d get up and watch it, and it’d scare the shit out of me. And I always felt great about it.”
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So what happened to the monster mania of the 1980s? Though ideas about what content is appropriate for children haven’t changed much in the past decades, says Betsy Bozdech, executive editor of ratings and reviews for Common Sense Media, an organization that rates and categorizes what media is appropriate for a child at a given age, parents have become more involved in their offspring’s media consumption.
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“It used to be kind of like you just said, ‘Oh, you’re going to go watch a movie over at your friend’s house, okay,’” she says. Now, “a lot of parents are trying to take a more active role in knowing and managing what their kids watch. And we have parental controls, and you can see your kids’ Netflix history, and you could know what they’re watching … I would say that experience, and focus group testing, has probably showed [producers] that parents aren’t really eager for little kids to be scared too early.”
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Kids, too, seemed to lose interest in the thrills that became more cheap with each sequel.
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“When you’re creating something to make it feel outrageous, it gets old real fast. And after a while, outrageous just becomes mundane. And where do you take it from there?” says Shaw. “I think kids started saying, ‘This is just an imitation of that,’ or, ‘We’ve already seen a character throwing up five times. Why do I really want to see more of this?’”
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The teen slasher flicks and screamfests of the 1980s may also have simply grown up along with their audiences. Throughout the 1990s, horror veered in several directions at once. There were self- referential explorations of genre tropes like <em>Wes Craven’s New Nightmare </em>(1994) and <em>Scream </em>(1996), as well as the rise of pseudo-horror thriller/mysteries about serial killers like <em>Silence of the Lambs </em>(1991) and <em>Seven</em> (1996), as well as some attempts to refocus on the classics of the genre, like <em>Bram Stoker’s Dracula </em>(1992), <em>Interview With the Vampire </em>(1994), and <em>Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein</em> (1994). Gone, for the most part, was the particular magic of the unreflective slasher flick, and its stranglehold on the public imagination.
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Of course, horror hasn’t disappeared as a genre, and neither has a softer, gentler version of it aimed at younger audiences. Since 2012, the monsters in <em>Hotel Transylvania </em>have starred in four movies, a TV show, three graphic novels, and several video games. There have been two <em>Happy Death Day</em> movies, and video games like the survival horror sensation <em>Five Nights at Freddy</em>’s, which currently has nine installments and a planned film adaptation. Tim Burton is remaking <em>The Addams Family, </em>and Rob Zombie is rebooting <em>The Munsters</em>. Then there’s <em>Stranger Things</em>, which is performing a few functions at once; adults are served heaps of nostalgia for the horror of their youth, and today’s teens and children watch it to be scared out of their minds when their parents aren’t looking.
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And yet horror simply doesn’t have the central space in culture it once did. Today, what scares us has changed across the ideological spectrum, says Tara Conley, assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Gone, for the most part, is the stranger lurking in the shadows with a glinting machete. Our new boogeymen are closer to home.
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“Critical race theory is a boogeyman,” says Conley. “The war on drugs is a boogeyman. These are things that people can pinpoint and identify and connect to things they’re concerned about morally.”
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“There’s recent studies around Facebook and Instagram and their impact on young girls’ perceptions of their bodies. That’s real and observable. Black girls and the disproportionate care roles they’ve been taking on during the pandemic. But for most folks, it’s harder to wrap their brains around things that are happening every day that we should probably be paying a little more attention to as a society,” says Conley.
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Today, the dystopic reality of our lives is scarier than a few creeps who lurk in our dreams. And that’s definitely not for kids.
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<em>Chris Chafin covers the business of culture for publications including Rolling Stone, Vulture, and the BBC. He also hosts </em><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/abc-movies/id1451462594"><em>a movie podcast</em></a><em>.</em>
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ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on October 28, 2021, in Washington, DC. The committee is investigating allegations that oil giants misled the public about the role of fossil fuels in climate change. | Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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House Democrats grilled Big Oil executives about decades of disinformation. Here are five unanswered questions.
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Four executives from Big Oil — “the richest, most powerful industry in human history,” according to environmentalist Bill McKibben — <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/fueling-the-climate-crisis-exposing-big-oil-s-disinformation-
campaign-to">testified before Congress on Thursday</a> at a hearing meant to reveal how the oil business has undermined government action on climate change.
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The House Committee on Oversight and Reform questioned the CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, and Shell, alongside the presidents of two powerful lobbying groups, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the US Chamber of Commerce. The Democratic lawmakers who control the committee interrogated the executives about how their institutions misled the public and funded misinformation campaigns that questioned the severity of climate change.
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But the executives, testifying virtually, were evasive. “As science has evolved and developed, our understanding has evolved and developed,” said ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, answering a question about why his company rejected climate science throughout the 2000s, when scientists already agreed that global warming was an urgent threat. Republican lawmakers argued the hearing was a farce, a distraction from other issues, and a veiled attempt to ban oil production.
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These Oil CEOS keep saying they support climate action, but not a single one of them would commit to stop lobbying against climate legislation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SlipperySix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SlipperySix</a> <a href="https://t.co/XrJ9a0MLZr">pic.twitter.com/XrJ9a0MLZr</a>
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— Jamie Henn (<span class="citation" data-cites="jamieclimate">@jamieclimate</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamieclimate/status/1453785781257097222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2021</a></blockquote></div></li>
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Big Oil’s big secrets about its climate change activities may begin to unravel in any paperwork committee staff can get their hands on. For <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-
knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/">40 years</a>, the oil industry has worked to <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/The-Climate-Deception-Dossiers.pdf">delay and obstruct</a> policies that would hurt the profitability of its products, even when their own scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. Thousands of pages of documents in the public record — obtained through lawsuits, leaks, and undercover videos — patch together <a href="https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Smoke-
Fumes-FINAL.pdf">a portrait</a> of how the oil industry <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/book/exxon-the-road-not-
taken/">has fostered climate change denial</a>.
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The Oversight committee <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-launches-investigation-of-fossil-fuel-
industry">requested</a> additional<strong> </strong>documents dating back to 2015, but so far witnesses “have failed to adequately comply with the Committee’s request,” according to a statement by Democratic lawmakers. When reached for comment, an API spokesperson countered that the group has been actively working to comply “and has already produced thousands of pages responsive to their request.”
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After nearly five hours of questioning, House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) closed the hearing by announcing she would issue subpoenas for the documents the committee did not receive, saying it had received only financial reports, social media posts, and press releases that were already publicly available. Maloney called for detailed funding information, board memos, and senior executive communications to help the committee “understand their payments to shadow groups and to over 150 public relations companies and advertisements on social media, payments that today’s witnesses seem intent on continuing.”
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“I do not take this step lightly,” Maloney added, saying that the committee’s goal is to “get to the bottom of the oil industry’s disinformation campaign, and with these subpoenas we will.”
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Climate activists hope that this moment could be an inflection point for accountability in the oil industry, similar to when Congress investigated other industries that have profited from misleading the public, including tobacco, asbestos, and lead companies. “There’s ongoing pressure to get these companies to fess up in one way or the other, or pay up,” said Kert Davies, founder and director of the advocacy research group Climate Investigations Center, who has collected his own <a href="https://www.climatefiles.com/">database of oil documents</a>. “How and when that comes, and how much they can do to blunt that, is the drama that’s playing out this week.”
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What secrets are oil companies still keeping from the public? There are at least five key areas Congress can dig into to discover the truth about Big Oil’s activities on climate change. The documents Democrats are after could also paint a fuller, more recent picture of the oil industry’s own climate change goals. Some purport to aim for net-zero emissions in the coming decades, but they<strong> </strong>could turn out to be hot air.
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How much has the oil industry spent trying to undermine climate legislation?
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In the words of one ExxonMobil lobbyist, the company has worked with “shadow groups” against early efforts to regulate the fossil fuel industry.
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In June, the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace published a video of then-lobbyist Keith McCoy speaking on what he thought was a recruiting call. “Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes,” McCoy said. “Did we hide our science? Absolutely not. Did we join some of these ‘shadow groups’ to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that’s true. But there’s nothing illegal about that. You know, we were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders.”<strong> </strong>McCoy <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/exxon-splits-with-lobbyist-who-divulged-
climate-strategy/">no longer works</a> for ExxonMobil.
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Similarly candid admissions about oil’s attitude toward climate action may lurk in their internal records.
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Oil companies are finally promising to change, but how much of their climate commitments are just greenwashing?
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According to McCoy, the ExxonMobil lobbyist in Greenpeace’s exposé, the company had also been feigning <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-06/exxon-booted-from-carbon-tax-alliance-after-lobbying-
scandal">support for a carbon tax</a>, a policy that would increase the cost of fossil fuels to reduce demand.
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“Nobody is going to propose a tax on all Americans, and the cynical side of me says, yeah, we kind of know that. But it gives us a talking point that we can say, ‘Well, what is ExxonMobil for? Well, we’re for a carbon tax,’” McCoy said.
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There are other ways oil companies have inflated their records on climate, a tactic known as greenwashing. As of December 2019, the world’s five biggest oil companies had spent a <a href="https://grist.org/energy/big-oil-spent-3-6-billion-on-climate-ads-and-its-working/">combined $3.6 billion</a> in advertising over the previous 30 years. One of Exxon’s recent marketing pushes has been in promoting its investments in research for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-sees-green-gold-in-algae-based-fuels-skeptics-see-
greenwashing-11633258802">using algae</a> for car fuel. Someone who watches these ads might assume Exxon spends a significant portion of its budget on algae, when it accounted for <a href="https://influencemap.org/report/How-Big-Oil-
Continues-to-Oppose-the-Paris-Agreement-38212275958aa21196dae3b76220bddc">0.2 percent</a> of its refining capacity.
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Despite the rhetoric, the oil industry seems likely to stay true to its core products. As BP America CEO David Lawler said in the hearing, “This doesn’t mean BP is getting out of the oil and gas business.”
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Who is calling the shots for the politicians and groups that deny climate change?
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Astroturfing is the “practice of creating an illusion of public support for a cause,” according to the environmental news outlet <a href="https://grist.org/article/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-drums-up-grassroots-
support/">Grist</a>. Instead of expressing skepticism of climate science or promoting controversial policies directly, oil companies and their allies have spent big sums on other organizations that promote its priorities.
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One example is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has received more than <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/396700-exxon-leaves-conservative-advocacy-group-alec">$1.7 million</a> from Exxon and its affiliates before the company left the council in 2018. ALEC has helped reverse <a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ALEC-Coordinates-New-Attacks-on-Renewables-Mandates">renewable portfolio standards</a> and <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/readers-
watchdog/2017/04/10/alec-plastic-bag-ban-iowa/100189578/">plastic bag bans</a> by pushing model legislation in states. Between 1998 and 2014, Exxon also led <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122017/big-oil-heartland-climate-
science-misinformation-campaign-koch-api-trump-infographic/">corporate donors</a> in giving almost $31 million to special interest groups that promote climate change denial.
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This is only a small glimpse into the grants Big Oil has given to third-party groups. The public doesn’t yet know what, exactly, the grants were for.
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How much current polarization on climate change can be traced back to early disinformation campaigns by the industry?
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In 2015, the <a href="https://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/">LA Times</a> and <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/project/exxon-the-road-not-taken/">Inside Climate News</a> published separate investigations showing that scientists in the oil industry had urged companies to consider how its products were fueling global warming via internal memos dating all the way back to the 1960s. Instead of heeding these calls, Exxon <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crimes-oil-and-gas-environment">worked with</a> other top oil companies to form a coalition that would sink a binding global climate agreement in 1998, according to <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/784572/api-global-climate-science-communications-
plan.pdf">documents</a>.
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From the <a href="https://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/">LA Times</a>:
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How did one of the world’s largest oil companies, a leader in climate research, become one of its biggest public skeptics?
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The answer, gleaned from a trove of archived company documents and the recollections of former employees, is that Exxon, now known as Exxon Mobil, feared a growing public consensus would lead to financially burdensome policies.
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What are the end goals of Big Oil’s enormous marketing push?
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One of the mysteries of the oil industry is the type of work it contracts out to consulting and public relations groups, which have helped Big Oil craft a benevolent public image.
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Davies, of the Climate Investigations Center, wonders what the oil industry deems a PR “success.” “Who’s measuring the success of these ads? You’re spending millions of dollars on these ads, how do you measure the win?” he added.
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Shedding light on the PR world’s activities could pressure the biggest firms to<strong> </strong>consider severing their ties with oil giants.
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The efforts of oil companies to market themselves also loom large in a <a href="http://climatecasechart.com/climate-change-litigation/">growing number of lawsuits</a> alleging malfeasance. Rep. Ro Khanna said Thursday’s hearing is likely just the first part of a series getting to the bottom of oil industry campaigns, with a second focused on the PR industry’s role working with oil companies.
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“We have a huge amount of documentation going back 40 years,” said Harvard history of science professor Naomi Oreskes ahead of the hearing, during a call with the progressive group Our Revolution.
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On Thursday, the company executives claimed their position reflects the overwhelming scientific consensus that fossil fuels cause climate change. But the industry has not focused on climate-friendly policy in its lobbying.
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The four oil companies present at the hearing, along with API, have spent nearly $453 million combined to lobby the federal government in the past decade, according to <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Analysis%20of%20the%20Fossil%20Fuel%20Industrys%20Legislative%20Lobbying%20and%20Capital%20Expenditures%20Related%20to%20Climate%20Change%20-%20Staff%20Memo%20%2810.28.21%29.pdf">an analysis</a> released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight committee. The analysis suggests the industry has been far more concerned with protecting tax breaks for fossil fuels than it has protecting the planet.
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For example, the industry has publicly said it supports the Paris climate agreement, but in the halls of Congress, it lobbied on the matter only eight times out of 4,597 lobbying examples in the analysis. The industry devoted more than half its time lobbying on tax-related issues.
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“I don’t think we really need more research … on what these companies have done, and the way they have misrepresented the truth, the facts, and continue to propagate dangerous practices,” Oreskes said on the Our Revolution call. But she thinks the hearing can help the public realize this. “We’ve been lied to … we have work to do to really get that message out.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Abhay Sharma applies for India fielding coach’s job</strong> - The former first-class player has worked extensively with India A, India U-19 and the national women’s teams</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Former Australian spinner Ashley Mallett dies aged 76</strong> - Mallett took 132 Test wickets at an average of 29.84 in 38 matches between 1968 and 1980.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>T20 World Cup: Disciplined Bangladesh restricts West Indies</strong> - For West Indies, Roston Chase makes his international T20 debut while Jason Holder was also included in the playing XI.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Assam takes counselling route to eviction</strong> - Encroachers of Lumding Reserve Forest on Govt sight after Gorukhuti, says CM</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Supreme Court Collegium recommends transfer of two HC judges</strong> - Patna HC judge Justice Birendra Kumar has been transferred to Rajasthan HC and Rajasthan HC’s Justice Satish Kumar Sharma has been shifted to M.P. HC</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Widespread rain till Monday</strong> - Kerala is likely to receive widespread rainfall till Monday. All districts except Kannur and Kasaragod are on yellow alert for isolated heavy rainfall</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Puneet Rajkumar: Power star of Kannada cinema passes away</strong> - A pictorial tribute to Sandalwood’s ‘Appu’ who began his career as a toddler and reached several heights, only to be gone too soon.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Want to clean Lumding forest of encroachers, but after talks: Assam CM</strong> - The controversial drive to turf out “illegal settlers” at Gorukhuti’s Dhalpur villages in Darrang district last month, had left at least two persons dead in police firing and nearly two dozens injured.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Fishing row: UK warns France it could retaliate over threats</strong> - The environment secretary says “two can play at that game” as dispute over fishing rights escalates.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pope urges ‘radical’ climate response in exclusive BBC message</strong> - In an exclusive message recorded for the BBC, Pope Francis addresses world leaders ahead of COP26.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kemerovo fire: Jail terms for bosses over Russian mall disaster</strong> - A leisure centre blaze in 2018 killed 60 people, most of them children, in a Siberian city.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mikheil Saakashvili: Hunger-striking ex-leader rattles Georgia from jail</strong> - Mikheil Saakashvili was president, but is now in prison as the government tries to silence him.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COP26: Biden lands in Europe ahead of climate summit</strong> - The US president arrives but his signature climate proposals are yet to pass through Congress.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rocket Report: Russia finally agrees to fly SpaceX, Firefly targets early 2022</strong> - “From our viewpoint, SpaceX has gained sufficient experience.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1807162">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Despite huge iPhone sales, Apple misses the mark in Q4 earnings report</strong> - Supply shortages led Apple to miss investors’ and analysts’ expectations. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808698">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FCC defends Starlink approval as Viasat, Dish urge court to block SpaceX license</strong> - FCC disputes environmental and interference claims made by satellite companies. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808584">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>COVID trial using antidepressant cut short due to apparent effectiveness</strong> - It’s not a cure, but it seems to keep some at-risk people out of the hospital. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808613">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Florida strips federal funding from schools as further punishment for masking</strong> - The state withheld nearly $700,000 in funding from two counties. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808637">link</a></p></li>
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If you’re going to use barbecue sauce, you better know what you’re doing.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jkane4334"> /u/jkane4334 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhylxp/making_pizza_is_a_lot_like_having_sex/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhylxp/making_pizza_is_a_lot_like_having_sex/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A FROST-titute.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/KindaIndifferent"> /u/KindaIndifferent </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qi1s3j/what_do_you_call_a_snowman_hooker/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qi1s3j/what_do_you_call_a_snowman_hooker/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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CEO admits the move was difficult, since both firms deliver crap.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HarryPotter0711"> /u/HarryPotter0711 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhyzpt/metamucil_changes_its_name_to_facebookmucil/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhyzpt/metamucil_changes_its_name_to_facebookmucil/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A nun, badly needing to use to the restroom, walked into a local Hooters. The place was hopping with music and loud conversation and every once in a while the lights would turn off. Each time the lights would go out, the place would erupt into cheers. However, when the revelers saw the nun, the room went dead silent. She walked up to the bartender, and asked, “May I please use the restroom? The bartender replied,”OK, but I should warn you that there is a statue of a naked man in there wearing only a fig leaf." Well, in that case I’ll just look the other way," said the nun. So, the bartender showed the nun to the back of the restaurant. After a few minutes, she came back out, and the whole place stopped just long enough to give the nun a loud round of applause. She went to the bartender and said, “Sir, I don’t understand. Why did they applaud for me just because I went to the restroom?” “Well, now they know you’re one of us,” said the bartender, “Would you like a drink?” But, I still don’t understand," said the puzzled nun. “You see,” laughed the bartender, “every time someone lifts the fig leaf on that statue, the lights go out. Now, how about that drink?”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xlxNoNickNamexlx"> /u/xlxNoNickNamexlx </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhk9f4/a_nun_walks_into_hooters/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qhk9f4/a_nun_walks_into_hooters/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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“Will you marry me?”
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The Princess said “NO!”
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And the Prince lived happily ever after, and rode motorcycles, and went fishing, and hunting, and played golf, and fucked women half his age, and drank beer, and scotch and had tons of money in the bank, and scratched his balls without criticism and left the toilet seat up.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Waitsfornoone"> /u/Waitsfornoone </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qi2jes/once_upon_a_time_a_prince_asked_a_beautiful/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/qi2jes/once_upon_a_time_a_prince_asked_a_beautiful/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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