During the final week of 2021 every day is the Friday afternoon news dump for the Biden administration

 

Tennessee is reporting breakthrough deaths from COVID in August, September, and October in a range of 15-17%

 

Daily deaths per million from COVID globally haven't been this low since late October 2020, fourteen months ago, but there's a frenzy to get tested for some reason

 

Biden CDC: 10 days quarantine for Republicans, 5 days for Democrats

 

I laid in enough supplies to get me through January just in case and it now looks like We Ain't Comin' Out until spring

 

Omicron may be spreading like wildfire, but deaths per million globally are lower now, a month after its discovery, than they were in mid-October

 

Biden promised to shut down the virus, now says there's no federal solution

 Which is even more odd since he has mandated vaccines for the employees of large companies.

The guy is obviously too old upstairs for the job.

Story.

"There is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level," Biden responded, before mentioning another Republican governor.

 

Tennessee is the latest state to report a massive backlog of COVID-19 deaths, over 2,000 yesterday, badly skewing the curve

 Tennessee joins Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the last three months making big backfills, distorting the graphs we try to make.

US Army's Walter Reed Army Institute of Research near Silver Spring, MD, announces single shot Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine

 Phase 1 human trials have been completed on non-vaccinated, never infected individuals, with Phases 2 and 3 forthcoming on vaccinated or previously sick people. 

From the story:

Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide. 

Merry Christmas.

FDA finally grants emergency use authorization to Pfizer's Paxlovid, a protease inhibitor which may dramatically reduce hospitalizations for people diagnosed with COVID-19

 From the story:

The U.S. has purchased 10 million courses of Pfizer’s treatment, Paxlovid, in a $5 billion deal. President Joe Biden said in November that his administration is working to ensure that the treatments are free and accessible. Biden said last month that delivery would start by the New Year and continue through 2022.  

Merry Christmas.

CEO of Pfizer partner BioNTech says the boostered "are likely to transmit" COVID-19

 "We must be aware that even triple-vaccinated are likely to transmit the disease…It is obvious we are far from 95 per cent effectiveness that we obtained against the initial virus," Ugur Sahin told the French daily Le Monde in an interview published on Monday.

More.

Out: pandemic transmission from breakthrough cases . . . In: pandemic transmission from booster breakthrough cases

 

BREAKING: FLOOR TRADER WEARS MASK TO PREVENT INFECTION FROM COMPUTER VIRUS

 

LOL government lapdog AXIOS, where the Omicron variant is so grave the variant page hasn't been updated IN TWELVE DAYS

 Will must be on vacation.

So far in 26% fully-vaccinated South Africa, Omicron is turning out to be a giant nothing burger

 The seven day average of daily new deaths was 20 on Nov 24th when Omicron was first identified.

As of Dec 19th, it's 30.

Big whoop.

LOL Trump brags about the same vaccines which are failing spectacularly in Canada in Dallas, gets unenthusiastic response

A good sign.

Mediaite LOVES Trump now!

... kudos to the former president for not pussy-footing around in answering, and receiving the smattering of boos with some grace and laughter.

Egads, you knew it was coming: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals panel rules 2-1 that Biden's employer vaccine mandate, previously paused, can take effect

  Earlier this week, the circuit’s active judges rejected a move to have the entire panel consider the case, on an 8-8 vote.

More. 

Supreme Court next, which will allow the mandate.

They can make you buy Obamacare, right?

Hysteria check, first 16 days of December 2021 vs. 2020: US COVID-19 deaths are 46% fewer per day in 2021 than in 2020

First 16 days of December:

21,346 deaths in 2021 vs. 39,621 deaths in 2020

1334/day in 2021 vs. 2476/day in 2020.

 

I'll take 2021.

LOL COVID vaccine maker Moderna won't send its own employees to a conference out of fear of COVID

 

LOL, Anthony Fauci's name now appears third on a paper at the New England Journal of Medicine which says 'Vaccination has also been unable to prevent “breakthrough” infections, allowing subsequent transmission to other people'

 Here.