Pfizer and fake news
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Pfizer and fake news
Thankfully, the pharmaceutical giant’s CEO, Albert Bourla, isn’t playing along with the media’s message about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
(March 9, 2021 / JNS) Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was scheduled to arrive in Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. One ostensible purpose of the visit slated to coincide with the completion of the delivery of 10 million doses of BioNTech was to examine the possibility of Pfizer building a vaccine-production plant and R&D center in Israel.
On Thursday, however, Pfizer announced that it was postponing the trip. According to the pharmaceutical giant, Bourla and the members of his team who were part of his entourage are not yet fully vaccinated.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 2.0 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 13.4 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 13.9 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 77,291
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 52,669
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 2,417
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 20.4 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened, hospitalizations worsened, and deaths worsened [note: this is a sign of trend reversal - could the new variants be impacting COVID case growth?>
Feb 26, 2021 8:37 AM EDT
TEL AVIV, Israel Violet light bathed the club stage as 300 people, masked and socially distanced, erupted in gentle applause. For the first time since the pandemic began, Israeli musician Aviv Geffen stepped to his electric piano and began to play for an audience seated right in front of him.
“A miracle is happening here tonight,” Geffen told the crowd.
Still, the reanimating experience Monday night above a shopping mall north of Tel Aviv night was not accessible to everyone. Only people displaying a “green passport” that proved they had been vaccinated or had recovered from COVID-19 could get in.
Governments say getting vaccinated and having the proper documentation to prove it will smooth the way to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and such efforts have gotten a head start in Israel.
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A man presents his Green Pass, proof that he is vaccinated against the coronavirus, on opening night at the Khan Theater for a performance where all guests were required to show proof of vaccination or full recovery from the virus, in Jerusalem, February 23, 2021. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
AP Violet light bathed the club’s stage Monday as 300 people, masked and socially distanced, erupted in gentle applause. For the first time since the pandemic began, musician Aviv Geffen stepped to his electric piano and began to play for an audience seated right in front of him.
“A miracle is happening here tonight,” Geffen told the crowd.