Is Pot the Answer?

How do you reduce stress? Maybe my relentless search for truth and integrity is the problem! But I won't have it any other way...

I’ll admit I smoked pot here and there when I was a young adult, pretty much if anyone handed me a pipe or joint. I didn’t think about it much and it didn’t concern me if I had some, or if I didn’t. I never thought that pot was necessary for a good time. I was probably more excited about coffee and sweets. And with time, wine or scotch. When I was about 13 years old my parents broke up and my…

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Yesterday's sketch I did during break from my family medicine rotation (sketched on the phramaceutical company merch post-it because why not?)

I just had to draw Hunter happy.

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company (MCCPDC) is a registered pharmaceutical wholesaler and purchases drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing middlemen to lower the price of more than 100 medications, it said in a statement.

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

MCCPDC CEO Alex Oshmyansky reached out to Cuban with an idea for a low-cost generic drug company in a cold email. It was launched in January last year. They were motivated in part by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shrkeli’s outrage-producing price hike of the lifesaving drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per tablet while Shrkeli was CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Cuban told Forbes last year the pricing for generic drugs was “ridiculous.” He said he decided to put his name on the company to “show capitalism can be compassionate and to send the message I am all in.” It’s not clear how much he had invested in the company.

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Kodak rises 34% after skyrocketing 1,200% in 2 days 2020

Kodak rises 34% after skyrocketing 1,200% in 2 days 2020

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Kodak's share price rose up to 34% on Thursday as traders continued to cheer on their $ 765 million government loan to make pharmaceutical ingredients in response to the pandemic.

The camera company's stock rose approximately 1,200% two days this week, increasing its market cap from less than $ 150 million to $ 2.6 billion.

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Melanoma Treatment Market 2021 Highlights Recent Trends, Business Opportunities and Market Growth till 2018 – 2026

Melanoma is a kind of skin cancer that starts from melanocytes, which are pigment cells. It is produced by excessive UV light exposure, which causes sunburn, especially at high elevations. There are three types of melanoma: cutaneous, mucosal, and ocular. Cutaneous disorders impact the skin, mucosal disorders affect the mucous membrane in the mouth and nose passage, and ocular disorders affect the eye. Early identification of melanoma, on the other hand, aids treatment and increases survival rates.

When chemotherapy fails to produce results, targeted therapy, such as BRAF inhibitors, is used. In compared to chemotherapy, targeted therapy has fewer adverse effects. According to Cancer Research Institute, in 2016, there were roughly 76,000 people diagnosed with melanoma in the U.S. The Melanoma Treatment Market is predicted to rise due to the discovery of new medications and combination therapies with fewer side effects and higher survival rates. In the near future, the growing focus on customised treatment, combined with a large investment in anti-melanoma medications, is projected to generate new prospects. However, the market for melanoma treatment is restrained by the high cost of combination medicines and clinical trials with side effects. 

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neurodiversity discourse has failed us by bolstering the idea that diagnosis and a pathology framework are objectively true, correct, and helpful. it’s failed us by convincing people that this framework is itself correct and simply being carried out by people who don’t carry it out perfectly, instead of making us question the validity of the framework itself, one which has been constructed in service of capitalism, bioessentialism, and binary modes of thinking.

i just saw a post talking about visual phenomena common in autistic people because of neural excitability (phenomena which, for context, is common to literally all people - floaters, visual noise, phosphenes, glare/rays around lights, etc.) and while it was a fun read that could be informative or simply interesting, the way it’s been culturally contextualised within the last few years means that everyone in the comments was like “wow I had no idea this wasn’t normal, I might have autism” “this isn’t normal?? I need to look into this” “could this also be a symptom of x? I have this but I don’t think I have autism” “I experience some of these, I didn’t know it wasn’t normal”

i’m gonna lose my mind! the idea that there is such a thing as a “normal” brain with “average”, “normal”, “totally conventional” modes of function that don’t ever cross over with any characteristics that could be classed as atypical, the idea that brains exist in totally discrete (separate) categories and that anything you experience that is common to a diagnosis or category in general means your brain is now a Part Of That Category is an absolute fucking incredible failure of discourse and the ways it’s taught people to think about the world. the weird part is people have some sense of understanding that this way of thinking is wrong, like when they say “everyone gets sad that doesn’t mean you’re depressed” but can’t seem to broaden that insight to a consistent model of understanding human experience and pathology.

it’s like when people say trans people are valid because we have “male” or “female” brains or whatever and can’t seem to understand that those are somewhat arbitrary average distributions and not discrete categories and by no means can actually class you essentially into a category that was constructed by humans for social, colonial, or capitalist purposes.

edited to add: I feel like people will read this as anti-self-dx or something, when it’s the opposite. I think the culture we’ve built around pathology/neurodiversity/identity mirrors the very institutions it claims to position itself against. there is nothing *inherently* true or liberating about a self-determined diagnosis/label/identity, the same way there isn’t anything *inherently* true or liberating about an externally determined one. doctors are subject to error, bias, and all the effects of working with a framework that’s been created within and in service of broader oppressive systems, the same way *you* are subject to all of this when you go about self-diagnosing. this isn’t about blame or invalidating that endeavour, it’s just really weird to me that people treat self-diagnosis as somehow magically separate from the contexts which create it, not only in terms of the nature of the endeavour but how we conceptualise diagnosis/pathology/identity itself to begin with.

the main differences between self-dx and a doctor’s dx is 1) the doctor has been granted certain social and legal authorities (which are worth critiquing) and 2) involving a doctor means involving another person in the endeavour, which can be both a good and a bad thing. the rest stays generally the same, self-dx doesn’t inherently do anything to meaningfully challenge the medical and social systems that create our understanding of diagnosis, diversity, pathology, etc.

at worst it recreates the exact same ideas and attitudes present in the medical profession which serve the interests of phramaceutical corps, capitalism, the atomization of identities and individuals, bioessentialism, medicalization and pathologization, etc. but presented in a way that makes people think it’s progressive, and at best it simply serves as a way to circumvent barriers which make practical, material sources of aid deeply inaccessible.

as someone who self-dxd as autistic for years before receiving a diagnosis from a psychiatrist, the only thing *both* the self-dx and the psych dx have done is make me feel like many of the traits i was punished for throughout my life aren’t actually a problem and shouldn’t be treated as such, and making me feel like i can do things which allow me to feel more comfortable and functional (stimming, wearing ear plugs/mufflers, not having to look at people’s eyes, having my partner/friends understand my sensory issues so they don’t overstimulate me, understanding my general triggers, having my partner understand non-verbal episodes and working out how to navigate them together, working on not being ashamed to gush/infodump about things but also trying to understand when people aren’t feeling up to listening, not forcing myself to engage with situations or activities i don’t enjoy just because they’re socially standard things, etc.)

heres the fucking thing though!!! i shouldn’t have to have any fucking diagnosis to come to those understandings, self-dx or otherwise!! the understanding that behaviours which don’t harm others don’t need to be frowned down on shouldn’t be contingent on an identity label or diagnosis. behaviours and needs should be acknowledged and approached with care and understanding regardless of who is displaying them or why! the idea that diagnosis, labels, or identity categories legitimize these findings are literally what feeds back into the oppressive structures which gatekeep not only resources but also sympathy and understanding, because we legitimize the idea that these things should be contingent on someone qualifying as a certain category (and implicitly, as not the “opposite” category) to begin with.

the valuable insights and liberation i gained from understanding myself within the autism spectrum, i could’ve gained simply from existing in a context where i wasn’t punished or made to feel ashamed for my broadly harmless behaviours and needs, where i was made aware of things i can do or access to make me feel more comfortable and capable, no label or diagnosis necessary.

imo labels are only as useful as the political organization around them is. if the politics around neurodivergence are creating a dichotomy between “neurodivergent” and “neurotypical”, then these labels are being used in service of creating hyperreductive binaries which don’t accurately represent human experience and needs, and this creates an environment where everyone is clamouring to find ways to qualify as neurodivergent so their needs and behaviours can be legitimized and acknowledged in a context where either you’re neurodivergent and awarded that understanding and sympathy, or you’re neurotypical and awarded the role of the oppressor, with no space or nuance for variations in needs within those groups, or variations in power dynamics within and between.

it’s similar to the issue i have with how we conceptualise transness, cisness, gender, and gender nonconformity when it comes to trying to ascertain people’s needs, sources of oppression, power dynamics, and the points of crisis being faced by people across these categories because of how we structure the systems of gender and our approaches to them, and how “trans vs cis” doesn’t do a good job of reflecting reality. these needs and oppressions often overlap regardless of our insistence on categorizing them into separate, oppositional labels.

Hey !!! I really really liked your how I met your father series it was so cute and since you knew the occupations of some of the guys like akaashi being an editor and some of them going pro, do you happen to know kuroo’s occupation canonically bc I legit somehow cant find it anywhere and I thought maybe you’d know by any chance ??? Sorry to bother you ://///

Hey anon! Number 1: You are not a bother! I don’t get many messages so this is pretty awesome for me. Number 2: I’m really glad you liked it! That makes me so happy! uwu

Okay, now regarding your question. If the author tells me what happens to a character, I totally have to use it, ya know? Like, their career says so much about who they are! Unfortunately, Furudate hasn’t addressed our baby rooster boy Kuroo and what happens to him. Right now, the only way to get a canon answer is to write Furudate a fan letter and hope it’s answered.

I can only speculate on what sort of field he’d be in. So let’s take what we know:

He’s super intelligent and knows the name of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). 

Also, Kenma has stated that he had never failed a test because Kuroo teaches him before them.

My guesses are that he probably ended up in the scientific/medical/academic field, like a scientist that studies phramaceuticals and developing medicines, or becoming any variety of doctor or surgeon even. Or maybe he just has a passion for learning and teaching others and becomes a science professor/teacher. 

If you’re a Kuroo stan like me, please keep an eye out on my The Music Series collection! I’ll be writing and releasing Kuroo’s after I’m done with the Miya twins’ entry. :)

xoxo

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UPDATE!

It was revealed that Kuroo works in the Japan Volleyball Assocaition sports promotion division as of Nov 2018!

I wonder if due to Mercy's advancements in the medical field, how pharmaceuticals play in (I currently work for a pharmacy and it made me wonder... cause I have discovered pharmacists have a better idea of doctor's jobs than doctor's due of pharmacists. But with the nanobiology would medicine play less of a role? Depending upon which places have her tech of course.)

Oh, this one is interesting. I can't say I am too familiar with the field of nanotechnology/nanomedicine/nanobiotechnology/whichever term is the correct one. I know these terms have nuanced definitions but am unsure as to the exact differentiators.

(I believe the reason why pharmacists have a better idea of doctor's job is because they have to essential audit or double check the prescriptions to determine if it is within the doctor's jurisdiction, whether the prescription amount is reasonable, etc. Doctors just kind of work in a one-way street. Not to say one is more knowledgeable than the other or anything, it's just their job roles require them to know different things.)

Anyway, Mercy' nanobiotics, according to one of the wikis, 'does not involve nanorobotics or similar technology'. This presents one of the first questions we have to ask: "What the fuck is it?" And then: "What are its capabilities and limits?" Without knowing this, we can't say definitively that it will make medicine obsolete. It may even change it in such a way that it advances specific areas of the field.

Does Mercy's nanotechnology only deal with physical injuries? Does it handle viruses and disease? Infections? Is it a one-size fits all? Does different nanobiotic medicine need to be adjusted or specific nanobiotic medicine need to be prescribed per person? How does it work on humans and omnics? Are they different? There's a lot here to dismantle.

For now, we can say that her technology isn't making any waves to distrupt the phramaceutical industry. There's some bit in her wiki about her technologies never making it out to the general public. This can be for a number of reasons, some which sound like conspiracy theories and other, more reasonable things.

1) It could be because it is too difficult or expensive to manufacture on a global scale. 2) No government wants to use technology that was developed by the currently despised Overwatch or someone who was the head of anything at Overwatch. 3) Governments and militaries (and maybe the rich and famous) are coveting it so that only they can use it. 4) The technology could upset the medicial field in a bad way and/or cut into profits, so the indsutry wants to maintain the current status quo. 5) Mercy herself doesn't want to release the blueprints to her technology because she's afraid of getting burned again and her technology getting weaponized on a much larger scale.

So I can’t say pharmaceuticals, either the profession or industry, will be disappearing in Overwatch’s 2076. But it’s definitely an interesting thought, thank you.

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A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria in   2018.

Will there be a war before the election?             

Opinion > Columns  AUG.25,2020

“ Wag the dog ~Remember when Bill Clinton felt pressured by the Monica Levinsky revelations? He decided that the perfect antitode to that political scandal was not to answer her claims honestly and not to speak clearly to the U.S. public, but he decided to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan. The U.S. cruise missiles that struck Sudan — for no good reason — destroyed the country’s main phramaceutical factory; the name of the factory was Al-Shifa, or healing in Arabic. The absence of a domestic phramaceutical manufacturing unit continues to harm Sudan’s people.That was the most cynical use of U.S. power in our times; it was done in August 1998, just months after Barry Levinson’s film “Wag the Dog” showed a U.S. politician use war to divert attention from a domestic scandal. Life imitated art, which imitates life.

If there is a war, Biden and the Democrats will be forced to rally behind Trump, and that would be that. The 45th president would have a second term.”

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Does BC Premier Christy Clark have a sketchy reputation?

The Victoria Times-Colonist's editorial board recently suggested Clark's "ethical standards" do not reflect "the values British Columbians should expect from political parties."

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail's editorial board said Clark's BC Liberal government is "addicted to money" and added that "the perception that corporate money is influencing government decisions is impossible to avoid."

From sketchy donations to dodgy expenses to unethical conduct to straight-up scandals, here are 41 times Clark's BC Liberal government showed that after all these years in power, they might not have a lot of integrity:

1) Alleging her rivals hacked her party's website with no evidence

Without any evidence whatsoever, Clark claimed the opposition NDP had launched a cyber attack against the BC Liberal website. While that might sound like the dictionary definition of "lying" to you, Clark later clarified she had merely "jumped to conclusions."

2) Making tens of thousands with disabilities pay $579 more for bus passes

Showing their compassionate side, the Clark government clawed back discounted bus passes for 55,000 disabled British Columbians – a group already more likely to face unemployment and poverty.

3) Picking an ex-Fraser Institute director to implement BC's climate change plan

Nothing screams serious about climate change like tapping a former director from a right-wing think tank that doubts the science behind climate change, right?

4) Getting her climate change ripped apart by her own experts

Late on a Friday afternoon in August, the Premier quietly released her so-called "climate leadership plan" – a plan so ineffective at dealing with climate change it was dismissed by one expert as "pathetic and cowardly".

5) Getting lobbied more than 10,000 times by her own oil and gas donors

An investigation by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives identified nearly ten thousand contacts between officials at BC government ministries and agencies between 2010 and 2016.

6) Skipping an important vote on transgender rights to attend a partisan fundraiser

Of course Clark somehow found time to go to the photo op.

7) All the donations from other provinces

If all the donations from oil lobbyists wasn't bad enough, it turns out only a small percentage even comes from BC in the first place – most comes from companies headquartered next door in Alberta.

8) All the donations from other countries

It's illegal most places in Canada, but not in Christy Clark's BC – a recent investigation by the Globe and Mail showed Clark's BC Liberals are taking "cash from offshore oil and gas companies, European pharmaceutical companies and Beijing investment firms."

9) All the donors getting public sector contracts

As of October 2016, three-quarters of companies awarded with plumb, sole-sourced contracts by Clark's government are also Liberal party donors. But that's just a coincidence, surely?

10) Selling public land to BC Liberal donors for a cheap price

Of course that actually happened too.

11) Spending millions on partisan ads

Spending $15 million on cynical partisan ads while cutting public services and asking everyone to tighten their belts?

12) Hiring a staffer facing criminal charges

In 2013, the BC Liberals hired former Ontario Liberal staffer Laura Miller as its Executive Director. Not long after, Miller was charged with breach of trust, mischief and misuse of a computer system to commit mischief alongside Dalton McGuinty’s former chief of staff David Livingston.

13) Rehiring the same staffer facing criminal charges

Despite briefly stepping out of the picture, Miller was subsequently rehired as the BC Liberal Party Executive Director. She has since been appointed the party's campaign chief.  

14) Spending more than $500,000 on private flights

Why take a commercial flight when a private one will do?

15) Billing taxpayers for a private flight to a fundraising dinner

In April 2016, Clark billed the public $6,054 for a Learjet to fly to Prince George. The reason? A photo op and a visit to the BC Liberals' annual northern fundraising dinner.

16) Triple-deleting all those emails

Back in 2015, BC's Information Commissioner found that the practice of triple deleting e-mails – shielding the government from Freedom of Information requests – was a "routine practice" among Clark government staffers.

17) Billing taxpayers $3,000 for dinner

Oysters: $3,267.66.

18) Leaking a "secret strategy document"

The BC Liberals claimed they obtained the NDP's "secret strategy document" which actually turned out to be a Microsoft Word document highlighting the party's plan to boost living standards for working and middle class families as fight climate change – very sinister sounding stuff!

19) Taking salary top ups from the BC Liberal Party

Clark is already earns a six figure salary as the Premier of BC. So a lot of people were surprised to learn Clark was also paid between $30,000 and $50,000 each year by her own party for fundraising work.

20) Yogagate

In one of BC's weirdest scandals, Clark's government decided to celebrate International Yoga Day instead of National Aboriginal Day and shut down a major Vancouver bridge at a cost of $150,000 for a yoga event.

21) Spending nearly $1 million on government photos

It turns out all those smiling photos of Christy Clark and her cabinet ministers don't come cheap!

22) That time a Liberal MLA claimed the LGBT community is 'dominating' Christians

During debate on Bill 27, legislation to add "gender identity or expression" to the human rights code BC Liberal MLA Laurie Throness argued that recognizing gender identity as a human right is akin to discrimination against those whose views on gender are "rooted in Christian faith." Seriously.

23) Sending a staffer to spy on an NDP meeting with youth

Well, that's pretty desperate.

24) Insulting whistle-blowers

When a former staffer blew the whistle on the "widespread" and "most likely systemic" destruction of e-mail records by Clark's government to avoid FOI requests, Clark's government responded by painting him as a bad employee.

25) Spending $1 million to upgrade the church Clark goes to  

The BC government gave a downtown Vancouver church a massive upgrade worth $1 million. By some coincidence, it also happened to be the same one Clark says she regularly attends.

26) Promoting a company Clark once chaired

According to leaked documents, Clark once served as chairwoman of a company she has regularly touted on official government business since becoming Premier.

27) Allegedly interfering in a local election to help her brother

After announcing a $150,000 community grant, Clark faced accusation she was helping a candidate in a local band election who supported her brother's $10 million wind farm project.

28) Not telling the truth about BC's job creation numbers

In 2012, Clark claimed BC was number one in job creation. That was not true.

29) Getting investigated by Elections BC over donations from lobbyists

Last week, Elections BC announced it had launched an investigation into reports that some lobbyists may have had their personal donations to the BC Liberal party reimbursed by third parties.

30) Also,  getting investigated by the RCMP for those same reimbursements

Only five days after Elections BC announced its investigation, the RCMP announced its Sensitive Investigations Unit – a unit often tasked with fighting organized crime – is now looking into the alleged "cleansing" of political donations.

31) Giving a $39 million mortgage to a condo developer

Why did BC Housing lend $39 million to the developer of condo project that had nothing to do with social housing?

32) Releasing a jobs ad full of false claims

The ad's claims completely fell apart.

33) Declaring victory after losing a Supreme Court battle to avoid investing in schools

The Supreme Court dealt a monumental defeat to Clark and her government ending their 14 year battle with BC's teachers. But despite having fought against the teachers and their demands in court, the Premier suddenly started singing the praises of the court-ordered investments as if they were her own idea.

34) Apologizing to "ethnic" voters

Widespread outrage followed a leaked document showed the Clark government planned to apologize for historic injustices as a "quick win" designed to "improve our chances of winning swing ridings by better engaging supporters from ethnic communities."

35) Mysteriously firing health researchers

Eight researchers and contractors at the BC Ministry of Health were unceremoniously fired in 2012. The government claims they breached the privacy of patient files and the police are investigating. The dismissed researchers suggest the real reason they were fired had to do with the influence of phramaceutical companies, who also happen to be big BC Liberal donors. In the mean time, the researchers are unable to work and one commits suicide.

It later turns out there's a problem with the BC government's claims about a police investigation – the investigation never actually existed.

36) Making stuff up about the government's record  

During a 2013 radio interview, Clark made a series of claims about her government's record on deficits, debt, and the province's credit rating. None of Clark's claims were true.

37) Getting sued because of partisan advertising

The Clark government's partisan ads are so over-the-top, two Vancouver criminal lawyers are now suing the government of BC in an attempt to stop the government's pre-election advertising.

38) Universities hiring Liberal lobbyists to lobby the BC Liberal government

In 2009, Kwantlen Polytechnic University spent $177,000 to hire a Liberal insider to lobby provincial cabinet ministers and MLAs. At the time Amrik Virk, who was then the minister of technology, innovation and citizen's services, also sat on KPU's board.

39) Approving a polluted-soil dump upstream from 12,000 people  

Heavy metals, petroleum, and nitrite contaminated soil and groundwater relied upon by a Vancouver Island community of 12,000 residents.

40) Taking millions from developers

In 2016 most of the BC Liberal Party's top donors came from either developers or the construction industry. Just eight donors contributed nearly $1.5 million of the $12.5 million total collected by the Liberals that year. Maybe that has something to do with Clark's awful record on housing affordability?

41) All those cash-for-access scandals

Can't forget all those BC Liberal donors who are also doing business with the BC government.

As the Globe and Mail's editorial board recently described this "world-class conflict-of-interest":

It's "a situation where companies seeking government contracts, approvals or tax breaks can give unlimited sums of money to the governing party. Lobbyists in the province have told The Globe and Mail they feel they need to donate, or their entreaties on behalf of their clients will be ignored."

Mind you, most of this stuff wouldn't fly in virtually any other Canadian province – only in Christy Clark's British Columbia.

Reminder: The BC election is on May 9th, 2017. Please vote.

El fabricante de medicamentos dice que está trabajando en la vacuna contra el coronavirus

Las acciones de Novavax subieron un 60% el martes 21 de enero, después de que el fabricante de medicamentos dijo que está trabajando en una vacuna para el mortal coronavirus de China.

Novavax promocionó su experiencia desarrollando vacunas candidatas para coronavirus, incluidas las vacunas para proteger contra el Síndrome Respiratorio del Medio Oriente (MERS) y el Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Severo (SARS).

"En respuesta a la aparición de la versión Wuhan del coronavirus visto recientemente en China, Novavax ha iniciado el desarrollo de una vacuna candidata", dijo la compañía en un comunicado a CBS MoneyWatch.(1)

Los coronavirus son un gran grupo de virus que pueden causar enfermedades tan leves como un resfriado o MERS y SARS graves, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. A menudo causan síntomas similares a la neumonía.(1)

La evidencia sugiere que el virus probablemente se extendió a los humanos de un animal aún no identificado, como ha sucedido en el pasado para otros coronavirus. Se cree que el virus del SARS, por ejemplo, proviene de los murciélagos y luego se propagó a los humanos a través de las civetas, un animal parecido a un gato que se come como un manjar en Asia. El virus del SARS demostró ser transmisible de persona a persona. En algunos casos, como parece ser el caso con esta nueva cepa de coronavirus, también pueden transmitirse entre humanos.(1,2)

Una historia similar se desarrolló en 2012 con el virus responsable del Síndrome Respiratorio del Medio Oriente, o MERS, que también puede haberse originado en murciélagos, y luego se propagó a los humanos a través de camellos. (2)

Novavax dijo que utilizará la tecnología de "nanopartículas recombinantes" para desarrollar una vacuna candidata para combatir el virus, que parece haber comenzado en la ciudad de Wuhan, en el centro de China.(1)

La versión de Wuhan del virus ha infectado a casi 450 personas y mató a 17 durante la temporada alta de viajes de China en torno al festival del Año Nuevo Lunar, lo que generó temor de que el virus pudiera deprimir el turismo y la actividad económica.(1)

Otras compañías que desarrollan vacunas, incluidas Aethlon Medical, Inovio Pharmaceuticals y BioCryst Phramaceuticals, también vieron aumentar sus acciones a medida que se propagaba el coronavirus.(1)

De hecho, todavía no hay una vacuna disponible para el nuevo coronavirus, que por el momento es el apodo poco manejable del nuevo coronavirus 2019, o 2019-nCoV. Y tampoco hay una patente relacionada con el nuevo virus.(2)

La otra patente supuestamente relacionada es para una forma mutada del virus de la bronquitis infecciosa aviar, o IBV, que infecta a las aves de corral, pero no a las personas. La patente fue presentada por el Instituto Pirbright, un instituto de investigación en el Reino Unido cuya misión es prevenir y controlar las "enfermedades virales del ganado". Las mutaciones se crearon para atenuar o debilitar el virus, de modo que pudiera usarse como un vacuna para proteger a los pollos de la enfermedad.(2)

"Ninguno de estos tiene nada que ver con el nuevo virus 2019-nCoV", dijo Frieman. "Esta es claramente una teoría falsa de que este virus fue creado en un laboratorio, patentado y ya tiene una vacuna".(2)

Los investigadores aún están trabajando para comprender el origen, la propagación y la gravedad del último coronavirus. El brote comenzó a principios de diciembre en Wuhan, una ciudad de alrededor de 11 millones de personas en el centro de China.(2)

A principios del 24 de enero, al menos 26 personas han muerto, todas en China, de casi 900 casos confirmados en todo el mundo. Las muertes han ocurrido principalmente en personas mayores o en aquellos que tenían otras afecciones de salud. También se han reportado casos en Tailandia, Taiwán, Japón y Corea del Sur. El paciente estadounidense había viajado recientemente desde Wuhan y está en buenas condiciones, según los CDC.(2)

En cuanto a una vacuna, los CDC dicen que ya está trabajando en una con los NIH, pero que todavía está al principio del proceso. Fauci explicó en su entrevista de Scientific American que la agencia se está asociando con Moderna, una compañía de biotecnología, para crear una vacuna basada en ARN mensajero.(2)

"Probablemente tendremos un candidato en los primeros ensayos de fase I para la seguridad en unos tres meses", dijo. "Eso no significa que tendremos una vacuna lista para usar en tres meses; incluso en una emergencia, eso tomaría un año o más. Pero ya estamos en eso ".(2)

Entonces, si bien los esfuerzos han comenzado a fabricar una vacuna, en parte gracias a los investigadores chinos que ya han compartido la secuencia del nuevo virus, no es cierto que ya exista una vacuna, al igual que las afirmaciones de que el virus anteriormente tenía una patente y fue fabricado En un laboratorio también son falsas.(2)

Por  Dr. Jason Riopedre Cuevas  

https://www.facebook.com/estetoscopioMD/

Bibliografía:

CBS - (1) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-novavax-stock-up-after-it-says-its-working-on-vaccine/

USA Today - (2) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/25/wuhan-coronavirus-bogus-conspiracy-theory-spreads-social-media/4569180002/