Johnson & Johnson pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after 'unexplained illness'

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/12/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-pause-bn/index.html

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson said Monday it has paused the advanced clinical trial of its experimental coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers.
"Following our guidelines, the participant's illness is being reviewed and evaluated by the ENSEMBLE independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) as well as our internal clinical and safety physicians," the company said in a statement. ENSEMBLE is the name of the study.
"Adverse events -- illnesses, accidents, etc. -- even those that are serious, are an expected part of any clinical study, especially large studies." The pause was first reported by Stat News.

 

Rav Weiss Corona

 

Haredi health pioneer: COVID-19 defiance fuels anti-Semitism, sullies G-d’s name

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-health-pioneer-covid-19-defiance-fuels-anti-semitism-sullies-gods-name/

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav says many ultra-Orthodox are fighting virus, but a worrying number refuse and won’t reconsider even as death toll rises and hatred of community spreads

 

Home Treatment of Israeli Rabbi Who Flouted COVID Rules Was Accompanied by Hadassah Doctors

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-prominent-rabbi-who-flouted-covid-rules-secretly-received-medical-care-at-home-1.9227590?fbclid=IwAR0bKnZvLignW6en97Jol78UDmVJPBX6qotkURI4V_WgwjKviu7MUpQnBRw

HHaaretz initially reported that Hadassah provided Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach with a doctor who managed his treatment. It later transpired that Hadassah doctors only advised the doctor who treated the rabbi

Transfer

Belzer Rebbe to Hasidim: Act as usual

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288797

  In his remarks, he criticized the guidelines for closing synagogues and yeshivas. "There are rabbis who want to please the authorities and the authorities want to please them. It is not a business like that. They should behave as we have always done and G-d will help us not to come to any harm."

 

Sick with COVID, top ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in worsening condition

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/sick-with-covid-condition-of-top-rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-92-said-to-worsen/

 

Diagnosed last week, 92-year-old said continuing daily routine even as he spikes a fever, with doctor warning he is now in ‘second, dangerous phase of the disease’

Top Republican Mitch McConnell avoids White House over Covid-19

 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54472053

 The Kentucky senator said he spoke to the president frequently over the phone but had not visited since 6 August.

Mr McConnell, a polio survivor, contrasted the White House with the Senate, where lawmakers are urged to wear masks and social distance.

 

 

Vice presidential fact check: Daniel Dale selects his lie of the night

Jewish journalist assaulted by ultra-Orthodox mob at Brooklyn virus protest

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/prominent-jewish-journalist-assaulted-at-ultra-orthodox-brooklyn-virus-protest/

 A prominent Haredi journalist was assaulted on Wednesday while covering his community’s protests against New York coronavirus shutdowns that largely target the city’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.

'Magnitude of this failure is astonishing': Medical journal writes unprecedented editorial against Trump for COVID

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/07/new-england-journal-medicine-writes-historic-trump-covid-19-editorial/5917734002/

  In a historic move, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial on Wednesday condemning President Donald Trump and his administration for their response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

For the first time in it's 208-year history, it called for current leadership to be voted out of office.

In an editorial signed by nearly three dozen editors, the journal said the Trump administration has "taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy" regarding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, writing the "magnitude of this failure is astonishing."

‘It wasn’t wise’: Republicans urge Trump to restart Covid talks

 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/republicans-trump-covid-talks-427450

 President Donald Trump is taking a huge political gamble with his decision to end coronavirus relief talks weeks before the election. But Republicans don’t want him to call it quits just yet.

Several frustrated GOP lawmakers — who are facing major political headwinds as they fight to hang onto their Senate majority — are urging Trump to come back to the negotiating table, as millions of Americans are out of work, airlines are on the verge of massive layoffs and the Federal Reserve chairman recently warned of dire economic consequences if Congress doesn’t act.

Gasping For Air

'The Big Bang wasn't the beginning' says Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288583

 

“The Big Bang was not the beginning,” Sir Roger Penrose said this week, after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. “There was something before the Big Bang.”