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Alexlis писал(а): ↑25 авг 2020, 10:26 Вчера специально обратил внимание. В суперсторе в Pitt Meadows все работники, которых я встретил в магазине были без масок.

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Alexlis писал(а): ↑25 авг 2020, 10:26 Вчера специально обратил внимание. В суперсторе в Pitt Meadows все работники, которых я встретил в магазине были без масок.

это хорошо или плохо?

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Stanislav писал(а): ↑25 авг 2020, 17:49 А знаете, почему Хокинг (второго не знаю) говорят Пифагору "узбагойся"?

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Alexlis писал(а): ↑25 авг 2020, 10:26 Вчера специально обратил внимание. В суперсторе в Pitt Meadows все работники, которых я встретил в магазине были без масок.

How the Liberals are bungling the vaccine endgame
Amir Attaran: Seven promising vaccine candidates are nearing the finish line. Why hasn't Canada locked down orders for them like our closest allies have?

When will ordinary Canadians get vaccinated?
Assuming those phase 3 trials pan out, reckon on rolling up your sleeve in the first half of 2021. But also reckon that the vaccine is coming to Canada late: probably months later than the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the 27 European Union countries.

Why? Because the Trudeau government dithered. When our closest allies put their money down and placed orders for over a billion vaccine doses, our government failed to keep up. The dithering went on so long that there is only one country left in North America or Western Europe that has not confirmed its order—and that’s Canada.

Staking out the back of the queue means that we might beg for a little vaccine in a hurry for our health care workers or most vulnerable, but come to ordinary Canadians, expect to wait.

If only we were the British. Not only did researchers at Oxford University invent a vaccine just three weeks after COVID-19’s discovery, but they have not slacked off and their phase 3 trial probably will be the first to the finish line (disclosure: my science doctorate is from Oxford and those are my colleagues).

Oxford also partnered with Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, which is well into manufacturing 2 billion doses on spec that it admirably committed to sell without profit during the pandemic. Unlike Canada, Britain has the scientific agility and industrial might to pull off this homegrown solution, but it also has fail-safe backups: it has placed orders for six possible vaccines, nabbing 340 million doses for a population of 66 million.

Meanwhile, in Canada, the Trudeau government appears to have ordered zero doses, of zero vaccines, and has no plan to bring anything through a phase 1 clinical trial—never mind phase 3—before next April.

The Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Anita Anand, said on Aug. 5 that Canada “is extremely pleased to establish [vaccine] agreements with Pfizer and Moderna.” But weirdly she refuses to reveal how many doses or the price paid—details which other countries gladly reveal, or even brag about. The government claims to be “aggressively pursuing the purchase … of COVID-19 vaccines”—although clearly “pursuing” a purchase is different from making a purchase.

Asked last week if Canada has confirmed orders for vaccines and, if so, how many and at what cost, Anand stated: “Our government is actively negotiating with a diverse range of leading vaccine developers in order to secure a supply for Canadians as quickly as possible. Given the steep global competition, and in order to protect Canada’s negotiating position, it would be imprudent to provide specific details regarding pricing. I look forward to updating Canadians on our progress with respect to vaccine procurement and the number of doses secured as we move forward.”

Where this leaves Canada so far is without an actual purchase of any vaccine in any number of doses that the government will confirm. As for its nebulous agreements with Pfizer and Moderna, betting on those vaccines as a package is risky because both use near-identical mRNA technology and are likely to succeed—or, perhaps, fail—together.

The one struggle we have is for the secondary school students to keep their masks on all day. It is very hot and some of the students, especially the middle school students, are struggling to have to sit all day in class with their masks on.

“This is a health department requirement so we don’t have a way to solve it at the moment. We do have the AC on and the windows are open a bit to allow ventilation.”

S.G. писал(а): ↑09 сен 2020, 05:54 Не узнаю CNN

S.G. писал(а): ↑09 сен 2020, 06:39 Фото из школы сына
На улице +30С. В школе открыты все двери и окна при работающих кондиционерах.