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I took the Emperor Norton bridge into work today and it was hilarious: there were like EIGHT cop cars parked along it.
They are clearly TERRIFIED that protesters might shut down the bridge again.
The extra funny thing is that all eight were on the Oakland-YBI span, but when protesters shut down the bridge, they shut down the YBI-San Francisco span. Presumably protesters would do that again, because it's more of a bottleneck, but the cops can hang out there: it's so much of a bottleneck that if the cops did hang out there, THEY would be impeding the flow of traffic on the bridge.
But in order to appear like they're doing something, they are guarding the wrong half of the bridge.
(of course, if protesters do close the bridge, they can be there quickly... But it'll probably be too late. You can close a bridge quick)
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly.
The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S.
This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”
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