Biden: 300m COVID jabs by end of May – National & International News – WED 3Mar2021
Biden: COVID jabs for all US adults by end of May. Militia group recruits heavily from military, law enforcement. Leaked report shows Beijing’s genocidal agenda for Uighurs. DR Congo HIV findings buoy hopes for cure.
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Biden promises COVID jabs for all US adults by end of May
Yesterday, President Biden said that accelerated production of COVID vaccines in the US means that there will be enough doses for 300 million Americans by the end of May. This is two months sooner than Biden’s previous timeline.
The approval of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine has been a key development. Johnson & Johnson has also teamed up with Merck Pharmaceuticals to increase production.
While this is good news, the CDC and other medical professionals have warned Americans against letting their guard down. They say that the more contagious mutant COVID strains present the threat of a deadly fourth wave, even as vaccination efforts progress. Despite this warning, the governors of Mississippi and Texas have lifted all mask mandates and distancing restrictions.
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Militia group recruits heavily from military, law enforcement
A website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent militia shows that the anti-government group has aggressively recruited former and current military and law enforcement personnel across the country.
Activists discovered the leak through a simple search after the group’s poorly-designed WordPress site publicly exposed members’ details.
An analysis by the Guardian newspaper shows that many of the members have extensive military experience. However, the leaked details also reveal that members of the group come from all walks of life, from working class to professional class. Experts say this points to what was once fringe radical and militant anti-government sentiment entering the mainstream in the Trump and post-Trump era.
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Leaked report shows Beijing’s genocidal agenda for Uighurs
A report from China’s Nankai University reveals Beijing’s intent to “thin out” the Uighur population in Xinjiang. The report was intended to be seen only by high-level government officials but was accidentally posted to a public website last year. Dutch academic Adrian Zenz archived the document along with thousands of others and has now released the contents.
Under China’s mass labor transfer scheme, 100s of 1000s of Uighurs have been coerced or forcibly transferred to labor camps, re-education camps, or plantations. Beijing has insisted the programs are voluntary and denied that the ultimate goal is to dilute the Uighur population in Xinjiang. But the report says otherwise.
A blueprint for cultural genocide
The report says the scheme, “not only reduces Uighur population density in Xinjiang, but also is an important method to influence, melt, and assimilate Uighur minorities”. It also encourages them to “gradually change their thinking and understanding, and transform their values and outlook on life through a change of environment and through labor work”.
The report also recommends that the government expand the programs to eastern and central regions of China to meet labor demands.
Experts say the report is tantamount to a blueprint for cultural genocide. Several foreign governments have also recently come to that conclusion. Aside from the forced labor transfers, the Chinese government has also pursued a campaign of forced sterilizations of Uighur women and destruction or suppression of Uighur cultural sites and practices.
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DR Congo HIV findings buoy hopes for cure
Researchers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have identified a significant number of people in the country whose immune systems naturally control HIV without medication. While it is unclear exactly how or why this occurs, researchers are hopeful it could point the way to a cure.
The study found that the systems of as many as 4% of HIV carriers in DR Congo can suppress the virus. Typically less than 1% of HIV-positive people are able to do so.
Dr. Mary Rodgers, the study’s lead scientist, says “this could mean that this is something that we can actually cure”.
Dr. Rodgers says DR Congo has the largest resistant group in any single country. However, she stressed that this group could potentially lose this protection as the disease progresses.
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