Friday, April 30, 2021

Taylor Swift - Today Was A Fairytale (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)

Fleetwood Mac— Dreams (Cover by Lauren O'Connell, Katie Preston, & Ben M...

Monday, April 26, 2021

Sanofi Helps Moderna - plus my vaccine experience

Pharma titan Sanofi announced it will help Moderna manufacture as many as 200 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.Sanofi attributes its effort to US President Joe Biden's encouragement.The French firm will perform the fill and finish function on the messenger RNA vaccine at a New Jersey plant, putting the completed vaccines into vials and packaging them.* Moderna is presently testing a booster for the vaccine at half-strength (50 micrograms).A yearly booster for the vaccine looks like a good possibility for approval in the months ahead.* I received my first of two doses of the Moderna vaccine at a Maryland doctor's office.It was administered by a young woman in green scrubs.She did a good job,as I hardly felt the injection at all.Following the shot,I had to sit twenty minutes in the waiting room.Then a front desk person asked how I was feeling and I told her there was no problem. By the time I got back to my room,my arm was getting sore.This increased to moderate soreness by nightfall.A hot shower gave considerable relief to my arm. The next day, I was still sore and had become moderately nauseated as well.I was also very fatigued.These symptoms continued through the next day, although at a lesser level.By the third day after my vaccination,I was back to normal. The strength of my reaction to the shot surprised me.It was my strongest reaction to a vaccine in my whole life.Usually I just have a mildly sore arm.This moderate illness was good news, however, since it showed my immune system was galvanised by the shot into fighting its perceived SARS-CoV-2 enemy, the respiratory virus that causes the COVID-19 illness.There are no virus particles in the Moderna vaccine.It is basically a head fake to get your immune system to recognise and attack the SARS-CoV-2 virus, should it enter your body.So I will see how my second shot goes 28 days after the first one,God willing.* Sanofi stock was up 0.24 (.47%) and Moderna stock was up 4.70 (2.71%) as of this writing.* Sanofi SA (SNY), Moderna Inc (MRNA)

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

NASA Updates Launch Date, TV Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission

NASA Updates Launch Date, TV Coverage for Agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 Mission: NASA will provide updated coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.

Monday, April 19, 2021

Soyuz MS-17 landing in Kazakhstan,Central Asia

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity's first successful flight (video of lift off a...

As Artemis Moves Forward, NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on Moon - includes video

As Artemis Moves Forward, NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on Moon: NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface.