Day: February 10, 2020

Trump calls for ending FDA authority for regulating tobacco

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President Trump has proposed removing the Food and Drug Administration’s responsibility for tobacco regulation in his latest budget request, an ask likely to be met with backlash from tobacco control advocates.
— Read on www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/trump-calls-for-ending-fda-authority-for-regulating-tobacco

“The budget request, released Monday, calls for creating an entirely new agency nested under the Department of Health and Human Services to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.”

The Primary Is Being Rigged Against Bernie Sanders Again by Rainer Shea + What the Sanders Campaign Means for the US Socialist Movement

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Feb. 7, 2019 February 9, 2020 Lenin said that “Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for…
— Read on dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/the-primary-is-being-rigged-against-bernie-sanders-again-by-rainer-shea/

Obituary for US citizen Dr. Hong Lingxin, who died a hero in Wuhan.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

This is the face of coronavirus deaths around the world, because they are all ethnic Chinese. Obituary for US citizen Dr. Hong Lingxin, who died a hero in Wuhan. China Rising Radio Sinoland 200209 – CHINA RISING
— Read on chinarising.puntopress.com/2020/02/09/this-is-the-face-of-coronavirus-deaths-around-the-world-because-they-are-all-ethnic-chinese-obituary-for-us-citizen-dr-hong-lingxin-who-died-a-hero-in-wuhan-china-rising-radio-sinoland-200209/

CGTN published article.

Sensor detects, identifies single viruses

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Two of the worlds biggest threats may someday be reduced by wires thousands of times thinner than a hair but capable of detecting a single virus. The specter of worldwide viral epidemics is always with us, so detecting them quickly offers the possibility of saving thousands of lives. The pathogens also can be stealthy biological weapons, making their positive detection a vital national defense requirement.
— Read on news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/10/sensor-detects-identifies-single-viruses/

H/T Godfree Roberts

Charles Lieber was working on detecting mass viruses, especially biological weapons.