Plans for FDA approval of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines – Sheriffs’ outcry against non-existent mandates – John Pierce hospitalized – Evening statistics
Moderna has submitted its data to the FDA to initiate the process that will confer formal approval of its vaccine instead of its current EUA status. It will probably take about 3-4 months for the process to be completed. Johnson and Johnson will submit its data some time later in the year; at this point no firm timeframe has been given.
In a video posted on August 23rd to the official Twitter account of Pinal County, AZ, Sheriff Mark Lamb has delivered an impassioned plea against “tyranny” (AKA “vaccine mandates”) and has sworn that he will never enforce them. Neither Pinal County nor the state of Arizona has a vaccine mandate; on the contrary, Governor Doug Ducey recently signed a measure that prevents local jurisdictions from imposing any. Similarly, Sheriff Brian Wolfe of Malheur County, OR, released a letter on August 24th vowing to resist any local vaccine mandate. No such mandate exists in Malheur County. On the same day Sheriff Chad Cubbage of Page County, VA posted a video of his own saying he intended to resist vaccine mandates. Virginia has no vaccine mandates. Is anyone noticing a pattern here?
John Pierce, the attorney who has represented such distinguished clients as Kyle Rittenhouse (the Kenosha shooter), Rudy Giuliani, and more than a dozen of the rioters who participated in the attack on the Capitol, tweeted last week that “the entire 82nd Airborne couldn’t make me get an experimental government vaccine stuck in my arm.” Recently he has been unable to appear at the court hearings to give defendants the benefits of his eloquence, having contracted the COVID virus shortly after this declaration of fearless self-reliance Happily, the judges in these cases have conceded that his being hospitalized and placed on a ventilator is a sufficient excuse for non-attendance.
Today’s statistics as of 8:00 PM – # of cases worldwide: 214,695,608; # of deaths worldwide: 4,475,348; # of cases U.S.: 39,155,315; # of deaths; U.S.: 649,668. In Florida over 21,000 people contracted the virus, about 17% of the entire new infections for the day in the U. S.