Heap o' Links Mon Mar 14, 2022

An investment firm founded by Hunter Biden was discovered to have provided funding to U.S. biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. The revelation came amid U.S. officials initially denying and eventually admitting the presence of such facilities in the besieged country.… RSTP and Biden’s links to purported corruption are not just limited to the biological weapons facilities funded by the investment firm.… According to the report, RSTP received $3.5 million from Russian businesswoman Elena Baturina. She wired the amount to an RSTP bank account back in February 2014 as part of a “consultancy agreement.”

“It is necessary for most” people, CEO Albert Bourla said during an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation” when asked if Americans can expect to get annual COVID booster shots every fall.

The regimen of two initial doses plus a booster is not able to protect against variants and wanes too quickly in strength, Bourla conceded — making additional shots inevitable.

The anti-viral effects fade quickly; the side-effects linger long.

CDC data shows the Millennial generation suffered a "Vietnam War event," with more than 61,000 excess deaths in that age group in the second half of 2021… The Millennials, about ages 25 to 40, experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality in the fall, he said, describing it as the "worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history."… And the increase coincided with the vaccine mandates and the approval of the booster shots. "Basically, Millennials experienced a Vietnam War in the second half of 2021," Dowd said, noting 58,000 people died in the conflict.…

The women's world No. 2 is recovering after a health scare. Nelly Korda announced Sunday afternoon that she was currently at home and receiving treatment after she was diagnosed with a blood clot in one of her arms.…

Nothing in the article (or the dozen other nearly-identical articles I researched) about her vax status.
Nothing to see here, perfectly normal.

Pope Francis has removed a Puerto Rican bishop from office over allowing conscientious objections to COVID-19 vaccine shots, some of which were made from the mutilated parts of aborted fetuses. Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres led the Diocese of Arecibo for over ten years, but was asked to abdicate the post because he “had not been obedient to the pope nor had I been in sufficient communion with my brother bishops of Puerto Rico.” … “No process has been made against me, nor have I been formally accused of anything and simply one day the apostolic delegate… verbally communicated to me that Rome was asking me to resign.… A successor of the apostles is now being replaced without even undertaking what would be a due canonical process to remove a parish priest….”

Under the old guidance, if the virus appeared as a cause of death on someone's death certificate or if they tested positive for the virus within 60 days of death, their death counted in the statewide tally. The updated guidance, which the DPH says aligns with recommendations from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, will shorten the window of a positive diagnosis from 60 days to 30 days to count as a COVID death. The new definition applies to all deaths starting in March 2020, which means 4,081 Massachusetts deaths previously considered COVID-related will disappear from the state's toll.