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The work management triangular is composed of three project constraints or limitations: time, scope, and price. The very best product companies realize that versatility is frequently needed on a minumum of one of those limitations. As needs and objectives evolve, knowing which boundary is flexible enables you to adapt seamlessly without having affected what you can do to provide a effective product.

 

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a means of presuming the unknown and comprising the truth that things don’t always go as planned.

 

Versatility isn’t a poor factor on the other hand, building it to your process is a method to mitigate risk, which it’s encouraged in agile development. The bottom line is understanding wherever your versatility lies.

 

Where Does Versatility Lie?

 

“Knowing which boundary is flexible enables you to adapt seamlessly without having affected what you can do to provide a effective product”

 

Time

 

There are several projects where delivery date is absolute. The merchandise might need to launch concurrently with another launch for instance, a pre-loaded app developer that should be ready for that discharge of a brand new device or in front of you scheduled event. When this is actually the situation, among the other two limitations will have to be flexible.For other projects, time might not be the most crucial aspect. In case your business goals dictate the product needs some features and functionalities or must be developed inside a particular budget, time would be the flexible boundary.

 

Scope

 

When time or budget are rigid, scope is how the versatility must lie. There's no problem with getting to lessen features and functionalities on the other hand, likely to market having a minimum viable product and carrying out a rapid and frequent delivery model enables you to definitely collect data and employ learnings to increase the value of users on the ongoing basis. app developer is also a great way to prove concepts on the market, that you can use to produce a business situation for further budget/funding from stakeholders.

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With nice aesthetic design (such as the organic insect-like interface in Starcraft for that Zerg race), non-deigetic connects don't always ruin immersion, or result in the player feel like away from the game developer.

 

Diegetic Connects

 

Creating visualizations for non-diegetic connects is simpler, because the visualizations only need to become construed through the player. Diegetic connects, however, are connects which exist within the game world. They are connects that has to seem sensible for both the figures on the planet and also the player from the game.

 

Diegetic connects help to make a game title more immersive. If your health bar and ammunition count are displayed inside a non-diegetic way, stuck at the very top or bottom from the screen, it may be distracting. Anything throws the gamer is generally a bad factor particularly when you’re exploring an abandoned spaceship and shooting space zombies. Deadspace is really a game where almost all interface components and visualizations are diegetic.

 

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Within this screenshot of Deadspace, you will find a minimum of three apparent bits of data being visualized - plus they all exist both hanging around world but for the player.

 

First, the bar. In Deadspace, your character’s health is symbolized as cyan colored bars on the rear of the in-game developer character (close to the bottom left from the screen). Health is really a status usually shown by a bar chart in Deadspace it’s still basically a bar chart but it’s really around the character in game.

 

Second, your weapon’s ammunition count. Your gun includes a kind of heads-up display considering the variety of ammunition left. It appears static within the screenshot, however that display really is available hanging around world, and moves around using the character. You and the smoothness begin to see the ammunition displayed.Third, the targeting lines. In games like Counterstrike or Cod, a crosshair is generally accustomed to indicate where your bullet goes. A crosshair is really a non-diegetic interface component - the gamer on the planet cannot begin to see the crosshair solve these questions .. In Deadspace, there's no crosshair. Rather, the thing is a laser showing where your bullets will fly. You and the smoothness see these laser lines.

 

Visualizations and Immersion

 

Visualizations in games do not need to feel “tacked on.” They may be subtle. When playing Deadspace, my “health bar” doesn't seem like an explicit data visualization. The diegetic visualization of the health bar makes me feel like it’s giving me information without getting to check out it. game developer produces much more of a psychological reaction than an intellectual one.

Okay last batch of the backlog of UN54+ this roll took me through the old Brantwood Survey north of the Old Town and a long the swanky Trafalgar Road Historic District.

 

Canon EOS Elan 7 - Canon Zoom Lens EF 28-105mm 1:3.5-4.5 USM - ORWO UN54+ @ ASA-100

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One street in the tract had backyards that backed up to the Knollwood golf course. The grounds were still rather spare back then, but now the pines tower over the fairways.

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This was the tract developer's LA Times insert brochure from phase one of this neighborhood, circa 1961. The original estates around the fairways were quite nice, but this housing tract was planned as a step down in size while maintaining "close-in" adjacency to the club.

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Decide When to Update Your Content

 

To create the illusion of movement in an animation you need to make changes to your content several times per second. That requires you to know when to perform those changes. Ideally, IOS developer want to perform the changes whenever there is a change to be performed but not more often than that. Adding more changes than you need will only spend extra processing time on something that won’t have an effect.

 

The simplest way to perform the changes is to use a CADisplayLink. The display link sends a message whenever the screen is going to refresh, which allows you to perform changes to your content exactly once per frame. When the animation is finished you can either pause the display link or disable it.

 

Using a continuous gesture recognizer, like a pan, pinch, or rotation recognizer, is another way to identify when you should perform changes to your content. The gesture recognizer forces IOS developer to accept that you won’t be trying to perform those changes when the user hasn’t moved their finger, and when there aren’t any changes to perform. A more advanced way is to use the scrollViewDidScroll: delegate method of a UIScrollView. We cover how you can tap into gesture recognizers and the UIScrollView behavior later in this article.

 

Define the Progress of Your Animation

 

In addition to knowing when to update your content, you need to establish what about your content will actually change and how it will do so over time. The progress of the animation is usually stored as a floating point value in the [0,1] range, where 0 is the initial state and 1 the final state. To determine the progress of your animation you need to establish the following items.The beginning and end of your animation. IOS developer a good idea to normalize the progress of your animation to the [0,1] range. This makes it easier to interpolate properties and more obvious where the animation progress currently is.

Adox Scala 50 film in négative processing:

 

After testing the high-resolution and ultra-fine gain film Adox HR-50 processed with the fine-grain developer Adox Atomal 49, I would like to compare with the Adox Scala 50 that likely the same formula but commercially intended to be processed with a reversal chemistry. I tried this chemistry past year but, unfortunately the bleaching bath was degraded and I obtained incompletely bleached positives that I reported here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBCCha. The Scala 50 could be however processed as a normal negative using the same processing times and developer as recommended by Adox for HR-50.

 

For testing Scala 50 as a negative, I picked up for a second time my newly arrived exceptional French 35mm camera FOCA Universel RC (see below for details about this rare and fascinating camera), I went for photowalk at Port Rambaud, along.the Saône river bank, Lyon, France. The weather was very fair with gentle clouds in a nice blue Skye with a mild outdoor temperature (28°C).

 

I mounted on my FOCA the OPLAREX lens 1:1.9 f=5cm equipped with a yellow filter FOCA x2.5. The OPLAR /OPLAREX lenses for the FOCA’s only accept push-on filter (42.5mm in this specific case). A vintage Genaco cylindric stainless-steel shade hood conceived for a 5cm focal length was also used all along the session.

 

Expositions were determined for 32 ISO to compensate the absorption of the yellow filter (not the x2.5 coefficient due to the enhanced sensitivity of the film in the yellow). Metering was achieved using a Minolta Autometer III lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective metering privileging the shadow areas, but too much to avoid high-lights saturation, or also in the incident-light mode with the integrating opal dome of the Autometer.

 

Most of the views were taken at 1/50s to 1/200s and f/5.6 to f/9 apertures.

La Tour Ycone de Jean Nouvel **

Port Rambaud - La Confluence***, July 31, 2025

69002 Lyon

France

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** The Ycone tower: "Ycone reached its 64 meters in height with a wooden frame, concrete facades clad in aluminum and lined with an opaline glass skin that provides, for all apartments, spacious terraces or loggias "where you are both outside and inside", specifies the architect. The whole is topped with a graceful metal shade, essential in the summer, in Lyon" (www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/03/08/a-lyon-jean-no...) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Nouvel)

 

*** Port Rambaud is a former river port in Lyon, on the Saône, located in the Confluence district at the end of the peninsula between the Saône and Rhône rivers up to the Pont de la Mulatière. The construction of the port was decided in 1909 but work was frozen during the First World War and only completed in 1926. Initially 500 m long, it was first extended in 1929 to the Pont de la Mulatière, reaching 1,000 m in 1953, allowing 16,000 m3 of hydrocarbons to be stored. From 1985, the activities of the Rambaud port were transferred to the new Édouard-Herriot port on the Rhône and the Rambaut port was closed in 1991. The old port became a concerted development zone to create the new "La Confluence" district where post-modernist architectural projects.

 

In 2014 was opened the Musée des Confluences (French pronunciation: [myze de kɔ̃flyɑ̃s]) a science centre and anthropology museum l ocated at the southern tip of the Presqu'île at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, adjacent to the A7 highway Paris-Marseille. The museum was designed in the deconstructivist architectural style, said to resemble a floating crystal cloud of stainless steel and glass, and was created by the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au.

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After completion at view Nr. 38, the film was rewound normally and processed using 400 mL of stock solution of Adox Atomal 49 developer for 8min30 at 20°C.

 

Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.

 

The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.4) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.

  

About the camera and its history :

 

Among the French 35mm camera produced by « Optique & Précision de Levallois S.A. » from 1945 to the middle of the 60’s, the FOCA Universel « RC » is likely the most captivating ever produced in France at that time.

 

The camera was the last development of the FOCA, sometime called the « French Leica » because the optical and mechanical precision matched and even surpassed the original thread-mount Leica. Far before the first Leica M (the M3 in 1954) O.P.L. developed a bayonet-mount FOCA in 1948 called the FOCA « Universel ». Seeing the incredible viewer and range finder of the Leica M that is likely the most sophisticated system even engineered, O.P.L. released lately a great improvement of the FOCA with a novel collimated, parallax auto-corrected, of a fully original and different design of the Leitz system.

 

The FOCA Universel RC It is a rare camera that only appears for time to time on the collector market, being only produced to a bit more than 2000 overall units in the years 1962 and 1963, just before O.P.L. decided to quit the camera production and returned to other instrumental optical production. O.P.L. soon merged with SOM Berthiot and today can be found still in the industrial filiation of SAFRAN group, the French leader company for designing and producing system for aerospace appliances. The plant where the FOCA's were produced still exists in an almost original form in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France.

 

I got my first FOCA URC unit two years ago (Sept. 2023, flic.kr/s/aHBqjAV6Dg) that is a standing and emotional piece of my small camera collection.

 

I got this one from an apparently ignored auction on the French eBay. We were only two biders in the last 5s and I won the auction not far away to the initial price. The camera was fully revised, with new shutter curtains, a new delayed shutter release mechanism. The serial number indicated a year-1962 production starting with 1.000.000, closed to my first FOCA URC. The camera works in every functions like on its Day-1! The camera came with a late version 1962 of the OPLAR 1:2.8 f=5cm standard collapsible lens of excellent quality, the FOCA UCR dedicated ever-ready leather bag with the original leather neck strap in good condition.

 

The original O.P.L. camera warranty and a registration postal card fortunately followed the life of the camera, indicating that this beautiful FOCA Universel RC was sold to its first owner on August 9, 1963 by the official FOCA dealer « ROYAL-PHOTO, Photo-Ciné-Magnétohone », 42, rue Vignon, Paris 9ème arrondissement, France, today a Weill fashion shop at the same address. The address of the owner also still exists with the original Parisian building in place, Boulevard Poniatwski, next to the Métro station « Porte de Charenton », Paris 12ème arrondissement.

 

The shown original FOCAL Universel RC user manual is the one that came with my other FOCA URC camera.

 

These information pushed me to question what were the news in France on this Friday, August 9, 1963… France was mainly on vacation, by an exceptional wet and fresh weather that wasted many French citizens holidays. The whole national radio information bulletin is still available online here :

 

www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/audio/phd94020557/inter-actua...

 

Inter actualités de 7:15 PM du 9 août 1963

Inter actualités de 7:15 PM - 09.08.1963 - 29:58 - audio

 

Ina.fr (English translated)

 

- Headlines - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: The Marseille and Bordeaux sailors' strike ended this morning, but nothing has been resolved in Le Havre. Many heads of state and government sent messages of condolence to President Kennedy for the death of his third child shortly after birth. Other headlines in the newspaper (2'20"). - André Brière: It does not appear for the moment that work will resume in Le Havre. Mr. Pisani would agree to the distillation of 2 million hectoliters of wine, which is clogging up the market, but a subsidy would be required. Discontent is growing among winegrowers in the south, whom the population accuses of various acts of sabotage in the Narbonne region. Complaints from winegrowers in the southwest. Farmers scattered 5 tons of potatoes yesterday in the streets of Douai (3'30"). - Jacques Behingue: Secretary of State Dean Rusk will return to Washington from Moscow on Monday. He will give a presentation to senators on the Moscow Treaty. This morning, Dean Rusk was received by Mr. Khrushchev on the shores of the Black Sea in Cagra. This evening, Mr. Dean Rusk will host a dinner in Moscow at the US Embassy. Tomorrow, he will be in Bonn, received by Mr. Adenauer. The Moscow Treaty was signed by 11 new countries, with Japan set to sign next Wednesday. North Vietnam has refused to sign. Mr. MAC MILLAN declared that underground tests, which are not prohibited, are not of great importance because nuclear weapons can only be modified following atmospheric tests (4'40"). - Gérard TAVERA: Two years after Bizerte, France and Tunisia signed an agreement this morning that includes two chapters: the first concerns the 30,000 Tunisian workers living in France, the second concerns economic cooperation. This agreement resolves the economic problems concerning Bizerte. After an African trip, Mr. BEN BELLA returns to Algiers. In Accra, Mr. BEN BELLA declared that the next session of the UN would be an African session. Yesterday, AIT AHMED violently criticized the FLN party and the constitutional project. All French newspapers reproducing Mr. AIT AHMED's Declaration were seized this morning upon their arrival in Algiers. Since July 16, in Morocco, leaders of the UNFP are detained in rather precarious conditions following the "plot" against the monarchy (2'25"). - André Brière: before the State Security Court, opening of the trial of the station commander, among those who are bringing a civil action is Mr. Jean OUDINOT, former director of RTF in Algiers (1'05"). - Victor VRAMANT: the body of Doctor WARD was cremated this morning, only members of Doctor WARD's family attended the funeral ceremony. The weather in France and Europe. It is raining everywhere in France except on the Côte d'Azur. Road accidents (2'). - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: Gaston GELIS, former director of "Paris-journal" died in a road accident in Seine et Marne (1'). - Victor VRAMANT: a major drug trafficker was arrested at Orly. In Italy, following the arrest of a repeat offender, a 22-year-old American woman was arrested for drug trafficking (1'30"). - Jacques CHABOT: Charles TRENET has not yet been released; he would be released tomorrow morning after payment of bail (25%).

 

WEATHER:

 

SOURCE: www.meteo-paris.com/chronique/annee/1963

 

June 14, 1963: a particularly cool day - it was no more than 12°C in Rouen, 13°C in Paris, St. Quentin, Lille, Le Havre, and Caen.

 

August 1963 was autumnal because it was very cool and very wet. On August 3, 1963, torrential rains caused catastrophic flooding and the death of eight people in the Lyon region. On August 4, 1963, 400 houses were also flooded between St. Jean de Luz and Le Boucau (Pyrénées Atlantiques). On August 17 and 18, 1963, it was no more than 10°C. and 15°C in the northern half - many summer visitors leave early - it's snowing in the mountains and the harvest is very difficult.

 

Historical landmarks of the year 1963

August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King leads the march on Washington. October 11, 1963: Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf die within hours of each other. November 22, 1963: President J.F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. The yé-yé movement is in vogue - the debut of Françoise Hardy and the politically engaged singer, Jean Ferrat.

Existential Spawn shot. Or something. Sunday, March 16, 2008 - developer.ribbit.com

KMZ Zorki-3

FED 50mm F2

Kodak Tri-X400

Self_developed ID11_Developer

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An example of developers handing their hoardings over to street artists to decorate. Livens the place up. As seen in Hatch Lane, Dublin

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25 septiembre 2014

Centro de Innovación BBVA, Madrid

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Developer: rodinal 1+50 13sec

Temp: 20c

The Current State of Muslim Representation in Video Games

Imad Khan | Journalist, The Daily Dot

Farah Khalaf | Game Artist, NZGDA

Rami Ismail | Developer, Vlambeer

Romana Ramzan | Game Design Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University

Location: Room 3005, West Hall

Date: Thursday, March 17

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tin Type

Graflex Speed Graphic

Dallmeyer Pentac 8" f/2.9

1s exposure

Gold Street Studios - Woodend

2016-01-07

 

Nikon F90X

Nikon Ai 50mm f/1.4 lens

Ilford HP5 400 (800-push) 35mm film

Kodak Xtol (1:1) developer

20ºC - 14.25min

Katacombes (closed) . People gathering in front of "Club Sin" at Cabaret Cleopatra, following a Save the Main event, to stop the expropriation of the Red Light district on St.Laurent and Ste.Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Sept.5, 09 Save the Main © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 2009

  

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Stop the wrecking ball on the Main

The Architectural heritage of St. Laurent Blvd. and its greystones must be preserved. It’s a powerful symbol of our identity By Phyllis Lambert and Dinu Bumbaru June 5, 2012

 

Read more: www.montrealgazette.com/Stop+wrecking+ball+Main/6734785/s...

 

From IndyFoto-

These photos in part explain why we have to protect this area from the corporate developers and politicians who want to "clean Up' what makes Montreal so special! Razing heritage buildings which host events such as this is their solution. Some of these buildings have already been reduced to a mere facade, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the nefarious plot is now to demolish them completely and reduce it to a parking lot until financing to build a modern monstrosity materializes... Montrealers* (*NOTE: Yes- YOU of the "pots and spoon" crew) could also apply their considerable efforts to saving these beautiful buildings- interiors included, before there is nothing unique left about Montreal.

 

This makes me ache inside... I lived on the Main (near des Pins) in a similar building from 1983- 1994. My 2 storey 8 1/2 was part of the '80s Montreal punk scene, where I created my photos and brought up my son. That apartment was my refuge and my muse, informing much of my work at the time. I often thought about the unknown people who had lived there before me, dating back to 1898, and wondered what diverse memories were infused within those walls. 3816 St.Laurent haunts my dreams still and I long for it, though it's been since ruined by bad reno jobs and further landlord neglect, and isn't the same. (Well, and nor am I!) The solution is not to destroy but to respectfully repair and maintain.

 

I look at the buildings scheduled to be demolished in the 1200 block and know them intimately, inside and out. They are a reflection of my history in the city, and ghosts long forgotten.Some of us are tenants and others shop keepers, and we are all links in the history of these buildings. The legacy we leave behind is the art, songs and dance that were created within the walls, the families we raised, the people we served and the friendships we nurtured. Should this be reduced to a rubble, so all that will remain for future generations to physically experience is a city ordained plaque displaying some misty B&W photos on the wall of a glass tower. No affordable space left to create their own contributions to our social history. There's little chance of that in an upscale office building, even one allegedly 'dedicated to art and culture".

LDH May 2012

The result of accidentally using exhausted RA4 developer, put online as a reminder to myself to be more careful.

 

Ilford XP2 shot on a Leica M6

 

113-10-18-009

 

menéame at Google Developer Day 2007

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This week in COVID: Moderna sues Pfizer-BioNTech, Paxlovid study shows no benefit for certain adults, Fauci to retire

 

Moderna is suing fellow vaccine developers Pfizer and German partner BioNTech for infringing on patents related to mRNA technology used in their COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced Friday.

 

The Cambridge, Massachusetts, company claims Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, Comirnaty, infringes on patents it filed between 2010 and 2016, according to a Moderna news release.

 

“We believe that Pfizer and BioNTech unlawfully copied Moderna’s inventions, and they have continued to use them without permission,” said Moderna chief legal officer Shannon Thyme Klinger.

 

Moderna alleges Pfizer and BioNtech copied two key features of the company’s patented technologies, which they say are “critical to the success of mRNA vaccines.”

 

Pfizer spokeswoman Jerica Pitts said the companies were "surprised by the litigation" and plan to "vigorously defend against the allegations of the lawsuit." Their COVID-19 vaccine, she said, was based on BioNTech's proprietary mRNA technology.

 

Also in the news:

 

► First lady Jill Biden tested positive again for COVID-19, the White House announced Wednesday – just one day after she tested negative. President Joe Biden continues to test negative.

 

► Pfizer and German partner BioNTech have submitted their new COVID-19 booster – that targets the omicron subvariant BA.5 – to the FDA for emergency use authorization, the companies announced Monday.

 

► Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States.

 

► The U.S. government is suspending 26 flights by Chinese airlines from the United States to China in a dispute over anti-virus controls after Beijing suspended flights by American carriers.

 

📘What we're reading: COVID-19 vaccination rates among kids under 5 remain low as US hospital admissions continue to steadily rise.

 

Paxlovid showed no measurable benefit in adults 40 to 65, study says

 

Pfizer's COVID-19 pill, Paxlovid, appears to provide little or no benefit for certain adults, while still reducing the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk seniors, according to a large study published Wednesday.

 

The results from a 109,000-patient Israeli study are likely to renew questions about the U.S. government's use of Paxlovid, which has become the go-to treatment for COVID-19 due to its at-home convenience. The Biden administration has spent more than $10 billion purchasing the drug and making it available at thousands of pharmacies through its test-and-treat initiative.

 

The researchers found that Paxlovid reduced hospitalizations among people 65 and older by roughly 75% when given shortly after infection. But people between the ages of 40 and 65 saw no measurable benefit, according to the analysis of medical records.

 

A spokesman for Pfizer declined to comment on the results, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

Can we eradicate COVID? That’s a hard no, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci

 

While Dr. Anthony Fauci, who became both a reassuring and politically polarizing voice during the pandemic, is retiring from public service in December, he’s still got a lot to share.

 

In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease says the world might be opening up again, but that doesn’t mean the pandemic is behind us.

 

“I think that when you talk about new normal, you have to focus predominantly on COVID,” Fauci said. “We have the emergence of infectious diseases more often than people realize. Many of them are relatively insignificant at a global level.”

 

Fauci has spent his career studying emerging viruses and guiding America’s response to health crises like the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and West Nile Virus.

 

“Could we actually eradicate SARS COV-2, the cause of COVID? I can tell you categorically, the answer to that is going to be no,” says Fauci. "We've only eradicated from the face of the earth one significant pathogen and that's smallpox."

 

Fauci says America’s best protection against COVID-19 is mass vaccination.

 

– Becky Kellogg, USA TODAY

 

Pfizer says its COVID vaccines are 73% effective in children under 5

 

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.

 

Vaccinations for babies, toddlers and preschoolers opened in the U.S. in June after months of delay. Health authorities authorized tot-sized vaccine doses made by Pfizer and BioNTech based on a study showing they were safe and produced high levels of virus-fighting antibodies. But there was only preliminary data on how that translated into effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19.

 

The new study analyzed COVID-19 diagnoses between March and June in Pfizer’s ongoing study of the three-dose vaccine. There were 21 COVID-19 cases among the 351 tots who got dummy shots — compared to just 13 among the 794 youngsters given three vaccine doses.

 

The child cases primarily were caused by the BA.2 omicron version that was circulating in. Today, another omicron relative, BA.5, is causing most COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and much of the world.

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