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Washington Post: Capitol Police intelligence report warned of violence targeting ‘Congress itself’ three days before attack
CNN)An internal Capitol Police intelligence report produced three days before rioters breached the US Capitol cautioned that violent supporters of President Donald Trump could zero in on “Congress itself,” the Washington Post reported Friday, citing obtained portions of the 12-page memo. “Supporters of the current president see January 6, 2021, as the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election,” the memo reads, according to the Post. “This sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent. Unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters as they were previously, but rather Congress itself is the target on the 6th.” CNN has not independently confirmed the veracity of the report. CNN has reached out to the Capitol Police, whose spokeswoman declined to comment to the Post on the contents of the report or its influence on planning for January 6. The January 3 report warns of thousands of belligerent rioters, incited by the President and joined by members of White supremacists and extremist groups, descending on the nation’s capital with members of Congress the target of their anger, the paper reported. It included striking characterizations of Trump supporters seeming to prepare for intense combat on platforms frequented by White supremacists and members of the alt-right, calling for participants to bring firearms, gas masks, bulletproofs vests and other specialized equipment, the paper reported. The intelligence report determined that the anticipated crowds, the calls for armament, proximity to the Capitol and promotion “by President Trump himself” could make it a dangerous situation, per the Post. “The Stop the Steal protest in particular does not have a permit, but several high profile speakers, including Members of Congress are expected to speak at the event,” the memo read, according to the paper. “This combined with Stop the Steal’s propensity to attract white supremacists, militia members and others who actively promote violence, may lead to a significantly dangerous situation for law enforcement and the general public alike.” Two people familiar with the intelligence memo told the Post that the intelligence division’s director, Jack Donohue, shared the report with all Capitol Police command staff. The intelligence report spurred the Capitol Police chief to pursue emergency activation of the National Guard and prompted the department to widen its perimeter barricades, a law enforcement official told the Post. Former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund, who resigned in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, told the Post on Friday that the intelligence units reports informed preparation of security, but he declined to discuss an internal memo. One law enforcement official told the Post that the internal perception of the memo wasn’t that it was warning of some new threat with thousands of rioters attacking the Capitol, but rather of events similar to those the department had previously handled at smaller Trump rallies late last year. The Post reports that the intelligence memo is not known to have been widely circulated with other branches of law enforcement, such as the FBI, or outside the Capitol Police force. Nick Note: Trumps team were involved with far more aiding and abetting of the attack them simply giving speeches.
Kim Jong Un Unveils New Submarine Missile Threat as Trump Exits
(Jan 15): North Korea held its second major military parade in three months to mark a rare party meeting, showing off nuclear advances including a new submarine-launched ballistic missile as Donald Trump leaves office. Kim Jong Un’s regime held the parade in Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang on Thursday evening to mark the end of its first Party Congress in five years, the state’s Korean Central News Agency said. The delegates approved plans to bolster a sanctions-hit economy that last year likely headed to its biggest contraction in two decades. The parade appeared to be smaller than an October military march, at which North Korea unveiled what was likely the world’s largest road-ready intercontinental ballistic missile, designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads to the U.S. One of the longest-range weapons unveiled Thursday appeared to be the Pukguksong-5, a new version of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. North Korea last tested a Pukguksong-3 SLBM in October 2019, which had an estimated range of 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) — capable of striking its arch-enemy Japan. “The world’s most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,” KCNA said Friday. Last week the regime said it would modernize its nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles, as well as enhance its ability to launch quick and devastating strikes. The show of force demonstrated the progress North Korea has made on its nuclear program in the face of Trump’s unprecedented move to meet Kim face-to-face in an effort to neutralize one of the U.S.’s biggest security threats. Kim last week signaled a challenge to Biden, saying he would focus on “subduing” the U.S. and continuing to enhance his nuclear capability to ensure North Korea’s “autonomic development.” A full version of the parade has not yet been broadcast on state-run television, with only photos released so far. Video footage would potentially provide the outside world more clues to see advances North Korea has made to its arsenal. North Korea said its weapons plans include making smaller and lighter nuclear weapons, proceeding with the development of large warheads and improving the ability to strike targets within 15,000 kilometers (9,320 miles) — capable of reaching all of the continental U.S. Kim is seeking to develop solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles, while strengthening intelligence-gathering capabilities with satellites. “If hostile forces compromise the security of our state, we will preemptively mobilize our strongest offensive forces to thoroughly punish, and protect the safety of our country and people,” Kim Jong Gwan, North Korea’s defense minister, said in an address. Nick Note: Kim Yom Numchucks realized early on it was the Art OF the Steal. So they blew goodness and love up Trumps ass… stopped nuclear and rocket tests and went fill speed ahead in building their nuclear arsenal and ICBM rockets!
Manhattan DA expands criminal investigation into Trump Organization finances to include family compound in Westchester County
- The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, is investigating Trump for possible tax fraud, and bank and insurance fraud
- Vance was already investigating hush money payments made to women who had claimed they had sex with Trump
- The investigation now includes Trump’s home at Seven Springs, an historic estate in Westchester, New York, purchased in 1996 for $7.5million
- A 2012 Trump financial document values the property at $291 million, but local agents estimated the property would trade for around $50 million or less
- Trump signed a deal with a land conservancy promising not to develop it
- It gave him a $21million charitable tax deduction while Trump also claimed $2.2million in property taxes from the house as business expenses
- Trump had planned to build a golf course along with nine homes on the site but was stopped by local residents who wanted to protect it
- In 2014, Eric Trump described it as the family’s personal compound where he’d spent summers as a child learning ‘the art of the deal’
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is to expand its criminal investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances which include a family compound in Westchester County. Prosecutors began looking into a 212-acre property called Seven Springs as part of an investigation that started over a year ago. The compound is one of four Trump Organization properties under investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is probing whether Eric Trump and various corporate entities artificially inflated property values.
A 2012 Trump financial document values the property at $291 million, but local agents estimated the property would trade for around $50 million or less. The Trump Organization acquired the property in 1995 for $7.5 million. Over the years, the organization has made several attempts to develop the property with ideas to build a golf course along with plans to build nine homes. Eventually such efforts were abandoned in 2015 as the Trump Organization decided to create a conservation easement to a land trust. Letitia James said she opened the investigation after Michael Cohen, right, testified to Congress that Trump had inflated or deflated asset values to gain tax and loan advantages
By making such a ‘donation’, the Trumps would have been allowed make a tax deduction based on the value of the property. The higher the valuation of the property, the larger the tax deduction allowed. Trump granted a conservation easement of about 158 acres to the North American Land Trust. It was appraised at $21.1 million, according to the filings but now investigators are looking to see whether the value was artificially inflated. ‘Valuations of Seven Springs were used to claim an apparent $21.1 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement on the property in tax year 2015, and in submissions to financial institutions as a component of Mr. Trump’s net worth,’ according to court filings in the New York attorney general’s investigation.
After Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, he announced that he would not be involved in day-to-day operations of the Trump Organization but would leave the responsibilities to his adult sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Eric Trump was deposed in October as part of the ongoing civil probe into whether the value of Trump Organization assets were inflated to gain tax benefits. The inquiry is a civil investigation, which could result in financial penalties but not jail time according to CNN. Other properties also under investigation include 40 Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, and the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles. On Friday, The Associated Press reported investigators in Vance’s office interviewed Michael Cohen for several hours on Thursday. They asked him about the president’s business dealings, with particular focus on his relationship with Deutsche Bank, Trump’s biggest lender, who are now looking to sever ties with Trump despite having owing $300 million in loans. Trump has accused James and New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, of ‘harassing all of my New York businesses in search of anything at all they can find to make me look as bad as possible.’ Eric Trump referred to the home as the family’s ‘compound’ in an interview with Forbes in 2014: ‘When we first bought the property in 1996 I was about 12, 13 years old at the time. Both my brother and I and my father would always put us to work. The investigation is just one of multiple potential civil and criminal legal issues that Trump will face once he leaves office, made all the more threatening because he will lose the legal protections afforded a sitting president. Nick Note: As often pointed out Trump is a desperate man. He and his family face massive fraud criminal charges out of the southern district of New York. State charges that he cannot pardon.
How the rioters who stormed the Capitol came dangerously close to Pence
The violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 came perilously close to Vice President Pence, who was not evacuated from the Senate chamber for about 14 minutes after the Capitol Police reported an initial attempted breach of the complex — enough time for the marauders to rush inside the building and approach his location, according to law enforcement officials and video footage from that day. Secret Service officers eventually spirited Pence to a room off the Senate floor with his wife and daughter after rioters began to pour into the Capitol, many loudly denouncing the vice president as a traitor as they marched through the first floor below the Senate chamber. About one minute after Pence was hustled out of the chamber, a group charged up the stairs to a second-floor landing, chasing a Capitol Police officer who drew them away from the Senate.Pence and his family had just ducked into a hideaway less than 100 feet from that landing, according to three people familiar with his whereabouts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. If the pro-Trump mob had arrived seconds earlier, the attackers would have been in eyesight of the vice president as he was rushed across a reception hall into the office. The proximity of the Jan. 6 mob to the vice president and the delay in evacuating him from the chamber — which have not been previously reported — raise questions about why the Secret Service did not move him earlier and underscore the jeopardy that top government leaders faced during the siege. As an increasingly hostile and violent crowd surrounded the Capitol, Pence remained at center stage, presiding over a joint session of Congress for more than an hour after the Capitol Police chief said he alerted his superiors that his force was being overrun and needed emergency reinforcements.The potential exposure of the vice president underscores how law enforcement agencies struggled to manage the rapidly expanding crisis in real time. The Secret Service declined to comment on any element of Pence’s movements in the Capitol or his evacuation, other than to say that he was “secure” during the siege. “While the Secret Service does not speak specifically about the means and methods of our protective operations, Vice President Pence was secure at all times on Jan. 6,” Secret Service spokeswoman Catherine Milhoan said in a statement. A spokesman for Pence declined to comment.Pence was ultimately evacuated from his office off the Senate floor to a more secure location elsewhere in the Capitol complex. It is unclear exactly how long that took. But as the vice president made his way through the building, a growing number of rioters were joining their cohorts and coursing through the Capitol’s labyrinthine halls.Nick Note: If the coup was successful Trumps agents under the cover of the rioters would have killed Pence stooping the certification of the election. AND giving Trump the excuse he needed too declare martial law. But his operatives failed in capturing Pence…. Better luck next time. A democracy is a thing that is hard to get, even harder to keep and easy to lose. It appears to me America has entered the losing stage.
U.S. says Capitol rioters meant to ‘capture and assassinate’ officials
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday, saying in a court filing that rioters intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials.” Prosecutors offered that view in a filing asking a judge to detain Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man and QAnon conspiracy theorist who was famously photographed wearing horns as he stood at the desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the chamber of the U.S. Senate. The detention memo, written by Justice Department lawyers in Arizona, goes into greater detail about the FBI’s investigation into Chansley, revealing that he left a note for Pence warning that “it’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”
“Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” prosecutors wrote.
A public defender representing Chansley could not be immediately reached for comment. Chansley is due to appear in federal court on Friday. The prosecutors’ assessment comes as prosecutors and federal agents have begun bringing more serious charges tied to violence at the Capitol, including revealing cases Thursday against one man, retired firefighter Robert Sanford, on charges that he hurled a fire extinguisher at the head of one police officer and another, Peter Stager, of beating a different officer with a pole bearing an American flag. In Chansley’s case, prosecutors said the charges “involve active participation in an insurrection attempting to violently overthrow the United States government,” and warned that “the insurrection is still in progress” as law enforcement prepares for more demonstrations in Washington and state capitals. They also suggested he suffers from drug abuse and mental illness, and told the judge he poses a serious flight risk. “Chansley has spoken openly about his belief that he is an alien, a higher being, and he is here on Earth to ascend to another reality,” they wrote. The Justice Department has brought more than 80 criminal cases in connection with the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol last week, in which Trump’s supporters stormed the building, ransacked offices and in some cases, attacked police. Many of the people charged so far were easily tracked down by the FBI, which has more than 200 suspects, thanks in large part to videos and photos posted on social media. Michael Sherwin, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has said that while many of the initial charges may seem minor, he expects much more serious charges to be filed as the Justice Department continues its investigation. Nick Note: This is/was a coup attempt. And the crazies are among us. They always have been. But it takes a despot like a Hitler or in this case a Trump to galvanize them to empower them. And that will be the legacy of Trump. And sad to say I saw this coming and so said. And i caught hell for my position from the first day of the Trump administration…..
Biden to unveil plan to pump $1.9 trillion into pandemic-hit economy
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WILMINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden will unveil a $1.9 trillion stimulus package proposal on Thursday designed to jump-start the economy and speed up the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. Biden campaigned last year on a promise to take the pandemic more seriously than President Donald Trump, and the package aims to put that pledge into action with an influx of resources for the coronavirus response and economic recovery. President Donald Trump, and the package aims to put that pledge into action with an influx of resources for the coronavirus response and economic recovery. Exploding Bitcoin should be a part of investors’ portfolios The package includes $415 billion to bolster the response to the virus and the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, some $1 trillion in direct relief to households, and roughly $440 billion for small businesses and communities particularly hard hit by the pandemic, incoming Biden administration officials told reporters on a conference call.
Stimulus payment checks would be issued for $1,400 – topping up the $600 checks issued under the last congressional stimulus legislation. Supplemental unemployment insurance would also increase to $400 a week from $300 a week now and would be extended to September, the officials said.
Biden will make the announcement in a 7:15 p.m. eastern prime time address on Thursday, underscoring the importance his team places on the issue. Biden’s plan is meant to kick off his time in office with a large bill that sets his short-term agenda into motion quickly: helping the economy and getting a handle on a virus that has killed more than 385,000 people in the United States as of Thursday. It also provides a sharp contrast with Trump, who spent the last months of his administration seeking to undermine Biden’s election victory rather than focusing on additional coronavirus relief. Trump, who leaves office on Wednesday, did support $2,000 payments to Americans, however. Many Republicans in Congress balked at the price tag for such payments, and Biden will face similar hurdles with his proposals, though he will be helped by the fact that his fellow Democrats will control both the House and the Senate. The incoming president will seek to pass the legislation even as his predecessor faces an impeachment trial. The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday, making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. Ten of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats to charge him with inciting an insurrection in last week’s deadly rampage at the Capitol. The impeachment proceedings threaten to hang over the beginning of Biden’s term, and Biden has encouraged lawmakers to handle the trial while also moving forward with his agenda. The officials said Biden’s plan on Thursday will be a rescue package that will be followed up with another recovery package in the coming weeks. “We’re at a very precarious moment for our economy,” one of the officials said. The plan would extend moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions until September and include funding for rental and utility assistance. The president-elect will also call on Congress to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the package will include assistance to fight hunger. The coronavirus relief-related funds will go toward a national vaccine program, testing, investments for workers to do vaccine outreach and contact tracing, and money for states. The Democratic president-elect said last week the stimulus package would be “in the trillions of dollars” and argued that more spending early on would reduce the long-term economic damage from the shutdowns spurred by the pandemic. He also said there would be “billions of dollars” to speed up vaccine distribution, along with money to help reopen schools and for state and local governments to avoid laying off teachers, police officers and health workers. Pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions have cost millions of U.S. jobs.
Biden preps coronavirus ‘rescue’ plan, with ‘recovery’ bill to follow
President-elect Joe Biden has settled on a two-step strategy for moving his policy agenda through Congress this year, beginning with a COVID-19 rescue package he’ll unveil Thursday night and continuing later this year with what’s likely to be a more partisan economic recovery measure. Biden is hoping to gain Republican support for what Democrats are billing their rescue plan, which is aimed at addressing the immediate effects of the pandemic and its associated economic impacts. The plan has components to address vaccine distribution, aid to households and assistance to communities, according to several people familiar with the plan who were not authorized to speak publicly. Biden’s transition team announced Wednesday that Biden will deliver remarks from Wilmington, Del., at 7:15 p.m. Thursday to outline his rescue package “to fund vaccinations and provide immediate, direct relief to working families and communities bearing the brunt of this crisis and call on both parties in Congress to move his proposals quickly.”\ The health care portion of the package includes funding for distribution of the vaccines as well as hiring additional health care workers to administer the vaccines and an education campaign to persuade people that they are safe and effective. There would also be more money for COVID-19 testing, according to sources.
The household aid portion of the plan includes the added $1,400 tax rebate checks Biden has promised — on top of $600 payments enacted late last year — as well as supercharged unemployment insurance benefits, food assistance, aid to renters, child care subsidies and an extended eviction moratorium.
Money for small businesses, state and local governments, public transit agencies, local school systems and more are contained in the aid to communities component of the plan. It wasn’t immediately clear what the price tag would be, but Biden last week said it could be in the “trillions of dollars.” Ahead of the November elections, Democrats in the House and Senate discussed using the budget reconciliation process twice this year in order to pass legislation with filibuster-proof majorities if Democrats won control of Congress and the White House. That would require both chambers to first adopt a fiscal 2021 budget resolution containing reconciliation instructions early in the year and to follow it up with a fiscal 2022 budget resolution, with additional reconciliation directives, later in the year.
Reconciliation allows tax- and budget-related legislation to pass with a simple majority in the Senate rather than the usual 60 votes, making it possible to pass legislation without the support of the minority PARTY.
Instead, Biden will seek to win Republican backing to pass the rescue plan without the use of reconciliation. That would require 60 votes in the 50-50 Senate. Sources said he will make an initial “good faith effort” to win bipartisan support for the package, which has been written with that goal in mind. Coming so soon on the heels of last month’s $900 billion relief package, it could be difficult to garner support from enough Senate Republicans to get over the 60-vote threshold. Some Democrats are skeptical that Republicans will cooperate, and the option of using reconciliation on the first package is being kept in reserve. The downside of using reconciliation for the rescue plan is that it would take longer, be more complicated and limiting. Democrats in the House and Senate would have to find common ground on a fiscal 2021 budget resolution, a challenge given different priorities among competing factions of liberals and moderates in both chambers. Moreover, reconciliation in the Senate is constrained by the Byrd rule, a law which prevent extraneous items from being included reconciliation including those that don’t have a deficit impact or increase long-term deficits. There are also procedural problems and potential Byrd rule flaws with including discretionary spending in reconciliation bills. Much of the spending that is envisioned in Biden’s plan, such as vaccine distribution, rental housing aid and relief for states and localities, is discretionary, which is under the purview of the Appropriations committees. Democratic leaders have been largely mum on the prospect of using two rounds of reconciliation since Democrats gained control of the Senate after the Jan. 5 Georgia runoffs. Biden’s second step — a longer-term recovery package — would be taken up later in the year. Sources said Democrats envision using reconciliation to pass that broader economic package that would include infrastructure development, clean energy subsidies and other measures aimed at job creation, possibly paired with tax increases on corporations and wealthier households. Infrastructure spending also faces some potential Byrd rule issues, however, including the fact that highway and aviation trust fund authorizations do not “score” as direct spending that would be allowed under reconciliation and could also increase long-term deficits. Nick Note: they will for sure be doing happy checks and the markets will celebrate…Ole!
Treasuries sell off as Joe Biden eyes $2 trillion stimulus package, while US stocks set to edge higher
- Treasury prices fell and yields rose after a CNN report said Joe Biden could launch a stimulus package worth $US2 trillion, causing investors to brace for more bond issuance and higher inflation.
- US stocks were set for a mixed start as markets awaited the details of Biden’s plan and mulled over the spread of coronavirus.
- Chinese stocks tumbled as coronavirus cases rose, but oil prices climbed as traders looked towards a vaccine-driven economic recovery.
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US Treasury prices slipped on Thursday after a CNN report said President-elect Joe Biden was mulling a $US2 trillion stimulus bill, while stocks were set to open slightly higher on Wall Street. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note – which moves inversely to its price – rose 1.2 basis points to 1.1%. Yields were up on Treasuries from the 3-year note to the 30-year bond, as investors bet more stimulus would lead to more issuance of government debt and higher inflation. The S&P 500 was set to open slightly higher, with futures up 0.22%. Dow Jones futures were 0.31% higher but Nasdaq futures were up just 0.02%. The second impeachment of US President Donald Trump did little to market sentiment, with investors instead focused on stimulus and the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday the S&P 500 closed 0.23% higher, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq advanced 0.43%. The Dow Jones closed 0.03% lower, as cyclical stocks underperformed growth companies. Biden is expected to lay out his plans later in the day in Wilmington, Delaware. His advisors have told allies the total package could come to around $US2 trillion, two people briefed on the plans told CNN. David Madden, market analyst at CMC Markets, said: “Essentially, the markets have been in a holding pattern for the past three days as dealers have been waiting to hear from Mr Biden. “To an extent, a large amount of positive news has been factored into stocks and commodities.” Bond yields have marched higher, while prices have fallen in recent weeks. Investors expect the government to issue another wave of bonds to fund extra stimulus, pushing up supply. Markets are also betting stimulus will help growth and inflation. That pushes down bond prices and pushes up yields as low-yielding bonds look less attractive, especially compared to stocks.
“With President-elect Biden shooting for the moon on stimulus, and China data suggesting its economic juggernaut remains on track, financial markets should enter the last part of the week on a positive frame of mind,” said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at currency broker Oanda.
“Any rise in US yields and the US dollar should not be enough to derail further rallies in equity markets and support energy.” Nick Note: From a bull market perspective its happy times. Biden is in like Flynn and nothing will stop him. The vaccines are on the way and they believe the golden shot will open the economy this spring. Democrats have taken the senate. And Biden will initiate the biggest happy check giveaway ever. So we are going to ride the wave. Then when reality set in look out below!!!!
Moderna CEO says ‘we are going to have to live with coronavirus forever’
- Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel spoke at a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday
- He said the coronavirus is not going to disappear and the general public is going to have to live with it ‘forever’
- Public health experts have stated that COVID-19 will likely become an endemic disease, meaning always present in the population but circulating at low rates
- Bancel added that he believes he firm’s vaccine is protective against the new variants from the UK, South Africa and Brazil
- Researchers from Moderna are currently studying whether or not a third booster shot will help extend immunity
Moderna Inc’s CEO says the novel coronavirus will never disappear and will likely be around ‘forever.’ During a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, Stéphane Bancel echoed comments from public health experts who say COVID-19 is likely going to become an endemic disease, meaning it will always present in the population but circulating at low rates.
‘SARS-CoV-2 is not going away, .’ We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever.’ Additionally, he said he believes the firm’s coronavirus vaccine will be effective against infection by any of the new variants from the UK, South Africa or Brazil. Moderna’s vaccine was developed in partnership with the National Institutes of Health. It uses part of the pathogen’s genetic code called messenger RNA, or mRNA, to get the body to recognize the coronavirus and attack it if a person becomes infected. The candidate, called mRNA-1273, works by tricking the body into producing some of the viral proteins, which the immune system then recognizes and builds a defensive response against. When given in two doses four weeks apart, the vaccine was found to be 94.1 percent effect at preventing COVID-19 and 100 percent effective at preventing severe disease in clinical trial data. It was approved for emergency use authorizations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on December 18. Nick Note: Think… It will take a year at least to vaccinate significant portions of the US population. And a year and a half at least to get heard immunity. BUT the vaccine will work for a year. Which means your like a dog chasing his tail.