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U.S. administers 360.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC

Aug 20 (Reuters) – The United States has administered 360,634,287 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 426,106,115 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Those figures are up from the 359,623,380 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Aug. 19 out of 422,175,735 doses delivered.

The agency said 200,421,787 people had received at least one dose while 169,998,983 people are fully vaccinated as of Friday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), , as well as Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N) one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday. Nick Note: that means 170 million people need their 3rd dose and 200 million need their 2nd and 3rd dose. Lets suppose we lump them all together for 1 dose starting in September… You need to inoculate 370 million people…..And that is just to get marginal immunity to half the eligible people…….Herd immunity is an impossibility…. in fact you are not going to stop the delta spread never mind the two other variants that are coming..  Not enough vaccines soon enough to enough people to stop the slaughter, New Vaccination booster shots are not going to happen in time….. We get the vaccines tailored to the 3 circulating vaccines in February…… That means in 6 months you need to vaccinate 370 million people all over again….. Add the anti vaccers that are getting scared shit as their good old boy buddies go on ventilators and don’t come back to the country music bar.  You need to do 1 billion vaccines by next spring to save the majority of the population. Not going to happen. Save yourself and your loved ones. And rush to get your3rd booster shot in a few weeks.  In another 6 months get in February your 4th shot. And be prepared to get vaccinated every 6 months that the scientists always new would have to happen. As for the stupid money all i can say is fire up the cremation machines…..

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Rain puts a halt to New York comeback concert in Central Park

NEW YORK — Rain and thunder brought a halt to the city’s comeback concert at Central Park on Saturday night. Music luminaries and thousands of New Yorkers had been partying like it was 2019, hitting a hopeful note late in the second summer of COVID-19, before rain and thunder came in the middle of Barry Manilow’s set. Organizers were hoping for better weather to resume the show, but it’s unclear if it the show will go on. Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon were among those yet to take the stage before the show was halted. The show was meant to herald the return of New York City, even as Hurricane Henri set its sights on the Northeast. Throngs of vaccinated music fans — some masked, most not — filled into the 55-acre field long before the first act. Concert staff asked for proof of shots at the gates. Many concertgoers draped beach towels over the grass on a sticky, hot evening in Manhattan. They scouted out spots in the shadow of a stage and light display that screamed “NYC” in imposing lettering. Brooklyn-raised music mogul Clive Davis booked the show’s star-studded lineup, a list that also included opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, rapper LL Cool J and guitar genius Carlos Santana. Bocelli, one of the first acts, sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” a folk song that became a pandemic anthem, with its optimistic encouragements for the lonely. “We crossed a terrible storm this year,” Bocelli told the crowd. Not long after, Santana performed a boisterous rendition of “Maria Maria” as New Yorkers swayed.  Also on the bill were Brooklyn-born balladeer Barry Manilow, punk powerhouse Patti Smith and hip-hop star Wyclef Jean. Davis, 89, said ahead of the concert that the selections were meant to “do justice to the full range of great New York music.” The event, broadcast on CNN and branded the “Homecoming Concert,” put an exclamation point on a week of concerts across the five boroughs in celebration of New York’s comeback. The city coordinated the concert along with Davis and Live Nation, an entertainment company. Many tickets were free, though passes were tricky to acquire. Mayor Bill de Blasio, proud of the city’s rebound from a crisis that in the spring of 2020 turned its streets grim and ghostly, had crowed for weeks about the concert. And he appeared fired up when he took the stage shortly after 7 p.m. “This is the greatest concert in the history of New York!” de Blasio thundered. “Let’s thank the front-line workers of New York City who brought us back.” Many celebrities made appearances. Stephen Colbert, host of “The Late Show,” was spotted dancing on the grounds with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who lives in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, balloons and beach balls bounced above the crowds on the Great Lawn. A palpable sense of joy overcame the ongoing threat posed by the ultra-contagious delta variant. And locals came from far and wide to soak in the celebration. Al Cartagena, 55, traveled from the Throgs Neck neighborhood in the Bronx to see the concert, which he said was a once-in-a-lifetime moment for him and his wife. They dished out about $88 apiece for their tickets, he said, and took the subway and the bus to get the park by around 2:30 p.m. With whipping winds and rain churning up the East Coast, the couple were ready for wet weather, Cartagena said about an hour before the concert began. Henri was expected to make landfall on Long Island on Sunday. “I’m glad we’re here before the storm,” he said. “We’re ready. We’ve got our ponchos.”  But despite brief moments of pre-concert drizzle, a positive sign from above arrived as the concert revved to rock at 5 p.m. The sun peeked out from behind the clouds, and washed Central Park in golden light. All looked good — for a while. Then the rains came. Nick Note: This proves the denial people are in and the lack of leadership. First of all this concert was suppose to celebrate the end of the covid plague… Just as the variants are coming and lockdowns will soon be the order of the day.  I watched the concert on CNN. I had a lot of cousins and friends who despite my warning about the coming hurricane and the fact it was a super spreader event they went any way. I watched as the clouds built and thought to myself why would you throw a outdoor concert when a hurricane is coming/// I guess NY authorities do not get weather reports. So they shut down the concert. A point in fact the night of the concert saw the most rain fall EVER in central park…… People are doomed. For the record people were suppose to be vaccinated…. even if it was only one shot. And they threw the concert with no testing,  no masks are even an attempt at social distancing…. And then the rains came to throw cold water on their ha ha ha celebration…….

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Britain reports 32,058 new COVID cases, 104 deaths

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Britain recorded 32,058 new cases of COVID-19, government data showed on Saturday, and reported a further 104 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.The data compared with 37,314 new cases reported on Friday and 114 deaths. Nick Note: we do not have enough data to understand what is really going on. It appears to me vaccines are failing after 6 months. And although its not readily admitted fully vaccinate people are not only getting infected by dying at alarming rates. Its much to early to tell what the third booster shot will do. It is obvious that we need the the fourth  booster shot with the antibodies for the  the 3 new variants.

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More than one million dead in Latin America as variants spread

Experts say Latin America is fast becoming the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than one million people there have died. The only exception is Chile, where 80 percent of the population are fully vaccinated. Otherwise, health systems are struggling to cope. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 people in Peru, where the vaccination campaign is only slowly getting underway. Just 16 percent of the population are completely inoculated. The country is battling several coronavirus variants. Colombia is experiencing one of the longest peaks of infection since the coronavirus arrived in the country. This third spike has put the national medical system to the test. Quarantine measures have been struggling to strengthen an already strained system. ICUs in the country’s second largest city Medellín are over 95 percent occupied. Doctors insist the national model of pandemic care has failed.

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Russia reports 20,564 new COVID-19 cases and 762 deaths

MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Russia reported 20,564 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, including 1,661 in Moscow and 1,481 in St. Petersburg, which took the national tally to 6,747,087. The Russian coronavirus task force said 762 more deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 176,044. Rosstat, the government statistics agency, keeps a separate count from the pandemic task force and says it has recorded about 315,000 deaths related to COVID-19 between last April and June this year. Russia has reported about 463,000 excess deaths from April 2020 to June this year, according to Reuters calculations based on the latest Rosstat data. Some epidemiologists say excess deaths are the best way to measure the real death toll from COVID-19.

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Tokyo weighs use of Olympic venues as temporary medical facilities -paper

TOKYO: Authorities in the Japanese capital are considering plans to convert some of the city’s Olympics and Paralympics venues into temporary medical facilities as they combat soaring COVID-19 infections that have piled pressure on the healthcare system. Japan’s fifth wave of infections, which is being driven by the highly infectious Delta variant, has prompted the government to extend pandemic emergency measures in Tokyo and other regions until Sep. 12. Planners of the Paralympics, set to run from Tuesday until Sep 5, agreed last week to hold the Games generally without spectators, a measure taken at the recently concluded Olympics. Medical experts have urged temporary use of facilities owned by the Tokyo government, such as the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, site of swimming competitions, and the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza used for badminton, the Sankei newspaper said. However, the earliest they could be drafted into use would be after the Paralympic Games, the paper said, adding that more time might be required to complete arrangements. Other challenges include enforcing strict infection control measures, acquiring sophisticated medical equipment and securing a large number of medical staff, it added. The city authorities could not be reached for comment on a holiday. Saturday’s 5,074 new daily infections in Tokyo broke above 5,000 for a fourth straight day to hover near the Aug 13 record of 5,773. On Friday, Paralympics organisers said the Games would be held in “very difficult” circumstances, with Tokyo hospitals overstretched in the COVID-19 battle. Thirty new daily infections were confirmed on Sunday among Paralympic participants, the highest such figure yet, broadcaster NHK quoted organisers as saying. Nick Note: I do not wish to burst your bubble but you should be veryveryvery concerned. Plagues come in waves. Your temporary reprieve is over. The next more deadly wave is casting its dark shadow over the entire planet. And until we get the 4th vaccine you will have to up your game. Right now one of the best things we have is testing…… We are down to our last 50 test kits. Of the 6 suppliers we use 3 will not even take a order and the other 3 are severely limiting our quantities and give us a delivery date 6 weeks in the future. We are scouring the supply channels for inventory…..

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US reports record 319,456 new COVID cases

The United States posted 319,456 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a new record since the pandemic started, data from the John Hopkins University showed on Saturday. Since the beginning of the outbreak, 37,475,125 people have tested positive for COVID-19. Out of the figure 626,934 infections ended in death. Compared to yesterday, the figure was up by 2,677. Five states broke records for the average number of daily new Covid cases over the weekend as the delta variant strains hospital systems across the U.S. and forces many states to reinstate public health restrictions. Florida, Louisiana, Hawaii, Oregon and Mississippi all reached new peaks in their seven-day average of new cases per day as of Sunday, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. On a per capita basis, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are suffering from the three worst outbreaks in the country. Louisiana recorded an average of 126 cases per 100,000 residents as of Sunday, more than three times the national average, while Mississippi and Florida averaged 110 and 101 cases per 100,000 residents, respectively, according to the data. “We’re in the middle of the summer, people are gathering again with people, they’re in large groups, the vaccine has given a false sense of security in some ways to people, and they forget,” Dr. Perry Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, told CNBC in an interview. The surging delta variant has hit the Gulf Coast particularly hard, pushing hospitals to their limits. To try to curb the outbreak in Louisiana, officials in July recommended masks indoors for everyone, regardless of whether or not they were vaccinated. They reintroduced a statewide mask mandate on Aug. 2 after it was obvious that wasn’t working and cases kept climbing. Everyone must now wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, including all students from kindergarten through college. Louisiana has the fifth-lowest vaccination rate of any state in the country, with 38.3% of its population fully immunized against the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Louisiana reported a record-high seven-day average of more than 5,800 new Covid cases as of Sunday, an increase of nearly 27% from a week ago, according to Hopkins data. Louisiana recorded a seven-day average of 44 Covid-related deaths as of Sunday, over 46% more than a week prior. Almost half of the state’s 882 reported intensive care unit beds were occupied by coronavirus patients as of Monday, compared with a nationwide average of 25%, according the Department of Health and Human Services. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, pleaded Friday with residents to get vaccinated as the state scrambles to hire hundreds of temporary doctors, nurses and EMTs. He’s also requested ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile as the spread of the delta variant fills hospitals in the state with mostly unvaccinated patients. Almost 55% of Mississippi’s ICU beds were filled with Covid patients as of Monday, and the state’s seven-day average of nearly 3,300 new coronavirus cases as of Sunday jumped 57% from a week ago. “When you look across the country, to a certain extent, this current wave is the pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Reeves said at a press conference. “We continue to see more and more data, and the data is becoming more and more clear. Those who received the vaccine are significantly less likely to contract the virus.” Mississippi has the nation’s second-lowest coronavirus vaccination rate, with 35.8% of its population fully immunized as of Sunday. The state’s death toll also hit a seven-day average of 20, up almost 80% from a week ago. Florida reported a record 151,764 new Covid cases for the week on Friday, reaching a new seven-day average of 21,681 cases per day — more than any other state. More than half of the ICU beds in the state are occupied by Covid patients, according to HHS data. Florida’s surge in cases comes as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to resist calls from the Biden administration and state advocacy groups to enforce mask mandates and other pandemic-related measures to help contain the massive outbreak. He signed an executive order and law in May that lifted all Covid restrictions across the state and permanently blocked local officials from enacting new ones starting July 1. In late July, DeSantis issued a controversial executive order that blocked mask mandates in the state’s schools, overruling two counties that required face coverings for their students. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, is deploying up to 1,500 National Guard members to assist the state’s health systems as Covid hospitalizations set a new record three days in a row, standing at 733 on Friday. The state recorded 1,765 new cases on Friday, bringing its seven-day average to 1,652, according to the most recent data available. The state reimplemented an indoor mask mandate on Friday for everyone, including fully vaccinated people, in response to the surge in hospitalizations. Though Hawaii’s outbreak is relatively small compared with most mainland states, cases there have repeatedly been reaching new records since mid-July, hitting a seven-day average of 671 new cases per day on Sunday, according to Hopkins data. That’s a more-than-sevenfold jump from 89 cases per day a month ago. The recent surge in cases has caught health officials by surprise and is starting to strain the state’s hospital systems. The total number of hospitalizations on the islands is 3,030, with 552 deaths recorded since the beginning of the pandemic. “We are on fire. When we have hospitals that are really worried about being able to take care of people, that’s a crisis,” Hawaii’s health director, Dr. Elizabeth Char, said at a press conference last week. “When we see this exponential growth in the amount of people that are getting infected with Covid-19 every day — 2,000 people in the last three days — that’s a crisis. And at the point at which we overwhelm our resources, that’s a disaster.” Hospitalization rates in Hawaii and Oregon, however, aren’t as high as other states. Nationwide, less than 11% of all hospital beds are being used by Covid patients. In Oregon, it’s 11.4%, Hawaii is at 12.1%, followed by Louisiana at 20.4%, Mississippi at 18.7% and Florida at 28.2%, according to HHS data. Hospital bed capacity correlates very closely with vaccination rates. The states with higher vaccination rates are seeing fewer Covid patients take up hospital beds. Oregon has fully vaccinated 56.8% of its residents, followed by Hawaii at 54.3%, Florida at 50.3%, Louisiana at 38.3% and Mississippi at 35.8%. “That is why Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi are hurting with bed capacity and ascending death rates, while Oregon and Hawaii are hurting with explosive case rates, but with high vaccination and masking rates, may not ever be in the same precarious position,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at University of California in San Francisco. As of Sunday, the national seven-day average of new cases stands at 130,710, an increase of 20% from the previous seven-day average, according to Hopkins data. The seven-day average for Covid deaths nationwide rose to 687, up 36% from the previous average. “We know what the tools are, and now this comes down to policy and political decisionmakers’ value judgment to determine which tools they want to implement,” Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease expert at University of Toronto, told CNBC.

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US closes higher, recovers some of week’s losses

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rallied to close sharply higher on Friday, closing a tumultuous week on easing concerns over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve could begin tightening its dovish monetary policy sooner than expected.  While all three major U.S. indexes ended solidly green, all posted weekly losses after a steep mid-week sell-off pulled the S&P 500 and the Dow away from a string of record closing highs.  “Towards the beginning of the week you saw traders balancing their books ahead of the Fed statement,” said Matthew Keator, managing partner in the Keator Group, a wealth management firm in Lenox, Massachusetts. “And once the statement came out, you saw a bit of ‘sell the rumor buy the news.’” Market-leading tech and tech-adjacent megacaps, which weathered the pandemic recession better than most, once again provided the biggest lift. Growth stocks were also given a boost by U.S. Treasury yields, which ended the week lower due to concerns the health crisis could be a longer than expected hindrance to economic revival. Announcements from a host of Asian nations that they are implementing drastic measures to curb the resurgence of COVID-19 due to the rise of the disease’s highly contagious Delta variant, put a damper on stocks associated with economic re-engagement. Mixed economic data from the U.S. and China suggested the ongoing recovery from the most abrupt recession on record has passed its peak and lost some momentum. Market participants now look to next week’s Jackson Hole Symposium in Wyoming, a gathering of major central bank leaders, for clues from Fed Chair Jerome Powell regarding the expected pace of recovery and the timeline for policy tightening.

“We’ve seen times in history where the Jackson Hole Symposium has drawn a lot of eyeballs but this year more so,” Keator added. “The Fed might use this opportunity to communicate what their plan is going forward.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 225.96 points, or 0.65%, to 35,120.08, the S&P 500 gained 35.87 points, or 0.81%, to 4,441.67 and the Nasdaq Composite added 172.88 points, or 1.19%, to 14,714.66. All 11 major sectors of the S&P 500 ended the session higher, with tech stocks and utilities enjoying the largest percentage gains. Second-quarter reporting season has essentially run its course, with 476 of the companies in the S&P 500 having posted results. Of those, 87.4% have beaten consensus, according to Refinitiv data. Farm and construction equipment manufacturer Deere & Co beat quarterly profit expectations and raised its full year guidance due to robust demand. Still, its shares ended the session down 2.1%. Bristol-Myers Squibb advanced 1% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drugmaker’s cancer drug Opdivo. U.S.-listed shares of China-based tech-related companies oscillated market participants as they digested recent sell-offs resulting from Beijing’s ongoing regulatory crackdown, which has wiped half a trillion dollars from Chinese markets this week. Alibaba Holding Group closed down 1.6%, while Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Didi Global and iQiyi Inc gained between 1.6% and 3.7%. Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 2.37-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.21-to-1 ratio favored advancers. The S&P 500 posted 50 new 52-week highs and 1 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 59 new highs and 200 new lows. Volume on U.S. exchanges was 8.72 billion shares, compared with the 9.21 billion average over the last 20 trading days. Nick Note: I want to short this market so bad i can taste it… Soon we will have a party…… soon very very soon////

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FDA could give Pfizer shot full approval on Monday – report

The Food and Drug Administration is aiming to give full authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine by Monday, sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Friday.
 All coronavirus vaccines currently offered in the U.S. — produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — currently have emergency authorization from the FDA. As of Friday, 62 percent of Americans, or about 205 million residents, have received one of the three vaccines with emergency authorization. The granting of full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may give impetus to various public and private entities looking for greater approval from regulators to institute vaccination mandates. The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was the first authorized for emergency use in the U.S., in December 2020. Former President Trump said at the time that the vaccine constituted “one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history.”

The FDA indicated earlier this month that it would speed up the process for full approval of the coronavirus vaccines. “We recognize that for some, the FDA approval of Covid-19 vaccines may bring additional confidence and encourage them to get vaccinated,” FDA spokesperson Abby Capobianco said in a statement. “FDA staff will conduct a thorough review process, while balancing the incredible sense of urgency necessary, both of which are needed to ensure that any vaccine that is authorized or approved meets our rigorous standards for safety, effectiveness, and quality.” Nick Note: they need to get off the dime and get full approval.Its the most tested,peer reviewed, tracked vaccine ever. with hundreds of millions of doses administered. Far safer with less side effects and bad outcomes of ANY vaccine ever….. Personally i love the nanbots concentrating in my brain and the 5G networks,,,,,,,, Shit you know how much I have spent on 2 gig, 5 gig satellite earth stations, wifi 4G 5G earth-net equipment. If i had only know Mr Microsoft was going to give me nanobots transmitting form my brain for free….. look at the money i could have saved……. YES MASTER!!! Maybe they could make me a sex slave……

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Abbott Maker of BinaxNOW, Rapid Covid Tests Told Factory to Destroy Inventory

Nick Note: This video was from over a year ago. At that time Abbott offed the test kits commercially for $5.00. After they destroyed millions of kits creating an artificial shortage the price soared.  The kits if you can find them for 3 week delivery  cost $25.00 in quantities of 100 plus ripp off shipping rates

The New York Times– For weeks in June and July, workers at a Maine factory making one of America’s most popular rapid tests for Covid-19 were given a task that shocked them: take apart millions of the products they had worked so hard to create and stuff them into garbage bags. Soon afterward, Andy Wilkinson, a site manager for Abbott Laboratories, the manufacturer, stood before rows of employees to announce layoffs. The company canceled contracts with suppliers and shuttered the only other plant making the test, in Illinois, dismissing a work force of 2,000. “The numbers are going down,” he told the workers of the demand for testing, saying it wasn’t their fault. “This is all about money.”

BinaxNOW, a rapid antigen test made by Abbott, can provide results in 15 minutes. © Abbott,  BinaxNOW, a rapid test made by Abbott, can provantigen ide results in 15 minutes.

As virus cases in the U.S. plummeted this spring, so did Abbott’s Covid-testing sales. But now, amid a new surge in infections, steps the company took to eliminate stock and wind down manufacturing are proving untimely — hobbling efforts to expand screening as the highly contagious Delta variant rages across the country. Nick Bit: In July when i realized that the Delta Mutation was out of control and our vaccines were diminishing in effectiveness i panicked. That is when besides sending out our CoronaVit supplement to subscribers  I frantically tried to get test kits. They had to have FDA approval our I could not import them because they had no approval and frankly all the made in India and China crap I tested was should we say deficient. I settled on the BinaX Now test  kits after Sarah was tested at the airport with this kit. I bought, paid for and ordered 1000 kits… And it was hell to get them to you. I still have another 1000 kits on back order and less then 200 in inventory . We put together a bonus package with test kits and CoronaVit supplements or  ULPA nano filters and  masks. We are loosing money on every order. But its not about the money… I trade for that. Click link below to see offers. SEE DISCOUNT OFFERS ON BINAX NOW CORONA TEST KITS

Demand for the 15-minute antigen test, BinaxNOW, is soaring again as people return to schools and offices. Yet Abbott has reportedly told thousands of newly interested companies that it cannot equip their testing programs in the near future. CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens locations have been selling out of the at-home version, and Amazon shows shipping delays of up to three weeks. Abbott is scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers. America was notoriously slow in rolling out testing in the early days of the pandemic, and the story of the Abbott tests is a microcosm of the larger challenges of ensuring that the private sector can deliver the tools needed to fight public health crises, both before they happen and during the twists and turns of an actual event. “Businesses crave certainty, and pandemics don’t lend certainty to demand,” said Stephen S. Tang, chief executive of OraSure Technologies, which in the midst of the testing slump in June received emergency F.D.A. authorization for its own rapid test, InteliSwab, long in development. But the company is not yet supplying retail stores. Abbott’s decisions have ramifications even beyond the United States. Employees in Maine, many of them immigrants from African countries, were upset at having to discard what might have been donated. Other countries probably could have used the materials, according to Dr. Sergio Carmona, chief medical officer of FIND, a nonprofit that promotes access to diagnostics. “This makes me feel sick,” he said of the destruction, noting that more than a dozen African nations have no domestic funds to buy Covid tests. In an interview, Robert B. Ford, Abbott’s chief executive, argued that the discarded materials — finished test cards — should not be viewed as tests. Kits for sale also include swabs, liquid buffer and instructions. Nick Bit: This ASSHOLE can eat shit and die!. Who the fuck does he think he is? In a pandemic he starved the market to fuck us on price. They will not supply me direct and i am paying first cost as much as $25 a kit plus rip off shipping rates.. FUCK HIM IN HIS ASS. Ill be damed if i can’t out fox a corporate prick greedy scum bag. I hate them all. I will get us all the test kits we neeed. Testing right now is our best option. Even after the 3rd booster shot you must not let your guard down… In February when they roll out the booster shot tailored to the 3 deadly variants they can we feel safe again. In the mean time fight fight fight and survive………… CLICK HERE TO SEE DISCOUNT OFFERS ON BINAXNOW TEST KITS