Blockchain records could help us achieve herd immunity
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But even as the world strives for elusive immunity, the question of how to vaccinate almost 8 billion people as rapidly as possible has not yet been answered
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In 1917, the US Bureau of Animal Industry was worried about a mysterious cattle infection killing unborn calves. It realized that a cow that had an abortion was highly likely to become immune to it, calves born and raised in such an affected herd had tolerance of the disease, and so the phrase ‘herd immunity’ took birth. As the covid pandemic engulfs the world in wave after tsunamic wave of sickness and death, the only light at the end of this tunnel seems to be humans achieving vaccine-induced herd immunity. The rapid development of covid vaccines has been the biggest triumph of science in recent times. A combination of fundamental research in mRNA, the marvel of gene sequencing and the instant availability of dat
Puigdemont: Lifting of immunity a political decision
Carles Puigdemont, former leader of Spain’s Catalonia region, does not expect to be extradited immediately to Spain, after the European Parliament decided to strip him and three other Catalan separatist MEPs of their immunity.
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there may be some give and take though with mueller, if he has not yet come to a conclusion and issued final charges or a final dispensation of this investigation. you know, a lot of the questions they would want to ask are questions that are going to be at the heart of the investigation. certainly, now that we know as much as we do, both from his guilty pleas and from the reporting tonight, the questions that have been raised, i think, are going to be ones congress will want to explore. if i can just add we want to continue this conversation go ahead, jeff. if i can add about the congressional testimony. one reason i think congressional testimony by cohen is likely is that there s no conflict over the issue of immunitimmunity. he s said he ll testify without immunit immunity. prosecutor s object on immunity. that s why the cases were thrown out in the iran-contra
happening, there s something going on. the president s former campaign chairman is in a virginia courthouse trying to delay the start of his wednesday trial. we expect to get brand new details sometime in the hour and we ll bring you new information as we get it. paul manafort is facing dozens of bank and tax fraud charges brought about by the special counsel s office. its first trial so far. the 69-year-old manafort is not only trying to delay his trial but also limit what evidence a jury can see. joining me now is our national security and justice reporter, julia ainsley. any update on the hearing which started this morning? the one thing that we ve just learned recently, ali, the judge did unseal the names of five witnesses who will be given immunit immunity. we don t know what those witnesses are going to say and their names are not well known. what s significant is a name that s not on that list and that s the lobbyist tony podesta. tom and i reported last fall that tony podes
so far no takers following the offer by general mike flynn to testify in exchange for immunit immunity. the house intelligence committee says it s too soon to talk deals and many are not interested, at least not yet. flynn was trump s top guy before moving into the west wing as his national security adviser. joining me is republican strategist doug high and democratic strategist keith boynkin. i know you talked to someone who saw the transcripts of the calls, what did you find out? well, last week a republican congressman on the intelligence committee said that he has seen the transcript and was briefed