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BioPharmGuy
Sick of the Internet people complaining that Covid vaccines don’t prevent infection. Wonder if they also complain that seatbelts don’t prevent car accidents. So sorry to have saved your life in the wrong manner.
Addition & Attrition
Monthly link check means we removed 50 companies. Also added 15.
Best new names:
Affini-T Therapeutics & ReviR Therapeutics
Worst new name:
Faeth Therapeutics
That was actually a real company name:
Hibernaid
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And Then, the Crash
The biotech stock market indexes are absolutely crashing into pieces according to stock gamblers on Twitter. Shouldn’t be surprising considering how outrageously overvalued the sector as a whole has been the past 18 months. But also, despite this ostensible crash, biotech stocks are back where they were when the pandemic began. Considering only about 10 companies made any money due to the pandemic itself, maybe that sort of makes some sense?
Biotech markets have always been feast or famine, so this isn’t anything new to the seasoned gamblers. In other news, the BioPharmGuy stock price is holding steady at $0.00
Axe Throwing --> Covid Testing
This is a wild tale of pandemic profiteering, the likes of which will almost certainly lead to some form of indictment. Long story short, a guy who ran axe throwing lounges in Chicago made the obvious transition to Covid PCR testing and some people were not too happy with the results. It's a long read, but local reporters have really done some digging here. Kudos to them.
Little advice to you future exploiters out there: Don't post pics of your new Lambo on TikTok and tell people it's from the "Covid money". Tends to draw the wrong kind of attention to your whole scheme.
The Artist Formerly Known as Pharma Bro
Martin Shkreli has been banned from the entire pharmaceutical industry forever for exerting control over his former company whilst imprisoned, as evidenced by the recordings of his jailhouse phone calls. How does that even work, banning someone from an industry? As annoying as the guy is, it doesn’t seem realistic for this to hold water.
In addition to his perma-ban, he was also instructed to pay back the $64M he raked in while defrauding investors. Surely he has that sitting in his Venmo account, so should be no problem. Not like he would have blown it on things like a $2M Wu-Tang record or anything. (Actually that record wasn’t a terrible investment - it sold for $2.2M in a government auction two years later)
Team Roast
It all started with the captain cocking his head slightly askew before the shutter clicked. Each team member then tried to outdo up the boss mimicry that preceded them. The QA Manager hit a preposterous 33 degree angle before the BD Developer righted the ship. Whew, that was close.
(note: we are definitely using 'ASKEW' in tomorrow's Wordle)
Hella Helices
If you want to include Helix in the name of your new biotech, you should probably think twice. Among the already taken are 3Helix, AlphaHelix, BioHelix, Helix, Helix BioMedix, Helix Biopharma, Helix Diagnostics, Helix Medical, HelixBind, Helix Nanotechnology…you get the point.
In this case what you should do is pick a different word to focus on. What you should not do is treat it like your kid’s name and invent some weird new spelling of the word.
Unfortunately, Helex Bio chose the latter route. But now wait a second, maybe there’s a person named Lex and ‘Helex’ is a statement identifying that person. Sadly, the picture of an actual helix on the homepage makes us believe there is, in fact, no Lex at all.
Crazy thing is we also added a company called Faeth Therapeutics this week. Hopefully this is a fluke, not a trend.
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2020 Called
Sending four tests per house two years into the pandemic is like asking the host of a dinner party if they "need any help" right before dinner is served.
With that, hope y’all were able to get onto the government website to get your four free Covid tests now that we’re facing a weaker variant, everyone interested is vaccinated and pretty much everyone already has Covid. But not to stop there, the Biden administration is reportedly planning to distribute masks to Americans. What, are they gonna make it rain Clorox wipes after that?
Really, it was a foolish move to try in the first place – employers are free to mandate vaccines for their employees and they continue to have that freedom regardless of this ruling. There’s only so much a government can accomplish by diktat.
After almost a year of vaccination availability, we have to admit the wall has been hit, the anti-vaxxers are going to fill our hospitals and we simply have to deal with it. That’s already reality in many places, with Oklahoma City being the latest to have zero ICU beds available.
At this point federal action should be focused on ameliorating staffing shortages at hospitals around the country. It may be an impossible task, but it at least needs attempting.
Stamping Out Infections
The Chinese Communist Party has been attempting the impossible for almost two years now – limiting Covid cases to zero in a country of over a billion people. Whenever this doomed strategy inevitably fails, some exogenous factor was always going to be blamed and now it seems China has their culprit – the mail.
Chinese propaganda outlets are blaming the first Beijing case of Omicron on Canadian mail. Uhhh, yeah, sure, and the mail is also why it's spreading in multiple other Chinese cities too, right? Definitely the mail and not the exceptional transmissibility, long incubation period, etc.
But what's more, if the virus can survive BEING MAILED FROM CANADA, maybe....just maaaaaaybe, trying to limit infections to zero is sort of impossible? And maybe China should start accepting imports of American & European vaccines that are proven to save lives? Maybe? Anyone?
Potential MS Culprit ID'd
People are getting quite excited about a new study out which draws a correlation between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Multiple Sclerosis. Researchers were working with old blood samples US soldiers submitted as part of a biennial HIV testing process.
The scientists had previously run a study on ~300 people from this 10M patient sample set who developed MS and a matched ~600 who did not. That pilot study analyzed blood serum at different time points to see who went from EBV- to EBV+ during the time of the study. As it happened, of this 900 person grouping, 10 people acquired EBV during the time of the study and of those, all 10 were diagnosed with MS.
The construction of this patient sample makes that sound a lot worse than it is – almost everyone gets EBV eventually and clearly most people do not get MS. But this pilot study seemed to indicate that if you do get MS, it probably begins to happen soon after initial EBV infection.
Those researchers just recently expanded their study to all the MS patients in the 10 million patient data set and reached the same conclusions – there is a correlation between EBV infection acquisition and and MS onset.
So – this will be an interesting avenue for scientists to pursue. EBV vaccines have been in the works and now may get a fillip from this news. More importantly, researchers will start to investigate potential mechanisms for EBV causing MS, which itself could point to new treatment options. Exciting stuff.
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ETC.
Parrot Egg
If your pet parrot laid an egg, would you eat it? Person on Reddit said 'yes' and declared it tasted about the same as a chicken egg.
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