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The 3 COVID-19 vaccines – Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson – all have a better profile than the shingles vaccine, Shingrix, but less so than the Flu vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccines cause less Grade 3 adverse event than the shingles vaccine. The Flu vaccine causes the least Grade 3 adverse event. Of the 3 COVID-19 vaccines, the Moderna vaccine causes the most Grade 3 adverse event and worst side effect. The Moderna vaccine shot is the most painful. It also causes the most muscle ache, results in more fatigue and headache, and causes more chills than the other vaccines. Pfizer vaccine causes the least injection site redness and swelling. The J&J – one shot – vaccine has the least side effect profile of the COVID-19 vaccines. The J&J vaccine shot is least painful. And you are least likely to develop post-vaccination fever and chills with the J&J vaccine. Overall, COVID-19 vaccines are very well tolerated. They save lives.

By Akin Ojumu If you have gone on up to 4 missionary travels traversing many nations If you have traveled more than 10,000 miles on the sea If you’ve had to walk another 10,000 on foot If you spent more than 300 days in transit If it took you 11 years or more preaching the good news to people in places far from home If each of these trips cost you close to 5,000 Denarii of your own money (1 Denarius is a day’s wage) on transportation alone not counting food, lodging, and other essentials If you had to ford rivers If you had to fend off robbers If you struggled with friends and you struggled with foes If you have been at risk in the city and at risk in the country If you have been endangered by desert sun and the sea storm If you have been betrayed by those who were supposed to be brothers If you have known drudgery and hard labor If you have gone many a long and lonely night without sleep If you have missed many meals and have had to fast for many days If you have been blasted by the c...

By Akin Ojumu It is a humanitarian disaster of unimaginable proportions down there in Texas. Hit with sweeping power outages and widespread water shortages, brought about by a severe winter storm that passed through the state a few days ago, the people in Texas have been forced into taking a crash course in the daily lives of people in shithole countries; it is a shitty school of hard knocks. With no water, no power, no fuel, and no cooking gas, for the first time in their lives Americans who live in Texas are having a firsthand experience in what it’s like to turn the tap and not a single drop of water comes out, and they are quickly learning what it means to go about in the dark for days with total power blackout.  Braving the subzero temperature outside, the good folks in Texas have had to go out, with their buckets and bottles, pots and jerry cans, in desperate search for potable water to quench their thirst, cook their meals, and perhaps take a bath. In the few places where wa...

  By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer | New York Times Each coronavirus contains nearly 30,000 letters of RNA. This genetic information allows the virus to infect cells and hijack them to make new viruses. As an infected cell builds new coronaviruses, it occasionally makes tiny copying errors called mutations. Scientists can track mutations as they are passed down through a lineage, which is a branch of the viral family tree. A group of coronaviruses that share the same inherited set of distinctive mutations is called a variant. If enough mutations accumulate in a lineage, the viruses may evolve clear-cut differences in how they function. These lineages come to be known as strains. Covid-19 is caused by a coronavirus strain known as SARS-CoV-2. Over the course of the pandemic, a number of variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen. Some of them are raising worries that they may draw out the pandemic or make vaccines less effective. ___________________________________________________ Article ...

Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA) Application Opens: February 8 Application Closes: June 1 The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission Nigeria invites applications from qualified Nigerians wishing to teach Hausa or Yoruba languages and cultures to American students in U.S. universities and colleges. The FLTA program is designed to offer young foreign teachers an opportunity to teach Yoruba language and culture to American students in universities and colleges. The program also gives an opportunity for participants to refine their teaching skills, increase their English language proficiency and extend their knowledge of the cultures and customs of the United States by engaging in non-degree studies while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at U.S. colleges and universities. Becoming a participant carries with it a great responsibility. Along with their studies, participants teach language courses, supervise language labs and lead language table discuss...

  Story By Donie O'Sullivan | CNN Vanderbilt doesn't watch the news. "What have we heard the last four or five years? Don't watch the news. 'Fake news.' 'Fake news.'" The 27-year-old mom is an avid user of the video app TikTok. It's there, she says, that she was first introduced to QAnon. She believed that even though Biden was declared the winner of the election, his inauguration would be thwarted. First, Trump would declare martial law, then the Democrats (and some Republicans) and the Hollywood celebrities in Washington, DC for the inauguration would be rounded up and arrested. Trump had "opened back up Guantanamo Bay" (it never closed) and "increased the capacity to 200,000." That was the conspiracy theory being pushed by QAnon followers on the eve of the inauguration, and it is what Vanderbilt believed. But on the morning of January 20th, 2021, Trump flew out of Washington to his new home in Florida and Biden became the...